For a long time I have been looking for the Apple //c Flat Panel LCD, one of the nicest items on the line. This monitor was short lived as its readability was poor and the item expensive. It was retired early so not many were produced, which is what makes them rare and sought today […]
Mike Maginnis has announced the posting of Don Worth’s dis-assembly of Apple II Dos 3.2/ The document was scanned many years ago by Apple Historian David Craig and is a hand signed copy of Don’s personal copy of the dis-assembly. You can download the document for free from the Apple II Scans website at: http://www.apple2scans.net/2015/03/19/david-t-craigs-copy-of-don-worths-dos-3-2-flow-of-control-annotated-disassemblies-and-notes/
Apple has announced that the Apple Watch, will be available in nine countries on the release date, 24 April 2015. Those countries include Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US. Apple has also announced that walkin pickup of the watches will not be available, that you must make a […]
David Finnigan of MacGui.com has announced the availability of his latest software project, the Marina TCP/IP stack for the Apple II. Marina is a stack which was written completely in 6502 assembly language and is written to work with the Uthernet, According to the press release, Because I wanted to learn more about ethernet […]
The Spy has it on good authority that iTim is about to iCook up a major purchase–one that will rock merely the high-tech sector, but the entire business world. What follows is a partial transcript of a larger interview, with the Spy’s sometime erstwhile assistant, coder extraordinaire, workhorse novel character, and chief head banger Nellie […]
Mike Maginnis, host of the Open Apple Podcast announced the release of the 45th edition of the podcast. According to his posting, This month, we sit down with Mark Kriegsman, author of Star Blaster, and a modern Apple II hacker. He has ported the awesome FastLED driver library to the Apple II, so you can […]
According to a detailed article by Patrick Wardle, OS X with Gatekeeper is vulnerable to attack from applications loading dynamic link libraries (DLLs) that don’t specify a path name. “The operating system looks for the DLL file in a number of well-defined directories. An attacker could thus ‘hijack’ the DLL by placing a rogue DLL […]
Version 2.0.1 of ADTPro has been released. This version has a fix that is important for users with native RS-232 serial ports (though they’re getting more and more rare all the time). There’s also some help for our friends that are trying to tune their audio settings, and a few other bug fixes. Initial text […]
Technology continues to March forward each year providing transformations in new levels of power, performance, conveniences in computing. 2015 surely is no different. Apple will soon make available a familiar but yet radically different design for the computing paradigm. Apple’s new dictate for computing will become either a love or hate situation. As you might […]
The original manuscript for the book, Beneath Apple Dos is now available for Apple II historians. Apple2Scans.net curator and owner of 6502Lane Mike Maginnis has posted the text to his website with the help of the original author, Don Worth. For more information about the text, check out the 6502Lane website at: http://www.6502lane.net/2015/03/12/don-worths-beneath-apple-dos-original-text-files/