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Apple, Inc. sent out invitations to an October 23rd announcement event.  The event, scheduled to be held at the 1122 seat California Theatre in San Jose, has long been expected to be the introduction of the rumored iPad Mini.  Another rumor floating around is that Apple will introduce a smaller MacBook Pro at the event as well.

Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, founders of Brutal Deluxe Software, are proud to introduce their newest software to the Apple II community. “I’m fEDD up” is Brutal Deluxe’s second answer to nowadays preservation of 5.25″ diskettes on the Apple II. Its main features are: • Essential Data Duplicator compatible If Utilico Microware’s EDD or compatible card is installed in your system, it will use the card’s powerful features to read track data. • Nibble and timing preservation It saves raw…

David Finnigan, curator of MacGui and author of The New Apple II Users Guide has announced a web and email service for Apple II related materials.  The announcement on CSA2 states: Soon, the barrier to entry for starting an Apple II web site will be reduced to the time required to register an account at A2HQ.com, a site coming soon for all Apple II users! Anyone will be able to have a WordPress blog, photo gallery, and enough web space…

After a long hiatus, Dave Touvell has revamped his Apple2Info.net website.  The Apple2Info.net website,  long the home of items such as the Essential Data Duplicator (EDD) has now become a Wiki type of website allowing for user contributions to the website.   According to the announcement on CSA2: After mostly ignoring it for the last several years, I’ve revamped it and it’s now a wiki. That should make it easier for me to update and hopefully others in the Apple II…

A note from David Schmidt on CSA2 announced the arrival of the latest rendition of the ADTPro Disk Imaging software. Ok, here’s a few more goodies.  The time and date is synchronized with the host, and there’s two versions of the serial driver: one that hides between the BI and buffers, and another that stomps on the Disk II driver.  The latter is compatible with ProDOS utilities. There’s a little bit in there just for me – I don’t expect…

Apple’s Store is now back online and taking orders for the new iPhone 5.   Apple’s Partners including AT&T, Verizon and Sprint are also taking pre-orders on their respective websites.  The iPhone 5 starts at $199.00 USD for the 16gb model and is scheduled to be available in 21 countries on the 21st of September. You can order the iPhone 5 directly from the Apple Store online at: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone

The Apple Store has been taken down in preparation for the start of the iPhone 5 pre-orders.   While the phone was announced on the 12, actual shipping of the product will not begin until the 21st of the month.   Also, in coordination with the outage, AT&T has a counter on their website as well.   Apple is expecting that they will sell over 5 million units of the new iPhone 5 over the first three days they are available. http://store.apple.com/

Speculation is rampant about a possible new MacHeist which seems to be forthcoming.   The MacHeist website has been redone with a Spider web with a spider and 7 flies caught in the web, making everyone on the Facebook page of MacHeist comment about a possible new heist. MacHeist gained notariety for putting together bulk packages of mainstream software and selling the packages for less than $100 for all of the software.   While there have not been any large packages in…

Tim Cook, in an invitation only event in Sanfrancisco, introduced the iPhone 5 this morning.  The event which was held at the Beuna Yerba Center had a bevy of new announcements in regard to the iPhone / iPod series including the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and the iPhone 5.   Apple has posted the event in its entirety on its website  here: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2012/

Book Title:  The New Apple II User’s GuideAuthor: David FinniganPages: 775 In 1993, Apple Inc. discontinued the Apple IIgs computer and all production of software and manuals for the Apple II series of computers came to a screeching halt.  Within a year, 95% of all Apple II software publishers were for the most part either shut down or they had moved on to publishing materials for the IBM PC or the Macintosh.  A sturdy handful of folks however, continued keeping…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced that their January 1996 version of the DeluxeWare CD-ROM is now available as a free download.  The DeluxeWare CD-ROM contains over 650mb of Apple IIgs related software and was the first French CD-ROM dedicated to the Apple IIgs. COntents of the DeluxeWare CD-ROm include: Apple programs Documentations Creative visual Hypermedia Games Music System Utilities The CD-Rom is available as a 311.5mb zipped file and includes all of the software on the original disks.  Also the…

The Java Apple Computer Emulator also known as JACE has been updated.  According to Brendon Robert, the creator of the JACE Emulator, “This new version adds a new MetaCheat (free cheat) feature.  140kb 2MG floppy support has been improved to support prodos/dos ordering detection as well as volume numbers.” You can download the new MetaCheat feature as well see it documented in full  on the JACE homepage at: https://sites.google.com/site/brendanrobert/projects/jace

The latest version of Apple Disk Transfer (ADTPro) has been released.  According to the press release from David Schmidt, “This release understands ShrinkIt-shrunk disk images, and treats them  like any other disk image.  To be clear, ADTPro won’t create new SDKs – but it’ll unpack existing ones and write them to a real disk of  appropriate size.  Going the other way – from real disk to image – ADTPro will always create normal DOS-ordered (for 5.25″ disks) or ProDOS  ordered…

The Apple store went down at 12:00pm ET today.  No known reason for the outage is available, however, the message on the website circulates through multiple languages pointing to the possibility that it is a global outage for a possible website update or change. The apple store is located at: http://store.apple.com

Marc Ressl has released the latest version of his OpenEmulator.  The OpenEmulator emulates a number of machines and will eventually include the entire Apple II series in its emulator core.  At the moment, version 1.0.3 includes the following features: Added the 1979 Apple II plus and Apple II j-plus Added the 1979 Disk II drives and interface card (13 and 16 sector), with support for DSK, DO, D13, PO, CPM, NIB, 2IMG, FDI, DiskCopy 4.2, V2D disk images Added the…

Frank Black has released his latest rendition of Eamon Deluxe interactive fiction system.  Version 5.0 which runs on all flavors of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, allows the users to experience the joys of playing the original Eamon adventures all in one place.  While the Eamon adventures were primarily developed for the Apple II series computers, this marks the first time that the system is available on all of the major current platforms. You can download the Eamon Deluxe…

Brutal Deluxe Software has added more cassettes to their Apple ][ Cassette archives.   The project, run by Antoine Vignau has set out to archive every cassette ever produced for the Apple ][ computer and as of this posting has a total of 566 tapes in its collection. The new additions to the archives include: The Micromint, Inc.: Applesoft Sweet Talker Program Softape: Saucer invasion / Rocket pilot, Solitaire poker According to a posting in the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup, there are 17…

Angry Birds Seasons HD for the iPad by Rovio Entertainment Ltd., is currently free in the iTunes App Store. The App was recently updated to version 2.4.1 and now has more than 290 levels within the game. This is not the shareware version of the program but instead is the full app.  You can download the app from the Apple iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/angry-birds-seasons-hd/id398329664?mt=8

Skype version 5.8 has been updated to 5.8.0.945.  The latest updates includes a host of general updates and stability bug fixes.   You can download the latest version of the Skype software from their website at: http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-macosx

Due to the closure of Apple’s Mobile.Me, Mini vMac LT’s website has relocated to its own domain.   The new website is at: http://mfort.net/ Mini vMac LT is a version of Mini vMac which supports serial connections in Local Talk mode, thus allowing usage of AppleTalk based games and utilities.   The forums have also been relocated to the new website are now available for new user registrations.