Month: February 2010
The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section. The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms. That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate. Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on…
by Sean Henriques KillDashboard : a utility to disable the Dashboard on your Mac After seeing my lovely 4GB Macbook Pro come to a halt, I checked the Activity Monitor and was horrified to see that the Dashboard was taking up more than 1GB of Real Memory! I don’t know about you but I rarely pop into the Dashboard so I wrote up a utility to Kill the Dashboard quickly and posted on buzz. A request to share it soon…
Reviewer : Bill Martens Version : 1.0 Date : 2008/12/30 Publisher: Kreative Korporation Website : http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/apple2.shtml Category : Mac Intel / Miscellaneous / New Release Cost : Free About The Program : A young college student, Rebecca Bettencourt, has creative a beautiful rendition of the Apple II and Apple IIgs fonts. These fonts have been done in True Type format for both Mac OS X and Windows as well as any other system which can handle true type fonts. The…
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff Photos By Jim Gottlieb One again, the even aptly named MacWorld Exposition has come and gone. While the naysayers were saying that the event would die without the main players there, the event did go on. Apple, Inc. of course pulled out over a year ago, prior to the last version of the event. But Alas, the show must go on and go on it did. What you saw this year was that instead of many big…
Man oh man what a time. You know how things come and go in cycles… This is one of those times. Lots of little things piled up… My cousin was appointed as ambassador for Le Festival du Voyageur (a major local mid-winter party in French similar to Mardi Gras). Congratulations Roger! I may have mentioned this one earlier. My new quad-core PC had a hard drive failure. It’s a good thing I backed up everything before it stopped functioning. I…
By Bill Martens Apple, Inc. this past month introduced a machine that everyone is talking about in one respect or another. While the coolness factor of the machine has been undeniable from those who have had them in their hands, there has also been a lot of negative comments about the machine. Firstly, the iPad has not even been put on sale yet, however, it has generated more buzz than almost any machine in history outside of the iPhone. This…
The latest version of the popular Macintosh based Virtual ][ emulator has been released. Version 6.3.6 has a number of changes including: * The program now accepts “dsk” image files with 41 tracks (the maximum so far was 40). * A recent Snow Leopard upgrade broke the “Make Movie from Apple II Screen” feature. This has been fixed. * Cassette tape files now get file name extension “cass” instead of “aif”. As a result, the cassette tape icon appears correctly…
MountIt 1.3 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from 32KB to the maximum RAM available), only ProDOS based. Up to sixteen volumes can be added to the system. MountIt mounts volumes as read-only if the original disk image file is locked. Otherwise, the disk image file is mounted as read/write and the following operations can be performed: read, write and format. MountIt is not ProDOS 8…
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff This month, we are back to full steam on our production and our setup. Our staff are finally back in place and we are attempting to make up for some lost time here. Getting back to our normal production schedule has been a bit problematic but thankfully we are heading in the right direction as we produce this issue. There have been several items of interest this month from A.P.P.L.E. including the back issues also have been…
