Month: August 2013

The Northern Spy — Communication and the New Renaissance

September 2013 A very long time ago even by non-Internet standards, the Spy advised people owning stock in typewriter companies to sell. In that same era he opined “collect postage stamps young woman, for soon they won’t make them any more”. To the former, anyone under thirty-five might today say “what’s a typewriter?” The Spy was right. But to the latter, he was only half so. True, anyone under ten today is likely to say the same thing about stamps…

Easily download from comp.binaries.apple2

The Usenet newsgroup comp.binaries.apple2 contains about 2-3 thousand Apple II programs, but they’re tricky to download to an emulator or a real Apple II, owing to the fact that they’re all encoded with ASCII armor. Well thanks to Format Converter, technology that will decode all the Apple II and Macintosh file formats, these files from comp.binaries.apple2 can be easily downloaded to your computer as a ShrinkIt file. BinSCII files will be decoded (usually to ShrinkIt archives) and so will Executioner…

DOS 3.3 Directory List Builders DIR33 and LS33 Announced

The curator of the Aztec C Museum, Bill Buckels, has announce the immediate availability of two new directory builders for Dos 3.3.  The new Directory Builders Dir33 and LS33 are available from the Aztec C Museum as a free download.  Complete source code and documentation is included as part of the download. According to the note on CSA2 posted by Bill, “ The Aztec C65 DIR33 Project for Apple II DOS 3.3 – RWTS revealed with structures and everything… Download…

A2Command Version 1.1 Released

A2Command, the Norton Commander style file manager for the Apple ][ series computer has been updated.  Version 1.1 was releaved by author Peyton Byrd with the following updates and changes: This new release features several bugfixes and some improvements including: Added support for the new cc65 functions for listing devices. Fixed viewer to avoid crashing when many spaces are present in one line. Corrected the single file selection when copying. Lowercase and uppercase commands are now active. Date and time…

65xx Programmers Reference for iOS updated

Dagen Brock has updated his recently released 65xx Programmers Reference for iOS.  This App is a great reference for programmers of the 65xx series CPU’s such as those found in the Apple II series computers. The latest version of the program has complete CPU separation allowing those who are programming a specific CPU to only see the commands for that particular CPU. According to his posting on CSA2, there are more updates to the application coming soon. The reference is…

What’s happening in the Apple II world

Let’s take a look at what’s going on with the Apple II:   – Bill Buckels is still hard at work with Aztec C, and he has made a number of shell utilities for this system. – Eric Shepherd updated his Sweet16 emulator for Mac OS X to version 3.0.1. – The Daily Apple blog is working on a mapping program and ZBASIC for an IFComp entry. – Steven Hirsch has saved the ZVX4 8″ disk controller software from extinction. –…

Sheppyware Creates The S-Prize

Eric Shephard, owner and operator of the Apple IIgs Software producing SheppyWare, has announce a new push for an Apple IIgs based SMB2 client.  According to his posting on  CSA2, ” We’re now accepting pledges to increase the value of the S-Prize! The Prize has been established to encourage Apple II developers to create an open-source SMB2 file system for the Apple IIgs which meets certain functional requirements. We’ve started with the $400 seeded by myself and the Apple II…