Month: January 2012
Game: Pigeon Palooza Publisher: Blast Applications / BoonDoogle Cost: $0.99 cents Website: http://www.pigeonpalooza.com/ URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pigeon-palooza/id492151739?mt=8 This week, Pigeon Palooza came to the iPhone and iPad. While much has been made of this program being the next Angry Birds, we found that the game was anything but that exciting. And after plunking down out $0.99 cents for the game, we were left with a game that really isnt all that much real fun. The concept of Pigeon Palooza is that you…
A new experimental release of the SDL/Mame emulator for Mac OS X has been released. The latest version includes a number of improvements to the MAME engine. The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator with Simple DirectMedia Layer has been part of the MAME project since version 0.137 and is now available on a number of platforms thanks to SDL. Improvements in the Mac OS X Version of SDL/MAME include: MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ———————- – 04594: [Sound] All sets in wiz.c: Missing…
A clip on you tube fromt he Santa Clara Valley Historical Association has a snippet of Steve Jobs talking about what it took for he and Woz to start Apple. The expression that stands out in the clip that is most striking is the bit about “we had literally nothing to lose.” The video is embedded below and the part with Steve Jobs begins at 1:52 int he clip. It is a very telling emotion about how he felt about…
The ever popular iCade cabinet from ThinkGeek has been totally re-designed. The newest design loses the cabinet and is a sleek docking station along the lines of the Atari Arcade. The primary difference is the fact that this version will support landscape mode as well. The launch of the product is expected to be sometime during 2nd quarter 2012. While the cabinet is no longer part of the unit, the new product will still likely cost $100.00 USD Source: Engadget
Frank Kunze has put out a call for beta testers of his latest version of Eamon Deluxe. Eamon is an adventure system originally created by Donald Brown in 1979. The system has gone through several renditions and currently has over 255 adventures created by various authors globally. The Eamon Deluxe system was created by Frank Kunze to enhance the capabilities of the Eamon Adventure system and is now available for users of Windows Vista, Windows 7 in 32 Bit mode,…
An announcement on the Apple II Scans website brought word that Dave Ottlani, creator of the Washington Apple PI Apple /// DVD, has made the entire collection public domain. He released this collection “so that the information there can be freely accessed.” You can read the announcement in its entirety at: http://apple2scans.net/apple-iii/washington-apple-pi-apple-dvd/ You can download the .iso of the DVD from here: http://apple2scans.net/files/apple3/WAP_DVD/A3DVD.iso The news release also included the corrected version of the corrupted file A3 and can be downloaded…
Egan Ford has been busy with finding new ways to utilize the cassette port on the Apple ][ computer. His Apple ][ Game Server is now at version 0.5 and has a number of improvements in speed and methodologies of loading the programs onto real and emulated Apple ][ computers. Version 0.5 includes the following updates: Boosted audio volume from 50% to 75%. Added MON download option (Apple Monitor text for pasting into emulators). Right-click to save it. You can…
Mike Maginnis has posted a nice collection of Apple /// Dealer docs online in PDF Format. The collection, which he recently acquired, contains a number of interesting items including the original announcement of ListServe /// as well as a letter from David Fradlin talking about the Apple ///. Mike has posted them because as he says, “I am unlikely to successfully auction them for $1.6 million (or even the original estimate of $25,000 to $50,000)”. You can download the entire…
Brenden Robert has updated his JACE Emulator (Java Apple Computer Emulator) Source code to revision 150 and has said that a new build is coming soon. The delay in the update was attributed to several bugs which were preventing a build from being submitted. According to Brenden’s post on CSA2, “I still have some issues with getting the code to run really well when full-screen, but that’s a video generation/scaling problem and I need to profile the code further to…
The latest version of the Soviet era Agat computer emulator has been released. The Agat is an Apple ][ compatible computer which was developed in the Soviet Union and runs a good number of Apple ][ titles. Improvements in Version 1.22 are as follows: Implemented floppy drive controller for Acorn Atom system. Added support for extension ROMs for Acorn Atom. The Agat Emulator is made for Win32 based systems and can be found here: http://www.emucr.com/2012/01/agat-emulator-v122.html
There are currently several rumors floating around about a supposed event which Apple will be holding near the end of January. Speculation is ripe that the even will be help in New York, site of the recently opened grand central station Apple Store. Many sites are speculating on whether this is the release of the iPad 3 or an event scheduled to introduce a new iTV product, yet we have been doing a bit of research on this and have…
During the fourth Quarter 2011, Verizon sold a total of 4.2 million units of the latest rendition of iPhone. This number was more than double the number of units sold by Verizon during the third quarter. While this is good news for both Apple and Verizon, the news has not particularly been good for the stock where their price is currently at $39.21o USD or down 1.309% for the day. The stock had over 2 million share trade today but…
Brutal Deluxe Software has published the first three videos in a their Apple II Cracking Senses series. The video series is designed to teach the current generation of Apple ][ fans what it takes to crack old software from the 1980’s game by game. While much of this software is long abandoned through either non-existence of the company that made it or through the loss of the original code by the author, it is an interesting insight into what these…
State Shirt, a musician also know as Ethan Tufts has released a full length video featuring the recently released Digital Music Synthesizer for the Apple //c. The song, aptly named IIc Video Song, is available to watch on the State Shirt website or on YouTube. The IIc Video Song is a high paced multiple layer percussion, piano and vocal mesh which is deftly assembled into a glossy, high quality video that is very modern, appealing to those with a taste…
Apple has apparently hired Todd Teresi, an Adobe Systems Inc Executive, to run their iAd section. The iAd section of Apple was created in 2010 to compete directly with Google’s Adsense and potentially could be a $4.4 Billion USD business within 3 years. Only Adobe would comment on the change, saying that Todd Teresi is no longer at Abobe Systems
Brutal Deluxe has added two more new titles to their Apple ][ Software Cassette collection. The collection which spans the years 1977 to 1982, contains 563 titles as of 3 January 2012. The new titles included in this update are Powersoft’s Financial wizard 3 and Memory dump. They have also updated Ciderpress and and their disk archives in addition to the new titles. To browse the collection, go to the Brutal Deluxe Apple Cassette page at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html
Apple announced today that they will be rolling out their latest version of the iPhone series, the iPhone 4S, to another 21 countries including China on the 13th of January, 2012. The countries included in this roll out are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,…
Egan Ford has now taken his Apple ][ Game Server a step further and created an Apple ][ Disk Server. The concept of the server is that it allows you to reconstitute an entire floppy disk through the cassette input/output port of the Apple ][ computer. This is accomplished using old 1970’s style data sound playing through the cassette Port directly to the computer. The Apple ][ then writes the data to the disk one the disk writer is initiated…
January 2012 Our persispacious reader may have noticed that this column is a little late. Chalk that up to health issues, including bouts with a rather violent gastroenteritis over Christmas, ongoing sciatica that make standing up and sitting down difficult, and a nasty cold. The joys of getting old. Ah, but what’s a little pain? It never hurt anyone. The top line: brevity shall be the order of the month. Corporate pain seems the lot of once stalwarts Kodak, Sony,…
When a 20 year old Vista, California man decided to burglerize several homes in his local area, he forgot one basic fact: Find my iPad will get you. One Patrick Krewson has robbed one home of of children’s gifts and another man’s home of several items including his iPad. When the owner of the iPad let police know the location it was broadcasting from, they proceeded to go to the location, finding Krewson, the childrens gifts, several other missing items…
