Hi Everyone.

I am a user of an Apple IIC+! yay! I use mine mostly for Applesoft Basic programming.

Is this a place for those of us who rock Jurassic Apples?

  • danielton
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    1 year ago

    We got one secondhand from my uncle when I was a kid. Between defaulting to 4 MHz and having a 3.5 inch drive built in, the thing made almost no sense. I had been using IIe and IIgs systems in school. Having to hit Esc at the right time while rebooting (so you’d see “Normal” on the screen and boot into 1 MHz mode) was super annoying but necessary to play any of the games we had at all. You absolutely also need an external 5.25 inch drive to use it, which kind of goes against its attempt at a compact form factor.

    The regular IIc made a lot more sense.

    • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      What did hitting ESC do and when is the ‘right time’ to hit it? I was not aware of this added feature. My IIC+ only has its internal 3.5, an external 3.5, and a floppy emulator. I have not yet been able to emulate 3.5" floppies on the emulator, so it is standing in for the double 5.25 drive I also have. I got the emulator mainly to allow me to sneaker-net 5.25 floppy images to my PC/Linux machine to share.

      • danielton
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        1 year ago

        If you want to play any games at all on a IIc+, you have to hit Open Apple-Ctrl-Reset-Esc to change the CPU speed to 1 MHz, or the game will run four times faster than it should. The timing of the Esc key is tricky, but if you did it right, it will say “Normal” near the top of the screen.

          • danielton
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah the IIc+ was a neat idea, but they really should have defaulted to 1 MHz rather than 4 MHz. The Apple II doesn’t have a system timer, so games rely on counting CPU cycles.

            Other than that, I like that the IIc and IIc+ have all the devices built in, like the 80 column card, language card, printer/modem, joystick, and mouse, along with a full 128 KB of RAM. Don’t have to mess with cards on those.