Re: Help!!!! Apple ][ Plus

[smentzer@ecom.net (Steven W. Mentzer)]

In article <19971225105601.FAA00279@ladder01.news.aol.com>, tommage@aol.com 
says...
>
>Hi, I just found an Apple ][ Plus and am having problems. I have many Apple 
][
>games, but none of them will run correctly, some boot up and then I get 
errors
>before I get too far, some don't boot at all, some boot but the screen is all
>jumbled and it freezes. I didn't get a manual or monitor with the computer,
>just the computer and two floppies. The cards in the machine are a language
>card which plugs into the MB, a card with speaker wires coming out out, I'm
>assuming some type of sound card, and what I guess is the controller for the
>floppies. I justed hooked up the video using the RCA jack on the back. I 
hooked
>it up to an old monitor I use with a C64, and also tried a Commodore 1084s. 
So
>do you think I just got a bad computer or am I doing something wrong?? I've
>tried MANY games, all originals, some new, the only one I even got close to
>anywhere with was Phantasie III, the demo runs, I can create a character 
disk,
>but when I try to start the game in the first town, it asks me to put in the
>character disk, it reads the disk, then I get an error. Oh well, thanks to
>anyone who tries to help, is there a site with on-line manuals by any 
chance??
>I'd love to play some of my old Apple ][ RPGs :) :)
>

It sounds like either

(1) - The game requires a //e
(2) - Your disk drives need speed / head alignments.
(3) - The disks have a severe case of bit rot..

Good luck...

smentzer@ecom.net