Category: Virtual Servers

This is a generic sort of article… I have only tried it on one type of machine but this advice may prove useful in other situations. As regular readers know, I volunteer at an educational non-profit organisation every Friday as a systems administrator.One of the privileges is I get to borrow a computer every so often for one of my projects. In this case I had a computer I was using as a file server (using FreeNAS v7.x). Since I…

  Egan Ford, creator and curator of the Apple ][ Game Server and the Apple ][  Disk Server has created mobile versions of the website.  This allows those users with iPhones to use the iOS based device to load their Apple ][ computer with games or disks directly from the Internet. The mobile version of the Apple ][ Game Server is at: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/mobile.html The Apple ][ Disk Server mobile version  is currently being built and will be available soon. now…

Egan ford has added the entire Apple ][ collection from Virtual Apple’s website to the Apple ][ Disk Server.   The Apple Disk Server version 0.991 now has over 1500 disks that are ready to go on your Apple ][. This update was made possible by a contribution of a partial section of the Virtual Apple ][ database by Bill Martens.  You can access the Apple ][ disk server at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/

Ivan Drucker has released his Apple ][ Server, a linux based setup which allows Apple //e’s with workstation cards and Apple IIgs’s that are network capable to connect.  The file server is offered in a complete, ready to go setup that is downloadable from Ivan’s website. A2Sever allows users to boot ProDOS 8 or GS/OS over the network after uploading the media from your Mac or Windows based machines.  According to Ivan, the real gist of the A2Server is that…

The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section.  The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms. That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate.   Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on…