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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.
It seems that owners of Cisco and Linksys home routers got a rather invasive surprise this holiday season. Cisco pushed out an update to their routers which requires users to use the Cisco Cloud service to log in to their routers. According to Boing Boing, the routers lock the users out and only lets them have access back if they agree to the new terms of service permitting Cisco to essentially spy on them. While many companies have monetized users…
Karelia Software has released an update to their web production software, Sandvox. The new version focuses on the conversion of high resolution graphics and photos from newer cameras. Sandvox will now take the photos, generating the thumbnails quicker. Version 2.6.3 also includes a host of fixes and updates including: Publishing Other Bug Fixes Sandvox allow users to create websites easily with a minimum of HTML and CSS knownledge, includes embedding of all popular media formats and allows automatic publication via…
Gerard Puter has released a major update to the Virtual ][ Emulator. The latest update brings the emulator in line with the latest version of Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) and includes a number of video related improvements as well. Improvements included in Version 7.0 of Virtual ][ are as follows: Virtual ][ is a Macintosh based Apple ][ emulator, which includes many advanced emulation features rarely found in other emulation packages. Some of these advanced features include Epson compatible…
Apple ][ Scans has completed scanning the entire Obsorne / McGraw Hill Guide to Your Apple /// available on their website. According to Apple ][ Scans Curator, Mike Maginnis, the original scan had “the first two chapters of this book and made it available online. It had some great notes from Dave Ottalini inserted in the PDF, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t the whole thing. This new scan is the complete book and is higher quality than the first…
Brendan Robert has updated the Java Apple Computer Emulator, also known as JACE. JACE is a free ware emulator which is Java 6 based and intended to be executable on multiple platforms. In the latest update, Bendan has announced the following changes and fixes: +Prince of Persia cheat module is included, but not active by default. Enable from configuration menu (F4) +Obligatory cheats such as infinite health, start with sword +Crazy insane cheats using mouse such as “click to teleport”…
Rich Dreher announced the availability of 500 more units of his popular Apple II card, the CFFA 3000. The CFFA 3000 allows Apple II and /// series users to store programs on compact flash and USB thumb drive, making the 8 bit Apples a seriously fast machine. Programs and hard disk images can be easily transferred from PC to Apple II / III via the CF and USB thumb drives and the cards, bringing these old machines into the 21st…
Google has had a dedicated Mac Blog for the past five years run by Scott Knaster, a programmer and writer since 1980. While many places are ramping up their Mac based offerings, Google seems to be stepping off the platform in favor of pushing their own Chrome platform. Scott announced the end of life for the Google Mac Blog in the latest posting to the blog. Scott’s final post on the Google Mac Blog states that “Our Mac and iOS…
This past week, we mentioned (http://www.callapple.org/2012/06/20/whats-where-in-the-apple-ii-is-returning/) the forthcoming re-release of William F. Luebbert’s popular Apple ][ book, What’s Where in the Apple in eBook format. Today we have further news and more accurate pricing schedules based on information we received from the publisher, Robert Tripp: 1. The price is going to be $19.95 but people who “pre-order” (as simple as pressing the “pre-order” button on the web site that sends us an e-mail) can get the book for $15.00. They…
If you haven’t updated your iTunes to the latest version yet, you might want to think about doing it relatively soon. A new proof of concept shows that a malicious playlist could execute any code it wants on your Mac. At this point, the vulnerability is only a proof of concept and no real world application of the issue has been seen yet. For more on the vulnerability, you can check out SC Magazine posting on the topic: http://www.scmagazine.com/itunes-vulnerability-may-enable-remote-code-execution/article/246207/ The…
