In the intervening decade and a half, the Mac Serial-to-USB adapter I had counted on (I have two of them!) fell out of compatibility the most recent driver I could find for it was compatible with Snow Leopard. The IIc went in the box with the disks and there they sat until December, when I decided I was going to finally finish this project, once and for all-if the disks hadn’t rotted in the intervening 16 years. Whatever motivation I had to excavate my late-80s life faded with the 9/11 attacks and vanished a couple months later when my daughter was born. The Apple IIc and some disks, mid transfer.
In 2001 my curiosity and a feeling of nostalgia got the best of me and I decided I’d try to copy them so I could run them in an emulator on my Mac, so I bought an Apple IIc on eBay 3 and an Apple IIc to Mac Serial connector cable. And the two dozen floppy disks stayed in two battered boxes for the next 27 years.Įvery now and then I would find them in whatever storage box they’d been hidden in, as they moved from the house I grew up in to various apartments and ultimately the house I’ve lived in for the last couple of decades. But for some reason I saved them instead. I could’ve thrown the disks away-I had already transferred all the files I cared about to the Mac 2. What I was left with were two boxes containing two dozen 5.25-inch floppy disks. That following summer I sold the Apple IIe and everything that came with it-the monitor, floppy drives, and dot-matrix printer-and pocketed the cash 1. I used an Apple IIe computer throughout high school and into my second year in college, before I bought a Mac SE. Watch a YouTube video of II in a Mac in action.One of these disks is from the 21st century. I haven't been able to locate any info on this product. The company also released a product called II-in-a-PC that allowed Apple II software to run on a PC. II-in-a-Mac had key disk copy protection but could be installed on a hard drive or double-sided Mac floppy disk. Copy protected Apple II software does not work with the emulator. Graphics could be cut and pasted from Apple II programs into Macpaint documents. Text could be cut and pasted in either direction between the Mac and Apple II applications using the clipboard. Extra Mac memory was used to emulate the Applied Engineering Ramworks II card. Average performance was about half the speed of an Apple II. Version 2.0 supported Apple IIe and IIc programs. " Emulator Lets Apple II Programs Run on a Mac " - This Infoworld article dated Jdiscusses version 2.0.
User Manual - 45pp (17mb high resolution PDF) The emulator was created by Computer Applications, Inc., based in Raleigh, North Carolina. This was long before the appearance of the 1991 Apple IIe Card for the Mac LC.
Initially it could run Apple II+ programs, but later evolved to include IIc and IIe software. The emulator ran on a 512K Mac and was released in November 1985. II in a Mac was the first Apple II emulator.