[vcf-midatlantic] Help! I cant get asciiexpress to work with my II Plus

[Bart Hirst]

Did you try both the HIFI & 8KFI versions?  For some reason I had to use
8KFI to create disks because HIFI wouldn't work (checksum error.)  I'm
using an Apple][e & Pixel3a with an inexpensive audio cable.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 3:40 PM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> I have an Apple II Plus, and have been been having limited success in
> trying to get asciiexpress.net to work with it.  I can successfully
> load _some_ games (Dig-Dug and Montezuma's Revenge), but I cannot get
> the vast majority of game titles to load.  And I have been having zero
> luck getting the disk image downloads to work; usually, it will start
> the self-extractor app and then give me a checksum error before
> failing.  I had heard somewhere that interference from other cables
> could be the culprit and that using a Monster aux cable had good
> results, so I picked one up.  No luck, unfortunately.
>
> Has anybody else experienced similar problems, and if so, how did you
> resolve them?
>
> Regards,
> Dan FitzGerald
> They/Them/Theirs
> http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger
>