Tag: apple-1
In a Twitter (X) announcement this week, Achim Baqué , curator of the current Apple-1 Registry announced the addition of another Apple-1 Computer. According to the posting by @Apple1Registry : https://apple1registry.com/en/105.html#Apple1 The Apple-1 Registry was originally created by Mike Willegal as a way of keeping track of where the original Apple-1 computers were or of their existence. At the time Mike was running the database, there were a total of 67 machines which had been identified to that point….
David Schmenk has released a new version of PLASMA. According to the release notes, PLASMA version 2.11 is a minor update to address the relocating loader for EDASM generated modules with 8 bit fixups. All modules up to now have been generated by PLASM and only use 16 bit fixups. Mostly usefull for future modules built with EDASM. You can download the latest version of PLASMA for the Apple-1, Apple II or Apple III computers from the Plasma Github page…
Chalk another win up for France in the technology wars. SiliconSlider is now selling a wonderful aesthetic Apple-1 Integer BASIC Rom Card with 4K. According to the sales webpage on Tindie at:https://www.tindie.com/products/siliconinsider/4kb-apple-1-integer-basic-rom-card/ You are purchasing a newly made 4kb ROM card preloaded with Integer BASIC for the Apple 1 computer. The board is manufactured in a double sided printed circuit board with out solder mask and fully gold plated and is professionally hand assembled. The 4kb EPROM (2732) comes pre-loaded…
From Claudio Parmigiani: Dear friends, Antonino Porcino and I have the pleasure to share with you our latest project: Apple-1 microSD Storage Card. Main features: Compatible with Originals/Replicas Command Line Interface MS-DOS/Linux style Fast loading/saving of INTEGER BASIC / ML / etc. programs Full support of APPLESOFT LITE BASIC with dedicated load/save/menu FAT32 filesystem, directories/subdirectories supported Compatible with CFFA1/PRODOS naming system (CiderPress not needed) Very large storage capacity Built-in full RAM expansion, with possibility to replace the on-board RAM Full implementation of…
The Apple related MAME emulator frontend for Mac OS, Ample, has been updated. Ample version 0.241 matches the latest release of the MAME Emulator and includes all Apple related retro computer systems in a single, easy to use and configure interface. The Ample frontend is the creation of Kelvin Sherlock and is generally updated with each release of MAME. According to notes about the latest version of the interface program, “Bookmarks and Recent Disk Images were switched over to use…
While most people think of the Apple-1 as a novelty of the past, there are people like Claudio Parmigiani who are taking the machine to points never realized when it was in its heyday. Claudio has managed to get his Apple-1 to not only play SID Tunes but also to run a simulated graphics sprite collision screen on a simulated Commodore-64 Screen, all from the venerable Apple-1.
Kelvin Sherlock has released his Application wrapper for the MAME emulator. Ample 0.231 has been lined up with the release of MAME in the version number and runs on Apple machines with Mac OS 10.14 or newer. The release includes a version of MAME which only supports the Apple-1, Apple II Series, and the Apple III computers. Work is currently being performed on the Macintosh emulation within the program but as of yet, only a subset of the features are…
Another Apple-1 computer is up for Auction on EBay. The Apple-1, the 79th listed in the official Apple-1 Registry is set for a buy it now of a cool $1.5 Million USD. The Apple-1 computer was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in their now famed garage and was the stepping stone to making Apple Computer, Inc. what it is today. Owned now by a Krishna B. Blake of Canada, the machine was recently repaired by the famed curator…
Jeff Jetton has made the most of his past month and come up with a proverbial classic game for the Apple-1. 15 Puzzle for the Apple-1 is available in three flavors including a Javascript version which is compatible with Will Scullin’s Apple-1 Emulator via the Apple Tape format. The other two are the standard Apple-1 Binary and the Woz Monitor ready format or flat text format. Source code in 6502 Assembly Language is available for 15 Puzzle. For more information…
The Apple-1 Emulator That Doesn’t Suck or ETSD has been updated. The project receivd a bit of an update this week with the v6502 getting a submodule bump and the Apple-1 Emulator Xcode project file getting a version update. The Apple-1 ETDS is an Apple-1 emulator by Daniel Loffgren and uses curses for output. The program is freely downloadable from the Apple-1 ETDS GitHub page at:https://github.com/RyuKojiro/apple1
When Hackaday held their Supercon, they gave electronic badges to all of the attendees. Well, this in turn has produced a number of hacks and additions, including this one which caught out eye — An Apple-1 Emulator running on the badge https://hackaday.io/project/3620-l-star-software-defined-6502-computer/log/155608-l-star-as-a-supercon2018-badge-add-on
Alan Garfield has managed to put together another Apple-1 implementation, this one completely in Verilog. The project sucessfully runs both the Woz Monitor and Integer BASIC. Font and Color support has also been added to the project. Thus far, there have been two boards which have been tested and successfully work with this implementation of Apple-1 Emulator. You can see the implementation of one of them in the photo below: If you would like to try this out for yourself,…
espple is a new Apple-1 Emulator which runs on the ESP8266 NodeMCU LUA CP2102 ESP-12E Wi-Fi module from HiLetgo. The creation of Hrvoje Cavrak, espple is perhaps the cheapest physical hardware which emulates the Apple-1 computer to date and the only one to run completely wirelessly. The chip which costs less than 10$ per unit can be used to transmit the display signal via a short length of wire as a 60MHz signal to either a PAL or NTSC analog…
Another original Apple-1 computer has re-surfaced and is going on the auction block through the LiveAuctioneers.com website. Serial number 01-0073 which according to the Mike Willegal Apple-1 Registry database is not rregistered, is apparently the working Apple-1 computer belonging to one “John D.” and was purchased on 30 November 1976 for a grand total of $692.25. For more information or to bid on the machine, check out the LiveAuctioneers.com website for the auction at: https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/52749252_original-apple-1-computer-1976
Christies Auction house is once again the focus of the Apple world. With another Apple-1 computer coming available, the question begins to arise, “How many of these machines are left?” Over the past 5 years a dozen or so of the classic Apple-1 computers have sold at various auction houses with some fetching well over $900,000 USD. The recent sale by Bonhams Auction House brought less than 40 percent of that, yet it still had a decent selling price compared…
The Apple-1 put up for Auction on 21 September by Bonhams Auction House has sold for a mediocre $365,000 USD. While up to $500,000 was expected in the auction, interest seems to have waned somewhat since a record $905,000 was paid for a completely working system. The system sold by Bonhams was owned by Tom Romkey, owner of the Personal Computer Store in Florida and is believed to be one of the 50 or so systems purchased by the Byte…
Another Apple-1 computer is being auctioned by Bonhams Auction House. The Apple-1 owned by one Tom Romkey, a personal computer store owner in Florida, has owned the computer for the past 39 years. The board, having sat on a shelf for the majority of that time, is in pristine condition and is expected to draw 300,000 to 500,000 USD at the auction. The Apple-1’s were built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the garage of Steve Jobs home in…
Dave Cheney has posted an Apple-1 Replica build project which utilizes the Arduino platform. The build covers all aspects of the Apple-1 and is small enough to actually be inserted into almost any case. The Mega6502 is basically a two chip Apple-1 computer improving in the same tradition of the great Steve Wozniak (@woz on twitter), reduction of the number of chips required for the computer. For more information about the Mega6502, check out Dave Cheney’s blog at: http://dave.cheney.net/2014/12/26/make-your-own-apple-1-replica
The third section of the Ben Heckendorn Apple-1 replica build has been posted on The Ben Heck Show page on YouTube. This section completed the build and shows how to build the case with the CNC machine. Ben even tries his hand at entertaining the masses with his singing in this episode.
