4decadesofgaming Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 I just purchased an apple iie recently for a great price with a duo disk drive. I know about the apple iie besides having it at my elementary school over 40 years ago. I bought it purely four nostalgia purposes and some game play. So can someone help me in loading a disk to play a game??? I bought a copy of donkey king from a reputable seller on eBay and slide the disk in, I hear the disk spinning in disk drive and it’s still on the apple //e page. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Should just work. That said, the Duodisk isn't the most reliable unit out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 First start assuming dirty heads or a bad disk. Verify with another disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwrd Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) By connecting an audio cable to a smartphone (or computer) to the Apple II cassette port-in, you can load games from https://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/. At a quick glance, I did not see Donkey Kong there though. Edited March 9, 2021 by hwrd typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Clean the heads on your DuoDisk drives and make sure that the diskette you're using is in good shape. Look for blotches on the magnetic media (which would indicate mould) or a concentric scratch at track zero (near the outer edge of the diskette). Apple drives read from the bottom, so look at the underside of the diskette. Mould means that (a) your heads are dirty for sure and (b) the diskette is junk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 DK is a multiloader, so making it load over the tape port isn't really possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) Yes. And mold can transfer from one disk to the next, or leave enough behind on the head to where it fucks up the next disk. Promise you that. So after trying to read a non-readable disk (especially one starting to shed the dried lube coating, binders, and oxides) a head cleaning is required. No way around it unless you want to start damaging the next disk. As a matter of fact, I'm doing head cleanings inbetween most (but not all) disks now. Not extensive runs or anything, just a few seconds of alcohol/silicone/water mix on a head cleaning disk. Enough to wipe away the shedding material. It's not the like carefree days of the 80's and swapping disks by the boxfulls during 2am warez sessions. This is just how some old disks need to be handled. Most are now over 40 years age! Edited March 10, 2021 by Keatah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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