On Mar 12, 2:02 am, Mitchell Spector <mitch...@hotmail.com> wrote:
None of the advanced features of the Apple III will be available
as there's actually specialized hardware logic to block them out.
Titan produced a plug in card that allowed you to emulate a true
Apple IIe, if you can find one these days. The built-in Disk III will
work (not sure about an external) but doubtful the serial ports will.
That would stink if it couldn't even recognize an external Disk III.
I've been working on ripping a whole lot of disk images, but some of
them of course have bad sectors, so one way I get around that is to
format a new good disk w/DOS and boot sector in Copy II Plus, then
copy file-by-file, and rip from that. If the files themselves aren't
on bad sectors, then this works great. It's annoying though to switch
between Copy II Plus and ADT all the time, so I wanted to have a
second machine running simultaneously; however, all I have besides my
II+ are a III and an original II, and I'm not crazy about drafting the
latter into regular service. :)
I was more interested in exploring the Apple III's native side but
never found much software for it, I only have a little over a dozen
floppy disks. To this day still wonder if anyone produced a game
or music program for the III...
I remember some ads from '82-83 issues of Computer Gaming World
indicating that Strategic Simulations put out some wargames for the
III, but I'll be darned if I've ever seen them anywhere.