Apple IIe

It says it's just 50 rooms, everyone with its own picture.

That's a little inefficient to be spanning those six disc sides, but it does say it supports a 64K Apple IIe, is playable off of one floppy drive, and will include three-voice music if it detects a mocking board.

So quite a few kind of contemporary late 80s conveniences in this one.

Sean Seinstra posted to Mastodon to announce that their Agon Lite Z machine interpreter has reached a point where the Z6 support can play Journey in all emulators with all the graphics and mouse support you've come to expect from that, um, classic, we'll call it.

I think they even advertised that as part of the movie.

It's featuring an Apple IIe right over the phone.

And this is where

we find out as he's typing all this shit into the computer and it translates to Latin and English.

And so one way to think about it is the original stuff was not addictive.

The IBM PC was not designed to give you quick dopamine to keep you tinkering with your IBM PC, nor was the Apple IIe.

The early internet was not designed so that you could go to a website and it would somehow reward you so that you had to keep going to that website all day long.

There was no variable ratio reward schedule.

you buy another one, the cycle was longer.

And it was also right, especially if you account for inflation, extremely expensive to just suddenly go, well, we just bought our Apple IIe for the equivalent today of six grand.

That new Commodore is, you know, awesome.

We have to get it.

Yeah, I mean, I suppose when we were coming up, you know, computers were coming onto the scene.

And I remember that my parents had an Apple IIe computer.

I sat down at it.

It was just amazing, you know, like you could type into this thing and play a video game or whatever.

Oh, yeah.

No, I had an Apple IIe, I guess, in the late 80s where you would load the operating system, take the floppy out, and then store your content.

And I could play like a couple of shitty baseball games.

Yeah.