[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=136063 time=1679632369 user_id=3]
Would the following work?

I'd love the option to play an Infocom game on a green monochrome monitor.

If I took the rca video cable coming out of the Apple ii and split it, and had the cables go to different monitors - that should work right? Same image on both? (With one a green monitor and one a color.)
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There could (and quite possibly be with this old tech) signal weakness doing that. Go ahead and try it though because you don't risk damaging anything doing that. Hopefully the picture you get on both CRTs is OK, because otherwise you are going to need a matrix splitter for that. Something like this:

[url]https://www.amazon.com/Shinybow-4x2-Composite-Switcher-SB-5450M/dp/B01B3EGREE[/url]

Also, I'm not an expert on RCA but with CRT tech there are only 3 "guns" that fire in an old arcade monitor or TV which you already probably know. That being the case, you probably don't need the red signal and possibly even the blue for the ol Apple II black and green monitor to be happy. Then again, the only "color" labeling you get on RCA wires for R/G/B is yellow so again I'm not entirely sure.. but I am sure you won't fuck anything up trying this and I would be very interested in knowing the results despite not touching an Apple IIe since junior high lol

Would the following work?

I'd love the option to play an Infocom game on a green monochrome monitor.

If I took the rca video cable coming out of the Apple ii and split it, and had the cables go to different monitors - that should work right? Same image on both? (With one a green monitor and one a color.)

Pix please

Your friendly neighborhood AArdvark can hook you up

I can't find something I am happy with, when it comes to a //e monitor stand. Dare I try a "do it yourself" project? I always screw those up!

The internet says a //e has these dimensions: 4.25” H x 15.25” W x 18” D - but I need to find a tape measure, because I do not trust the internet with this one.

I am kind of thinking that I should get a heavy board, cut it, stain it and then attach two "legs" to it. I am seeing things on Amazon that look nice, that are too small, that have iron legs. I like those! I have no idea how to fasten iron to wood at this point in time, though.

People are asking $150 for monitor stands.

I guess you want strong filament, but this is a perfect example of something I should get into 3D printing for.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175615658904

I remember really wanting to play Skate or Die for the Apple IIgs back when I saw the box at Sears and noticed how some of the graphics were different.

The 4MB RAM expansion for the IIgs worked perfectly.

https://www.tindie.com/products/gglabs/ramgs4-4mb-expansion-for-apple-iigs/#product-description

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[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=134104 time=1674517945 user_id=3]
Was it HERR HANDS???????????????
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Oh, I forgot to reply to this. No -- Herr Hands only worked with hardware. He had a front room full of computers, but I'm not sure I ever saw him type on one. No, it was Kevin Klinsky. Who also used to amuse the daylights out of me: We'd go to Friendly's, and regardless of what he really wanted to eat, he'd tell the waitress, in that lovely deep voice he had -- not looking at her, but rather staring directly at me -- "I'll have.... the Big... Beef."

GAWD that used to crack me the fuck up.

TRM

[quote=pinback post_id=134806 time=1675977981 user_id=5]
I had your mom's BOOTi device.
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BWA-ha-ha-haaaaaaa!!

Back in The Day, this would get a simple reply: "Best Of."

TRM

Ok, I have a bootable image for "BuGS," the most cleverly named game of all time. It is an implementation of Centipede for the IIgs that is a new homebrew game.

I have a bootable disk image that won't boot. I will post the error in this thread.

So I think the money play here is to load IIgs's operating system. And then load the disk somehow. I don't think I know how to do it, but maybe with emulation I can do that!

I had your mom's BOOTi device.

The CFFA3000 card I have in my Apple II is the world's most finicky device when it comes to USB devices. It seems like the older, slower, and smaller the device is, the better your odds are of it working. Nothing 16GB or larger seems to work with it. I have one 4GB stick and one 8GB one that work.

I had a BOOTi device that was not working in my Apple IIGS. I received advice from the seller that a Sandisk 8GB flash drive should work. I had tried five other USB devices, so I was suspicious, I suppose, but the flash stick worked right out of the box. I threw Total Replay on it and I now have Total Replay going on the IIGS!

SDCZ50-008G-B35 was the model number of the Sandisk 8GB stick that worked.

Now to find a IIGS joystick..........

I still haven't got into the NA yet. Unlike the Briley Witch game, the thing that's holding me back with NA is "Well, I still have a some Ultima games to finish.."

Ok, the deal with the //e is that you kind of need the keyboard to play games. There is a modern-day RPG for the Apple II called Nox Archaist that I was playing on my Windows 10 computer.

I was able to take the saved game, the .hdv file, and load it on my real Apple //e. So I want to move that computer so it actually allows me to play at my desk, with the keyboard near. Pictures coming soon?

[quote="The REAL Real Man" post_id=134097 time=1674511881 user_id=2756]
There was someone in the Rochester BBS scene (Jonsey and 'Vark, I'll share a name offline) who either invented a way to digitize music through the Apple II's cassette port, or read how to do it and did it. So I heard my Apple II play a very distorted version of the first third-or-so of Walk Like an Egyptian. For a computer that was only supposed to click and beep, and could maybe manage a bit of a song with Music Construction Set, it absolutely blew my mind.
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There is a guy that made the "Matrix" effect for the PCjr. It isn't the most interesting thing to look at, so I don't have it go all the time, but it's still pretty cool to see it display that, and I'll have it do that while working. It is SOOTHING.

So, the BOOTi device that I bought in August doesn't work. There is one more USB stick I was advised to try, but it's similar to a problem I saw in an Apple Enthusiast group, so I'd be pleasantly surprised if this new Sandisk USB stick allows games to run.

But!

I have two FloppyEmu devices. I bought the second because the display was starting to go bad on the first. Well, I am not sure what happened, because I plugged the old one into the IIGS and the LED display is fine. I took the sd card out of the FloppyEmu that is connected to the //e... plugged it into the disk drive port of the IIGS! And bingo. It works, it's playing Choplifter and Zork II.

I don't have it working for SmartPort hard drives, but this is fine for now. The IIGS is doing things! If I can finish Nox Archaist on the //e, I can live with that.

Was it HERR HANDS???????????????