/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>1035679

I played that a few months ago. Or tried to. It is brutally, exquisitely hard

>>1035681
Not that brutal once you get it going properly. Unless you mean the last floor. That one's pretty damn brutal

Cross country usa. Heres my rig

crystal castles, montezuma's revenge, bolo, castle wolfenstein, and my #1 was aztec.

Scarab of Ra??
Bird Races??

>>1035710

A gorgeous Platinum //e. I have a ][+ myself because there are a few older games that won't run on a //c or //e. Here are the innards of my ][+

16 RAM card (check out that MS logo), serial card for transferring disk images, Videx 80-column card (good for text adventures and Eamon games), disk interface

>>1035672

I will always at first read that as "Apple JC"...

>>1035672
Mixed-up Mother Goose

>>1035724
Those are Mac, not Apple II. Totally separate platform, like Amiga vs Commodore 64.

on apple the games that I valued and remembered were ultima 4, zork 1, reforger 88

a game that I played a massive amount of, in spite of how bad it was, was one about a guy in a balloon, who traveled over a tar world (because the screen was black) and collected some kind of fuel resource while trading with the inhabitants.

You had to navigate as accurately as possible, because traveling around on the ground was dangerous or something

here I found the name of it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_Most_Amazing_Thing

>>1035742
I so rarely get a chance to talk about my IIe with knowledgeable people, this is my setup. a platinum IIe with RGB out to a 1084s, it's got one of those korean mockinboard clones that works great with ultima IV.

>>1035813
OK.

Carmen San Diego

>>1035847
Where would be the best place to buy guts like that?

>>1035872
I got mine on ebay. the RGB cards are rather hard to find, but so is a working 1084 monitor. I recently sold all of my transwarp stuff on ebay, and my apple slinky card.

>>1035847

What do you use the internal modem for? I used to lust after a Novation Apple-Cat II but cooled when I realized I would probably never use it for anything. Even my Videx card is a bit of a luxury but it really makes a difference for text games (the ones that support it anyway)

>>1035710
This is mine.
Any one know what i have going on inside?

>>1035913

Pretty basic setup - Apple's standard 64K/80-col card that came preinstalled in the aux slot of all //e's, a super serial card, and a 5.25" controller.

Enough to make the machine useful though! Do you use the serial card for anything? Disk image transfers? Hell I even thought about using my ][+ as a terminal to a Linux or Unix box

>>1035847
are you sure that's a platinum IIe, looks like a regular beige one to me

>>1035940
Im a bit new to the technology. Id love to learn more about the insides. As of now I just use it for games. What else could i do with it?

>>1035947
it's a hybrid I guess? too lazy to dig it out of the closet again.

>>1035901
believe it or not there are still dial up BBS's, I dialed in to one about a year back.

>>1035960

Well you can conect the serial card to a serial port on a modern computer and transfer disk images back and forth, using a fuckawesome program called "ADTPro". You can download practically any game you can imagine from the Asimov ftp site (ftp.apple.asimov.net) and transfer that image to a real disk. If all you use your apple for is games then there's a fucking metric ton of games you can play!

>>1035968

Holy shit is that one of those HP all-in-one computers like the IBM 5100? That's some $ you're sitting on

>>1035974
Oh wow that sounds great! Any idea the name of that cord?

>>1035986

it's just a basic serial cord, male 25-pin on one end, female 9-pin on the other. you can hook it straight from the apple serial card to any modern computer with a serial port.. then download ADTPro and read through the instructions for getting started (obviously you have to first transfer ADTPro itself to a real 5.25" disk which is an interesting process) and you'll be swimming in games before you know it..

>>1035991

For example..

>>1035986
it's a null modem serial cable, but you'll need a 25 pin to 9 pin on the apple II side. additionally you can use two 3.5mm stereo cords to transfer via audio card (not recommended)

>>1035992

He doesn't need a null modem cable if he switches the super serial card to the "terminal" setting, he can just use a plain serial cable straight through

This is one of those times emulators are better than the original. No 20-minute load times to contend with.

>>1036018
Not a chance. Nothing is more rewarding than playing a simple game on a crt using those amazing apple 2 keys

>>1035993
>Guys, I'm being Super Serial

>>1036018
>20-minute load times

Yeah, no. Apple II's disk system is fast fast fast, especially compared to C64, Atari, anyone else of the time. The load times really aren't that bad - certainly no worse than, say, Xbox 360

>>1036018

The loading time is part of the experience. Appreciate and enjoy it! The CPU is working its pins off for you in there!

>>1035992
I have no idea about stuff this old but transferring files over 3.5mm stereo cords sounds *awesome*

>>1036098

Awesome in principle but trust me you don't want to do that. takes for-fucking-ever. stick with the serial cable

Go read up on ADTPro and learn! You're in for some fun stuff!

>30+ post Apple II thread

I have an atari 800. I got it for 20 bucks off craigslist. The lady wasnt sure if it worked but i didnt mind. It came with original boxes and a ton of accessories for it. I cleaned it up and everything. Turns out it didnt work. It lights up and i hear noises when i hit the keys. But nothing shows up on the tv. I took out an replaces the video cable but it wasnt that. Kinda bummed. May try and sell it on craigslist for $30 bucks.

>>1036149
on the atari 800, composite video comes out of the DIN connecter. the phono connector is for RF channel 3. check your connections before you toss it.

http://www.hardwarebook.info/Atari_8-bit_Composite_Video

Anyone have any good links for someone looking into getting an apple ii? I bought King's Quest 4 but didn't realize until I looked at it at home that its the apple ii version.

I live in southwest ohio and really really wanna find one but I don't know where to start looking.

>>1036149
Make sure to look for an Atari Falcon in your shopping quests, if you can snag one for a good deal then that would be awesome.

>>1037020
craigslist is where I found all of my apple II stuff. you can try ebay but shipping will be like $50 and all of the keys will fall off the keyboard, and the case will crack in two. ask me how I know.

>>1035672
Test

>>1037104

>>1037124

Prince of Persia.

>>1037104

You know, I don't hate John Sculley the way a bunch of Appletards seem to; he made decisions based on the best information he had at the time, and they made sense at the time; that's all any of us do, really

Bumping this wonderful thread

>>1036861
Hmm, could you care to explain? Im not sure which terms corrispond with which parts.

>>1039236
http://www.8bitclassics.com/av-cables/Atari-Commodore-TI99-Composite-Audio-Video-Cable.html

are you dense?

>>1039350
Hey man, easy, it's not nice to pick on retards

>>1039350
Why would those work? Im a bit confused. I plugged it into an apple2 monitor and it didnt work. Why would those cables be any different?

>>1039363
why is retardation funny? Maybe you should go back to /b/

Had no idea what the point was when I played this originally. However I played it for hours and hours on end.