I have inherited an Apple II C. I've seen some for sale on Ebay for varying prices, but what are y'alls thoughts on its value, where best to sell it, and is there anyone here with interest?

I still have our old one also, it's fun for a few hours, not really beyond that. These used to go for $200-300 10 years ago on ebay if you had disks also, but when I got a hold of ours and tried to sell it about 3 years ago it was topped at $20. I gave up trying to sell it after a while and it's collecting dust again. I have the computer, monitor, external disk drive, power, cabling, 4 joysticks, and all our old disks. Lots of games, some office type software, and various other things. Just not a market for it anywhere.

If i works and you were closer I might have been interested. Though I doubt my wife would want more old stuff in the house.

Where are you located and is there any range of price you were looking for? I've been debating picking one up as a piece of retro computing lately...

I would love to have a IIGs

Is there any way to save text documents on one? It'd be a great no-distraction writing device, if there was some way to get it to a modern computer as an RTF or text file.

I think that is the same type PC we used in HS Computer Math class in the mid-1980s.

My uncle repairs/refurbishes old apples as a retirement hobby.

There is a healthy market for them from the recent to about to retire computer science folks looking for a little nostalgia.

Where are you located and how much do you want?

So is there a way to have it output a text file/something other than a PDF?

I have an old word processor, which is meant to be hooked up to a printer. If I have a word program open, and press "send" it starts typing it out on the screen.

I realize it might be easier to get a mac mini and only put write room on it, though...
(If there was a way to get the color scheme of this forum to be green on black, that would be awesome... at least, to me...)

Bradley.Kohr.II said:

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So is there a way to have it output a text file/something other than a PDF?

I have an old word processor, which is meant to be hooked up to a printer. If I have a word program open, and press "send" it starts typing it out on the screen.

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Sure thing. And remember, you asked.

There are a couple of ways to do this -- the manual way, and the automatic way.

Both involve 'printing' the text from the word processing program through the Apple II's serial port/card and cable to the target Mac/Windows/Linux computer equipped with a virtual serial port, usually provided by a USB-Serial adapter on that target computer.


1. The manual way -- open up a serial terminal program on the target computer, 'print' from the Apple II, capture the text in the target's terminal program, and then save the captured text as a text file. That's a lot of cumbersome work.


2. The automatic way -- here's a brief version of how I do it -- since Mac OS X and Linux (both being Unix-based) allow running a serial getty, I trigger (from the Apple II end) a Unix shell script that captures the input received on the serial port. When a transmission is finished (or an end phrase is received), the script saves the contents of the capture to a text file and places the text file on the target computer's Desktop, for use by that target computer.

The program I use on the Apple II (AppleWorks 5.1) is completely scriptable, so all this is automated and other than specifying that I want to save a file as 'text' (or convert to pdf) on my Mac, it requires no effort. Your word processor, I suspect, would probably require your entering the Unix commands manually, but that's really not a giant deal.

Most Unix gettys will require a login and password to gain access, but even that can be dispensed with (when security is not an issue). Otherwise, the login and password can be sent each time by the Apple II, with a logoff accomplished when the 'printing' is done.

I realize I left out a lot of details, but you get the idea. I must say, though, it's really rather slick to see it all in action.

FWIW, I haven't yet used this type of setup with Windows 10, as I've never spent the time to see if I could run a getty on the new WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux).


Remember, you asked. ;-)

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It'd be a great no-distraction writing device,

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So would a mini-PC, an older Mac Mini, or an older Dell with a Linux on there. All of which would work much beter than a II(x).

Just install an Apple II emulator on a Raspberry Pi and get this.

Sorry, I got busy with the start of school approaching. I'm in DFW and am open to offers. Ebay has similar systems listed for several hundred dollars but they don't seem to get bids. This is a working system with the program disks and extra 5.5's.

Proof of life-

As I can't seem to PM you, $50+shipping? We have a good intern, who's a computer science major, who will like something like that.

No PM's because I don't have stars. I'm not in that big of hurry to sell at that price. I might take a stab on ebay and see if there are any bites.

I'd love to get ahold of an Apple II with a copy of Auto Dual and Chopper Command

I remember when my dad bought an Apple II-e. It had the green screen but there was an option for a "color" monitor that apparently had 4 colors.

One of my dad's great quotes to little Adam Ag 98 - "Son, what am I going to do with 4 colors?"

My dad also got an Apple II+ for us when we were kids. Loading games by 5.25 floppy drive I played a lot of Dr J vs Larry Bird & a text football game that we could call the playa and hack so we could put our own names in the game. The good old days....

Ribeye-Rare said:

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believe it or not, new peripherals have been released to bring it (more) into the 21st century.

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Yeah, someone recently developed an HDMI card for the Apple II that actually reads all the text and graphics mode memory locations (rather than convert the analog signal back to digital) to create a very nice high-def image:


And here is an online Apple //e emulator that seems to work pretty well: https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple/e

flakrat said:

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I'd love to get ahold of an Apple II with a copy of Auto Dual and Chopper Command

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Loved Auto Duel, Titan, and Castle Wolfenstein.

Yeah, the VidHD is John Brooks' project.

Brooks is a super sharp guy, and a heavyweight in the video game industry, running Blue Shift Inc.

I recently worked on a software project with him (my part was very minor) involving some 65C02/65C816 assembly language, and found that I literally had to keep an opcode card handy when examining portions of his code. He's damn good, particularly on optimizations.

As you noted, there are some pretty good Apple II/IIGS emulators out there these days. I run several on my Macs and on my Windows machines.

On the Mac, the best IIe emulator is probably 'Virtual ][", while the best IIGS emulator is either Sweet16 or GSplus. Under Windows, the best IIe emulator is probably 'AppleWin', while the best IIGS emulator is either GSport or GSplus.

While they're certainly fast (effective speed of 200 MHz+ vs. 1 MHz on a stock Apple II), there is something about programming a 'real' Apple II that just can't be beaten. Crazy, I know.

G Martin 87 said:

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flakrat said:

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I'd love to get ahold of an Apple II with a copy of Auto Dual and Chopper Command

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Loved Auto Duel, Titan, and Castle Wolfenstein.

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Fellas,

You'll find most of those old Apple II games available as disk images on Asimov:

Apple II Games - Asimov Site

Try this instead if the link doesn't go through since it's FTP:

<ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/>


Slowly but surely, these games are all being freed from the copy protection schemes they originally sported, and will run under standard Apple II DOS's (e.g. DOS 3.3 or ProDOS or GS/OS).

NM

I donated several shoeboxes full of them that I bought from a ghetto thrift store near downtown Bryan in 2000 for $1. Apparently someone ran or was on a BBS because there was all kinds of cracked stuff on there. I'm still waiting to find out what all was on there.

IIe or GTFO!!