Author: A.P.P.L.E.
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…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the latest version of the 1990’s Brainstorm Software package, Hierarchic. Version 1.6.2, which was apparently finished in 1994 and never released according to the posting on their website, has been updated to Merlin32 and is now available from the Brutal Deluxe Software website: https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/hierarchic/
For those of us who grew up in the early computing world, there were a few magazines which we had to choose from to fill our computer dreams and to learn things that most of our colleagues had no idea about. They were Byte, Kilobaud, Personal Computing, and of course the David Ahl created Creative Computing. David Ahl is well known for his books, BASIC Computer Games and More BASIC Computer Games from the 1970’s as well as dozens of…
Thanks to the efforts of Antoine Vignau and John Morris, the Merlin 32 App is now available as a 64-bit app for both the x86 based and the M1 based Mac computers. The Merlin 32 App is available as a free download from the Brutal Deluxe software website at:http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/merlin/
In Assembly Lines Podcast episode #121, Chris Torrence takes us inside of disabling the write protect switch in a disk II drive and the newer 5.25″ drive produced by Apple after 1982. He goes into disassembly, functioning of the switch and the disabling of the switch. Check it out here:
The BASIC10Liners organizer extraordinaire, Gunner Kanold, has announced that his organization is preparing for the 2021 rendition of the BASIC10Liners contest. We are preparing for the 10th edition of #Basic10liner . @Indie_RetroNEWS @VintageNewOld @ArnaudDeKlerk @callapple @CPCGAMINGDEMOS @CommodoreBlog @AtariPodcast @IEEESpectrum @digitaltalk64 @Logiker464 pic.twitter.com/q6UxpCVJWE — BASIC10Liners (@Basic10L) January 26, 2021 The BASIC10Liners contest is held each year and 2021 will be the 10th year of the contest, with some amazing work done in each contest. If you are an 8 bit BASIC…
The Apple II Desktop project has announced the release of the latest pre-alpha of the new Apple II Desktop project. The Apple II Desktop or MouseDesk as it is also know is a graphical interface for the Apple II series computers. The Apple II Desktop Project. is led by Joshua Bell, a programmer know for his online interpreter sites and the project is, as he is fond of re-iterating, “not 100% ready for public consumption”. However, the project has come…
A bit of Apple II history from the royalty of the Apple II Realm, our friends love in France reared it’s head today with the posting of “Music Land for the Apple II by Warriors of Destiny and Thieves of Destiny.” The video of Musical Land is one of the demos which shows sound capabilities of the Apple II series computers. Musical Land for #AppleII by Warriors of Destiny and Thieves of Destiny (1990) 🔊 pic.twitter.com/Og2wBpHBqA — Apple II French…
Atsushi Ushiroda has released an update for the Apple II Flex OS for The Mill 1.1 card. The update includes a fix to the ASMB command in which there apparently was an error in the SOURCE BUFFER address of the command. He has also included the Santa Barbara Tiny BASIC to the disk and has released a movie of the BASIC in action: The Mill cards as well as 68K cards are available from Nanja.info on their Facebook page at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/nanja.info/
Raphael Rezende has released a new game for the Apple II. Brickbat as he has so named the program is a text based Brick Out or as he says, “Arcanoid” type game in which the user attempt to eliminate all of the “Bricks” using a paddle at the bottom of the screen. This 50 line or so program takes up just seven sectors on a DOS 3.3 floppy disk and not only is very playable but actually is just as…
Anthony Beaucamp, author of the multi-platform 8-Bit Slicks online racing game, has announced a preview version which will run on the Apple II Plus, IIe, and IIc with 64 or 128K. According to his posting, “As well as support for 64K and 128K (single vs double hires), the game runs faster, has 2 new maps, and tons of small improvements. Apple II Enthusiasts Group Posting by Anthony Beaucamp The preview version of the new 8bit-Slicks for Apple //+, //e, //c…
Huw Williams of the EAMON Wiki website has released a new re-done map for the 93 adventure in the EAMON series, Flying Circus. With interest in the EAMON series once again rising in the retro computing world, Huw has been busily re-imagining many of the the maps for EAMON Adventures. For more of his wonderful mastery, check out the EAMON Wiki website at:https://eamon.wiki/ To read about the EAMON Adventure Flying Circus, check out the Wiki page at:https://eamon.wiki/Flying_Circus If you are…
Mark Jozaitis, who has become renowned for his transparent Apple II series cases, has revealed his lated re-vision of a classic. The Apple IIe Keyboard transparent model. In his announcement, he says: So what does a transparent Apple IIe with a transparent mechanical keyboard look like… Now you don’t have to wonder any more. Final prototype keyboard installed! Besides some issues with the font, I’m satisfied with the result. I even made frosted “Enhanced” stickers too! As soon as the…
Allen Greene made his ProDOS based Renumber.Pro source code available to the Apple II Community today. In the release, he says: By request, my source code for the basic renumber utility converted to run under ProDOS. The section with the labels starting with L were my initial disassembly of DOS 3.3 RENUMBER (the binary section of the Applesoft program). This can be assembled with the Toolkit assembler. From Facebook Posting in Apple II Enthusiasts Group You can download the source…
Ben Zotto dis a wonderful research article on the old Beige 1977 Apple II case color. He had a vial of the old touch up paint for the Apple II and started looking into whether or not he had the real thing and just how it compared to the paint color of the Apple II cases around today. He did a ton of work making swatches, comparing the ping on different types of paper and wood and then matching them…
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been updated. Gerard Putter, author of the Mac based emulator informed A.P.P.L.E. that version 10.2 of Virtual II was finally stable enough for him to release. Included in this release are: Inspector watchpoints can now be defined for a specific memory bank, improving their use for debugging. Added keyboard shortcuts for the main Inspector functions break, resume and single step. It is now possible to see the full path of a mounted disk,…
The 554th episode of the RetroMacCast has been released. In this episode, James & John discuss their latest eBay Finds including the following: Mac icons mug, collection of Steve Jobs magazines, and Chiat/Day newspaper congratulations. James also unveils The Macintosh Office, and news includes a tiny all-in-one Macintosh LC, Captain’s Quarters II, and NanoRaptor creations. The RetroMacCast is produced by James Savage and John Leake and you can join them for each and every episode of their podcast on their Facebook page, or catch them on YouTube….
Paul Pratt has announced the the PCalc app, A popular scientific calculator is now available to run on the Mini vMac emulator. The app can now be downloaded from the Gryphel Project website, home of the Mini vMac application. To download the App, go to the PCalc page on the Gryphel Project site at:https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/math/pcalc/index.html
Denis Molony has once again updated his Apple II Diskbrowser program. Diskbrowser 1.53.0 includes addition options for AppleSoft and the way in which it is displayed. For more information about Diskbrowser, check out the Apple II Diskbrowser GitHub page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/
The Joshua Bell led Apple II Desktop project has released a new alpha version of the remake. Apple II Desktop 1.2 Alpha 23 includes a host of changes and fixes along with their bug numbers as reported in the A2Desktop project bug list: DeskTop Correct some problems with menus/windows after a failing to restore a window on launch (e.g. if disk is no longer present). #338, #339 Tweak list view column sizes. #321 Correct selection direction of left/right arrow keys in Format/Erase dialog. #328…
