Re: A2Central News

["Stavros Karatsoridis" <skaratso@gmail.com>]

carbide@egine.com wrote:

> Those Mac Mini's are pretty cheap and reminicent of the Apple IIc, and
> you can use your PC peripherals to keep the cost and duplication down.
> Now that they can dual boot WinXp I'm really tempted. Now, if they only
> had a slot for the IIe card... ;-)
> -Paul

For Apple II, II+ and IIe, emulation, check out Virtual ][, by Gerard
Putter. He calls it "the best Apple ][ emulator for OS X." I call it
the best Apple ][ emulator period. It is WELL worth the $49 shareware
fee for the full version (It has Epson and ImageWriter II dot matrix
printer emulation that prints to PDF files).

For the IIgs, there's KEGS, which hasn't seen any new active
development for a year or so, and Sweet 16, currently maintained by
Eric Shepherd. Sweet 16 is the only IIgs emulator for OS X that I know
of that is being actively developed, and it is based on Bernie ][ the
Rescue. Sweet 16 is freeware.

Both Virtual ][ and Sweet 16 are Universal Binaries and run natively on
both Intel and PPC Macs. So... no need for the IIe card!