Apple II

From Mac Guides

The Apple II was the successor to the Apple I computer, and was hugely successful for Apple. The various models were produced in the late 1970's and 1980's, but were eventually replaced by the Macintosh.

1 Software
2 Hardware
3 Models
4 History
5 Emulators
6 External Links

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Software

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Hardware

The Apple ][, ][+, and IIe feature the 8-bit MOS 6502 processor running at 1.02MHz. With introduction of the Apple //c in 1984 came a move to the 65C02 processor, featuring CMOS technology—still 1.02MHz. The enhanced Apple //e also features this CPU. The Apple IIgs uses the WDC 65C816, an 8/16-bit CPU evolved from, and compatible with the 65C02. The IIgs's 65C816 runs at both 2.8MHz in "Fast" mode and 1.02MHz in "Normal" mode. The last Apple II introduced, the //c+, employs Zip Technologies' Zip Chip, basically a 4MHz 65C02 capable of being scale down to various clockspeeds.

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Models

Apple ][
Apple ][ Plus
Apple IIe
Apple //c
Enhanced Apple IIe
Apple //c Plus
Apple IIGS

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History

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Emulators

OSXII is one of the better Apple IIe emulators for the Macintosh. A good balance of ease of use and solid emulation, this Cocoa application wraps the emulator in a friendly, intuitive interface offering a handy genre-based disk image browser.

VirtualApple.com is an excellent resource for Apple II emulation fans. The site pairs the excellent web-based FTA Apple IIgs emulator with a large collection of both IIe and IIgs disk images. Internet Explorer is required as the emulator is written using ActiveX. Hit the site, choose a disk image, and have fun running one of hundreds of games and other applications featured on the site. This is perhaps the simplest way to spend some time with an Apple II on modern hardware.

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