Picked up an Apple /// that appears to be untouched since the 80s, but was in excellent condition and had two external Disk ///s and the Monitor ///.
Apple /// has now been retrobrighted, had the rifa caps swapped out on the PSU, all three drives had their heads cleaned and lightly lubed with white lithium grease.
Did my first test boot and pleased to report it is working!
It also came with a lot of software, including the SOS Disk with Apple II emulation software, AppleWriter ///, QuickFile and some great manuals for Apple Business Basic.
What remains.
1. Drives: The internal drive is powered, but not reading disks. I plugged one of the external drives into the motherboard to load the software. I'll try one more cleaning on the internal drive and then consider swapping in the board and mechanism from one of the external drives.
2. Apple II Emulation: I tried the following games and all seemed to work. Limited to 48k games with no joystick support.
I was disappointed by the lack of joystick support.
Otherwise looking and working great!
Apple /// has now been retrobrighted, had the rifa caps swapped out on the PSU, all three drives had their heads cleaned and lightly lubed with white lithium grease.
Did my first test boot and pleased to report it is working!
It also came with a lot of software, including the SOS Disk with Apple II emulation software, AppleWriter ///, QuickFile and some great manuals for Apple Business Basic.
What remains.
1. Drives: The internal drive is powered, but not reading disks. I plugged one of the external drives into the motherboard to load the software. I'll try one more cleaning on the internal drive and then consider swapping in the board and mechanism from one of the external drives.
2. Apple II Emulation: I tried the following games and all seemed to work. Limited to 48k games with no joystick support.
I was disappointed by the lack of joystick support.
- Karateka - Keyboard
- Lode Runner - Keyboard
- Championship Lode Runner - keyboard
- Bolo - need cracked version
- Castle Wolfenstein - Keyboard
- Beyond Castle Wolfenstein - Keyboard
- Aztec - keyboard (Shown in photo)
- Serpentine - Keyboard
- Swashbuckler
- Miner 2049er - Keyboard
- Crisis Mountain - cracked version
Otherwise looking and working great!
