| Disk image acting strange on real Apple II+ [message #399237] |
Fri, 04 September 2020 04:47  |
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Originally posted by: Chris Tobar
Hi all,
I saw a video on YouTube about an interesting and unusual simulator game for the Apple II, called "Nuclear Power Plant" by Adrian Vance. I found a disk image for it here:
https://apple2online.com/index.php?p=1_40_Games-N-Q
I downloaded the file and used a program, "C2T" to convert it to a wav file so that I could load it into my Apple II+ with the cassette interface. It automatically saved the game to a floppy disk and it booted fine. The game starts ok and displays the opening screen. BUT here's the weird problem...most of the text in the game just looks like random gibberish with numbers. There is nothing wrong with the computer, any other program runs fine and all the graphics and text displays correctly. The stranger thing is that when I loaded the disk image into an Apple II emulator on my phone, the text looks normal! What's going on?!
I loaded the program on my Apple II+ again (without running it) and listed the Basic code. I can see the parts where it is supposed to print text, but it actually has what looks like some kind of code with a bunch of numbers and punctuation instead of normal, legible text. I don't understand. Somehow an emulator converts that to normal text, but a real Apple II+ doesn't? I'm trying to figure out what could be happening. Is an Apple II+ too old and maybe you need at least an Apple IIe to run it? That doesn't seem very likely though, since I think the game is from 1986 and besides I would think it wouldn't run at all if that were the case. Was that disk image file mainly intended for an emulator and not an actual Apple II? I'm totally confused!
If anyone has any ideas what might be happening, please let me know! Or if anyone knows where I can get an image that will work on an actual Apple II+, that would be great. (I've been looking everywhere and so far the ONLY site I found it on is Apple2Online). I really wanted to try this little game. It looks pretty simple, but still interesting.
- Chris
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| Re: Disk image acting strange on real Apple II+ [message #399238 is a reply to message #399237] |
Fri, 04 September 2020 05:18  |
mverpelli
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Registered: May 2013
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On Friday, September 4, 2020 at 10:47:56 AM UTC+2, gatewa...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> I saw a video on YouTube about an interesting and unusual simulator game for the Apple II, called "Nuclear Power Plant" by Adrian Vance. I found a disk image for it here:
>
> https://apple2online.com/index.php?p=1_40_Games-N-Q
>
> I downloaded the file and used a program, "C2T" to convert it to a wav file so that I could load it into my Apple II+ with the cassette interface. It automatically saved the game to a floppy disk and it booted fine. The game starts ok and displays the opening screen. BUT here's the weird problem....most of the text in the game just looks like random gibberish with numbers.. There is nothing wrong with the computer, any other program runs fine and all the graphics and text displays correctly. The stranger thing is that when I loaded the disk image into an Apple II emulator on my phone, the text looks normal! What's going on?!
>
> I loaded the program on my Apple II+ again (without running it) and listed the Basic code. I can see the parts where it is supposed to print text, but it actually has what looks like some kind of code with a bunch of numbers and punctuation instead of normal, legible text. I don't understand. Somehow an emulator converts that to normal text, but a real Apple II+ doesn't? I'm trying to figure out what could be happening. Is an Apple II+ too old and maybe you need at least an Apple IIe to run it? That doesn't seem very likely though, since I think the game is from 1986 and besides I would think it wouldn't run at all if that were the case. Was that disk image file mainly intended for an emulator and not an actual Apple II? I'm totally confused!
>
> If anyone has any ideas what might be happening, please let me know! Or if anyone knows where I can get an image that will work on an actual Apple II+, that would be great. (I've been looking everywhere and so far the ONLY site I found it on is Apple2Online). I really wanted to try this little game. It looks pretty simple, but still interesting.
>
> - Chris
What can you tell us about lowercase letters?
Marco
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| Re: Disk image acting strange on real Apple II+ [message #399242 is a reply to message #399239] |
Fri, 04 September 2020 05:53 |
mverpelli
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On Friday, September 4, 2020 at 11:22:24 AM UTC+2, gatewa...@yahoo.com wrote:
> HA! Could it really be that simple?! I forgot all about that...the Apple II+ does NOT have lower case letters!
I have no idea if some one has already done it, I think a good job awaits you with CyderPress and an editor (like Notepad ++) that can convert all the selected text in uppercase.
Marco
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