I usually use a joystick. It doesn't use arrow keys, though. Networing on the II is rare. Lack of support both in terms of hardware and softwAre made it so. The Mac was unique in …

I think it was relatively common in most school environs with at least a certain amount of cash to have an apple II network. The school district here had Corvus stuff. Google "Corv…

How common was networking in the Apple II days? I remember our school lab had about 10 Apples sharing a printer, but other than that I didn't even know the term "networking" back …

This is kind of unrelated to the network part, but I can't get your single-player snake game to run. Anything I should know that I might not about getting it to work? I don't have…

Actually we do qualify for it, but such a thing is too newfangled for my parents, plus I'd have to go on a contract, which I kind of can't do when I don't have a job, and don't kno…

I guess you're not "Remote" enough to qualify for the subsidised sat feed?

Yeah, thats the thing...if you're in a reasonably big area, in most cases you can get ADSL no problemo, however there's still a lot of people in country areas who simply can't get …

ADSL isn't really available in a lot of places here in Australia, only in built up areas Click to expand... Just to clarify, 90% of Australians live in the larger cities, and p…

According to this: http://www.marketingvox.com/55-of-us-adults-have-home-broadband-but-10-use-only-dialup-039691/ in April '08 dialup in the USA was at ~10%. Given the preceding …

I dunno, in the states the average mans BS guess is 40% are still on dialup, and a quick google of dialup internet -zipcode will bring up a much wider array of providers than cable…

I don't know what things are like in other countries, but here in Australia dialup is available anywhere in the country from quite a few different providers, including the main one…

Anyone have any idea how to use SLIP to connect an Apple II to a PC running Windows XP and get internet? It seems like a plausibly doable solutions, but some pointers would be help…

Using a period modem would be the least of your problems. Good luck trying to find a dial-up provider, much less know whether or not your modem will work with their service. Not on…

Yeah, back in November...it had to happen eventually. And hopefully soon I'll get a job and move out, so I can make the final move from 3G to ADSL.

Didn't you only recently move up from dialup anyway, LCGuy?

Surely it must be acceptable. Not much different from using any other router. Having to use a period modem would be rather inconvenient.

I contacted yourmacstore and they were able to dig up a last kit for me, doesn't sound like they have more. Contacting Spirica might be the only way now.

If you use a software/hardware clock, you could keep track of time. Using that you could handle the following scenario: T=Time, C=Computer (1/2), A=Action Taken R=Receive new coo…

Your trying to prevent collisions during serial communications, right? Click to expand... Right. I don't want both Apples to be trying to "talk" at the same time, or conversely…

I don't know if you noticed my post earlier, but I recently purchased an apple IIe so hopefully in a little more than a week (I wish it were less) that should reach me. Really look…

Is there a reason you can't write a program that will check the cassette port and signal the SSC? Maybe the program could send data to cassette line that were indicative of the ne…

The Apple IIe doesn't have software interrupts, unfortunately, and that's my target platform. The newer models, the IIc and IIgs, do have software interrupts. I'd want to get an i…

I was proposing something along the lines of a software interrupt based on the input on the cassette line. I don't know much about the computer or whether it can handle that quickl…

I don't think that the cassette ports generate interrupts. See my blog for further details: http://macgui.com/blogs/?u=2&month=7&year=2009

Okay, that's not much of a surprise. It should be somewhat less difficult than modern games because you're screen is very low resolution and has limited color. So that's a lot less…