Month: February 2011

A post on CSA2 this morning mentioned the donation of the entire collection of disks from famed Apple ][ hacker, The Saltine.  The collection has been converted and is available on the MacGui.com website.  Release from D. Finnigan follows: “Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his  single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some  140 5.25” disks, to Mac GUI Vault to be archived. Now the Apple II world has access to…

Apple and the BSD folks have included two of the four editors as part of the base install packages. The first goes by two names and is accessed via the terminal (Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal). They are either pico or nano (note the lowercase). These are almost as basic as one can get and still refer to them as full screen editors. The other editor included by Apple is Textedit. This is entirely accessed by the GUI. It has…

The A.P.P.L.E.  iPhone app of the month is the program Mailroom.  (http://www.usemailroom.com/) For those of you who have used the Mailplane app, this program will look quite familiar.  This program allows the user of the app to control a number of GMail accounts at the same time. While the developers are different, there has been a cooperation between the authors of the two programs in order to make the iPhone based Mailroom just as good as the Mac based Mailplane…

Recently, at the Churchill Club dinner, two of Sun Microsystems top men, Scott McNealy and Ed Zander were discussing what happened in late 1995 and early 1996.  At the time, Sun was the darling of the computing world and Apple was on a value of five to six dollars per share.   If Apple had been bought out by Sun at that time, would we have seen the iPad and iPhones of today.  Not likely according to McNealy who said “I…

The reason why people would want to set up one computer to store files for another computer are varied. For example I backed up my Linux box (PC) to a Mac before the power supply died. In my case the choice of a Mac comes down to two reasons. Ease of set up and stability. A common access method is to use ftp (file transfer protocol – note the lowercase letters). In OS X go to the System Preferences and…

The latest version of the FreeToolsAssociation’s ActiveGS plugin is now available for download and installation.  The new plugin includes a number of improvements and is now more in tune with the mobile versions of the application.  Items fix or improved include: ActiveGS is a multi-platform, multi-browser emulator written by Oliver Goguel of the FTA.  You can download the plugin from the FTA’s ActiveGS website at: http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ To try out the latest version of the program, head on over to Virtual…

Brutal Deluxe has posted photos of many of their hardware items in a new photo gallery.  The gallery with a number of hard to find and one of a kind Apple ][ items is at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/pictures/ Arcording to the post by Antoince Vignau of Brutal Deuxe, “The pictures are or were part of our collection and if some items interest you (trade, info, scans, etc.), contact us and we’ll tell you the status of the items.” In the past year,…

Adam Engst, the creator of Tidbits newsletter will be speaking at the MachinTech Computer users Group on April 12, 2011.  According to the posting by Andy Suhaka, the MacinTech Treasurer, “MacinTech Computer Users Group, a small MUG in the southeast Denver metropolitan area (the Denver Tech[nological] Center), will be hosting a visit by Adam Engst on 12 April. The meeting will be held at Plymouth Congregational Church, 6 – 9 p.m. This is located at 3501 S. Ciolorado Blvd., Englewood,…

A story on AppleInsider reports that tests using Benchmark 6.5 show the new line of MacBook Pro machines released this week by Apple, Inc. to be 13-53% faster.  To read the whole story, go to http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/26/benchmarks_of_apples_new_macbook_pros_find_speeds_13_53_faster.html The new MacBook Pro information can be found on Apple’s website at http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

The latest version of Applewin-NTSC from Sheldon Simms is available for download.  This version of the program is now in its 5th release. The latest version of the program includes the following improvements: You can download the program from the Applewin-NTSC website at: http://wsxyz.net/applewin.html Sheldon also has mentioned the source code being on Berlios Soon

Brutal Deluxe has once again provided a golden item from the Apple ][ era to its website.  Don Fudge’s Hi-Res Secrets is available for download from the site, complete with Manual and Disk images. You can download the program at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/

For those who downloaded the now famous ActiveGS “Best of the FTA” iPhone Application this week, there is a piece of good news that all will appreciate.  Oliver Goguel, the author of ActiveGS has already submitted version 1.21 to the App Store for approval. According to the post on the FTA Group on Facebook, “version 1.21 (build 3.3.298) being submitted to the Appstore : CRT display (as in the desktop version), 60FPS support on iPhone4 & iPad, and runtime option…

Mike Maginnis has brought another great piece of Apple history to the world through his new Apple ][ Scans site.  Inside the Apple //e by Gary B. Little is now in PDF format on his site and freely downloadable. You can download the PDF by going to the Inside the Apple //e page at: http://apple2scans.net/apple-ii/inside-the-apple-2e

Apple, Inc. wasted no time in back to back announcements this week.   With their MacBook Pro new models barely onto the show rooms, Apple announced their March 2nd event for the unveiling of the iPad2.   Many people have speculated on the specs of the iPad2 for some time now and this is the first sign that we have that the iPad is not delayed as many sites were saying but that it will be available soon.  The event for…

After 1.5 years of development and numerous rejections by Apple, the Free Tools Association (FTA) has finally broken through and had the Best of the FTA ActiveGS emulator approved by Apple.  The emulator is an Apple IIgs emulator with apps produced by the FTA during the 1980’s and 1990’s.  Further development of the app is ongoing and the new enhancements should be available soon in the App store. The Best of the FTA App is available for free download at:…

Geoff Weiss posted the following notice this morning concerning the immediate release of his Memory Testing program, MegaMemoryTestor 2.0. MegaMemoryTester 2.0 is a new release of the popular IIgs memory card tester with the following features: * Available as both a GS/OS and ProDOS 8 application. * The test screen interface has been updated. * The start and end banks can be specified. * Memory tests can be stopped midway and restarted. MegaMemoryTester has a new Website and can be…

Dr. John Matthews posted a note this evening about AppleCommander release candidates being available online.  AppleCommander allows users to manipulate disk images on the Mac in a Java based environment.  For more information, you can check out the AppleCommander website at: http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander

Payton Byrd of the A2Command Development team released the following post on CSA2 about the release of A2Command 1.0 earlier today: Release Notes Introduction This is the full release version of A2Command 1.0, dated February 21, 2011. These notes supersede any prior version’s notes. All prior releases may be found on the project’s website at http://a2command.codeplex.com/releases/ where you can read the release notes for older versions as well as download them. This version of A2Command is intended to replace any…

The Ancestor Works site is now back online after a number of years of being down.   You can find the new site at: http://anw.applearchives.com Thanks to Bud Simrin, the Ancestor works site is now officially blessed and you can reach Bud through the registration form on the website.  If you install the Ancestor Works program, please be sure to take the time to let Bud know.

A.P.P.L.E. Founding Member Dave Lingwood passed away this week.  Dave was well known for his insightful columns in Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine over the years and was one of the first 15 members of the group. According to the announcement:  Dave Lingwood was a beloved family member and friend who shared his numerous talents with the world. He passed away on Thursday, February 17, 2011. Please join us for a memorial and short graveside service on Friday, February 25th, 2011 at 12:30…