Re: My Apple IIGS - 20 years ago today

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Jan 28, 3:37 am, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> as well as his piracy skills (his cracking handle was Shogun).
> By the time he opened his own business, he'd moved on
> to PCs and compatibles; the Apple II and PC worlds
> coexisted in my mind for a while, each complementing the
> other.  The ][+, and, later, a Laser 128EX, entertained me
> and my sister for the better part of a decade with hundreds
> upon hundreds of pirated games,

While I don't condone pirating commercially "active" stuff
I think this is quite funny. Usually parents don't know that
their kids have pirated games...

> the BBSes and cracking groups on their splash screens
> growing increasingly irrelevant with each passing year yet
> retaining an odd sort of immortality ("One day, one day I'll
> call the Arabian Dezert!" I'd think),

IMHO the splash screens are for the most part ugly with
their "fit as many fonts on one screen as you can" and
technically boring. Granted, some are bearable and others
have some technical wizardry behind them but on other
systems like the C64 there was more of a dick comparison
war going on with their wild scrollers and various graphical
effects.
The real "game" seemed to be cracking the game, not
actually playing it (for the most crackers), however.

> even as the PC-compatible in our parents' study asserted
> itself unquestionably as the productivity machine.  We were
> way too young to factionalize over computers, though -
> each served its purpose, and that was that.
>
> It's truly the most personal of personal computers, and they
> can have it when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

Sounds like an NRA statement.

NRA like in "Not Relenting Apples"! ;-)

bye
Marcus