Month: December 2011
These are the daily specials from the Electronic Arts website as specified by them at press time. Hot Deal of the Day: Spy Mouse – iPhone — Snack your way through the more than 70 levels and 6 different worlds, outwitting the cats as you move along munching on the snacks. Other Free Items: Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition — iPad / iPhone — Puts the user in charge of a gourmet restaurant and gives 30 gourmet dishes to serve. Pogo…
Apple has posted an update for their iTunes program with the release of version 10.5.2. This update addresses issues with audio distortion with playing and importing of CD’s into the iTunes library. Apple has also improved iTunes Match in this release although the song limit is still 25,000 songs. For more information about iTunes, check out the iTunes website at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Apple has posted a complete break down of the update at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426
Microsoft has released their iPad version of their organizational management software OneNote. Version 1.3 of the OneNote software is a free download from the Apple App Store and allows the user to create up to 500 notes. After that mark, the user would need to purchase the full package of the OneNote program with the in-app purchase option. The full package of OneNote for iPad is $14.99. The package for the iPhone is $4.99. Changes between version 1.2 and 1.3…
It took a letter from a US Senator to get Apple to take down an App which allows users to create a high quality fake Drivers License. According to a story about the App in the LA Time, “Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) sent a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook requesting that the tech company immediately remove the “License” app from its App Store” claiming that the App had national security issues. While there have been many such novelty…
WIlli Kuche has documented the Merlin Macro Assembler IDE Source code and made it available for download. Merlin, which was written by Glen Bredon at Southwestern Data Systems, was available for download for the past two years, however, the version that was available was without documentation and without instructions for building the IDE. Now after a long effort by Willi, the IDE is documented, and according to Willi’s note left on CSA2, “it contains all the source files needed to…
In just under a year, Apple has reached 100 million downloads of Apps for the Mac, this according to a press release put out by Apple today. The Mac store which was started to support Mac OS X, has been growing in leaps and bounds and currently has thousands of apps and has reached this milestone in a very short time. They also announced that the iPhone App Store, which is the example upon which the Mac App Store is…
Donut Games has just released their free iPhone game of the week and this week’s game is the a very “just in time for Christmas” type game, Ruberth’s Kick n’ Fly. The game puts the player as Santa in the position of being kicked into the air by a reindeer. Using various platforms to bounce higher or bounce mushrooms to really get a kick, Santa much collect as many of the ornaments on the particular stage as possible. Each stage…
There is another original Apple-1 computer now for sale on Ebay. The Apple-1 is considered to be the holy grail of the Apple computing world and only a few of them are still in existence. Originally 175 units were sold but Apple offered a trade in policy for the boards when they came out with the Apple ][ computer. This particular machine belongs to a former Apple Computer, Inc. employee, Joe Copson and is inside of a case that is…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal — Mirror’s Edge – iPad Free Games: Flight Control – iPhone Pogo — iPhone (Upgrade to Premium for $.99 or 70% off) Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
This morning, Egan Ford posted a note to CSA2 announcing his online Apple ][ Game Server. According to the announcement, “I’ve completed my cassette port research and achieved gains of 6x (12x with compression). I did have an application in mind. Inspired by the Apple Game Server, I created a web-based version. There is a video tutorial if you just want to see it in action (single take, be kind).“ The game server allows you to connect your PC or…
In 1988, Berkeley Softworks came out with what was then one of the premier operating systems for the Apple ][ series computers. The Graphic Environment Operating System, or GEOS for short was to put it mildly, a revolution in the way that the Apple //e handled its programs. Using capabilities only available on the Apple IIgs and other personal computers on the higher end of the spectrum of the time, Berkeley Softworks gave the lowly Apple //e, //c, and the…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal —Flight Control for the iPhone Free Games: Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone Mirror’s Edge – iPad The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
This morning our team was performing our usual weekend maintenance in preparation for our upcoming January system Migration. Unfortunately, during that maintenance, many user ID’s were deleted. Since we were trying to eliminate some of the 40,000 plus spam accounts that had infiltrated the system, we have decided that doing a restore would not be the best option. Please try your account first and if login does not work then it would likely be that your account was among the…
Program : Google Currents Price: Free Platform: iPhone, iPad, Android URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-currents/id459182288?mt=8 Website: https://www.google.com/producer/home When Google Currents was announce yesterday, we were initially a bit skeptical that the app would do what it said it would. But then we have seen so many supposed publishers come and go quickly due to the fact that they did not do the job as advertised. As for Google Currents, the app works well and for those who bothered to read the instructions on…
The Eamon Adventurers Guild Online, curated by Matthew Clark, is looking for writers who have a penchant for writing. Eamon has long been the standard for Apple ][ interactive fiction ever since Donald Brown created it in 1979. Published in 1980 in a number of magazines, complete with Software Developers Kit and a number of adventures, the system soon became very popular among Interactive Fiction writers of the 1980’s. Currently, the Eamon Adventures Guild Online library contains over 255 adventures,…
At 10:00 am EST, Apple made a move that will send shock waves through the world of computing forever. They opened their biggest and brightest store yet, right smack dab in the middle of Grand Central Station. Long, the center piece of the New York existence, Grand Central serves more than a million people every day. Even though MacWorld Expo 2002 in Tokyo boasted some of the highest numbers ever for an Apple based event, coming in at 198,000 attendees…
Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarin has written a very thorough review of the 1980 Game Akalabeth. Akalabeth, also known as Ultima 0, was best known for integrating all of the features of the Apple II with the role playing world of Dungeons and Dragons, and for ultimately starting the Career of Richard Garriott(A.K.A. Lord British) as well as the empire of Ultima and Sierra On-Line. You can read the entire article at: http://www.filfre.net/2011/12/a-word-on-akalabeth-and-chronology/
Donut Games, the software vendor famous for its Rat on the Run series of games, has another of its popular games now available for the hard price of Free. Normally a 99 cent download, Cave Bowling uses a combination of a bowling ball and wacky physics to bowl over the pins. Each level is more challenging than the next and with more levels than you can shake a stick at, you will be busy with the challenge for a good…
MacUpdate is offering 12 major Mac applications for $49.00 for a limited time. The Applications in this bundle include: Tech Tool 6 Icon Box (only to the first 15,000 customers) Total Finder Postbox 3 Fontpack Pro Master Labels & Addresses Mac DVDRipper Pro 3 Back In Focus NeverWinter Nights 2 Hear iClip 5 FoldersSynchronizer The entire suite of apps would normally cost $741, however for the next 13 12 days, they are selling them for $49.00 for the entire suite. …
The only Apple ][ related podcast currently available is now in its 10 edition. The December version of the show has been posted to the Open Apple website according to this note from Mike Maginnis: This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken are joined by Rob Kenyon, a two-time KansasFest attendee as well as a professional programmer and 30-year veteran of the Apple II. We talk about how great it is to be a part of the…
