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Apple II

Since I was a commodore guy (did I say that before)? I was never really interested in it. I had some friends who owned this computer though. And no one honest enough will deny that this is the classic. Most of the classic games were brought to us through this grand machine (Ultima, David's midnight magic, (nearly?) all Br0derbund classics...). Steve Jobs/Wozniak did a great job inventing this one...
Since I don't know apples all that well (and there are many people who know apples very well), I won't go on offending people, by saying semi smart things about it. Just reviewing the enormous quantity (and quality as well) of emulators concerned with apples would fill a small book. I know the Commodore 64 quite well and was interested in its emulation right from the beginning, I could say some smart (or not so smart) things about it. One could most probably do the same with emulators of apples, I really would like to write smart things about it too, but I just don't feel competend enough, so I'll just give a list of what I've found, and where it can be found... .

As with the spectrum emulators I'll give voice to Paul, in his opinion there are some emulators which are more equal than others (:-), no harm ment Paul).
(tramslated)

APPLE-EMULATORS

Have a look at the available FAQ's (URL below...), there are some (!!!) other emulators available...

Rumors

APPLE Magazine

http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/gsezine/

APPLE-EMULATOR FAQ's

There are two different FAQ's:
Plain text version of first Apple II Emulator FAQ.
Hyper text version of first Apple II Emulator FAQ.
Hyper text version of second Apple II Emulator FAQ.

Software

Much can be found at ftp://ftp.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/, which is the same as http://www.asimov.net/apple_II/site/. (did I mention that adress before?)
Just snoop around at the follwing sites, perhaps you'll find something interesting. For more info's... just look at the link-pages of the homepages of some of the emulators, apple fans tend to be an active lot, so you shouldn't have any problems getting what you want...
ftp://res154034.gannon.wsu.edu
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/apple2
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/pub/apple2

A WWW page with some programs:
http://www.iconn.com.ph/rml/files.html

There is also a web page which has a collection of Apple II emulator resources. Maintained by Jonathan Badger: http://geta.life.uiuc.edu/~badger/apple2.html
(not really that up to date, hasn't got everything (who has?), but he has some infos you won't find here (emulators on other systems than IBM PC)).

Anyone interrested in the history of the Apple II series should have a look at Steven Weyhrich's Apple II History (http://www.hypermall.com/History/)

Newsgroups

comp.emulators.apple2
comp.emulators.announce
comp.sys.apple2
comp.sys.apple2.programmer

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Atari 8bit

As with many other 8bit computers, this was not my computer. I was a c64 guy. I don't even know how to test the emulators correctly, what is difficult to emulate, and what isn't. I'll just give some information, which ones I've found... .

Emulators

There are four that I know of:

Interested in some other stuff about Atari?
Than have a look at the following page:
And which has some emulators available and other information you may find usefull:

There is also an 8bit faq available, go to http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/atari-8-bit/faq/faq.html to read it.

There is now a atari 8 but emulation homepage, have a look at it:

Software...
... can perhaps (and for example) be found at the following links:

There are also many interesting pages one may visit... (atari 8bit users seem to be a active lot), try for example:

Some 'important' tools:
Yes, it requires two programs, Anadisk and Deana.  Anadisk is a general
PC util that is supposed to be able to read any type of disk, and dump it
to a disk file.  Deana will convert that file dump to either XFD or ATR
format.  You can then use a program such as XFD-TOOLS or imagic 
to extract files from the image.
Anadisk and Deana are both available from:
ftp://atari.archive.umich.edu/8bit/diskutils/Transfer
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