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A new modification for the Carte Blanche Board allows the user to get 12 bit color output from the board. The creator of the modification for the board, posted the following in CSA2: “I have made a little modification to the Carte Blanche to allow 12 bit color VGA output for the Apple IIgs. The modification is very simple to make. Its just a cable with some resistors and a bit-stream to send the video to the IDE connector instead…
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…
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 $4.4 Billion USD business within 3 years. Only Adobe would comment on the change, saying that Todd Teresi is no longer at Abobe Systems
Frequent readers of this web page will realise I like to learn how to do things (this is the reason for the long gaps between my posts). I hope readers find this information to be useful… After seeing a member of another club demo it on a smart phone for me, I decided to give it a try myself. Be aware this is only scratching the surface of the topic and it can be a security risk if not implemented…
Last night I noticed there were some updates for Snow Leopard. I decided to install them. When I sat down at the computer an hour ago I saw there were errors and nothing was installed. This seemed oddly familiar when (back in the day) M$ was trying to get its users to leave ME and go with XP. They would push out failed updates and updates which would crash the system unless the user did a clean install… Assuming this…
Yesterday I saw a demo of a program called “Mouse Locator”. Surprisingly enough it lives up to its name. That’s always a big plus as far as I am concerned. This small utility puts a larger graphic around the mouse when it is moved. There are a number of preferences available. The first is the idle time (called the trigger time). This is how long the mouse has to remain inactive before moving it starts the graphic. The second is…
Like most people I hate being told how to spend any of my limited money. Especially in this economy. It seems every time Apple releases a major upgrade to their operating system a bunch of older computers are no longer supported. Readers will recall I have a G4 Server in excellent condition. Granted I had to replace the CD drive with a DVD drive, but that was the only hardware change I had to make. In order to get the…
Just to let everybody know I’m still around and looking for material to write about. At the moment I’m comparing five E-book programs for the Mac. Although they are similar to the Comic Book readers I’ve previously reviewed, the two E-book reader programs I’ve looked at so far do not appear to support image files. They are mainly for PDF and other “text” related formats. At the same time the Comic Book readers do not like the “text” related formats….
Linux Mint 11 is out. Linux Mint is a specialised Linux distribution focusing on Multimedia. There are versions for residents of restrictive countries like the U.S.A. and Japan, as well as as a version for those of us in the rest of the world. It can be found at… http://linuxmint.com
Fedora 15 was released a short time ago. http://fedoraproject.org
Geoff Weiss posted the following notice this morning concerning the immediate release of his Memory Testing program, MegaMemoryTestor 2.0. MegaMemoryTester 2.0 is a new release of the popular IIgs memory card tester with the following features: * Available as both a GS/OS and ProDOS 8 application. * The test screen interface has been updated. * The start and end banks can be specified. * Memory tests can be stopped midway and restarted. MegaMemoryTester has a new Website and can be…
The Ancestor Works site is now back online after a number of years of being down. You can find the new site at: http://anw.applearchives.com Thanks to Bud Simrin, the Ancestor works site is now officially blessed and you can reach Bud through the registration form on the website. If you install the Ancestor Works program, please be sure to take the time to let Bud know.
The APPLE-II color graphics hardware will display a 40H by 48V grid, each position of which may be anyone of 16 colors. The actual screen data is stored in 1 K bytes of system memory, normally locations $400 to $7FF.(A dual page mode allows the user to alternatively display locations $800 to $BFF). Color displays are generated by executing programs which modify the “screen memory.” For example, storing zeroes throughout locations $400 to $7FF will yield an all-black display while…
