Author: A.P.P.L.E.
Apple Inc. has released an iOS App for the iPhone and iPad which will give all registered Apple developers access to the event. The 2013 edition of the WorldWide Developers Conference in San Francisco sold out in a record 71 seconds this year leaving many developers in the dark so to speak. Apparently, Apple has heard the cries of anguish from those developers who figured they would be able to get a ticket and were not so lucky. The WWDC…
A note from “Charlie” in the CSA2 Usenet group has announced the arrival of Super Hi-Res Graphics capability for the Carte Blanche card in Apple //e emulation mode. According to the posting, ” I have made a Carte Blanche bitstream that allows an Apple //e to have SHR graphics. Most of the JAT stuff has been removed so it is mostly a VGA video card for the //e. The SHR works pretty much as it does on an Apple IIgs,…
Brutal Deluxe, maintainers of the Apple II Cassette collection have announced a couple of new additions to the library. They include: The Software Factory’s Apple Beneath Manor by Don Worth, with a signed manual from the author Ritam Corporation’s Monty plays monopoly, that is a new publisher. There are currnetly 592 cassettes listed in the collection. More are being added as they come in. If you currently own Apple II cassettes which are not included in the library, you are…
With the Apple-1 computer being in big demand since the death of Steve Jobs, the German auction house Brecker has pulled in a record haul for a working version of the famed computer. Hand built in the garage of Steve Wozniak, the Apple-1 was only produced in a short production of less than 200 units. Of these 200, only 48 are known to exist today and of those, working models are even a rarer item with less than ten units…
Apple has updated iOS to version 6.1.4. The latest version of the software is intended to address issues related to the audio profile for speakerphone. It is specifically targeted to the iPhone 5 as no other platforms currently have this issue. iOS can be updated through the General tab on your Settings for your iPhone. For more information about this update, check: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1652
Virtual Apple ][ has published a new Apple ][ game. SHELL*SHOCK is a high paced action tank battle game for the Apple ][ computer. Originally written in 1985 by Peter Blum, Alan Burkle, and Jonathan Dunaisky, the game has been largely unseen until this month when it was resurrected by the original authors and sent to Virtual Apple ][. SHELL*SHOCK is unique in the Apple ][ gaming realm as it allows users to battle each other in two player mode…
WWDC, Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, has sold out their entire allotment of tickets in a matter of two minutes. In previous years, tickets were still available until a few weeks before the conference, however, as the popularity of the Mac has increased, the conference has been a more desirable destination. This record sellout is not likely to change next year either unless Apple increases the number of available tickets. For more information about WWDC or the availability of the…
David Schmidt has released an update to the ADTPro program. According to the posting on CSA2, the update includes: New functionality: * [VDrive] Added the ability to bootstrap into ProDOS with VSDrive active * [Server] Added a command-line invoker for AppleCommander Bug fixes: * [Server] Start the numerical part of batch name at 1, not 0; reset the counter when a batch name changes * [Server] 5-1/4″ disk images with unrecognized filesystems are always written with DOS-ordered physical interleaving You…
KansasFest, the 25th annual convention dedicated to the Apple II computer, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 23, through Sunday, July 28, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. The week kicks off with keynote speaker Randy Wigginton, Apple employee #6, who worked on the Disk ][ disk drive, Apple DOS, and Applesoft BASIC. Wigginton will be…
The Eamon Deluxe Newsletter for March 2013 has been posted on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online website at www.eamonag.org. Eamon Deluxe is the creation of master Eamon adventure writer Frank Black. He recently released Eamon Deluxe 5.0 for multiple platforms and this month talks about the possibility that Don Brown and Jon Walker could be one and the same person. For more, check out the newsletter at: http://eamonag.org/newsletters/acrobat/Eamon_DeluXe_NewsletterV3n01_03-2013.pdf
I was asked this afternoon by my friend what I thought of the possibility of Apple actually making an iWatch. While many folks seem to be clamouring over themselves to get one, none of them have thought much of the actual financials of taking on such an undertaking. My question is more do I need one? To answer this question truthfully, we must first take a look at the history of the computer watch in the real world. Many movies…
Intuiware has released an update for Changes Meter, the URL change checking software. Change Meter Version 1.80 includes a host of fixes including improved Growl support, basic support for proxies,and they have fixed the problem of the program incorrectly reporting URL changes. Some of the addition changes within the program include: Added option to hide unchanged URLs in the menubar icon menu Added full support for Growl 2.0 Added basic support for http and https proxies, using the settings stored…
France, March 22nd 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Pleins gaz), is happy to announce the relase of the arcade game Zéphyr for the Apple II. This monochrome DHGR arcade game had to be released by Froggy Software in 1987. As the company shut its doors, the game has never been released nor distributed by its author. Together, in 2013, we have decided to release…
Brutal Deluxe, the French software company known for bringing a host of super enhanced Apple IIgs products to market over the years, has been taking a page from Apple, Inc.’s playbook during their latest product release. Over the past week, Brutal Deluxe Software has released a series of clipped photos including the one from yesterday seen above. Each photo has shown a bit more of the product cover image but yet no one apparently has figured out what the product…
The Eamon Adventures have long been one of the favorite adventure systems available for the Apple ][. With over 255 adventures written for Eamon, it is also likely the most prolific adventuring system as well. Eamon was designed in 1980 by Donald Brown and released in Recreational Computing Magazine as a public domain system. While the first dozen or so adventures were written by Donald Brown himself, most of the following 200 plus adventures have been written by over 50…
Bill Buckels, the curator of the Aztec C Museum website has released his latest graphics tool for the Apple ][ computer. BMP2RAG converts a 280 x 190 Windows BMP file to Apple ][ based HGR or High Resolution Graphics files. The converter is a free tool and is available for download from: http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/bmp2rag.zip The manual for the program is also available in PDF format from the website at: http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/BMP2RAG.pdf Other graphics tools and compilers are available from the Aztec C…
Karelia Software, makers of the popular Sandvox website creation software have released a new version for Mac OS X. Version 2.7.7 addresses a number of bugs and improves features within the program including: Twitter Twitter is starting to disable direct access to feeds, breaking Sandvox’s Twitter object. Existing objects continue to work when published, but will guide you how to transition to Twitter’s preferred approach Publishing Improves compatibility with bad FTPS servers for customers on OS X 10.7 and earlier…
Gerard Puter, developer of the Virtual ][ Emulator has released a maintenance update to the Apple ][ emulator. Version 7.2.1 addresses an issue with sound compatibility in the emulator with Mac OS X 10.7. Virtual ][ is a Mac based Apple ][ Emulator which contains many advanced features including Print to PDF as well as interface card control. The program is shareware and costs $49.95 for the full version of the program. You can download the latest version of the…
Two new Eamon reviews from Thomas Ferguson are now available on the Eamon Adventurers Guild website. The Reviews of Adventure # 253, The Prisim of Shadows and # 254, Dawn of the Warlock, both of which were written by Wade Clarke and James Anderson give the new offerings high praise and marks. Eamon is an Adventure design system developed by Don Brown in 1979 and has over 255 adventures currently written for the system. Recently, the system has made its…
The ActiveGS Plugin, a combination browser and standalone Apple II gs emulator has been updated. Version 3.6.1307 was released yesterday in coordination with a server move and upgrade by the Free Tools Association. You can download the new plugin from the ActiveGS support website at http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ or through the Virtual Apple ][ website at http://www.virtualapple.org
