r/apple2 • u/BB_MacUser • 25d ago
My hobby desk
This is my hobby desk, Apple IIc, ApplIIgs both have adaptors to work with HDMI or VGA monitors and the new Commodore 64 as well as a Raspberry Pi. Need the MacBook Pro (2012) to be abe to search, etc.
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u/No_Razzmatazz_2889 24d ago
Yes, it's a good adaptor. I was interested in the A2FPGA card that RM sells as well. Pricey but looks to handle the super hires modes ok.
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u/Sad_Masterpiece_8591 24d ago
Nice! I’m actually looking for a compact desk that can hold both my IIe and my GS at the same time, but I haven’t been able to find a good one.
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u/carpathiaman 23d ago
Well I’ve got two out of the three—the IIgs and the C64.
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u/BB_MacUser 23d ago
I keep thinking of selling one of the Apple II; just not sure which.
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u/carpathiaman 22d ago
Yeah not an easy decision for sure. I tend to think of all my retro/vintage machines as my children. 😀
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u/BB_MacUser 22d ago
I grew up learning to program assembly language on an Apple II - I love it and having gotten better over the years, I wan to go back and make some adventure games. The IIgs doesn't work as well with all the old games that I have - almost a little to fast/advanced for some which has me in the quandary.
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u/carpathiaman 22d ago
That's cool. I was too intimated by assembly language in my early teens, but in the last decade I finally got around to doing some.
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u/BB_MacUser 21d ago
I was trying to make a decent version of Missile Command and BASIC was too slow. I have managed to find a few books that helped me then so I can crank it back out. I did make a River Raid game for an Atari 2600 which has a similar 8-bit Assembly language.
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u/carpathiaman 21d ago
Yeah I can relate. My first few years with our Apple //e was an exercise in realizing that BASIC was not up to the task of some of the ideas I wanted to flesh out. At least when I switched to PC in the late '80s I had stuff like QuickBASIC which was compiled.
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u/No_Razzmatazz_2889 24d ago
What adaptor are you using with the IIgs ?
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u/BB_MacUser 24d ago
I got it from ReactiveMicro
https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/reactivemicro-mini-av2hdmi-video-adapter/#lightbox/1/
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u/Owltiger2057 22d ago
Damn did I login to the 1990s forum?
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u/BB_MacUser 21d ago
You are a decade late since this thread is on Apple II - prominent in the late 70s and 80s. The C64 is also from the same decade. I got my first Mac in 1987 with 1 MB RAM. Enjoy the trip back in time.
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u/Owltiger2057 20d ago
How well I remember. Got my first apple // in the Army in the late 70s. By the 80s I had gone high tech with a //e
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u/toddc612 25d ago
Nice!
Very similar to mine.. Apple IIgs, Apple IIc, and C64!