While the Apple IIgs could connect to a composite display, Apple released a high-quality color RGB monitor specifically designed for the IIg...

Wizardry is the first role playing game to make a substantial, widespread impact on video gaming. First released for the Apple II in 1981, i...

To those people familiar with the MS-DOS command prompt, have you ever wondered how similar tasks are accomplished with non-PC compatible sy...

The 1977 Trinity, Courtesy of Wikipedia, Image by Timothy Colegrove Consider that you have been transported back in time to the heady and ho...

The Apple IIc, while a great little system, has a great deal of upgrade potential. In a previous blog entry I talked about the Mockingboard ...

Among the Apple II models, the IIc is undoubtedly the restricted of the bunch. The system integrated just about every necessity for mid-1980...

The "c" in the Apple IIc stood for compact. The Apple IIc was designed to be the epitome of the Apple II series, providing the opt...

In 1984 Apple Computer released the fourth computer to its Apple II line, the Apple IIc, A2M4000.  The Apple IIc was a "compact" v...

The Apple II was distinctive when it was released because it was the first microcomputer and the only one of the "1977 Trinity" of...

When we think about storage devices and the Apple II, everyone's first thought is usually the same, the 5.25" floppy disk.  Maybe t...

Keyboards today have a standard layout.  All keyboards are based off the 104-key standard layout from the mid-1990s, and before that the IBM...

The Apple II computer are unique in that not only was it the first home computer ever released to the mass market, it was the first computer...

The Apple II had thousands of games released during its long life-span, and from its first game, Breakout (later known as "Brick Out...

The Graphical User Interface is something computer users have taken for granted for twenty-five years since Windows 95 computers became ubiq...

In the IBM PC world, there is no such thing as "single density" floppy drives.  Floppy drives started out as double density and la...

The need for proper preservation of floppy-based software cannot be understated.  Floppy disks were not designed to store data for forty plu...

The 5.25" floppy disk was the principal medium of program storage for the Apple II series of computers.  Thousands of software titles w...

A minimally-functional Apple //e requires very little in the form of upgrades.  Add an 64KiB memory expansion, a floppy disk controller card...

When I re-started my Apple II journey I wanted to share some of the knowledge I had acquired over the years and put into full service when I...

In the last blog entry I focused on the basics of how to get an Apple //e up and running.  In this entry I am going to focus on some of the ...