As said before on a previous thread, a recently acquired an apple iie.I was wondering if people here could recommend me some software that I should try out. Also, besides using some old programs, what else can I do with my apple II?

A problem I have encountered is that games such as BattleChess are impossible to use since the image is quite blurry (i can't even read the text). Is there any way to change the graphics mode so it is more usable?

Finally, I tried chessmaster 2000, and I only managed to make it work on an emulator. When i copy the image to the apple II prodos or dos 3.3 show either i/o error, or an empty disk. If I try to boot it it just shows garbage. I get the same problem in one of the emulators (Virtual ][).

Sorry for the long post,

and thanks for helping!

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Unfortunately old programs are the only ones that are available for the IIe. No one has written a commercial program for the II line in about 10 or 15 years. There are one or two people who have written a new game or two, but those are few and far between and are simply done by users like us. What type of things do you want to do with the IIe? If you can give us an idea we can possibly recommend programs.

As to your your problem with Battle Chess what monitor do you have the computer hooked up to? That might be the source of your trouble with the blurry screen. As to Chessmaster I'm not sure why it's giving you trouble. I'll try copying it to my GS and see if I can get it to work.

One possibilty you could explore is trying to learn to program the IIe yourself. That way you can come up with a program to do, hopefully, exactly want you want to on the computer. Applesoft is an easy to use language that is built into the IIe. Other prgramming languages can be downloaded from Asimov and other sites on the web. So your options are wide open.

Magnus

Apple II Forever