Best Apple IIe emulator to use?

[gavo]

Hi,

I've not really been playing with my old Apple II stuff, but am going to try and spend a bit more time on it. I was just wondering what the view was on the best IIe emulator out there at the moment. The capabilities I most want out of an emulator would be

- Windows based (sorry 'bout that)

- Emulation of an enhanced Apple IIe

- Functional Apple Super Serial Card Support (mapping to an available physical serial port on the host computer)

- Hard drive image support

- Easy to use

Cheers,

 

[david__schmidt]

I'm pretty sure AppleWin has what youre after.

http://applewin.berlios.de

 

[Scott Baret]

Honestly, the best way to use IIe software without a IIe (and the only one I know of that is guaranteed to be 100% legal) is the Apple IIe card for an LC. LCs are easy to find and don't cost much. The card may be a little tougher to come by but if you're lucky you will find an LC with one already inside that the seller doesn't know about. (That's how I got mine). All you need after that is a 5.25" floppy drive (pretty easy to track down). If your LC didn't come with a monitor, it can drive a VGA with an adaptor (again, pretty commonplace--I think I even have an extra or two laying around somewhere).

I'm not sure how/if the IIe card handles hard drives. I really haven't played around with it too much (and didn't use it much in the 1990s since our school had two IIes still in operation). I'd actually be interested to know what the IIe card supports in respect to hard drives myself.

 

[gavo]

I'm pretty sure AppleWin has what youre after.http://applewin.berlios.de

Cheers for that - does indeed look like it will fit the bill - had a quick play with it last night.

 

[gavo]

Honestly, the best way to use IIe software without a IIe (and the only one I know of that is guaranteed to be 100% legal) is the Apple IIe card for an LC
I'm not sure how/if the IIe card handles hard drives. I'd actually be interested to know what the IIe card supports in respect to hard drives myself.

Funnily enough I do actually own a complete Apple IIe card (including box and manual!) and a compatible 5.25" drive I havent powered it up as of yet, but do intend to install it into my LC475 eventually - problem is, I lose my ethernet in the 475 when I do it, and to be honest, although this is probably the way I will end up doing my real Apple II'ing, its not as flexible as a windows based emulator (as the 475 isnt exactly modern these days), and so to start I'm going to go with something windows based to get back on the bike.

Ultimately I'd like a real Apple IIe (like the good old days), but they are hard to come by in my part of the world now days.

Anyway, to answer your question about the IIe card and hard drives - you can partition the LC's disk and create a ProDOS partition which will be recognised by the IIe card (and the Mac) - I have a 20MB partition all ready to go for when I install the card - according to the manual I'll be able to boot from it and access it like a normal A2 hard disk - its also a good way to get files to/from the IIe side of the Mac.

Cheers,