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Brian Picchi has posted a new video review of the Will Harvey produced Apple ][ Game, The Immortal. The Immortal was a glossy graphical adventure that was produced in 1990 by Electronic Arts. Brian takes you through an entire level of play in the 12.5 minute video and talks about some of the nifty tricks within the game including resurrecting a dead player. See the video below or on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELSlynnKrk You can also play the game online at…
R&D Automation announced in a blog posting last week that they will be producing a new run of the CFFA3000 cards for the Apple ][. The CFFA3000 is a card which allows the Apple ][ to use Compact Flash Cards and USB Thumb Drives for hard drive storage of disk images. According to the R&D Automation website, “We are now in the process of getting final quotes on parts for run #2 of the CFFA3000. We hope to be placing…
Apple, Inc. is closing the iWork.com public beta site. They are telling users to log in to the site and download all of their documents prior to July 31st, 2012. Apple is touting the fact that there are “already 40 million documents stored on iCloud by millions of iWork customers“. The iWork service was started in 2009 to much fanfare but has become more of an after thought with the iCloud service being Apple’s new focal point. In an email received…
The Apple Online Store is now reporting a March 19th Delivery date for the New iPad. The New iPad or iPad 3 was introduced this week in an event in San Francisco. While the pricing of the units remained the same, the speed of the graphics in the machines was increased and the display changed to a Retina display allowing display of 2048 by 1536 pixel resolution. Apple also installed 5 megapixel cameras in the new machines allowing 1080p HD…
ResetVector, run by Tony Diaz, has put up a new article outlining the history of the Albert Apple ][ Clone. The Albert, was created with all of the drives built into into it’s own box and the machine complete with all of the normal Apple ][ features as well as a number of enhanced features all on board. While most manufacturers of the time were busy copying the Apple ][ as is, wholesale, cards and all, the Albert was a…
Apple very quietly released a tool yesterday that gives IT managers control over 30 iOS devices at a time using a single Mac. The tool, Apple Configurator allows control over a host of items on a variety of iOS Devices, including: iOS updates Lock screen and wallpaper Device name Installed apps Installed documents Configuration profiles (including passcode policy, restrictions, Wi-Fi, VPN, and more settings) You can also create a backup of one device’s settings, data, wallpaper, and Home screen layout…
Every time Apple holds an event, twitter seems to struggle under the load of the tweets. This time, twitter is showing us what the load of the tweets looks like during the event. The chart shows that the announcement of the New iPad comes in a just under 10,000 tweets per minute while the big spikes hit at 10:33 am PST with the announcement of the LTE 4G and then the biggest spike at 10:41am PST with the announcment of…
Oliver Schmidt, long known for his work on several projects in the Apple][ community including Contiki and Applewin, has now delved into documenting the internals of GEOS, the Berkeley Softworks produced operating system for the Apple ][. In his announcement in the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup, Oliver says” Although the Apple GEOS filesystem is based on ProDOS 8 the Apple GEOS files are not standard ProDOS 8 files. I’m not refering to file content here but to the file structure – meaning…
Rovio, in coordination with NASA, has made an announcement about the availability of Angry Birds Space, the latest in the Angry Birds franchise. They have posted a video of the announcement and a bit of the gameplay on they website at: http://space.angrybirds.com/announcement/ The anouncement starts with NASA Astronaut Don Petitit, and current International Space Station Resident, in a old school style announcement clip with cutesy graphics being added to his announcement. His demonstrates some of the physics involved in the…
Apple has released version 3.5 of the configuration utility used to allow users to “create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles” on the iPhone. You can download the latest version through the Software Update utility or from the Apple support page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1465
Apple has released an update to the XCode Developers Environment. The free programming platform, used primarily for developing applications for Apple platforms is a free application download from Apple. Version 4.3.1 includes the following improvements and bug fixes: Includes SDKs for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and iOS 5.1 New code signing workflow supports signing OS X apps with Developer ID Adds installation of command-line tools to the Downloads preference pane Open Developer Tool menu launches Instruments, File Merge, and…
Jumsoft has released version 1.1 of their iBooks Author Templates addon, Book Palette. The $9.99 package now includes 20 professional templates and is a free upgrade for previous customers of the add on. You can download the Book Palette add on from the Mac App Store or from the JumSoft website at: http://www.jumsoft.com/
The latest version of the iBooks Author Application has been released by Apple, Inc. iBooks Author is Apple’s home grown application which allows users to produce and publish text books for the iPad and to sell them in the iTunes Book Store. Version 1.1 of the iBooks Author application includes The iBooks Author Application has been enhanced to take advantage of the Retina Display on the New iPad Includes a number of performance and stability improvements You can download the…
Brian Fargo has posted some ideas about what he thinks the Kick Starter rewards will look like when he posts the project later this week. The re-start of the famed Apple ][ based franchise came earlier last month when Bran decided to try and make the project completely funded by a Kick Starter project. Ideas include statues within the game dedicated to the upper level donors as well as a private party hosted by Brian and Alan Pavlish in honer…
Rovio, the maker of the iTunes Store #1 hit, Angry Birds has posted the latest teaser for their next rendition of the Angry Birds franchise, Angry Birds Space. The quote “In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Squeal…” is emblazoned on the page when you go to the website meant for the game itself. Teaser three, shown in the photo above has the usual Angry Birds pig in a Face on Mars like moon scape type scene. With the announcement coming…
The latest iPad television spot is now available online. The ad for the latest rendition of the iPad touts the new display and the colors and density of the display. While the TV spot lacks any real details of the machine, it does highlight the capabilities of the machine, it is more meant to entice people to go look at the machine, following the card sent out to the press in showing “something to See and to Touch”. The Apple…
Apple has updated the iTunes Application for the Mac. iTunes 10.6 was released to address the new 1080P HD movies available in the iTunes Store and to make them playable. Other items covered in this upgrade include: Improved song matching Improved album artwork handling, downloading, and display Addresses an issue where songs may skip when playing from iCloud You must be running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later in order to use this latest upgrade to the iTunes Application. Also…
Kelvin Sherlock’s Shrink-Fit X, the application which allows for ShrinkIt files to be manipulated on Mac OS X, is now available in a Universal Binary for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The binary is downloadable from his new website at: http://osx.ksherlock.com/ Or you can download the file directly at: http://osx.ksherlock.com/Shrink-Fit-X-10.4.zip
Apple Inc. has released the latest version of their iPhone Operating System iOS version 5.1. The latest release of iOS includes the following fixes and enhancements: Japanese language support for Siri (availability may be limited during initial rollout) Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Camera shortcut now always visible on Lock Screen for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation) Camera face detection now highlights all detected faces Redesigned Camera app for iPad Genius…
KANSAS CITY, MO — March 7, 2012 — KansasFest, the 23rd 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 17, through Sunday, July 22, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. The week kicks off with a keynote speech John Romero, co-founder of id Software and creator of Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous…
