Help

Ken Gates needs help with his cranky SCSI drive. Hi, I still use my Apple IIe with a Q-Drive hard disk. I run AppleWorks and keep a super large list of movies on the drive, as I’m a movie buff. I’ve recently been having hangup on the hard drive. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot it […]

Brian Mika needs assistance getting high quality copies of various Sierra Interactive disks for the Apple II. I am a long-time fan of Sierra’s Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) games of the 1980’s. I need to get in touch with people who have, or can make, 100% authentic disk copies and graphics/sound samples for use in […]

Tim McNerney wrote in with a surprising and intriguing request: I am looking for volunteers to help reverse-engineer and document Apple II VisiCalc, recreating fully commented source code from the binaries in the process. Besides documenting this historic work for engineering students, educators, and future historians, in fact, I plan to give all this work […]

Bill Jehle wrote in with an interesting project he’s working on. He’s attempting to hack an Imagewriter II printer into a CNC plotter and needs more information. I have an Apple IIc, IIgs, and Imagewriter II up in my attic. Yes, they all still run (which is more than I can say for my first […]

Justin asks, “Do you know where there is a reliable business to buy aftermarket software for an Apple IIe Platinum class computer? I’m doing a little computer project for pure nostalgia reasons and I am looking for software to do wordprocessing, spreadsheet, repair and troubleshoot utilities, programs etc. for this type of computer.” And, Phil […]

Mike G. writes “We have been maintaining our household files using Appleworks (first on a IIe and then on a Mac LC with a AIIe card). Alas, the LC has collapsed after 16yrs! Are there any file translators that can translate the Appleworks database files to either MAC or PC format to run on Excel […]