Author: A.P.P.L.E.
A new modification for the Carte Blanche Board allows the user to get 12 bit color output from the board. The creator of the modification for the board, posted the following in CSA2: “I have made a little modification to the Carte Blanche to allow 12 bit color VGA output for the Apple IIgs. The modification is very simple to make. Its just a cable with some resistors and a bit-stream to send the video to the IDE connector instead…
Have you ever wondered what would happened if you dropped your ipad? What if it was dropped out of an airplane? Well, the guys at G-Form already did that one and had to go one better. Using a weather balloon, they took an iPad to 100,000 feet insulated with their G-From Extreme Edge Case. Amazingly, the iPad drops to earth and survives. Dont believe it? Check it out for yourself!:
A.P.P.L.E. has updated the Apple Archives Link site with over 50 new links and now has more than 250 vintage apple links. The site includes categories for nearly every aspect of vintage apple computing including software, emulation and project related links. Some of the new features of the archives include: New Pull Down menus for each category Added DVD and Apple IIgs categories to the archives Single click to website links There currently are another 25 links remaining in the…
Apimac has released the latest version of their iDatabase program. The program which allows users to create and support databases on their Apple portable devices, has a number of features found only on larger database systems. From the Press Release: iDatabase is a simple and easy-to-use database manager that offers the most natural and easy way to organize information and data. With this database manager for Mac, you can manage membership lists, expenses, projects, keep track of your internet accounts…
Egan Ford has updated his new Apple ][ Disk Server once again. The Apple ][ Disks Server allows the user to connect their audio port to the Apple ][‘s cassette i/o port and load complete disk images to the floppy drive. This process now takes less than three minutes according to a note from Egan. Improvements between version 3 and version 6 include: To use the Apple ][ Disk Server, go to the Disk Server website at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/
Datve Ottlani has posted his original Apple /// in 10 EZ lessons videos to You Tube. The videos give a good overview of the Apple /// and its usage for those who have never touched an Apple /// Computer. You can view the lessons from the links below or from Dave’s you tube channel Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Two other videos included in the…
Since reaching a low of $354.23 USD on the day that Steve Jobs died, Apple, Inc’s Stock (AAPL) price has been on a steady climb. The stock closed at $422.40 at the market close and was trading just down from that at $422.28 USD in the after hours market. With Apple expected to announce their 4th Qtr results on the 24th of this month, it is expected that the stock will continue this upward trend baring some unforeseen change in…
Thanks to Arnaud Brossard, the original 1990 version of the Generous Efforts of Many (GEM) CD is now available for download from his website. The collection which included all of the major Apple ][ shareware and freeware up to that point, included some 200mb of software, fonts, utilities and other items related to the Apple ][. The CD is divided into 6 sections, 32mb each, and are ProDOS volumes. They include: GEM.CD.A – (Bootable) Features, Shrinkit GEM.CD.B – Sounds, Games…
Game: Pigeon Palooza Publisher: Blast Applications / BoonDoogle Cost: $0.99 cents Website: http://www.pigeonpalooza.com/ URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pigeon-palooza/id492151739?mt=8 This week, Pigeon Palooza came to the iPhone and iPad. While much has been made of this program being the next Angry Birds, we found that the game was anything but that exciting. And after plunking down out $0.99 cents for the game, we were left with a game that really isnt all that much real fun. The concept of Pigeon Palooza is that you…
A new experimental release of the SDL/Mame emulator for Mac OS X has been released. The latest version includes a number of improvements to the MAME engine. The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator with Simple DirectMedia Layer has been part of the MAME project since version 0.137 and is now available on a number of platforms thanks to SDL. Improvements in the Mac OS X Version of SDL/MAME include: MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ———————- – 04594: [Sound] All sets in wiz.c: Missing…
A clip on you tube fromt he Santa Clara Valley Historical Association has a snippet of Steve Jobs talking about what it took for he and Woz to start Apple. The expression that stands out in the clip that is most striking is the bit about “we had literally nothing to lose.” The video is embedded below and the part with Steve Jobs begins at 1:52 int he clip. It is a very telling emotion about how he felt about…
The ever popular iCade cabinet from ThinkGeek has been totally re-designed. The newest design loses the cabinet and is a sleek docking station along the lines of the Atari Arcade. The primary difference is the fact that this version will support landscape mode as well. The launch of the product is expected to be sometime during 2nd quarter 2012. While the cabinet is no longer part of the unit, the new product will still likely cost $100.00 USD Source: Engadget
Frank Kunze has put out a call for beta testers of his latest version of Eamon Deluxe. Eamon is an adventure system originally created by Donald Brown in 1979. The system has gone through several renditions and currently has over 255 adventures created by various authors globally. The Eamon Deluxe system was created by Frank Kunze to enhance the capabilities of the Eamon Adventure system and is now available for users of Windows Vista, Windows 7 in 32 Bit mode,…
An announcement on the Apple II Scans website brought word that Dave Ottlani, creator of the Washington Apple PI Apple /// DVD, has made the entire collection public domain. He released this collection “so that the information there can be freely accessed.” You can read the announcement in its entirety at: http://apple2scans.net/apple-iii/washington-apple-pi-apple-dvd/ You can download the .iso of the DVD from here: http://apple2scans.net/files/apple3/WAP_DVD/A3DVD.iso The news release also included the corrected version of the corrupted file A3 and can be downloaded…
Egan Ford has been busy with finding new ways to utilize the cassette port on the Apple ][ computer. His Apple ][ Game Server is now at version 0.5 and has a number of improvements in speed and methodologies of loading the programs onto real and emulated Apple ][ computers. Version 0.5 includes the following updates: Boosted audio volume from 50% to 75%. Added MON download option (Apple Monitor text for pasting into emulators). Right-click to save it. You can…
Mike Maginnis has posted a nice collection of Apple /// Dealer docs online in PDF Format. The collection, which he recently acquired, contains a number of interesting items including the original announcement of ListServe /// as well as a letter from David Fradlin talking about the Apple ///. Mike has posted them because as he says, “I am unlikely to successfully auction them for $1.6 million (or even the original estimate of $25,000 to $50,000)”. You can download the entire…
Brenden Robert has updated his JACE Emulator (Java Apple Computer Emulator) Source code to revision 150 and has said that a new build is coming soon. The delay in the update was attributed to several bugs which were preventing a build from being submitted. According to Brenden’s post on CSA2, “I still have some issues with getting the code to run really well when full-screen, but that’s a video generation/scaling problem and I need to profile the code further to…
The latest version of the Soviet era Agat computer emulator has been released. The Agat is an Apple ][ compatible computer which was developed in the Soviet Union and runs a good number of Apple ][ titles. Improvements in Version 1.22 are as follows: Implemented floppy drive controller for Acorn Atom system. Added support for extension ROMs for Acorn Atom. The Agat Emulator is made for Win32 based systems and can be found here: http://www.emucr.com/2012/01/agat-emulator-v122.html
There are currently several rumors floating around about a supposed event which Apple will be holding near the end of January. Speculation is ripe that the even will be help in New York, site of the recently opened grand central station Apple Store. Many sites are speculating on whether this is the release of the iPad 3 or an event scheduled to introduce a new iTV product, yet we have been doing a bit of research on this and have…
During the fourth Quarter 2011, Verizon sold a total of 4.2 million units of the latest rendition of iPhone. This number was more than double the number of units sold by Verizon during the third quarter. While this is good news for both Apple and Verizon, the news has not particularly been good for the stock where their price is currently at $39.21o USD or down 1.309% for the day. The stock had over 2 million share trade today but…
