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  • Who is still using apple2 in 2026?

    From bikliadik2071@bikliadik2071@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Thursday, February 05, 2026 02:47:04
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    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.

    Glad to meet you all here.
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  • From Brian Patrie@bpatrie@bellsouth.spamisicky.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Thursday, February 05, 2026 23:17:23
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    bikliadik2071 wrote:
    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.

    I have 5--IIee,IIc,IIc+,IIgs1,IIgs3.
    But i live in emulators, these days.

    I need to make room, and get a storage device or two,
    so i can test stuff on the real deal.
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  • From Charlie@charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Friday, February 06, 2026 13:15:08
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    On 2/4/2026 9:47 PM, bikliadik2071 wrote:

    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.

    Glad to meet you all here.

    I have an Apple //e and an Apple IIgs.
    Mostly I use them for FPGA development.

    Charlie
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  • From Oliver Schmidt@ol.sc@web.de to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, February 07, 2026 23:33:29
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    Hi,

    I have 5--IIee,IIc,IIc+,IIgs1,IIgs3.
    But i live in emulators, these days.

    I need to make room, and get a storage device or two,
    so i can test stuff on the real deal.

    For the slotted machines the A2Pico running the A2retroNET firmware is an interesting mass storage solution. See https://jcm-1.com/product/a2pico/

    Regards,
    Oliver

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  • From datajerk@datajerk@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, February 07, 2026 18:41:00
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    On 2/4/26 7:47 PM, bikliadik2071 wrote:

    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.

    Glad to meet you all here.

    In the last 24 hours asciiexpress.net has logged 244 unique IPs
    streaming 107 unique games and downloading 92 unique disk images. The
    top game was Swashbuckler, and the top disk image was DOS 3.3.

    Since this service is for physical Apple IIs, I'd wager there are some
    actual users out there.
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  • From Jan Poulsen@jpo@tiggr.dk to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, February 09, 2026 10:07:23
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    On 06/02/2026 19.15, Charlie wrote:
    On 2/4/2026 9:47 PM, bikliadik2071 wrote:

    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.

    Glad to meet you all here.

    I have an Apple //e and an Apple IIgs.
    Mostly I use them for FPGA development.

    Charlie

    I got my first Apple II+ in 1982, but it's been in storage for 30+
    years. I stopped using it, when the AppleWin emulator was released.

    But I use various emulators almost every day, just to keep the old
    braincells working. :-) I mostly code utilities and simple apps in 6502 assembler.


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  • From Paul Guertin@paul@guertin.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 23:48:28
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:47:04 -0000 (UTC), bikliadik2071 <bikliadik2071@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.
    Glad to meet you all here.

    I have a few Apple II computers that still work well, but I
    mostly use emulators.

    I teach computer science in college, and this term, as the
    capstone project in a computer architecture course where
    students built their own 4-bit computer from 74LS chips,
    they are using Merlin to program a lo-res Apple II game in
    assembly language. For most of them, it's their first contact
    with 8-bit development, and after a crash course in 6502
    architecture, I gave them a bunch of manual scans and
    told them to get to work!

    It's a pleasure seeing them discover assembly programming.
    They really enjoy it and some of them are putting long
    hours into their program .I'm seeing Minesweeper, Pong,
    a text mode Geometry Dash, Space Invaders, Snake, and
    more.

    No doubt some teams are using AI to get some help but
    that's fine, as long as they can explain their program to
    the class -- there are orals at the end of the term in a
    couple weeks.

    Paul Guertin
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  • From Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood@phaywood@alphalink.com.au to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, May 10, 2026 14:27:36
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    Groovy hepcat Paul Guertin was jivin' in comp.sys.apple2 on Thu, 7 May
    2026 01:48 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

    On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:47:04 -0000 (UTC), bikliadik2071 <bikliadik2071@gmail.com> wrote:

    I have them, but I haven't used them lately.
    Glad to meet you all here.

    I have a few Apple II computers that still work well, but I
    mostly use emulators.

    I'm still using my old Apple 2c. I recently bought a smartport
    micro-SD card adaptor. I've installed a couple of downloaded .po hard
    drive images on it, and am working my way through the games on them to
    see which ones are good to play. (All too few, I'm afraid!)
    Although one of the images doesn't seem to be working. It's not
    booting. I'll have to look into that.
    And I can't seem to access the images at all from ProDOS booted from
    the internal floppy drive. I'll have to look into that too.

    I teach computer science in college, and this term, as the
    capstone project in a computer architecture course where
    students built their own 4-bit computer from 74LS chips,
    they are using Merlin to program a lo-res Apple II game in
    assembly language. For most of them, it's their first contact
    with 8-bit development, and after a crash course in 6502
    architecture, I gave them a bunch of manual scans and
    told them to get to work!

    Sweet! You can get alot out of assembly programming, getting down to
    the nitty-gritty of the machine, learning what makes it tick and how to
    make it do what you want it to. The old hardware makes this a not insurmountable task.
    A while back I was writing a graphics/games library in assembly. I've
    got sidetracked (as I frequently do) on other projects, and haven't got
    back to that yet. But I will someday.

    It's a pleasure seeing them discover assembly programming.
    They really enjoy it and some of them are putting long
    hours into their program .I'm seeing Minesweeper, Pong,
    a text mode Geometry Dash, Space Invaders, Snake, and
    more.

    Anyone come up with original ideas?

    No doubt some teams are using AI to get some help but
    that's fine, as long as they can explain their program to
    the class -- there are orals at the end of the term in a
    couple weeks.

    As long as they understand what they're doing, not just copy-pasting,
    they should be alright.
    --


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  • From phigan@phigan@bbs.penisys.online to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, June 29, 2026 20:49:06
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    On 2026-05-07, Paul Guertin <paul@guertin.net> wrote:
    hours into their program .I'm seeing Minesweeper, Pong,
    a text mode Geometry Dash, Space Invaders, Snake, and

    Text mode Geometry Dash? That sounds awesome. I want to play this ;).

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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, June 30, 2026 00:57:55
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    phigan <phigan@bbs.penisys.online> wrote:
    On 2026-05-07, Paul Guertin <paul@guertin.net> wrote:
    hours into their program .I'm seeing Minesweeper, Pong,
    a text mode Geometry Dash, Space Invaders, Snake, and

    Text mode Geometry Dash? That sounds awesome. I want to play this ;).

    Me too!
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