Month: January 2011
Robert Justice has produced a new Compact Flash card for the Apple //c computer which connects to the smartport interface of the external disk drive connector. The card is still in the initial stages so it is not exactly a completed product but it is certainly showing promise. You can read more about the card at: http://www.users.on.net/~rjustice/SmartportCFA/SmartportCFA.htm
Brendan Robert and Nick Westgate released a new Java based Apple ][ emulator which has a number of features not found in other emulators. The new emulator also runs on a number of OS platforms that are normally not supported by emulator writers. The full release from Brendan is below: Jace (Java Apple Computer Emulator) has finally been poked and prodded enough to be a usable emulator. It’s not AppleWin, nor will it ever try to be. But it is…
There was an article in Wired Magazine Yesterday about Apple ][ software pioneer Bill Budge and his being awarded the 2nd annual Pioneer Award which is presented by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. You can check out the article in Wired at: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/01/bill-budge-pioneer/ Bill Budge is scheduled to present the 2011 KFest Keynote speech.
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Oregon Trail Game, Jessica Lussenhop has written what is likely the most thorough history of the game and the three men who created it. While the game started out as just a lowly text type mainframe based game, it became an icon of American Education over the past 30 or so years of its history once the graphical version was produced by MECC in 1985. You can read…
By Mike Pfaiffer My topic for thought this time is something in Canada which has even made its way to some American media. Our ISPs have been given permission to implement Usage Based Billing (UBB). The way our ISPs currently bill their customers is based on speed. In Winnipeg the two major ISPs are Shaw (cable) and MTS (DSL). Through out Canada we have three more large ISPs. All charge based on speed. Certain ISPs like MTS have set things…
Oliver Schmidth posted a note about Contiki 2.5.rc1 being made available for download this morning. The suite allows complete connectivity for vintage computer platforms via ethernet to the Internet. The full release follows: Contiki 2.5.rc1 binary release for Retrocomputing’ has just been made available on http://contiki.cbm8bit.com/ and http://a2retrosystems.com/contiki.html It’s a straight compile of the unmodified Contiki 2.5.rc1 sources avialable on http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/contiki/Contiki/Contiki%202…. using cc65 2.13.2 The major changes are: – Support of the Atari 8-bit machines with the cart described on…
