At any rate, I hope you’ve enjoyed my tale and my photo gallery chronicling this project. I’m rather enjoying the setup, and it’s certainly generated many a raised eyebrow and curious look as folks pass by my office. It’s a rather abstracted approach, but it’s great to twiddle the //c’s keys in a meaningful way every workday.
#Ti 99/4a emulator for mac windows#
Below are directions for using this game with JS99 (which runs in your browser) and Classic99 (which is a Windows application): TO USE JS99: 1. The //c spends basically all of its time serving as an IRC chat terminal, displaying a shell session of either irssi or Rhapsody, both terminal-based IRC clients, running on my remote Linux server by way of a secure shell connection. This game is for the TI-99/4A, which is not emulated directly on the Internet Archive. (It actually seems pretty fast given that 1200bps is the fastest speed at which I’ve ever used an Apple II terminal emulator – on my IIe with internal Prometheus ProModem 1200A back in 1986.) 9600bps seems the fastest that the //c can handle in this configuration – slow, but adequate for the role of a text terminal. The //c is running Modem MGR, a popular and flexible terminal application (three 143K floppies in size) that is providing VT220 emulation. A custom 5-pin DIN (//c end) to 8-pin mini-DIN (Mac style) null modem cable of my own ( sloppy) creation ties the //c to a Keyspan dual USB-serial adapter plugged into my mini.
#Ti 99/4a emulator for mac serial#
Sitting next to my office workstation setup is an Apple //c, complete with a 9″ monochrome Apple Monitor //c and stand (all beautifully designed by frog design inc.) serving full time, 8-hour per workday duty as a serial terminal to my my Mac mini. An avid IRC user myself, with a Mac mini and Apple //c already in my office, I had little choice but to folllow his lead. It seems that Paul Weinstein put an Apple //c into his office setting, tied to his Mac mini via serial link, and proceeded to use the //c as a text terminal for IRC chatting. Well, I recently encountered a story that gave me a reason to use my //c a little more frequently – as in every day. I’ve booted it seldom enough times to count on one hand – a sad situation. So the //c has been in my office since I purchased it. This story is about the //c – the //c I recently purchased. I finally sold it and moved to the Mac, and then Amiga, and then Apple II again, and then… Well, let’s not get carried away.
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It was a great experience owning and using that machine at the age of 12. You see, my second computer was an Apple //c (after my TI-99/4A), puchased in April 1984.
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Several months ago – maybe more like a year or two ago now, I purchased an Apple //c in mint condition and didn’t really have a plan for just where I would house this little treasure.