GSport for IIGS – Feature Note No. 1

ZIPGS Speed – one of the configuration variables is speed referencing the ZipGS. My 6.0.4 version of GSOS has a good number of Control Panels which load on bootup, including the ZipGS. See the picture. So I gave it a try.

The system runs every nicely on the ZipGS 8 MHz. Makes playing, and architecting and testing new Mean18 courses go quickly.

Mean18 Golf for IIGS – 4 New Courses

Here are four new Mean18 courses I developed this year. Stone Mountain, Critters Run, Fraser Ridge, and the DinoGolf 2020 which I posted earlier this year.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17uo2nBSJve1od_YwWFmurQwM4-FGvOsv/view?usp=drivesdk

It is a 2mg image, a 3.5 800k disk, with all four courses suitable for playing on a real IIGS or Sweet16 emulator.

Stone Mountain is a very playable fun course, quite birdieable holes.

Critters Run has trees overhanging the fairways so you havde to consider your options of under or around. More than a little choke up 2 iron play.

Fraser Ridge is Mountainous with all types of trees.

DinoGolf 2020 is an update of DinoGolf 2019. Watch those dinosaurs. I actually posted this earlier this year.

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The program and other courses can be found here.

One of my favorite holes. This picture shows the shots I’ve made. ( orange lines).

Number 10.

So far so good.

https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/mean-18.html

iMac G4 – 10.4.11 and 9.2 – Flower Pot (Lamp) with Apple II Emulators

This is my iMac G4 Flower Pot. I’ve had it for a few years now, and used it a lot. I didn’t realize I hadn’t written a blog entry until today.

Besides using it to run vintage Mac software, I also run Apple II emulators on it. Virtual II and Sweet16 both have versions which run on this earlier version of Mac OS X. Lots of links at bottom of this post. I also have a FireWire Drive attached running os9.2 with its apps and games too. See pics.

Here is a picture running “mini vMac“, Virtual II, AND Sweet16.

https://www.apple.asimov.net/emulators/virtual_II/

Here’s the startup Desktop. Date and time just updated. It has an Airport Card.

Here are the specs for the G4. I upgraded it to 768 MB shortly after I bought it. Pretty straight forward.

Here is the directory of mini vMac items. The mini vMac blog entry on this site has links to all kinds of disk configurations.

Booted up mini vMac. Have clock timer and TopCat clock in startup.

Here is the Virtual II Emulator. It’s a version 6. See link below to directory to download it.

Playing Concentration Game.

Booting up Sweet16.

Sweet16 Desktop.

Although this early version can play movies the 800 MHz isn’t powerful enough.

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http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/

https://vintagegeek.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/mini-vmac-emulator-of-early-macs/

https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html

https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/dnld_std.html

https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/systems-os

https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/games

https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/disk-images-and-roms

https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/apps

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators/virtual_II/

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Here it is with the FireWire Drive plugged in and it’s os9.2.

Start up selection screen – preferences.

MacOS 9.2 starting up.

Various MacOS 9 apps running.

MacOS 9 apps with 2020 Calendar.

Star Trek Trivia Game.

Gam3 player selection.

The TenFourFox browser.

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Quick Click Calc for IIGS – QCCalc – QCalc Spreadsheet

This is a nice Graphical Spreadsheet with Charting features for the IIGS. Here are some pictures. I’ve run it under Sweet16 Emulator and from my CFFA3000 in my IIGS.

https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=26901&keywords=qc

Here is a review in II Alive Magazine:

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CoolWriter 3.1 Word Processor for IIGS

I came across this nifty word processor in //Alive Magazine from 1996. Very flexible and really small footprint. I created a 2mg file as original was a shrinkitGS which some folks may have issues with.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6cbmvxd8vjx6nk/CoolWriter31.2mg?dl=0

OmniDisk SCSI Hard Drive Image in Virtual ][ – AW2, 3, 4, 5 AppleWorks, BeagleWrite, //Write, MultiScribe for IIe

A SCSI Hard Drive in Virtual ][ loaded with Word Processors and Spreadsheet apps. It’s also nice on the BOOTi Card USB.

Here is the link to the update image. It has IIWrite and Bank Street Writer Plus installed.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ukz_NvHHbcTKtNECnLUtaUqv8YE9iWMc/view?usp=sharing

Old image below.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4puxdc7mmbjebrd/OMNIDISKStarter.2mg?dl=0

This is a 2mg image I created in Virtual ][. It boots to Super Selector v3.22 which is a text based Program Selector. It works with a mouse or keyboard. I’ve also installed System Utilities v3.1, MouseWrite v2.6.8 and MouseCalc. I’ve already set the default startup subdirectories for MouseWrite, including Accessory and Speller (which you get to via Accessory). My updated version has AppleWorks 2,3,4 and 5, BeagleWrite and MultiScribe, plus copyllplus9 and PublishIT4. There are separate blog entries for all for more details. On March 24, 2020 I added IIWrite and Bank Street Writer Plus [Writer]

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Note: for MouseWrite2.6.8 you need to use the hot-key 🍅-D to start it. For some reason Super Selector directory navigation doesn’t see the mw.system app file. Only instance of this I see.

I have Super Selector on an actual scsi drive connected to my real lle.

The original 32 MB image supplied by the group.

Per Facebook Apple ll Enthusiasts forum.     I have a question. Virtual II on my Macbook Pro has trouble with a 32Mb .po disk image (unrecognized format, it says). I imagine I will be able to use it with the Apple II emulator on Win, but I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to make Virtual II open such files. After all, I bought this software… Thanks!!!

Courtesy of Mark Pilgrim who illustrated how to do this. You need to convert it to a .2mg image with CiderPress, then go to Virtual II configuration and set up a SCSI II Card with an OmniDisk. Then you can “Insert OmniDisk Image…” (under Media menu) to mount the .2mg image.

IIGS Emulator Sweet16 – on MacBooks iMacs etc.

I’ve been using Sweet16 on both G4 iMac and intel IMac and MacBook for a few years now. Terrific for handling numerous hard drive images, as well as 3.5 and 5.25 images. The hard drive images courtesy of Alex Lee’s IIGS site:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/

Above: when you drag an drop the hard drive images to the Sweet16 icon in the system tray they appear as 3.5″ disks. If you perform a restart they switch to hard drive icons.

Below: AppleWorks 3.5 disk loaded.

Sweet16 Starter Kit

Download:  Sweet16 Starter Kit 5.3Mb (Updated 30.5.18)

A bootable .2Mg disk image for Sweet16, which includes System 6.0.1, and Marinetti pre-installed. A PDF instruction file is included. This disk image takes all the pain out of getting Sweet16 up and running. Requires an installed version of Sweet16.

Sweet16 Starter Kit

http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/

User Guide

http://www.sheppyware.net/downloads/downloads-mac/files/Sweet16%20User%20Guide.pdf

Diversi-Tune for Apple IIGS

I downloaded the Diversi-Tune Program and Archive from Alex Lee’s site, plus the two cover pictures. Link is below. I was unable to make it work my Sweet16 Emulator. It would freeze trying to play the music. So I loaded it on to my FloppyEmu, plugged into my IIGS Rom3 and it ran perfectly. See link to my YouTube video below.

http://whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/diversi-tune-v1-1/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vsLXP_ml4&feature=share

My pictures:

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GraphicWriter III for Apple IIGS with Graphics Inserted

Updated April 27, 2018

Here is a printout of the current page 1 done on my ImageWriter II. Note: The blur outs are intentional.

Updated March 15, 2018 Pi-Day

One Pi is font, the other image cut and paste from other document.

Updated March 12, 2018

More screen shots. Color and b&w pictures. [ Picture quality lacking as I got my iPhone to close to the LCD TV. I’m using the Scart Converter with special RGB Adapter cable. See other blog entry for details. ]

This picture is more representative.

Graphics I clipped from other programs using SHR screen capture NDA and then using SuperConvert4 or Platinum Paint 2 to clip.

October 15, 2017
UPDATE.  I was running GW3 v1.1 in the previous examples.   Below are the pictures of GW3 v2.0, which I added to the
GSHarddrive image today.    GW3v2 is in a separate folder on the GSHarddrive. I updated the previous word processing file, which is illustrated.

GW3 V2.0Updated file.Older v1.1 The PDF.

Main Text:

This is a nice program for the IIGS. You can download this program from the link below. The download includes a number of files and versions of the program including some  picture disks. You can also grab the manual which is very extensive. The program disks are 2mg files. The manual says you can load the program to the hard drive which I did and it works perfectly fine. I use it under a subdirectory GW3 on my main 32 MB hard drive. The program seems to come with the graphical and pseudo-graphical program features of this era. You have the font and formatting capabilities with multiple columns for text. and the ability to draw or have some type of image on the screen. A couple key things that I did, which I liked, was the ability to import AppleWorks files and also Bank Street Writer files. As you can see in the examples below I did both. [ I wonder if I ran the Spell Check in GW3. I’ll need to verify. ]

http://whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/graphic-writer-iii/

This one picture of v2.1 was taken from the Internet.

Import file options screen.
Below is a picture of the screen where I imported the AppleWorks file. This is actually the National AppleWorks User Group file that was on one of the disks I had. The funny thing that occurred is I enhanced the title of the page as you can see with the shadows around the letters but when you try to print that to a PDF out of the Sweet16 IIGS Emulator the shadow font does not translate and you get nothing but a big black space at the top of the very first page. I confirmed this by changing the font back to something more natural and it output the PDF just fine.
Here is a example of importing the Bank Street Writer Plus file from my disk. I try to keep mini-journals in all the different word processors I have, and their versions. This Bank Street Writer Plus file shows the embedded text formatting controls.

Spell Check

Here’s an example of importing one of the picture images that came on the disks with the program. As you can see I set the text to wrap around the image completely.
Lastly, here is a group shot of all four pages that printed including the header where I changed the font to not be shadow font, included the logo, the AppleWorks file, and the Bank Street Writer file.

ProDOS32 MB Image Loaded with Stuff from John M Holmes Jr. – AppleWorks5 Notes follow:

I downloaded the PRODOSMASTER32.2mg hard drive image created by John M. Holmes Jr. and posted on his DropBox site via the FaceBook Apple II Enthusiasts Forums (search on ProDOS32). The image is a ProDOS image and boots to ProDOS 2.4.1. The disk contains AppleWorks 4 and 5, many Utilities and many many Games.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/permalink/10156414629828677/

I loaded it into to Virtual II and proceeded to exercise the various launchers, utilities, plus games like Beer Run, Moon Patrol and Donkey Kong. In running AppleWorks 5.1 I had to reset all the Directory specifications. This included the AW.Inits, TimeOut Applications and the Data Disk directory. The best and really only way to accomplish this is through the Other Activities menu item in AppleWorks 5. In AppleWorks 2 or 3 this only allowed you to set the Data Disk path.

In AppleWorks 4 and 5 you can set numerous paths. [ In the original version of ProDOS32 image the pathnames were so long I couldn’t access the TimeOut apps or Inits. So, I moved these folders to the root directory and reset their paths via the options, as seen below, and everything was good. I let John know about this and I believe he reorganized things in the next iteration of ProDOS32. ]

In this case: /PRODOSMASTER2MG/APPLEWORKS/AW5/Data or TimeOut or AW.Inits/

Other Activities

Select Standard Settings for AppleWorks

Options – for entering proper path

Also, if you exercise the print Name and Address Macro from within AppleWorks 5.1 you see John’s address printed out. I could not find a way to update this NAME.ADDRESS.bin file from with the AppleWorks 5.1 program or TimeOut options. So I replaced the file with my copy of the file from another disk image. It worked fine. The NAME.ADDRESS is created when you actually install AppleWorks 5.

In the Games Directory I just figured out I can jump to the proper game alphabetically by typing the first letter of its name, e.g. P for Pacman. There are so many games this is handy on each reboot. With the PacMan.Atari game it is best to select Joystick and then set the Virtual II emulator to used Arrows as Joystick.