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From Alex Lee: Ever wanted a convenient way to play all commercial IIGS games with little fuss? Like Total Replay but includes every genre of IIGS specific game as well as some demo examples pushing the G and the S in your sweet 16? Look no more! If you’ve got a storage device that supports 7 smart port devices, like the CFFA3000, Micro Drive Turbo, CFFA 1 & 2, BOOTi, SCSI drives (but not the Floppy Emu) and an Apple…
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Alex Lee, purveyor of the canonical IIgs reference site What Is The Apple IIgs? We talk about what it was like being one of the brave few with this machine, and that feeling of living in a secret world of incredible graphics and sound that nobody else seemed to know about. Alex walks us through the history of IIgs emulators, and all the ways that the IIgs Finder was actually better…
The What is the Apple IIgs website has announced that there are a number of new additions to their 8-bit floppy archive. The site is one of the largest Apple IIgs specific websites and archives all of the floppies, documentation, and packaging covers. For more on the latest additions check out the news page at: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/more-8-bit-on-3-5-disk-software-added-and-just-in-time-for-christmas/?stage=Live
The What is The Apple II GS website has announced a number of updates to it’s database. Owned and operated by Alex Lee, the site has been updated with a host of items from Andrew Roughan, Antoine Vignau, Francois Michaud, Herbert Fung among others covering both hardware peripherals and software for the Apple IIgs. One of the highlights includes a scan of 2400AD 8-bit version on 3.5″ floppy disk which was provided by Wade Clarke with manual scans provided by…
The What is the Apple IIgs Website (WITA2GS) has added a host of new educational titles to their website. The new titles, archived by the website’s curator, Alex Lee, while on a trip to California offer an ever expanding glimpse into the world of Apple II education. There are over 20 new titles on the website in Alex’s push in completing his collection of Apple IIgs software and Apple II 8-bit software which was issued on 3.5 inch floppy disks….
After an extended downtime due to a server issue, the “What is The Apple IIgs” website has returned. Alex Lee, the website’s curator posted a note in CSA2 announcing the return. WITA2GS is an Apple IIgs related website that contains information, programs, photos and documentation from nearly every software package produced for the Apple IIgs computer. For more information, check the What is the Apple IIgs website at: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
WITA2GS has added a bevy of home brew courses for the Apple IIgs Golf Game from Accolade, Mean 18. According to the posting on the website, “Sorting through many miscelleous archives forwarded on from Antoine as he comes into contact with random collections and images each disk from them, I came across 8 disks worth of golf courses for Mean 18, the excellent golfing sim from Accolade.” For more information check out the WITA2GS website posting at: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/homebrew-helpings-lots-of-courses-for-mean-1/
I’m a pretty happy camper at the moment. After buying IIGS games like Mean 18, World Games and Winter Games some 25 years ago, I can now finally play them from a hard drive, thanks to some instructions I found on the TABBS CD-ROM. Thanks to Speccie for making TABBS available to all and for some guidance on using Byte Bagger and understanding sector editing! The article by Joe Jaworski can be found here: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/MOVING_DEPROTECTED_SOFTWARE_TO_HARD_DISKS.txt which was originally taken from…
Alex Lee, curator of the What is the Apple IIgs website has written an extensive write up about how Desktop Publishing really changed the computing world. The article shows the changes between the cut and paste era and the digital editing era and how the differences were reflected in the magazines that were produced. You can read the full article here: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/professional-desktop-publishing-and-the-apple-ii/
