Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

Speaking of Contiki, I was reading up on the 65xx family
of processors and as it would seem they have a damned
clock function built-in. Why all this hooplah about clock,
mouse, interrupt cards when the freaking thing is already
there. Geesh.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com


Dosius <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:<Pq-cnZpBl8MUuRCjXTWc3Q@comcast.com>...
> > I agree that it's true, we are not the same as those of yesteryear, but
> > coming from Atari 8 to PC, back to Apple IIgs and Mac SE, I have to
> > also add this. I am totally devoted to Apple II and what it was and is.
> > I am working diligently to improve not only the IIgs but the IIc and
> > //e and II+. I have 4 projects going at once, 2 of which I work on for
> > hours out of each day. I, too, run into the proverbial brick wall when
> > I post and ask for advice from the alleged "older, bought mine for
> > $1000's group". Yes, I dug mine out of a dumpster because I saw
> > some value in it. I didn't even hear of Apple II until a few years ago.
> > The first Apple I ever saw was a Mac classic. I had no idea what
> > the Apple II's were.
>
> I come from the Apple //e world.
>
> A lot of the computers I've dug up in the past few years - PCs mostly
> - were discards.  I prefer having a heap of old machines to having
> megs upon megs of emulation software.  Sometimes that's not an option.
>  I use emulation because at this time there's no way for me to
> transfer stuff back and forth between my real //e and my virtual one.
> Otherwise, I would have taken some of my favorite //e games of yore
> and just dumped them onto disks and run them on my own machine (which
> I got from a public library).
>
> > I'm not angered, not even perturbed. I consider myself lucky to
> > even be able to find an Apple II, surprised even. Thank God the
> > thrift shops saw them as something worth keeping long enough
> > for someone to find them. They could have well thought of them
> > as junk, but they didn't. More people have them than I even dreamed
> > would at this point.
>
> *g*  Hey, I picked up a 486 PC once for $3 at the Salvation Army
> thrift shop near me, just before it closed.
>
> > > For us, the IIGS was a real computer and more than that,
> > > we IIGS users actually used our computers as our main
> > > PCs for many years.  To do word processing, play games,
> > > go online, do work, do school, everything.
>
> AOL!!
>
> > > And, being "premium" computer users we were even more
> > > responsible than many of the teenage geeks who use
> > > today's PCs in that we actually BOUGHT our software
> > > instead of seek out "warez" (I'm not talking about the
> > > dying days of the IIGS and the old flame wars but back
> > > in the golden days of the IIGS when AWGS was new
> > > and InCider and A+ magazines were on the shelves).
>
> Don't ask me. *g* I used a *copy* of Arkanoid Revenge of DOH for
> years.  My favorite IIgs game; still, unless my PC were fast enough to
> run the arcade version, I can't get the same experience (C64 version,
> PC version, MSX2 version, none of these are as close to the Real
> Thing(TM) as the IIgs).
>
> > > I only wish I could go back and discover the IIe, IIc and IIgs.
>
> I only wish I could go back and rediscover the IIgs.
>
> > > I mean just look at the reaction to my "MP3 conversion
> > > to the IIGS" article a while back.  We old timers
> > > shared our tinkering knowledge and experiences and
> > > had fun doing it.  Now doing so just attracts criticism
> > > from the thrift shop crowd.
> > >
> > > Talk nothing about monetary gain, even enthusiasm
> > > gets shot down these days in the Apple II world.
> >
> > It may sound a bit rude, but most of the shooting down
> > I receive is from the very enthusiasts of which YOU speak.
>
> It's sad but true.  Even Contiki seems to be shot down by some people
> out there, and judging by the C64 version, those guys could be on to
> something.
>
> -uso.


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