Author: A.P.P.L.E.
Have you ever wondered what Apple had in mind when it was designing new Apple IIgs machines back in the 1980’s? Lim Thye Chen gives us a brief glimpse into some of those designs of prototypical Apple machines with a few pictures from the original Apple Design book at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=rxq26qsiiir9 While this is not the first time we have seen such wild ideas of Apple products, it is the first time we have seen a mythical Apple IIsi or a…
Brendan Robert has uploaded a new version of his JACE Apple ][ Emulator to the JACE Sourceforge page. This release is meant to address some issues that were introduced in early versions. Brendan Robert posted the following notes about the release on the Comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup earlier today: “1) Concurrent modification exceptions have been eradicated when you apply settings changes. These used to kill the emulation when you used the config screen to tweak settings or change disks. I am very…
The Digital Antiquarian website, run by Jimmy Maher is proposing an old fashioned version of a Robot War Tournament. His recent posting about Muse Software’s Robot War for the Apple ][ brought out the folks who have long wondered if a tournament like those of the early 1980’s could be once again be held. In Jimmy Maher’s posting on comp.sys.apple2, he says “I’ve been writing about the Apple II quite a lot in recent months, as I judge it the…
Apple Inc. has posted an update to the EFI firmware in the mid-2010 models of the iMac. Version 1.8 of the iMac EFI Firmware allows Lion Recovery from a network connection. You can download the update from the Apple website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1493
Apple Inc (AAPL) shares have been on a record tear over the past three trading days with the price currently trading at $472.65 USD per share or up $3.71 USD per share at Noon EST. After pushing through the $474.00 USD per share price just after 10am, the price has pulled back. The high of the day thus far was $474.21 per share.
We have been upgrading our servers here at A.P.P.L.E. in the hope of providing more resources and a faster server for our users. During our migration yesterday, we hit a snag with services on the primary server being pinged out so we decided to go ahead and do the migration by hand which will take a few days longer than planned. Stay tuned for more as we go through this upgrade.
Payton Byrd has announced a new Spring Time Retro Computer Convention for Clarksville, Tennessee in lieu of this years C4 convention. The announement in CSA2 placed the convention at the Riverview Inn (http://www.theriverviewinn.com/rvstie/ ]) in Clarksville. According to the announcement by Payton, “It would be the last weekend of May, (25-27) and we’d have the room for 48 hours. It’s a very nice facility in a great location near the Cumberland River and just minutes from shopping, dining and recreation…
While there are many agencies and groups which take a hard line against any kind of piracy, including the SBA, RIAA, amond others, there seems to be one company now that actually thinks it is a good thing to some extent. Rovio, the maker of the popular game Angry Birds seems to be taking a page from the MS-Dos 1.0 book and saying that the piracy is actually growing their business more than it is hurting it. According to Rovio…
Apple rode a wave of enthusiasm on its Friday close at an all time high of $459.68 USD at a rise of $4.56 USD or 1.00 percent. That Friday enthusiasm seems to be replaced with some serious pessimism this morning as the pre-market price is already off by $1.77 at 8:59am. With no major news over the weekend out side of Apple once again selling 3G products in Germany, there is nothing really weighing on the stock outside of a…
Brendon Robert has re-worked the Apple ][ classic, Lemonade so that “It is no longer yelling”. Lemonade was one of the original Apple ][ games included on cassette tape with the 1977 version of the original Apple ][ computer. The original program was written all in capital letters as the Apple ][ originally did not have lower case. Lemonade is a game which is meant to teach fundamental marketing to elementary aged school children. The basic idea is that the…
Frank Kunze has announce that he will be sending out the 3rd beta of the Eamon Deluxe 5.0 program. He is attempting to re-work all of the original Eamon to accompany the Eamon Deluxe 5.0 system, fixing directional issues as well as eliminating unneeded items from the programs in order to make them flow better. He has recently re-formatted the SoftDisk Eamon #156, THE CURSE OF TALON by Sam Ruby. A short writeup about that re-formatting is available on the…
Egan ford has added the entire Apple ][ collection from Virtual Apple’s website to the Apple ][ Disk Server. The Apple Disk Server version 0.991 now has over 1500 disks that are ready to go on your Apple ][. This update was made possible by a contribution of a partial section of the Virtual Apple ][ database by Bill Martens. You can access the Apple ][ disk server at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/
Jumsoft has released Book Palette, a package which adds 10 book templates to iBooks Author. The package also allows you to change and modify the templates to give the effects that you need in your books. It also allows you to save your modified templates, thus making it easier to create your documents with uniformity across all the documents. This package is an absolute necessity for the user who is creating lots of materials and feels that Apple’s lot of…
Apple has updated iBooks Author, updating the End User License Agreement, getting even more specific about what can or cannot be sold when producing content with the application. In the original EULA, Apple had said that “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.”…
Program: Shink-Fit X Category: Archiver Utility Released: Feb 02, 2012 Version: 1.0 Size: 1.4 MB Language: English Seller: Kelvin Sherlock Price: Free For many of us, the SHK or Shrinkit files have been a thorn in our sides, especially if we were on a Mac. Now, our time in purgatory has been relieved by a nifty utility from the computer of Kelvin Sherlock, the author of GShisen. Shrink-Fit X is a Mac OS X Application which allows users to open…
Apple has released an update for iBooks 2. The update, version 2.0.1 is intended to address an issue with Textbooks not opening within the program. The update is now in the iTunes App Store and is a free download. To download the update, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
T. C. Lim has been working on a book about Pascal programming for the Apple II gs for the past several weeks, releasing preliminary versions along the way. The book includes a number of programs his kids have developed for the Apple IIgs in Pascal, Orca Pascal, and GSoft BASIC. The book was produced with iBooks Author and is the first Apple ][ series related book to be produced specifically for iBooks 2.0. T.C. has announced the immediate availability of…
Apple Inc (AAPL) is trading up this morning with a jump of $2.23 per share in pre-Market trading. With the .5% boost in the stock price, it is nearing the level it was at earlier in the week. At 9:00 am, the stock stands at $437.35 USD per share and should stay relatively close to if it is a normal Friday, volume wise. The only news weighing on the stock this morning is the loss in German courts to Motorola. …
Skype has been updated to Version 5.5.0.2340. The latest release is a maintenance release meant to deal with some issues with call stability during video calls as well as to make some improvements to the calling interface. Version 5.5.0.2340 requires an Intel based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or newer. You can download the latest version from the Skype.org website at: http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-macosx
Apple Inc (AAPL) traded slightly lower yesterday, closing $1.07 down for the day at $455.12 per share. In after hours trading, the shares slipped a bit further down to the 454.87 USD per share level. This as Apple filed its SEC reports on 16 senior employees who were given 63 Shares of Apple stock each at a price of $337.2375 on the 31st of January according to SEC filings. These filings included Senior VP Jeffrey Williams and Apple Inc. Chief…
