Inside the apple iie software

Running apple ii programs on your mac was pretty darn awesome. Apple is offering a free apple iie system to every eligible elementary and secondary school in california. Its technical but authored by someone who is aware that not everyone is as bright as he is. The apple ii series trademarked with square brackets as apple and rendered on later models as apple is a family of home computers, one of the first highly successful massproduced microcomputer products, designed primarily by steve wozniak, manufactured by apple computer now apple inc. Inside features custom forms designed to support all your business needs. All of the download files are in zip disk format for universality of downloading. The iie card creates a multifeatured apple iie inside an lc series macintosh. Inside the apple iie on the left side, the original power supply has been removed and is replaced with my power board. See more ideas about apple iie, apple ii and apple.

Inside apple, two distinct camps worked on these internally competing platforms the apple iii never did well at. My super modded apple iie raspberry pi gaming system. Improved expandability combined with the new features made for a very attractive. The apple ii fanatics here, the programmers of apple iis, the people. This article describes the resurrection of the second machine, an apple iie standard. The apple iie is arguably the most successful computer apple has ever produced.

See more ideas about apple ii, apple and old computers. We also have lots of apple ii, ii plus, iie, iic and iigs manuals, software and hardware. The apple iie styled as apple e is the third model in the apple ii series of personal computers produced by apple computer. Inside the room where apple developed the original iphone. The apple iie was the first apple computer with a custom asic chip, which reduced much of the old discrete icbased circuitry to a single chip.

Software library the primary purpose of any library is to preserve cultural relics and this software library is no different. So, anyway, what the heck did i find inside my apple iie. Apple presents the iie inside story 1985 apple presents the iie inside story 1986 a2t apple corp diagnostics non iigs d apple iigs diagnostics 3. The iie ram was configured as if it were a 48 kb apple ii plus with a language card. The iie contained 64k ram builtin, and allowed up to 128k ram using the 80. The apple iie was the most popular machine in the apple ii series. Apple ii, apple and apple programming and productivity. The inventor steve wozniak used only simple ttlics and easy to get electronic parts on the main board.

The package includes a 64k apple iie computer, a display monitor, one floppy disk drive, and a copy of apple logo, a computer language designed for students. The computer apple ii own spelling apple or apple is one of the first single board computers and micro computers with housing. Well cover the basics of basic and run two simple programs. Put the functionality of the apple iie on an expansion card for the mac lc. The card even had a floppy drive controller and connector for use with a 5. Applications, utilities and general purpose software for the apple ii. Also remember that changes such as this are at your own risk and may void your warranty. Hes a selfeducated software engineer who developed products for the apple in the early days and worked.

In some ways this handicapped the project, since it was then necessary to use the. The apple dealer network used this book to emphasize the growing software developer base in education and personal use. The iieiic have a db9 connector which is physically but not electrically compatible with atari joysticks you may blow up the apple if you plug in an ataristyle stick, and the iigs has both kinds of connectors. Part two of the apple iie restoration project covered restoring an apple iie enhanced. According to christie, design decisions on early versions of apples iphone os were made in a drab, windowless room with mac hardware running the software and a. The apple iie card boasted a 65c02 processor, 256k memory and a port for supporting a 5 14inch apple ii floppy drive and joystick.

Apple2onlinestore the apple2onlinestore will be closed in celebration of the holidays 19 december29 december 2019. Starting with the discontinuation of the apple iie in late 1993, it became increasingly difficult to find paper magazines about the apple ii, and thus information about available new software and hardware for the apple ii. Transferring files seems to come up regularly on all forums. An apple computer inside an apple computer the ultimate solution was a brilliant one. As a result, it wouldnt run some of the better apple ii business software. I find the emu itself runs well if you set the speed to 25 in the config file easy via cyberduck ftp into your apple piie. All orders placed during this time will ship starting 30 december 2019 provided we have all necessary information including phone number and email address. The c in the name stood for compact, referring to the fact it was essentially a complete apple ii computer setup minus display and. Unzip the downloaded file to access the individual disk images for the software title. Restoring two apple iie units part 3 the apple iie standard or nonenhanced introduction. Wozniak wrote all the software for the original apple ii that was stored in its read only memory rom. The software library contains software disk images that can be downloaded and used to recreate the floppy disks using diskmaker 8 or any other utility which supports the compressed format.

Apple 2 products surplus games, educational programs, word processing, publishing, cables, accessories, etc. Heres an apple iie with motors and servo sword hot glued to it. It is in original apple computer disk and users manual in excellent workingtested condition. The iie was replaced by more enhanced enhanced machines, but they never really caught on and the iigs came on the scene, and quickly faded in favor of the mac. Apple continued to produce and sell apple iies up until 1993, extending the. It can either be connected directly to a composite monitor or, by means of a special, included cable, intercept the pcs graphic card signal and switch between the apple ii and pc display as needed. The apple iic, the fourth model in the apple ii series of personal computers, is apple computers first endeavor to produce a portable computer. Within the books 240 pages, lashinsky paints a fascinating, entertaining, accessible and, seemingly, tightly. The company apple built it from 19771993 in different versions. The apple iie the most personal computer 1983 the apple iie succeeded the apple ii plus in 1983. The internet archive software library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs.

The author is an amazing person who was at the forefront of personal computer software development at the very beginning. The apple iie included the new prodos operating system designed from the illfated apple iiis sos, and applesoft basic burned into the 32k rom. The apple iie was released in january 1983, the successor to the apple ii plus. Inside apple, which takes readers behind the tightlycontrolled scenes of apple. Wed mentioned it a few months ago in a links post when it had been posted to a. Even the back of the apple iie shows the potential of this machine to be utterly transformed by each owner. Comments, suggestions, references, and general whathaveyou. This archive contains a disk image that contains iie 1. Cupcakuss mini apple iie must surely be a contender for the smallest computer running an apple ii emulator.

The apple emulator that comes with the retropie package is linapple and it is a little bit work in progress. The duodisk was plagued by reliability problems, however, and did not catch on as well as the apple iie itself. If it is a ribbon style it will connect internally to the disk ii card inside the apple ii. The e in the name stands for enhanced, referring to the fact that several popular features were now builtin that were formerly only available as upgrades or addons in earlier models. To perform this modification on your apple iie, all you have to do is solder across the broken diamond labelled x6 on the main circuit board. A while back, jorj caught wind of a hackaday post from december. Remember to turn off the power before changing anything inside the apple iie. It either has a ribbon cable or a dsub style cable. Older macs that have at least 3 or more digits, whether it be an lc iii, a 475, a 550, 640, up to the 4 digit series of mac computers and i. These blogs chronicle my rediscovery of the apple, some of the adventures in finding things both hardware and software, some of the sites i have found on the web, some of the vendors still producing items for the apples, and some of the people i have encountered along the way. These slots are yours for the shaping, dear computer user. This change resulted in reducing the cost and size of the motherboard. Apple ii, apple e, c, iigs, iic plus, and apple programming and productivity software on 5.

A clone of the apple iie, the trackstar e boasts 128 kb of ram, and support for all apple iie graphic modes. Inside supports multiple ipads, offices, and locations all saved directly to the cloud. Here are 6 ways to move files tofrom an apple ii, tofrom a newer pcmac buy a cheap older mac. Apple continued to produce and sell apple iie s up until 1993, extending the life of the apple ii series past 15 years. It was a handheld apple iie, emulated on an atmega1284p. Heres the bottom side of the first apple iie with the motors and casters hotglued to it. The platinum iie, the last of the apple ii line, was in production until. One version of the iie had a numeric keypad built into the right side of the keyboard. The hardware emulates many of the expansion cards that you would install in a bare iie, including 3. Theres a new operating system for the 39yearold apple ii.