Month: May 2002

Extend the life of your PowerPC machine with Linux Loveland, Colorado — 26 March 2002 — Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions announces shipment of Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, the most mature and complete PowerPC Linux distribution available. Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 offers an array of improvements over v2.1 with the most advanced, stable release of the 2.4 kernel, improved support for the Apple ADC monitors, and accelerated video. The screen brightness and volume…

with APW and Related Products A Survey of APW productsBy Mike Westerfield Like myself, many of you have been programming on the Apple II since it really was the Apple II – no plus, e, c, or GS. The first assembler I used on the Apple II was actually tape based. I break out in hives every time I remember that. As the Apple II grew, so did the languages that were available for it. First, better assemblers appeared, starting…

By Eric Shepherd www.A2Central.com About the Author Eric Shepherd is the webmaster of A2Central.com in Tracy, California and is also the director of Syndicomm.com. He is involved primarily in bringing many of the software packages from the 1980’s into the freeware realm by writing to the individual authors to gain the releases. Please note that A2central.com is not related to the magazine from the early 1990’s. The Card I wandered by my mailbox yesterday, as I do just about every…

The History Lesson Hands up everyone who remembers the Super Bowl ad for the original Macintosh computer, the one that aired in January 1984–that utopian, libertarian, iconoclastic production that scared the Apple board silly, then ushered in new eras for both computing and advertising. Now, keep your hands up if you actually used one of those computers that very month. What if you had your hands on a Fat Mac on January 24, 1984? “Wait a minute,” the history buffs…