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Originally Posted by Natehunderd View Post
I grew up in Northern Minnesota, in the 80's the MECC refhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
put Apple II computers in most MN schools. (of course they were under utilized)
Sweet!

Before the Apple ][s dominated the educational market, some Minnesota schools had CBM PETs



If I recall correctly, 'Oregon Trail' took about 5 minutes to load from the cassette. Some of my greatest memories from that time were getting excused from 5th grade math to program on the PET. Only much later did I learn that the BASIC on those was written by ... Bill Gates.

Of course, the lucky kids had Apple ][s at home and the really lucky kids also had a Control Cata PLATO terminal



...at home connected to the Cyber mainframe over 300 baud modems -- which let them play online multiplayer games like Moria dungeon crawl and the awesome galactic conquest game called Empire.



Anyway back on-topic. The Apple ][ emulator won't be 'hildonised'. It has an in-game disk image loader menu - You can load disk images with the +/- keys.

I haven't spent time with the Apple ][ emulator lately, but if you find me a good quality .wav sample of the Apple floppy 'whirr' and 'seek-stutter' sound to play during disk access, I'll get right on it!

Last edited by ArnimS; 2008-03-23 at 00:16.
 

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