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  1. Games That I Missed @[email protected] ·

    I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.

    But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.

    ("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)

    #AprilApples #Retrocomputing #VintageApple

    #iigs #aprilapples #retrocomputing #vintageapple
  2. Games That I Missed @[email protected] ·

    Argh. My Apple #IIgs just decided to give me a scare. I switched it on and it wouldn't boot from any disk (BlueSCSI or FloppyEmu), going directly to the boot menu.

    The boot settings were all as I'd left them (time and date, boot slot etc.), but I opened it up to check the ROM battery anyway.

    My IIgs came to me with the old lithium cell cut out, and I've replaced that with a pair of AA alkaline cells. Don't worry, they sit on the floor of the case, can't ever leak onto anything.

    #AprilApples

    #iigs #aprilapples
  3. Games That I Missed @[email protected] ·

    I got in some game time with the #IIgs this evening: Vindicators! I had a vague sense that this was going to be a combat racing game in the same vein as Roadblasters, but I was way off. Sci-fi battle tanks!

    #Retrogaming #Tengen

    #iigs #retrogaming #tengen
  4. Games That I Missed @[email protected] ·

    Just before the Easter weekend, I received the replacement #SCSI card from the very kind eBay seller. I updated them to know it had arrived in good order, but that I wasn't going to be able to try it out for a few days because of guests and festivities.

    But I got around to it. AND I INSTALLED IT THE RIGHT WAY 'ROUND THIS TIME.

    (I'm never going to forget that I did that ...)

    #IIgs #AppleIIgs #Retrocomputing #NewEnglandVintageComputing

    #scsi #iigs #appleiigs #retrocomputing #newenglandvintagecomputing
  5. Games That I Missed @[email protected] ·

    Speaking of Print Shop, I used surl-server (github.com/colinleroy/a2tools) by @colin_mcmillen to connect my Apple #IIgs to the Brother laser printer on the WiFi network. Print Shop is still awesome, I've been printing holiday and birthday cards. It seems like *everyone* remembers Print Shop and misses it.

    #Retrocomputing #PrintShop

    🧵 4/x

    #iigs #retrocomputing #printshop
  6. Michel @[email protected] ·

    Took my (110V) IIgs PSU appart, and realised I could use the base as is, and install a Q-60B Chinese quad rail PSU (220V) on the base chassis. It's ALMOST a perfect fit, and I can reuse the back of it, so it will look perfectly genuine from outside! Also, non destructive so I can reassemble the old PSU if I ever want to. #apple2 #apple #april2 #retrocomputing #IIGS

    #apple2 #apple #april2 #retrocomputing #iigs