{"id":16198,"date":"2026-04-21T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16198"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:38:43","slug":"use-your-smartphone-to-load-old-program-on-an-apple-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16198","title":{"rendered":"Use your smartphone to load old programs on an Apple II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Writing apple II software to your floppy drive using a smartphone &amp; ASCIIExpress online disk server\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoXe_uR_GZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asciiexpress.net\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/asciiexpress.net\/\">ASCII Express<\/a> lets you load programs into your old Apple II (or any computer with an analog cassette port). You simply use your smart phone (or any computer&#8217;s out audio jack) plugged into the audio jack to load it into the system. <br>They even include a program that will take image files and via a simple basic program, accept the incoming data and then write it to one of the floppy disks &#8211; similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/adtpro.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/adtpro.com\/\">ADTPro<\/a>. No need for expensive drive emulation hardware. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASCII Express lets you load programs into your old Apple II (or any computer with an analog cassette port). You simply use your smart phone (or any computer&#8217;s out audio jack) plugged into the audio jack to load it into the system. They even include a program that will take image files and via a simple basic program, accept the incoming data and then write it to one of the floppy disks &#8211; similar to ADTPro. No need for expensive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16198\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-retro-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4dg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16296,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198\/revisions\/16296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}