On one of the Apple II hard drive images I downloaded to an SD card (for my a2Pico) I only today realized there was Mouse Desk in one of the subfolders.
Yes, the Apple II desktop ancestor from 1985. I'm still impressed that it was released about a year after the first Mac. It looks pretty good and is pretty responsive on a 1 MHz 65c02.
Posting this for multiple reasons: while I did sell my Samsung CK4644 CGA monitor last weekend, I still have its twin (Imtec-1464w), which has the same case, controls, features and stripe width (think dot pitch but for slot mask) of .41mm. Just like the Samsung I need to open it up and clean up comically seized potentiometers plus the mono/color switch (a neat feature most CGA monitors didn't have).
The second reason was to share my favorite TUI of the mid to late 80s - AppleWorks 4.0 for the Apple II. Simple and intuitive and can be used with a mouse (though back then we didn't have a mouse on our Apple IIe clone, that card was expensive).
Yes, most people get back into retrocomputing for the games, but for me it's also the other software and utilities, partly because they worked even with fairly limited hardware.
I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.
But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.
("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)
Argh. My Apple #IIgs just decided to give me a scare. I switched it on and it wouldn't boot from any disk (BlueSCSI or FloppyEmu), going directly to the boot menu.
The boot settings were all as I'd left them (time and date, boot slot etc.), but I opened it up to check the ROM battery anyway.
My IIgs came to me with the old lithium cell cut out, and I've replaced that with a pair of AA alkaline cells. Don't worry, they sit on the floor of the case, can't ever leak onto anything.
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