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video cable is easy enough, any yellow rca jack cable works the computer will do a basic power on self test, and there are utilities on disk, but of course to get them on disk you need a functioning computer or have someone send it to you, but if its still not booting it wont help much you can get replacement ram, but as I stated before, many times if you just take them out and put them back in it will spring to life

if you have an 80 column card giving you the ability to display high res graphics, yes, there is the apple II desktop, which is a mac like file launcher and disk manager, or gem which is more like a full OS to awnser your other question the first apple with a gui was the LISA in 1983, then the mac in 84 the apple II desktop came about in 86 though other mouse applications existed

well theres comp.sys.apple2.programmer as for editors, head to asimov, theres a 1000 of them, the handful of people here are not the first to ever program these things

I would agree, outside of basic low-res stuff the apple gets extemely convulted, any arcady game that has lots of motion and keeps a decent speed is a monumet to talented programers

just about everybody before the late 90's, on occasion you would find a small bin outside of EB with copys of last years sport games, or something in the traders post newspaper, but yea used games? there wasnt a funco and 2 gamestop and a game trader all within a 3 mile radius like there is today

seems that's a no, but you can find just about any style tip in the appropriate size (from hakko)

sometimes if you just remove and reseat the ram it knocks off years of oxidation and it will spring back to life

I like the JBC stations as well, its what we started using at work, but they are out of my budget hehe

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+ 1, BOX OF CRAP was quite nice

hakko, tons of tips, and reasonably priced, even brand new, and a million knock-offs have not been impressed with weller in a while, they have seriously nice stations... for serious applications like millitary and industry but seriously, 60 bucks for a wood burner on a lamp dimmer? http://www.jameco.co...10001_146595_-1 I personally have an XYTronic, and its a great soldering tool, and I gave like 45 bucks for it, BUT since place I bought it from seems to have gone under the only place I have found tips for it is jameco, and I frankly dont like jameco cause of past issues with UPS only shipping, or minimum order dollar amounts or face a fee crap... they dont do this now, but the only thing I have ordered from them in 3 years was a couple new tips and a brass sponge

pretty good, but I recommend you go to the apple II nerd hive https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/comp.sys.apple2

its just like any other apple II, cept you get all the most popular cards hardwired in and no expansion ports (video, mouse, serial, disk) ... also there are a ton of games for the II series if you do get it, do yourself a favor and make sure it has a 5.25 inch drive, there is a //c+ which features an accelerator, and a 3.5 inch drive on board, but 99% of apple software is on 5.25 (you can attach a 5.25 inch drive on any of them) also keep in mind the 8 bit II series is a pretty primitive system, the video can get pretty high res, and you can do double buffering on it, but its got a low color depth, sound is almost non-existant its not like pluggin in a commie or atari computer, which were beefed up video game consoles with keyboard look up apple II games on youtube to see if its something you are interested in, if all your interested in is games ... as a practical computer though its pretty awesome

didnt it already happen with the psp go?

problem is, there are legions of people who just want to flop on the couch and play a game, they dont care, and they will be the first ones dumping 360's like they were turds

the last 3 generations of consoles has been a PC in a fancy box dreamcast and ps2 are arguably the last from the ground up dedicated game machines, Gamepube and XBOX were a powerPC-ATI and Celeron-Geforce, all three last gen were just power pc and video + special OS, this time around they are going back X86 (which honestly MS pick a damn platform, maybe you can have some sort of backwards compatibility) For decades, arcades showcased the best of the top notch hardware dedicated to gaming, that ended in the late 90's with the death of arcades (again) and the super fast rise in PC horsepower thanks to fierce competition between intel & AMD, ATI & Nvidia & 3dFX

yes unless you use a uv protectant clear coat

Goldeneye or Perfect Dark -- neither, was hard core PC gamer by then Ocarina of time or Majora's Mask --neither, I dont get into 3d zelda, if I had to pick Majora's Mask, just cause I played it longer so there must be something there Pokemon Red or Blue -- blue Tetris or Columns -- Columns GameBoy or GameGear -- GameGear, battery life may have sucked but at least you could see your games without wrenching into some painful positions to get the light just right Super Mario bros. or Sonic the hedgehog -- sonic SNES or Genesis -- GENESIS DOES Street Fighter or Tekken -- Street Figher Mario Kart 64 or Crash Team Racing -- Crash Blast Prossessing or Mode 7 -- draw the faster clock speed and lower color depth meant sega games would haull ass, especially in big number games, but then there's F-Zero and its hard to argue against that

the date would roll back to 1900 on computers not prepared for it, which means large legacy systems like government, banking and the likes

yep ... I have had a lot of good luck with retrobrite as long as your not using the stuff so strong it instantly peels your skin off (that's where a lot of people seem to run into trouble with splotches and whatnot) seal it with some UV protector clear coat and you are good to go (even though things like my mustard yellow IIC has not tanned any faster than it did originally, it has tanned slightly) and if you regret it, crap man they SOLD nearly 50 million of the things (who knows how many were made), with almost half of that being the USA model, its not like you just sprayed a Van Gogh with 409 and wiped it off with a oily rag

is is mac os 9.2 or X? there is a pile of stuff that will run on it very well in 9 as its an older OS so theres years of backlog from the entire PPC family ... theres a bunch of stuff for OSX as well but now your reaching upto the multighz G5 era where the original imac's can be a bit lacking in horsepower course theres not much stopping you from getting them both and multibooting, maybe even toss some linux on it

its best to check with them if you are going to use their pictures

the machine will only draw what current it needs from the power supply ... if the supply can not provide that current it will shut off or burn out ... sometimes in a nasty way. If it provides more, the circuit will consume what it needs and you have a surplus in the supply, which ultimately means less heat at the supply, which is not a bad thing so unless something is fried and shorted out, its not a power supply problem anyway,

it does, then again if you use that stupid strong stuff it may make things worse painting sucks IMO, you sand off the fine texture and at best end up with something that looks spraypainted by an amateur

wikipedia says 9v, get a 1 amp supply or greater (just got 2 at goodwill for 99 cents each), now you just need to know which wire is + and -