[Blindapple] an introduction

[JM Casey]

Hey jeff. Thanks for responding.

 

I never used a 3.5-inch disk drive on my 2 E (was that even possible?). – Will the 800k Prodos images work on the emulated extended 2 E? I ask because the emulator hangs the system every time I try to boot one using the command: mess apple2ee –flop1 whatever.po”. Or at least, it has done so far. I think there might be some background process that’s messing up mess (hah) somehow, and I can try and figure out what it is. But I realise I’m maybe not even clear on the capabilities of the extended E. This is more than just a 2 E with 128k of ram, right? That’s the system I used to have, with the 80 column/memory expansion card. Do I have to in some way tell the emulator that –flop1 is a different sort of disk drive?

 

Sorry if the questions seem to have obvious answers; I’m pretty much a newcomer to emulation and although I find it fascinating I’m not 100% sure I understand how it all works.

 

 

From: BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Weiss
Sent: September 28, 2017 10:47 AM
To: Blind Apple Discussions
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] an introduction

 

Welcome to the list.

I don’t know about Windows 10 as I still use Windows 7, but maybe one of the other list members can help with that.

Jeff Weiss

 

 

 

From: JM Casey <mailto:crystallogic at ca.inter.net>  

Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:00 PM

To: 'Blind Apple Discussions' <mailto:blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>  

Subject: [Blindapple] an introduction

 

Hello everyone. I’m new.

 

I used to use an Apple II E in the late 80s and early 90s. I was pretty young then. I’ve been a PC guy for a long time now, but someone recently sent me the Mess emulator and Apple II-E Extended rom along with a lot of disk images, and I found the address for this list in the archive. It’s really neat that people are doing this. So far I’ve had success in getting Apple + Echo emulation a few times, but the emulator is just as likely, it seems, to hang my Windows 10 machine. Well, at least it works at all. I must say, hearing that Echo voice again after so many years is uncanny. I forgot how much that guy sounds like he’s singing, especially in extended speech mode.

 

I always wanted to learn properly how to programme in Applesoft Basic back in the day. I picked up a few tricks, mostly from looking at other programmes. It’s all coming back to me now. Weird, and cool.

 

Anyone have any tips on getting the emulator to work consistently? I haven’t yet figured out the pattern of the hanging. So far I haven’t gotten a single prodos disk image to work, but I don’t know if there’s something I’m missing or what? Is the command line for running the prodos disk images the same? To be perfectly honest, I mostly just want to play the Eamon games. The port for PC is nice but it won’t work on Windows 10, to my knowledge. 

 

Please excuse this rambling message. I’m just feeling a real nostalgic wash about all this at the moment. Cheers.

 

 

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