Author: Bill Martens
Vintage Micros, a North Carolina vintage computing company, has made a new connector for the Apple-1 Computer. The connector allows Apple-1 owners to connect an Apple II keyboard to their machines making it possible to use the Apple II case to house their Apple-1’s. The converters are available for $35 and comes complete with cables for each side of the conversion. You can purchase the card on EBay at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-1-to-Apple-II-Keyboard-Connector-with-Cables-NEW/141863275792
Dear A.P.P.L.E, Here is a pretty nifty file selector you can add to your website. It does all of the following. Launches system, binary and applesoft programs, even though Basic.system is not installed. Navigates in and out of directories with ease View text, source and mousetext screen files View Hi-res and Dbl-Hi-res graphic images. The program has been tested with Applewin, Sweet 16 and a real Apple II computer. The caps lock key needs to be off. Also when viewing…
A2Heaven has announced the immediate availability of the Software Automated Mouth board for the Apple II. A2Heaven.com, owned by Pamen Vayssilov, has made a number of the boards available for $45.00 USD. The S.A.M. board allows for voice output by the Apple II and can be controlled by a software binary and Applesoft. For further information about the S.A.M. board, check the A2heaven website at http://www.a2heaven.com. A2Heaven has also made a video demonstrating the board:
Apple has announced that Swift is now Open Source as had been promised by Tim Cook. According to the posting on the swift blog (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ ), Apple has set up a new GITHUB account specifically for Swift source code. The features of this new open source movement includes: A bug reporting and tracking system Mailing lists A blog dedicated to the engineering of Swift Community guidelines Getting started tutorials Contributing instructions Documentation on Swift Developer and API design guidelines You…
Ultimate Micro has announced via their blog that they will be making a second run of the ever popular Mockingbird 1A for the Apple II. According to their website, no date has been set sales of the boards to begin, however, they say it will be soon. For information about availability and pricing, check out the Ultimate Micro website at: https://www.ultimateapple2.com/
A.P.P.L.E. is announcing a reduction of the price of The WOZPAK Special Edition just in time for Black Friday. The WOZPAK Special Edition is a complete restoration of the original WOZPAK from A.P.P.L.E. and has additional material not included in the original WOZPAK. The price reduction applies to both the Softcover and the Hardcover version of The WOZPAK Special Edition. The Softcover edition is reduced 25% and is now available for $37.46 with the Hardcover edition going for $53.95. The reduction in price will last…
In the Assembly Lines Podcast #18, Chris Torrence displayed the capabilities of the Apple II based Web Server. For those wanting to install their own, you will want to meander over to David Schmenk’s PLASMA Source page. David has made the source code available as part of the samples package for PLASMA. Web Server Source Code: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/src/samplesrc/httpd.pla
Chris Torrence, the production editor on Assembly Lines: The Complete Book, and the curator of the Assembly Lines Podcast has put together a podcast outlining all of the steps necessary to run your own web server from the Apple IIe. In the Assembly Lines #18 podcast, he runs through the network setup as well as the Apple IIe Contiki setup and in the end shows the Apple IIe serving up a simple breakout game being served to the internet by…
Seattle, Washington — November 23, 2015 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine 1978 Compendium. The Call-A.P.P.L.E. 1978 Compendium is a complete collection of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine issues originally published in 1978 by Val Golding and the members of A.P.P.L.E. The 1978 Compendium is a fully enhanced version of the issues giving the reader a window into the past of the Apple computing revolution as it was happening. All 10 issues from the first year of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine are included….
Titanium Software has releases the latest update to the OnyX maintenance software for Mac OS X. OnyX is a software package for the Mac which allows the user to perform system maintenance tasks, clean up their system, and clear unused data from their Machines. The program can also be used to repair file permissions on your hard drive as well as log files which become burdensome to machines. You can even schedule regular cleanup and maintenance tasks using the program….
The French Touch has released another Apple II Demo. Adding to their long line of unique program demos, Raster Bars is a unique raster type demo which demonstrates the graphics and sound capabilities of the Apple //e far beyond many of the games that are currently available. The Raster Bars demo will run on most popular Apple II and IIgs emulators and requires 128K and a Mockingbird version 2 for those who wish to run the demo on real Apple…
The Apple II program server for the Raspberry Pi, A2Server has been updated. According to the posting on Facebook from Ivan Drucker, the author, this update includes fixes and also installs the latest GS/OS Releases. A2SERVER 1.2.5 is now available. Its main new feature is to offer to install GS/OS 6.0.1 for network boot (as it did before), as well as community releases 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. It also now includes HFS.FST with the install, and has a handful of…
Ian Page has released a new version of his Mactracker App for Mac OS X. Version 7.5 of the Mactracker App includes a host of improvements and fixes including: – iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015), iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015), and iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) – Adds iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus – Adds iPad mini 4 (Wi-Fi) and iPad mini 4 (Wi‑Fi + Cellular) – Adds Apple TV (4th generation) – Adds Magic Mouse 2, Magic…
The ClamXav Anti-Virus software has been updated. The latest update to the software includes a number of improvements to the software related to backups and recovery as well as being updated for Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitain. Version 2.8.7 includes the following changes: Improved recognition of Time Capsule data volume Improved recognition of Recovery HD Added ability to reorder the items in the source list Fixed ClamXav Sentry crash on OS X 10.6 when using…
For those folks who have been shopping from Amazon over the years, or those complaining that Amazon was driving the brick and mortar stores out of business, then this story is for you. According to the Seattle Times, Amazon will be opening a store in the University District at 9:30am tomorrow morning. While many major book stores have been forced to close in the past several years, this is the first time that the entirely online Amazon has ventured into…
Have you seen the high gloss screen savers of the Apple TV and thought to yourself, “I wish I could run that on my Mac.” Now you can. A free, open source program, Aerial allows the user to not only run the screen savers but to utilize all of the high gloss fly overs of the Apple TV. For more about this program, check out the Aerial repository on GitHub at: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
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 new Steve Jobs movie opens today in a number of theaters today across the US. The Aaron Sorkin directed biopic has come under fire somewhat over the past several days as people began to see the previews. Now, with the release of the movie comes new full-length two-minute clip that highlights a confrontation between Wozniak and Jobs.
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…
Chalres Mangin of Option8 and Retroconnector fame has posted a YouTube video outlining the steps for repairing an Apple //e keyboard. In the video he covers basic level keyboard switch replacement as well as a method for replacing the power-on bulb with a modern LED. Some of the points of his video include using a solder sucker over copper mesh, the need for care in not over heating the solder during removal and adding a bit of solder to the…
