Category: Communications
Over the past several months, work has been going on behind the scenes in a big way with a complete update of the GBBS Pro Website. Spearheding this effort has been none other than Paul H. Lee. Yes, that Paul Lee, the programmer who brought you GBBS Pro version 2.4 as well as the latest updates and efforts in the Warp6 BBS realm. After many dozens of man hours, that new home for GBBS Pro has been realized and the…
Kelvin sherlock announced a new release of the Itty-Btty-Vtty vt100 emulator for the Apple IIGS. The update fixes an auto-repeat (DECARM) bug introduced in the previous release. Itty-Btty-Vtty is a standard vt100, with the modem port set to 9600 baud, 8-N-1 (These are the MAME emulator defaults). The entire vt100 emulator is based on information found in the User Guide. While the majority of capabilities of the vt100 are implanted, the following items are not due to hardware limitations: You can…
About 15 years ago, Eric Shephard had a grand idea for advancing the Apple IIgs. The idea was to revolutionize the Apple IIGS computer allowing it to communicate seamlessly with other computers. Well that dream has finally been realized. Stephen Heumann announced during his Kansasfest 2024 presentation the initial public release of the new SMB FST for GS/OS 6.0x, now allowing the sharing of Apple IIgs Files, file types and the associated resource forks. SMB FST for GS/OS Version 1.0…
If you have a passion for retro computing and enjoy bridging the gap between vintage technology and modern platforms, you’ll be delighted to discover that a binary release of the Mastodon client for the Apple II is now ready for download. This latest version, 2.0, has undergone extensive testing primarily on an Apple //c and IIgs. The brain child of Colin Leroy-Mira, the Apple II Mastodon Client is an advanced social media client with a number of feature found on…
Colin Leroy-Mira has announced the latest release of Mastodon for Apple II, version 1.14.0! It provides a big performance improvement on the serial bandwidth, all the way to 115,200bps. This is especially visible for loading images. You can download the latest version and find out more about the program at:
Colin Leroy-Mira has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of his Apple II series Mastodon client package. The client software will run on any Apple II series computer or compatible Apple II series emulation system with at least 64k of memory. The Apple II series Mastodon client features include the following: Installation instructions and the download of the latest version of the Apple II series Mastodon client are available from the website at:https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/
Colin Leroy-Mira, a passionate retro computing enthusiast, has made a significant stride in the world of integration of vintage tech and modern tech with the release of his Mastodon client for the Apple II series, including the //c, IIe, and IIgs models. If you’re intrigued by the idea of bringing a piece of the modern internet to these classic machines, Colin’s creation is bound to either make you giggle incessantly at the idea of posting from your Apple II or…
Emai//er, the email and Usenet news software package for the Apple //e Enhanced or Apple IIgs, has been updated. Emai//er version 2.1.14 is a major update, coming after a nearly two year hiatus, and updates the suite to the latest version of IP65. Changes in the program according to the author, Bobbi Manner, are as follows Addresses tickets #75 and #76 in the ticket database.. The IP65 release Emai//er has been using was a couple of years out of date, and various improvements…
A new version of Marinetti, the implementation of TCP/IP for the Apple IIgs, is now publicly available. The previous public announcement of a release of Marinetti was 3.0b9 in July 2018. Since then there have been several bug fix versions that have not been made widely available. This release includes fixes for the following issues: – TCPIPSendIPDatagram was not using the correct Direct Page and looks like it never worked correctly. – TCPIPReadLineTCP now returns the correct error code and…
Oliver Schmidt has announced a major update to the IP65 TCP/IP Stack for the Apple II Computer. According to his press release in the CSA2, “It is likely that you think of IP65 as an asm written TCP/IP library for asm programmers. But IP65 has significantly changed recently in two directions: 1. C Interface The IP65 programming model has deliberately always favoured simplicity over flexibility. However, targeting only asm programmers there weren’t too many to appreciate that design. Since I…
While the preparations for Apple’s next major OS upgrade have gone on quietly for some time now, the way Apple is treating its latest addition to the Apps of Mac OS X is anything but quiet. Messages is Apple’s new app which allows users to “send messages to any Macintosh, iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.” The app almost looks like something of a twitter clone, with some distinct differences. Messages replaces your iVhat client and it allows you to make…
