Author: A.P.P.L.E.
Chris Morrison has posted an interesting new item to his VintageGeek Blog this past couple of weeks. He takes the viewers on a ride through the ups and downs of building a MicroDrive Turbo card for the Apple IIgs using images from the Alex Lee curated WITA2GS website as well as the utility CiderPress running on Windows. If you are interested in running real Apple IIgs hardware with the Microdrive Turbo then you definitely will want to have a look…
Episode 687 of the Adam Christianson produced MacCast has been released. This episode covers a host of topics including the Quarter 1 revision of guidance from Apple concerning the downturn in iPhone sales in China. Also, the AirPower, iTunes coming to “Smart TVs” and rumors of a Tri-Lens iPhone. More review of external DVD drives is also covered as well as UIs. Check out the MacCast podcast at their website:http://www.maccast.com/
The floppies for the A2OSX multi-tasking operating system project have been updated. The update to the version 0.92 has been ongoing for several months now with all but two or three items remaining in the 0.91 version. The project is currently run by Remy Gibert with programming help from Patrick Kloepher. The aim of the project is to produce a Unix like multi-tasking operating system which will run on a standard Apple IIe. Check out the project at:https://github.com/burniouf/A2osX
John Morris has announced that he is now taking orders for the 2nd run of the Applesauce Floppy Drive Controller. The Applesauce FDC allows users to digitally image their floppy disks (both personal and commercial) in the original format of the disk as it was created. These disk images are then stored in WOZ format (an emulator format), DSK format (old emulator format) or as a raw or A2R file. Built into the Applesauce FDC Software is support for both…
Option8 also known as Charles Mangin has released a new Apple II game, BlockChain. Fresh off his recent success of his new game DropBlock which came in two flavors, single and double player, he now has released a game which gives a new twist to the idea of placing falling blocks. One of the twists on BlockChain is the fact that combines blocks change color making it harder than DropBlock. According to the BlockChain blurb on the Option8 website, Match…
The Eaten by a Grue Infocom Podcast episode 24 is now available. This months podcast takes a deep dive into the game, Zork III: The Dungeon Master. The Eaten by a Grue podcast is hosted by Kevin Savetz of Atari Archive fame and Carrington Vanston, long time Apple II fan and Kansasfest regular. In this episode, they talk about whether Zork III can be completed without cheating and have a few surprises for the listener. You can listen to the…
Stepehen Heumann has announced the release of AFPBridge for the Apple IIgs. According to the announcement on CSA2, AFPBridge is “a tool that allows an Apple IIgs to connect to file servers using the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) over TCP/IP. It works by using the existing AppleShare FST, but redirecting its network traffic over TCP/IP rather than AppleTalk.” AFPBridge is compatible with Apple IIgs’s with system 6.01 or later and a Network card compatible with Mainetti such as the Uthernet….
Chris Morrison has a new writeup at his blog, “The Vintage Geek Blog”, that takes a look at all five of the versions of Bank Street Writer, a popular word processor during the 1980’s for the Apple II Computer. The overview includes versions of the program for the Apple IIe, Iic and IIgs and highlights some of the idiosyncrasies of each version. You can check it out at:https://vintagegeek.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/bank-street-writer-for-apple-ii-5-versions/
Mike Maginnis has announced the availability of the 49th Episode of the Open Apple Podcast This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Laine Nooney, researcher of early computer and software companies. She has been digging into the history of such greats as Brøderbund and Sierra On-Line. In particular, she has done some awesome research on the infamous Soft Porn Adventure, including behind-the-scenes details on the infamous advertising photo. We talk about broken microfilm projectors, we talk about printer…
According to a posting on Facebook from Mike Maginnis, “Open Apple #38 is published (still August – just made it. Whew!). If you’re a subscriber, it should be appearing in your favorite RSS reader or iTunes shortly if it hasn’t already. This month on Open Apple, we go deep on Lawless Legends with most of the team building it. We’ve managed to corner Seth Sternberger (of 8-bit Weapon fame), Martin Haye, and Brendan Robert (Dave Schmenk, we’re coming for you…)…
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…
In a recent excursion into the A.P.P.L.E. storage boxes in Seattle, Brian Wiser discoverd a number of issues of our original Mac-A.P.P.L.E. magazine. The magazine which was published from 1986 to 1988 was A.P.P.L.E.’s attempt to differentiate the Mac from the Apple II computers, carry original content specifically attuned to the Mac computers. A total of 15 issues were found in the archives and today, we are happy to announce that the first scan of those Mac-A.P.P.L.E. issues, May 1986…
The annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote for the 2014 rendition of WWDC will be broadcast live. Breaking with past years, the past several keynotes have been broadcast over the Internet, making it available to more people, especially in light of the popularity of the tickets for the event. WWDC is held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco and is a week long chance for developers to rub elbows with the developers at Apple. It is also a…
Peter Wong has been working on a proof of concept project for the past several years which would allow the Apple II to utilize wireless communications. The project has a number of ideas included and even a version of ADTPro, the disk imaging software managed by David Schmidt with the Bluetooth option on the main menu. While there have been several projects which proved the concept would work, this is the first views which show the full integration of the…
Apple has released version 5.05 of the Digital Camera RAW compatibility driver. The update comes close on the heels of the Mac OS X 10.9.3 update and addresses support for a number of camera in Aperature 3 and iPhoto ’11 including the following: Canon EOS Rebel T5 / 1200D / Kiss X70 Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II Nikon D4S Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 The update is included in the Software Update function. For more information or to directly download the…
Apple has released a new version of the operating system for Intel based Macs. Mac OS X 10.9.3 increases apple’s support of 4K devices. Restoration of the USB syncing of Calendars and Contacts is also included in this update. Also Apple has attempted to imporve the reliability of connections via VPN that use IPsec. They has also released Safari 7.0.3 in coordination with this update. The update is a 947mb download and is available now. For more information about the…
Antoine Vignau has announced an update of the Apple II Cassette Collection on Brutal Deluxe. The update includes the following new items: Apple’s High-resolution graphics (002-0002-01) Apple’s Checkbook-1 (002-0005-01) Hayden’s Songs in the key of Apple The new additions brings the total number of offerings in the collection to 623 tapes. For more information or to download the items in the collection, see the Brutal Deluxe Apple II Cassette Collection website at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/
David Schmidt, curator of the ADTPro project, has announced the release of version 1.3.0. According to the posting in CSA2, ” Just a quick purge of CVS as I prepare to get going on the new wide protocol in earnest – this should represent the known bugs up to today of the “1-byte protocol” ADT-compatible ADTPro client and server. There’s no new functionality, just a cleanup of earlier problems caused by yours truly. There will be maintenance as required of…
A.P.P.L.E. has negotiated a discount for A.P.P.L.E. Members who purchase Option8’s Joystick Shield or the Joystick Shield Kit. These connectors allow users to utilize their original Apple II series joysticks with their current Mac or PC. Many emulators will also recognize the Joystick Shield. The discount code is available to A.P.P.L.E. members only through their login ID’s and is good for 10% off on the Joystick Shield and Joystick Shield Kit. This discount does not apply to any other Option…
Apple has announced that Peter Oppenheimer, the Senior VP and CFO, will call it a career in September. His retirement opens up a slow for the VP of Finance to move up. Luca Maestri will replace Peter beginning in June. For more on this story, see the announcement at apple.com — http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/03/04Apples-Peter-Oppenheimer-to-Retire-at-the-End-of-September.html
