Tag: Gareth Powell

About the Australian Apple Review Posts Several of the Australian Apple Review articles have been re-typeset and integrated with the main A.P.P.L.E. site as part of our push to make all material searchable and available to the general public. Many of these articles are from the old Apple II website created by Terry Allen, which originally housed the articles. There will be more coming soon as we take on the project page by page. Original posting from the Apple II…

The Australian Apple Review has been officially released by A.P.P.L.E..  The release announcement occurred last evening in the Downunder Chat on A2Central’s IRC channel.   Accordsing to the announcement made by A.P.P.L.E.’s Bill Martens, “The project is the culmination of a number of people including Andrew Roughan, Brian Wiser and even the National Library of Australia.” the Australian Apple Review was a magazine published in Australia by well known publisher Gareth Powell.  In 2005, permission was initially received to reproduce the…

For those members who are interested in our Vintage Magazines, Out collection of the Australian Apple Review is nearly complete.  The issues will be downloadable as they are scanned over the next 3 days.  We will be adding cropped versions of the issues and making an announcement on Christmas Day for the general public.   Thanks to the efforts of Andrew Roughan, Bill Martens, and Brian Wiser, these issues will be available to the public for the first time.  While…

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…

Australian Apple Review June 1987 Designed for the Apple IIGSby Gareth Powell THE flow of programs for the Apple II GS is slow but certain. The software houses realise that this machine has its own very special following and that an integration of games, graphics and business programs is what is needed. There have very possibly been other databases made available for the Apple IIGS, but Notes’n’ Files (note the appalling American spelling) is the first one to come our…

By Gareth PowelAustralian Apple Review June 1987 Those of us who were in at the beginning of the Apple II revolution found that the main focus of our attention from day one was on a mystery animal called DOS. This animal came in different flavours and, later, different numbers. But we happy pioneers knew, right from the start, that if we were ever to fully control this wondrous new machine we would have to work out what a Dos was,…

Editorial Gareth Powell Australian Apple Review Vol 4 No 2 February 1987 PP2 THE NEW Macintosh’s have arrived and we now know that Apple made the right decisions, designed the right machines, are offering the right attractive packages. Almost every review throughout the world’s press has been unreservedly congratulatory. Perhaps now we should add a minor dissenting note. The Apple company has been built with the aid of the unbridled enthusiasm of hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts, much the same…

by Gareth PowellAustralian Apple Review Vol 3 No 4 April 1986 Recently, I had to ask Paul Beaver, the rotund and non hirsute computer guru of Dick Smith Electronics, for the loan of some games programs. Now, understand that Paul is the consummate games person. He knows them, he sells them, he plays them. He has very strong views on what are good games, what are bad games, what are mediocre games. He handed a collection of Apple II games…

Book review by Gene Stephan Australian Apple Review – Vol 3 No 4 April 1986 Author: Thomas Rudolph Publisher: Unsinn (through Dorian Music,Qld) Size: 21cm by 28cm by about 175 pages Cost: $29.00 As an ex-editor of this illustrious publication, I have felt the pangs of horror over the last few months when seeing the number of words devoted to of all things, music on the Apple. To certain people, the rhythm of the dot mat is as near to…

by Gareth PowellAustralian Apple Review March 1984 I wrote this article originally for the “Weekend Australian”. To those select few who already read that august paper, my apologies. However, there is a consolation prize. The “Weekend Australian” charged $2 for the program listing that appears at the end. You get it free. Dick Francis writes thrillers about horse racing. And damn good they are too. Francis is writing about something at which he is an expert, for he was a…