On Mon, 9 May 2011, Sam Latella wrote:
I'm curious about the Apple /// what would they be actually worth a complete working system? How compatible are they with Apple II software? Would they be of interest to an early Apple collector - Apple II, IIc, IIe, IIgs, lisa etc like myself... my collection is small but I like adding certain pieces, and the computer are in use everyday.
I'm kind-of curious myself. Supposedly the Star Emulator (I need to get that back up to my friend's server) gives a reasonable compatibility for games a little bit above and beyond the official emulator, but I've never been able to test my code on metal. >_>
The /// is capable, with software to emulate the ROM, of running well behaved software that doesn't use lo-res graphics and uses firmware calls to set graphics modes. (they're a little different on the ///. the official emulation doesn't compensate for this, Star Emulator did.) Only 48K is available and either the ][ or ][+ firmware can be loaded (but not both).
-uso.