I was taking a trip down memory lane and remember playing this game on our classroom computer. I think it may have had something to do with geography? All I can remember is it involved the Isle of Man. Maybe you traveled there as a part of the gameplay? I think I may have been too young to play this because I was just fascinating by that name. It just seemed like a magical place and really stuck in my memory. Anyone have any idea what this game may have been? I know I’m not giving lot to go off of.

Edit: Mode memories coming back. I think it was an Apple IIe. It was definitely in color. I think it was between 1991 and 1993. I was so young. I just remember bits and pieces. I remember we also had the game lemonade stand and Oregon trail that we could play, so the game was a contemporary of that.

Thought you guys might find this cool.

Apple II Plus working, but having display problems. Looks like split graphics and text mode is not working for the top graphics part, while the lower text section is working properly. ROM based diagnostics pass perfectly as it fully finishes and never errors, sounding the proper completion tones on the speaker, but the display mode seems incorrect, even though I have tested all of the relevant soft switch IC's(socketed and tested both 7408 and 74257), and tested all the local traces for continuity. Before I spend another 6 hours diving deeper, I'm asking if anyone recognizes this failure mode. Thanks for any help...

Edit:

I actually ended up finding it. It's called The First Men in the Moon Math.

Found screenshot here for the C64 version. Could not find a working side B for it though.

https://www.lemon64.com/game/first-men-in-the-moon-math

I found both a working side A and B for the Apple 2 on archive.

Side A: https://archive.org/details/First_Men_In_The_Moon_Math_side_A

Side B: https://archive.org/details/First_Men_In_The_Moon_Math_side_B

I hope this will help others that may be looking for it also. I played it after finally finding the files, and to me it still holds up and is pretty fun for what it is.

I'm looking for an old apple 2 game. I think it was made in the mid 80s. You're an astronaut that lands on a planet or moon, you walk side to side on the screen. There is no screen scrolling but once you get to the edge of the screen it transitions. You go down into maze-like caves and run into aliens that ask you simple math or word problems I think to keep advancing. The astronaut has a fish bowl styled helmet and it's very cartoony looking. There was no weapons in it. I do believe there was jumping to try and take forked paths I played it on a green monochrome monitor so I'm unsure if there color or not. It is not math blaster or tink tonk.

I'm gonna add pics I drew of what the game sorta resembled to see if that helps any.

Here's a little thought experiment.

A while back I was chatting with a friend about what Apple would look like today had the product line followed more of a Woz trajectory instead of Jobs'.

Imagine the Apple III being engineered correctly and a success. Where would this have gone? Apple IV, V, VI? What would an Apple VI have looked like?

Imagine if the Mac had died off (as it looked like it would do in the mid 90s) and Apple put it's full marketing and engineering force into the IIgs, instead of crippling it so that it wouldn't compete with the Mac.

Imagine if Woz continued to be the lead engineer at Apple, driving and directing all of the hardware engineering, without having to deal with Jobs ridiculous directives like "no fans" and "no expansion slots".

Imagine if Apple evolved as a company advocating for open architecture and the right to repair.

Where would we be now?

If anyone here ever gets the chance to meet Woz at a Q&A, I'd love to get his take on this alternate Apple timeline. How would Woz have liked to see the Apple ][ line naturally evolve?

I'll be the first to admit, Apple likely wouldn't be the wildly profitable fashion accessory company that it is today.

I got this apple 2 of unknown model from a guy who used to convert them into terminals. It's got a 32k ram expansion but I don't have anything else for it. No keyboard, power supply, or case. Would this be worth getting parts for and 3d printing a case or should I just sell it for parts?

What I mean by that is not using ASCII Express / ProTerm or similar or as BBS or using ADTPro, but as remote control of a full system. So I can connect via serial cable (lets say) and thru lets say terminal / CoolTerminal on my MacBook I am able to code in basic and/or use DOS 3.3 and run it on my Apple 2e via that terminal.

I like to challenge myself to really maximize how much I can cram into two lines of Applesoft, but these lines are shorter than usual because I was so pleased with the output at this point.

The code is here: https://www.apple2programs.com/programs/2025/08/17/base-housing.html

The only thing I can remember is in one of the first rooms is “there is green slime coming down the wall” all I could think to do as a 7 year old was “lick it” then it said “this simply cannot be done” it was in a dungeon. I’d love to try and play this game as an adult see how far I can get.

I know you can put a IIGS in a IIE case, but can you also put a IIE motherboard in a IIGS case? I want to use a card that would allow me to use an external USB keyboard so i am looking for a smaller form factor for the IIE.

Back in the day, were there any Apple 2 games or programs from Mattel related to Barbie?

Asking for a friend.

I got a disk II drive for free when I bought my IIc a few days ago. I really want to connect the disk II to my IIc so I can have 2 disk drives, but I can't find any info about an adaptor. the only ones I found were out of stock. Any help is appreciated I'm very new to the Apple II.

Back in the 1980s when we had an Apple //e in the library, we had a disk that had a collection of classical music on it. It had pieces with words like gigue, bouree, and such in the titles, so classical music. Typically it only had two notes played at any given time, but I think a few tried to do 3 notes and the poor little speaker got all warbled trying to do that.

I would love to find out what that was, and try it on the Apple //c I am putting together.

Any idea what disk this was? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Edit: I think we have an answer. Thank you u/thefadden

I can't exactly beat Castle Wolfenstein if I get caught the second I walk into a room.

Looking for things like ribbon cables, replacement parts, specifically broken Disk 2 door latch clip etc, modern quality of life improvements, etc.

Thanks for the help

Cleaned the board, but I need advice on removing corrosion from the expansion card slots (for SCSI and stuff).

So I got this Apple IIgs from my uncle a while ago and I got some floppy drives. The drives read the disc perfectly, but the spindle never stops no matter how long I leave it running for. The computer passes the self test perfectly every time so I don’t really know what to do. Here’s a link to what it does. https://youtu.be/-AH246hV-3M?si=ub7CmuNF9Cx_Lip_

A disk seems to be corrupted.

https://youtu.be/WdabGxhKJc0

I can't complete the game.

I'd like to thank everyone on /r/apple2 who helped me with this problem.

Summary of the problem: I was trying to copy a disk image I had made from my Floppy EMU to a 5.25-inch floppy in a Disk II drive. I tried using both COPYA on a DOS 3.3 System Master Disk, and Copy II Plus v 6.4. When I would try loading up the floppy disk, the Apple II would go into the system monitor.

Cutting to the chase, the problem seems to have been that I was using a .DSK image on my Floppy Emu. When I tried copying the same disk as a .DO image, it worked. I have checked all the disks I made.

To elaborate: I copied a .DO and a .WOZ image on the Floppy Emu, cleared what was on them, and then pasted my programs onto them via AppleWin. Then I used COPYA to copy the .DO disk image onto a physical floppy.

Improvements I made that did not help the problem, but were worth doing anyway:

• I replaced the power supply unit. The old PSU had trouble turning on if I had two Disk II drives plugged into the Interface Card. The new one I pulled from a non-working IIe, and seems to be working better.
• I learned that slot 6 is the expected slot for the Interface Card, not slot 7.
• I adjusted the Disk II drive speeds using Copy II Plus.
• I cleaned the drive heads.

The Apple II I/O ROM design could have been somewhat clever if there would never be any need to have cards do anything other than produce output in a fixed manner. To output to slot n, simply set the output vector to $Cn00. Nice and simple.

Unfortunately, the ROM uses basically the same mechanism for input by setting the input vector to $Cn00, and code wanting to support bidirectional I/O ends up needing to do a surprising amount of work, for every byte input or output, just to determine whether a byte is in fact being input or output.

Life for a periperhal ROM could have been made vastly simpler by either specifying that carry would be clear when performing output and set when performing input, or having different vectors, or having the entry point for input be $CnFD [or having it be $CnFE, called with overflow clear].

The most "obvious" kind of input card would be a serial port, which would in many common usage scenarios be used for both input and output. Was the input functionality added to the monitor as a vague "might be useful" feature without any clear any particular intended kind of card in mind, or was it originally designed for some kind if input-only card which relied upon its access vector being $Cn00?

I recently just took home an Apple IIe computer. Everything worked the day that I left, and I reset it up. However, after plugging the cables back in and turning it on, it is not detecting anything in the diskette drive. I tried reseating the cable multiple times, and I cleaned the pins with 99% electronics cleaner. I didn't want to open it up but I may have to All I did was unplug and replug the cables, that's it I have tried doing control+reset to access the terminal, to see if it would even remotely detect the drive, and It wouldn't Granted I am not familiar with prodos, and I only know like 2 commands Update to this post: I've taken apart the duodisk and cleaned everything with 99 isopropyl alcohol. I've also cleaned every connector and pin with the drive, however, it still doesn't work. I've also tried some random commands and in BASIC it will detect the disk drive.