Feb 7 2012
We have been upgrading our servers here at A.P.P.L.E. in the hope of providing more resources and a faster server for our users. During our migration yesterday, we hit a snag with services on the primary server being pinged out so we decided to go ahead and do the migration by hand which will take a few days longer than planned.
Stay tuned for more as we go through this upgrade.
Jan 23 2012
The Erie Apple Crunchers Users Group has posted the dates for all of their 2012 meetings. The group serves the Erie, Pennsylvania and surrounding area and has been serving Apple users since 1978. For more information about the group or for the complete schedule, check out the website at:
http://www.erieapplecrunchers.com
Jan 17 2012
In preparation for a major website overhaul and server upgrade, we have changed all of the categories on the website. All of the Vintage Apple computing platforms are now under Vintage while the more modern items such as the iPad, Macintosh, iPhone and other items are under Apple Computing. Also, external companies from Apple which make Apple related products are now under Other Companies.
If you find items which are suddenly orphaned on the website, please let us know as we will be streamlining even further as we prepare to move into the next phase of upgrades to the website.
We will be performing our server migration in February 2012. We have allocated a 2 week window for the migration but will adjust according to how quickly we manage to get the websites transferred. During this time you may see minor service interruptions on A.P.P.L.E. hosted websites. However, the migration is necessary to give us access to the most up to date software systems and also to provide more hard drive storage for our expansion. These migrations are normally performed in September every other year, however, this upgrade was delayed by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Jan 12 2012
The Apple Archives site has been updated with the January 2012 update. There are now well over 300 links on the website and we have begun to add more links for the February update.
The Apple Archives is a Vintage Apple specific link library and contains links to Apple-1, Apple II, Apple ///, Apple IIgs and Mac 68K specific websites. There are currently over 300 websites in the database and growing. The entire library is maintained by hand and links are added as they are found to be related to the subject material.
You can find the Apple Archives website at:
http://www.applearchives.com
Dec 22 2011
A.P.P.L.E. has posted the entire first year of The Australian Apple Review. The Review was produced by Australian business man and media mogul, Garth Powell, from 1984 through 1987. Although this project has been in the works for a number of years, it is finally culminating with the release of the entire collection over the coming months.
Permission to scan and distribute the magazine was initially acquired in 2003 by A.P.P.L.E., and re-affirmed in 2009 by Andrew Roughan. Andrew, along with Bill Martens have been scanning issues of the collection since then, with a number of issues having been donated by Terry Allen as well as by the National Library of Australia. This assistance was acquired by the donation of one issue of the magazine to the National Library in order to help complete their physical collection of the archive. Since then, all issues were acquired or were available in collections either in scan form or in physical form.
To download the issues of The Australian Apple Review, check out the website at:
Volumes two through four are currently being scanned and should be available early next year.
Dec 15 2011
Sandvox is an easy to use Website Creation package produced by Karelia Software. The package allows the user to produce high quality websites with a minimum of effort and knowledge, yet has all the tools for even advanced web site creators. Currently at version 2.2.3, Sandvox has a number of updates each year and has evolved to become one of the most powerful Website creation pacgaes available.
Our Users group has used this package in house here at A.P.P.L.E. now for about the last 4 years. We are happy to announce that Karelia Software has graciously agreed to provide a 20% discount on the Sandvox packages to all Mac and Apple User Group members through March 1, 2012.
For information about the Sandvox package, check out the Karelia website at:
http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/
This discount is available to A.P.P.L.E. members and members of other Mac and Apple Users Groups. For members of other groups, please check with your user group Ambassador to recieve the discount code and URL. A.P.P.L.E. Members can log into the members section and check out the current discounts page. To join A.P.P.L.E., check out our Members page at:
http://www.callapple.org/members/
Dec 15 2011
The Seattle Retro-Computing Society or SRCS is a group of Retro Computing entusiasts which meet once a month at The Living Computer Museum in Seattle. The group has decided that due to the fact that the fourth Saturday this month would fall on Christmas Eve, there would be no December meeting.
The next scheduled meeting of the group will be on the 28th of January, 2012. The meetings last from 10:30am to 5pm and is a chance to get together with other folks who are enthusiastic about older computers from the early years of computing. Members are encouraged to bring vintage hardware with them to the meetings for show.
If you would like to attend a meeting of the SRCS or would like more information, you can check out the group’s website at:
http://www.seattleretrocomputing.com
The Living Computer Museum is located at 2245 1st Avenue South, Seattle, Wa, 98134 and is in the Sodo neighbourhood. For more information about The Living Computer Museum, their website is at:
http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
Apr 25 2011
Ryan Suenaga, a driving force in the Apple ][ community and creator of the Apple IIgs Twitter client passed away today. Ryan was an avid cyclist, runner and hiker and was hiking the Olomana trail on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He apparently became separated from his hiking party and fell. Rescue helicopters were sent in to get him but upon his evacuation from the scene was declared dead. He was 44 years old.
Many in the Apple II and KansasFest community will sorely miss him and his contributions to the community.
To read more and see the outpouring of condolences by those who knew him, check out:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=rsuenaga
Feb 19 2011
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 p.m.
at
Washington Memorial Park
16445 International Blvd.
SeaTac, WA 98188
Map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?address=16445+International+Blvd&city=SeaTac&state=WA&zipcode=98188&zoom=10
Online obituary and guestbook (available soon): http://www.bonneywatson.com/_mgxroot/page_10775.php
Feb 21 2010
by A.P.P.L.E. Staff
The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section. The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms.
That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate. Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on any platform which supports Java.
Several features have also been included in the new version including the Mockingboard sound, faster emulator, full sized emulator that allows complete control over the emulator without other items getting in the way.
The only installation this emulator requires is Java which can be downloaded from the Sun Microsystems Java website at http://www.java.org.
Once you have Java installed, you will be up and running by just clicking on one of the over 1400 programs on the site’s menus.
For more information or to play the games, check out the Virtual Apple ][ website at: