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By A.P.P.L.E. Staff This month, the gang over at MacHeist has had two events.  The first was ta short event to give away the software package Squeeze by LateNiteSoft.  While this particular package would appeal to those who are lacking in hard drive space, we feel that squeezing data is not necessarily the best idea. However, now the folks at MacHeist have come out with the nanoBundle 2 and have included some really cool packages.  The packages included in the…

This issue I’d like to whine and complain about proprietary versus open standards. In the past I’ve generally come out against proprietary software and standards. I will do so again today. The motivation behind my current rant is the admittedly cheap MP3 player I bought last month. It is a 2 GB Sylvania SMPK2083 made in China by Curtis International. My primary purpose was to use it as a voice recorder for my notes. It does so remarkably well. The…

This month, I finally joined the rest of the world in the mad dash for the iPhone which everyone else partook in last year.  This lateness to the party was no fault of my own other than the fact that I was stuck in a phone contract that was two years long. My contract began three weeks before the iPhone came out and actually ran through June of this year.  While this type of contract is not unusual, it has…

The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section.  The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms. That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate.   Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on…

By A.P.P.L.E. Staff Photos By Jim Gottlieb One again, the even aptly named MacWorld Exposition has come and gone.   While the naysayers were saying that the event would die without the main players there, the event did go on.  Apple, Inc. of course pulled out over a year ago, prior to the last version of the event.  But Alas, the show must go on and go on it did. What you saw this year was that instead of many big…

Man oh man what a time. You know how things come and go in cycles… This is one of those times. Lots of little things piled up… My cousin was appointed as ambassador for Le Festival du Voyageur (a major local mid-winter party in French similar to Mardi Gras). Congratulations Roger! I may have mentioned this one earlier. My new quad-core PC had a hard drive failure. It’s a good thing I backed up everything before it stopped functioning. I…

By A.P.P.L.E. Staff This month, we are back to full steam on our production and our setup.  Our staff are finally back in place and we are attempting to make up for some lost time here.   Getting back to our normal production schedule has been a bit problematic but thankfully we are heading in the right direction as we produce this issue. There have been several items of interest this month from A.P.P.L.E. including the back issues also have been…

About this ListThe A.P.P.L.E. Links list is one of the most complete Apple and Macintosh lists available on the internet today. As the Internet is one of the most fluid entities in existence, this list is also always in transition. The Apple II list is a compilation of many lists of URL’s and has addition information and comments added by the staff of A.P.P.L.E. You will find almost any link that you will need for any Apple related project contained within this…

Over the previous month, we here at A.P.P.L.E. have been remodeling our online store and adding new items to the catalog trying to enhance our content and making unique products available to our members. You will find our new product catalog online at www.callapple.org. All of the products in the catalog which have a Add To Cart button are available now and may be purchased. We have also included some hardware items which are not available anywhere else. This included…

The Houston Area Apple Users Group (HAAUG) will be holding a swap meet on Saturday 28 July 2002 from 9am to 4pm. This swap meet is for Apple enthusiasts and is open to the general public. This is the place to take your chance to pick up relatively inexpensive Apple equipment. HAAUG members can get a table for free while non-members can rent the table for $50 per table. If you need electricity for your display table, there is an…

Our editorial staff from the large number of product announcements and news releases sent to us daily selected the following items. They are presented solely to keep you informed about the current market for Apple related hardware and software. As we have not tested many of these products, appearance here does not necessarily represent endorsement or recommendation by A.P.P.L.E.. Further information about items appearing in The Marketplace can be obtained through the A.P.P.L.E. Web Site. If you contact any manufacturer…

The following letter appeared in the Michigan Apple-Gram as well as the International Apple Core produced Apple Orchard volume 1 number 1. While the idea behind it was unbelievable at the time, history had a way of making it work. We hope that you enjoy this little bit of history as much as we did. The Apple Rumor Mill Courtesy of Paul KnevelsFrom The Michigan Apple-Gram It has been rumored that Apple Computer, Inc. is working on an Apple III…

On the 20th of June 2002, Vintage Micros.com of South Carolina listed one of the rarest computers available today. The Lisa 1 was only produced for a few months and then replaced with the Lisa 2, which was eventually renamed to the Macintosh XL due to the problems with the Lisa 1. The Lisa 1 listed by Vintage micros came directly from the Texas manufacturing plant via a third party who won the auction which Apple held originally. All of these…

About Bill Fernandez Bill Fernandez is known in the Apple world as Apple Employee number 1 and a big part of what Apple has become today. As one of the people who has been instrumental in their growth and development, his insights into what Apple is provides a good basis for those of us who were on the outside looking in. Today Bill is both an amateur photographer as well as a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido. He has spent…

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For many years since that fateful pilot release of the Star Trek, many millions of fans around the globe have been glued to their screens waiting for each new release of the continuing sagas created by Gene Rodenbery. Once again, Paramount Pictures has listened to those fans and released another Star trek movie named Nemesis. This movie based on Star Trek: The Next Generation and starring the cast and the crew of the same is dues to be released on…

There have been many flavors of Unix type systems for many platforms over the years, but there have been few for the Apple II. However in this world of bleak shortsightedness, there has been one project that gained the recognition of many in the Apple world. GNO/ME What is GNO/ME? It is a nice Unix style system for the Apple II GS which ran on top of the Apple II GS OS allowing multitasking of text based windows and was…

While this month’s web site is not specifically an Apple site, it is an important web resource for users of many platforms. Snackey Pete’s is a nice web site for those interested in the Inform format of Interactive Fiction games. The site, which is produced by Helikon Technologies, is a nice simple web site and has man compilers, interpreters, games, and even documentation for the Inform format. As many of the older users may know, Inform is the format in…

Seattle – 21 June 2002 0545am – Vintage Micros of Marietta, South Carolina is offering a rare Apple Lisa 1 “Twiggy” personal computer online. The machine, which is among the uncommon machines of the Apple Computer, Inc., is expected to draw in the range of $15,000 based on past online auctions for similar items. The Lisa 1 sold originally for nearly $10,000 when it was released in 1982, however, due to the number of problems with the machine, very few were…

with APW and Related Products A Survey of APW productsBy Mike Westerfield Like myself, many of you have been programming on the Apple II since it really was the Apple II – no plus, e, c, or GS. The first assembler I used on the Apple II was actually tape based. I break out in hives every time I remember that. As the Apple II grew, so did the languages that were available for it. First, better assemblers appeared, starting…