Re: Apple II clones website is open

[Stephen SM WONG <wongsm@netvigator.com>]

Yeah, your Apple ][ clones website is very good.  It brings 
back some of my long lost memory.  In Hong Kong, I did get 
hold of "Banana", "Pineapple", "Laser 128" and some other 
bare board clones.  So many years before, I did some of the 
soldering of main boards, 80-column cards, Z-80 cards, disk 
controller cards, printer cards, sound cards, serial cards, 
etc.

It's amazing to do mail merge in Wordstar running CPM and 
printing on a Epson MX-80.  And did some useful book keeping 
on Multiplan.  UCSD Pascal was an amazing programming 
environment, boot it, you had to swap a few diskettes, 
compile a program, you had to fiddle a few more.

And my schoolmates were crazy to work on undocumented M/C of 
6502 and 65C02.  We did had a hacker's file circling with 
many tricks explored by game developers.  CALL -151, and go.

Apple ][ was fun to play with, say, how to draw a line on 
the hi-res screen!

Thank you for making the Apple2clones.com!

Stephen Wong @ Hong Kong

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Ernest wrote:

> RED wrote:
> 
> > 
> > "Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> > news:55Z7c.65769$J05.509933@attbi_s01...
> >> Well, I've finally moved the website to it's new home at:
> >>
> >> http://www.apple2clones.com
> >>
> >> Enjoy!
> > 
> > Very nice site. I had no idea that there were that many clones built.
> > What's the advantage of creating a user acount? Is this just for the
> > message forums? Thanks.
> 
> Thanks for the compliment. I honestly appreciate it. I wanted to build a
> site that people would like and use, but one never knows if people will
> like it or not. So far, people have said good things about it, and that
> feels pretty good.
> 
> As for registering at the site, yes, you do need it to join the forums
> but you also need it if you want to upload images or files to the site.
> You don't have register to view the pics or download the existing files,
> though. The user account is only useful if you want to do do something
> other than browse or download. There aren't any hidden "members only"
> areas, or anything like that.
> 
>