Author: Bill Martens
Frank Kunze has posted about a dozen new screen shots on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog. The screenshots show a great deal of progress on the latest rendition of the Eamon franchise and gives both beta testers and users an idea of what to expect of the new version. Eamon Deluxe 5.0 will be the first truly cross platform version of the interactive fiction system. This has heightened users anticipation of the product along with the occasional shots of…
In preparation for a major website overhaul and server upgrade, we have changed all of the categories on the website. All of the Vintage Apple computing platforms are now under Vintage while the more modern items such as the iPad, Macintosh, iPhone and other items are under Apple Computing. Also, external companies from Apple which make Apple related products are now under Other Companies. If you find items which are suddenly orphaned on the website, please let us know as…
On January 19th, 2012, Apple Inc. is scheduled to have an education related announcement in the heart of New York City. While many in the world are speculating that apple is trying to “destroy the textbook industry”, We suspect that they are just following up on several lines of thought. First, Texas was the first in the nation to embrace to totally digital textbook idea. It currently saves the state 2 billion USD per year in text book costs. If…
Sandvox is an easy to use Website Creation package produced by Karelia Software. The package allows the user to produce high quality websites with a minimum of effort and knowledge, yet has all the tools for even advanced web site creators. Currently at version 2.2.3, Sandvox has a number of updates each year and has evolved to become one of the most powerful Website creation pacgaes available. Our Users group has used this package in house here at A.P.P.L.E. now…
The Seattle Retro-Computing Society or SRCS is a group of Retro Computing entusiasts which meet once a month at The Living Computer Museum in Seattle. The group has decided that due to the fact that the fourth Saturday this month would fall on Christmas Eve, there would be no December meeting. The next scheduled meeting of the group will be on the 28th of January, 2012. The meetings last from 10:30am to 5pm and is a chance to get together…
Brutal Deluxe software has added four more cassettes to the Apple ][ Cassette website. The new cassettes, scanned and added by Antoine Vignau, brings the number of cassettes in the collection to 563 tapes. The Cassette was the main storage type for the initial Apple ][ Computers from the advent of the Apple ][ in 1977 until the first floppy disk drives were commercially available to consumers in 1979. They also continued to be used well beyond that time due…
In the 1979-1981 time-frame, floppy disks were quite expensive, yet cassette tapes were a dime a dozen. Dann McCreary had the idea of putting an entire disk on tape. Thus Tape-O-Disk was born. However, after the prices of floppy disks came down to a level where everyone could afford them, the program all but disappeared until re-discovered by Apple ][ collector Antoine Vignau. When Antoine replied to an correspondence inquqiry by Dann, he received back one of the most insightful…
Are you the type of person who has their entire life written down or are writing a book about it? If so, then you will want to look at the new version of Mariner Software’s MacJounral. Version 6.0 was released with over 100 improvements and changes to the journaling program. Complete with new blogging tools, MacJournal allows you to write and entry and share it with the world if that is what your life is about. MacJournal’s efficiencies are the…
Mike Willegal of Mimeo fame has created an online registry of all known Apple-1 computers. While Apple Computer Inc produced 175 of the units in 1976, very few of the machines have survived the years and the tradein program Apple had when they introduced the Apple ][ computer. To date, Mike has catalogued 39 units complete with information about owners, auctions, auction / sale prices and current state of the machine. The original Apple-1 computer sold for $666.66 USD in…
The document of incorporation of Apple Computer Inc, from 1976, has been sold at auction for nearly $1.6 Million USD. The document which was originally held by founding member Ron Wayne, was sold in 1994 to US Businessman, Wad Saadi for several thousand dollars. The new owner of the document, Eduardo Cisneros, a US Television Exec (CEO of Cisneros Corp) and muscle car enthusiast, said about the purchase of the document in a tweet, “Very happy to own a piece…
These are the daily specials from the Electronic Arts website as specified by them at press time. Hot Deal of the Day: Spy Mouse – iPhone — Snack your way through the more than 70 levels and 6 different worlds, outwitting the cats as you move along munching on the snacks. Other Free Items: Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition — iPad / iPhone — Puts the user in charge of a gourmet restaurant and gives 30 gourmet dishes to serve. Pogo…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal — Mirror’s Edge – iPad Free Games: Flight Control – iPhone Pogo — iPhone (Upgrade to Premium for $.99 or 70% off) Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
This morning, Egan Ford posted a note to CSA2 announcing his online Apple ][ Game Server. According to the announcement, “I’ve completed my cassette port research and achieved gains of 6x (12x with compression). I did have an application in mind. Inspired by the Apple Game Server, I created a web-based version. There is a video tutorial if you just want to see it in action (single take, be kind).“ The game server allows you to connect your PC or…
In 1988, Berkeley Softworks came out with what was then one of the premier operating systems for the Apple ][ series computers. The Graphic Environment Operating System, or GEOS for short was to put it mildly, a revolution in the way that the Apple //e handled its programs. Using capabilities only available on the Apple IIgs and other personal computers on the higher end of the spectrum of the time, Berkeley Softworks gave the lowly Apple //e, //c, and the…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal —Flight Control for the iPhone Free Games: Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone Mirror’s Edge – iPad The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
This morning our team was performing our usual weekend maintenance in preparation for our upcoming January system Migration. Unfortunately, during that maintenance, many user ID’s were deleted. Since we were trying to eliminate some of the 40,000 plus spam accounts that had infiltrated the system, we have decided that doing a restore would not be the best option. Please try your account first and if login does not work then it would likely be that your account was among the…
Program : Google Currents Price: Free Platform: iPhone, iPad, Android URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-currents/id459182288?mt=8 Website: https://www.google.com/producer/home When Google Currents was announce yesterday, we were initially a bit skeptical that the app would do what it said it would. But then we have seen so many supposed publishers come and go quickly due to the fact that they did not do the job as advertised. As for Google Currents, the app works well and for those who bothered to read the instructions on…
The Eamon Adventurers Guild Online, curated by Matthew Clark, is looking for writers who have a penchant for writing. Eamon has long been the standard for Apple ][ interactive fiction ever since Donald Brown created it in 1979. Published in 1980 in a number of magazines, complete with Software Developers Kit and a number of adventures, the system soon became very popular among Interactive Fiction writers of the 1980’s. Currently, the Eamon Adventures Guild Online library contains over 255 adventures,…
At 10:00 am EST, Apple made a move that will send shock waves through the world of computing forever. They opened their biggest and brightest store yet, right smack dab in the middle of Grand Central Station. Long, the center piece of the New York existence, Grand Central serves more than a million people every day. Even though MacWorld Expo 2002 in Tokyo boasted some of the highest numbers ever for an Apple based event, coming in at 198,000 attendees…
Michael Mahon and Seth Sternberger have released a new percussion sequencer software package for the Apple ][. They posted the following release information about the software package on CSA2: With inspiration and musical mentoring provided by Seth Sternberger of _8-Bit Weapon_, I’ve impemented a percussion sequencer/synthesizer for the Apple II. It allows a user to create sequences as long as 255 patterns, where each pattern is one of a set of 16 musical measures. Within each of these patterns, any…
