Author: Bill Martens
Steven Paul Jobs, Co-Founder and visionary of Apple would have been 64 years old today. Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak, creator of the Apple-1 and Apple II computers, and Ron Wayne, the oft maligned and forgotten third partner started the company that most of us have come to know and whose products we all now use on a daily basis. While much has been written about Steve over the years both in the positive and the negative, yours truly has…
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
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.28.1 has been released and is primarily a bug fix release. Items changed in this release include : [Change #523] Support Extended 80-Column Text/AppleColor Card’s DHGR Mixed mode and 560×192 Mono mode. [PR #620] Corrected a few symbol names in APPLE2E.SYM for the 80STORE and 80COL I/O addresses. [Bug #617] Apple II,II+ keyboard: up/down arrow keys are now ignored. The Applewin project is currently being maintained by Tom Charlesworth and a…
Atsushi Ushiroda, a long time member of the FApple2 group in Japan is now selling a batch of the MC68008 co-processor cards for the Apple II. The cards are available directly from Ushiroda at a price of $100 USD which includes international shipping. The 68008 while not extensively made or sold in the 1980’s does have a following within the community. A number of hobbyists over the years have used them including Bob Sander-Cederlof. His cross assembler is one of…
A new Alpha of the Apple II Desktop has been released. This update of the Apple II Desktop, a graphical mouse driven interface, includes a bevy of enhancements to the program including: Current time shown on right side of menu bar, if system has a clock. (#7) Up to 13 volumes are shown on the desktop (was 10). (#20) Up to 12 Desk Accessories are shown in the menu (was 8). (#90) Drag “unlimited” number of icons (was 20). (#18)…
The 110th episode of the Mac Admins Podcast has been released. The podcast, run by hosts Tom Bridge, a partner at Technolutionary LLC and Charles Edge, the Director of Marketplace at Jamf, bring you a ton of topics including the latest Mac OS X Release, Adobe’s licensing, and of course the 35th anniversary of the 1984 release of Macintosh. The also take a look at Office 365 which is in the App Store as well as Armin Briegel’s outlook for…
Daniel Loffgren has developed a new Apple-1 emulator that as he says “That Doesn’t Suck”. The Apple-1 emulator uses curses (Cursor Optimization) for output and can be transported cross platform. The Apple-1 TDS also comes with a built in machine debugger allowing users a larger insight into their programs and the machine. The Apple-1 TDS comes in two parts. The first is the main Apple-1 TDS system and the second is the 6502 virtual machine. Both sections will need to…
For those of you with the FloppyEmu Floppy Disk Emulator, you can now run .WOZ files from the Applesauce FDC on your FloppyEmu. Steve Chamberlain, creator of FloppyEmu and John K. Morris, the creator of the Applesauce FDC have been working together to provide the support and insure users will continue to be able to use their hardware. While the support is still in beta, users who own either the Model A or the Model B FloppyEmu, can download the…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin is an Apple II emulator for Windows based systems and should run on just about any of the newer Windows operating systems. Version 1.28.0.0 was released as a major release and has the following changes in the program: [Change #357] Resurrected the AppleWin 1.25 “Color (Standard)” video mode as “Color (RGB Monitor)”. This is equivalent to emulating RGB video, ie. a video mode with sharp text and pixels. NB. Unlike AppleWin…
This morning, I saw a post from Tim Cook which caused me to take pause of what I was doing and reminisce a bit. 35 years ago, I was a young computer lab technician working in the college computer lab, supporting 100 Apple II systems on a Corvus Network. We began receiving new computers in a trickle so that the college could determine which computer they would be purchasing next to replace the aging Apple II and II plus systems….
Kevin Savetz and Carrington Vanston have released the 26th episode of their Infocom podcast, Eaten by a Grue. This episode, the two adventurers delve into the game The Witness. The Witness, originally published in 1983 by Infocom, follows in the footsteps of their earlier Deadline with the user becoming a sleuth and having to solve a murder mystery. The game was designed by Stu Galley and was released for 9 different platforms between May 1983 and September 1984. The game…
John Morris just announced that the new Applesauce 1.1 software will have a further enhanced disk drive analysis allowing users to not only see the rotation speed but also factors such as: Power Levels Reading Writing Head Tracking Sync Sensor status The Write Protect switch As John says, it will make it much easier to select the best drive for performing disk imaging. These new diagnostic tools should also allow users to evaluate whether the drives need maintenance or if…
Original Posting: 13 January 2017 Ryan Suenaga was a well known Apple II gs programmer and Ryan’s Apple Software curator, with a number of Apple IIgs tools and utilities to his name. He was an active Apple II community member until his unexpected death hiking the Alamona Trail in Hawaii in 2011. Sadly, when his website disappeared so did his utilities that were previously available to the Apple computing community. Now, Apple2Scans.net curator Mike Maginnis has created an archive for…
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…
John Keoni Morris, the creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller has announced the release of the WOZ disk image specification. The update, version 2.0 of the specification, includes a host of updates and fixes including: Better 3.5 inch floppy disk support Emulator hints Fixes an issue with extremely long tracks Also announced was the impending release of the next version of the Applesauce FDC software. Version 1.1 will allow users to begin creating WOZ 2.0 floppy disk images. Two…
The Apple II DiskBrowser, a java based disk image utility for Mac OS X, has been updated. Created by Denis Molony, DiskBrowser Version 1.0.30 was released with features to support A.P.P.L.E.’s hybrid Pascal/DOS and CPM/DOS type floppy disks. You can download the latest version of DiskBrowser from Github at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/
In 1979, Jeff Finn submitted a program to the A.P.P.L.E. users group for inclusion in its Diskpak 2. It was the Holiday Greeting Pak, a program which utilized the low resolution graphics capabilities of the Apple II computer. Included in the Holiday Greeting Pak were 9 different screens covering both the Christian and the Jewish holidays, giving users a variety of screens which could be personalized as well. Originally written in Integer Basic, not only was it formatted for the…
The Epple II Emulator installer has been updated. Epple II is an Apple II and II plus emulator written in C++ and is buildable to either Linux or Windows systems. The Epple II emulator was created and is maintained by Christopher Mosher. Some of the features of Epple II are: Cycle-accurate: emulates all MOS 6502 CPU cycles including “phantom reads” Video display is synchronized with CPU NTSC video signal emulation: all video quirks emulated accurately Revision 0 motherboard (optional) Multiple…
James and john have been busy at work on the latest episode of the Retro Mac Cast. In this episode, “James and John discuss eBay finds: ColorClassic II, Quadra 700, and AppleInteractive Television Box. They get a visit from David Greelish and talk about his new Lisa project,and news includes a conceptual iPod case for Apple Watch,and more on Apple sneakers.” David Greelish is known for his Retro Computing newsletter, “Historically Brewed” as well as other Apple related retro computing…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.27.13.0 was released with two main changes within the program. They include: “[Bug #599] Fix for Ultima V not loading in Authentic Speed mode (regression introduced at 1.27.9.0). [Change #205] Added support for Apple II/II+ custom 2K video ROMs. Extended command line switch: -videorom. If the ROM size is 2K, then it replaces the video ROM for the Apple II/II+.” Applewin is an Apple II emulator for Microsoft windows and the…
