Awesome doesn't begin to describe this! Sure it's completely useless but is a monster 10 on the cool scale. It's just perfect on so many levels...<p>Alas my Apple 2 has let its magic smoke escape, otherwise I'd definitely give it a try!<p>Way cool dude, way cool....
I've been using the Asimov FTP site, a PC, ProTerm, and a null modem cable / Super Serial Card to achieve this result.<p>This is amazing—so much simpler! My Apple //e sits right next to my laptop on my desk, so for me, this is giving it a whole new lease on life.<p>Here's a picture, just for the hell of it: <a href="https://p.twimg.com/AiV8lqjCIAICETx.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://p.twimg.com/AiV8lqjCIAICETx.jpg</a>
Many people who work with me got their first contact with a computer in the ADSL age and never even heard a modem handshake. Two people here used cassette tapes for storing programs, I for my Apple II, the other guy with his Sinclair and, later, his MSX. Some time later I wrote a program that dumped a floppy into a cassette tape for backup.<p>In case you wonder what are you hearing, it's the audio modulation of a memory dump. If you pay close attention, you can distinguish between program (noise-like) strings (less noisy) and graphics (more rhythmic sounds). Try the lo-fi link for maximum vintage feel.
Dad? I need our german Apple ][ clone from the attic right now! Remember when earlier today (seriously, we did, what a coincedence!) we talked about how in the German Democratic Republic they had programming lectures on the radio and were transferring the code over the air like this? Well, someone made a website where you can play the sounds of some games like that.
I will be trying this out when I get home tonight! My ][e is as fully functional as it was in the early 80s when I got it.<p>I'm glad someone remembers these games. I still have a good chunk of these games (some legit copies, others pirated via Copy II+ sector editing). Really glad Bilestoad made the list.<p>Wish list:<p>Aztec (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(video_game)</a>)<p>Below the Root (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_the_Root_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_the_Root_(video_game)</a>)<p>Championship Load Runner (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Lode_Runner" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Lode_Runner</a>)<p>Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear<p>Conan: Hall of Volta
So very very cool! I bought an apple iie off ebay a year and a half ago since it was the first computer I ever used and had been meaning to get some games for it but just haven't had the time. When I saw this post today I was like a kid all over! I searched frantically for a cable to plug my phone into the apple iie but ended up having to go out and buy one but it was so worth it :)<p>Anyway I put up a video about it as well and figured I'd share it here as well. Thanks so much for this!<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_e8wYEC72I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_e8wYEC72I</a>
David Beazley did something similar with his Superboard II computer.<p><a href="http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-python-to-encode-cassette.html" rel="nofollow">http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-python-to-encode-ca...</a><p><a href="http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/08/decoding-superboard-ii-cassette-audio.html" rel="nofollow">http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/08/decoding-superboard-ii-ca...</a><p><a href="http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/09/using-telnet-to-access-my-superboard-ii.html" rel="nofollow">http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/09/using-telnet-to-access-my...</a><p>Pretty sweet hack, IMO
From the domain name, is it safe for me to eagerly await a port of an Ascii Express software to Linux so we can once again enjoy the pleasures of extremely low tech but completely anonymous communication, via telnet this time instead of 1200 baud modems?<p>Plus I desperately miss ASCII art..
For those without their own hardware, you might want to try this Apple ][ emulator, built using JS / WebGL, <a href="http://porkrind.org/a2/" rel="nofollow">http://porkrind.org/a2/</a> . Don't forget PR#6 to load a floppy image!
Very cool. I had a flashback this fall after discovering an old book I made for some school project about programming the Apple 2. Code looked horrible (to my 2011 eyes) but with an emulator I was able to get it working. Those few old pages were the only traces left of my childhood programming.<p>Put the book and code up on github if anyone is interested: <a href="https://github.com/markstewart/ProgrammingIsFun" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/markstewart/ProgrammingIsFun</a>
I tried to do this with my TI 99/4A and an MP3 player years ago, with no success. I suspect the conversion to MP3 wrecked the signal in ways that my ear could not detect.
I remember a couple of years ago, I was on a bus and there's an old lady sitting next to me. We had a chat, then she said that she owned a "useless old computer called Apple 2." She really wanted to get rid of it in exchange of small amount of money.<p>I said, "Cool, let me see what I can do, here's my email."<p>I was an idiot, really. I forgot that she might not know how to use email, and I didn't ask her contact.
In my Steve Jobs memorial (<a href="http://www.ericjgruber.com/blog/2011/10/thank-you-steve-jobs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ericjgruber.com/blog/2011/10/thank-you-steve-jobs...</a>), I opined about the Apple IIe and one of my favorite games growing up, Montezuma's Revenge. And sure enough, it's there.<p>Seeing this made me wish I could play it again. Excellent job.
Wow, I just used my iPhone to stream a game over AirPlay to an Airport Express jacked into my //e. Incredible.<p>Before this I had to download programs through Chris Yerga's ftdi/gameport/twitter client setup. <a href="http://atomsandelectrons.com/blog/2010/04/apple-t/" rel="nofollow">http://atomsandelectrons.com/blog/2010/04/apple-t/</a>
So I am basically clueless on how to transfer bits via audio without data loss (doesn't noise corrupt the bits?)<p>Does anyone have any links or resources on how to do a 'hello world' of audio-based data transfer?
OMG, I'd almost cry of joy. One of the reason I don't use my faithful Apple //c is that it's so cumbersome to swap these floppies... but this is wonderful.
Wow that is damn awesome.<p>Although, no Ultima / Ultima II in the game list :(<p>That was the first game I played on the Apple...<p>(The Bards Tale would be another great one...)