Category: Manuals

Finding interesting stuff for the Mac is difficult given the relative numbers of users and programmers out there. I think I may have found something though. In the *NIX world (including OS X) the Python language seems to be the up and coming thing for programming. Python is an interpreted object oriented language. Python comes free with OS X, Linux, and BSD. It has to be downloaded and installed if it is to run on a Windows machine. I have…

Brutal Deluxe has once again provided a golden item from the Apple ][ era to its website.  Don Fudge’s Hi-Res Secrets is available for download from the site, complete with Manual and Disk images. You can download the program at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/

Mike Maginnis posted a note today on CSA2 about the COmputist Project being dead.  In reality, the project has been combined with a number of other projects run by Mike Maginnis to create a new website.  Mike’s note is contained below: First, the Computist Project is dead…  It’s been static since 2006 and the website had been slowly falling into disrepair, so to speak. So now it’s been re-christened the Computist Archive, and has a new home at: http://apple2scans.net/computistarchive Second,…

As we were going to press, we were handed a copy of the NEW documentation on Disk II.  We are pleased to report that this documentation, running nearly twice the length of the original.  It is far more concise and detailed and has a very good introductory section.  So all you gentle folk at Apple Computer, we retract (sort of) some of the nasty things we said in this month’s editorial (http://www.callapple.org/1978/08/01/an-a-p-p-l-e-editorial-2/). However, we still feel that the Disk II…

A recent letter from Apple Computer announced the publication of a new manual scheduled for late March, designed to teach Apple BASIC to those with no prior programming experience. We look forward with anticipation to its publication. Editors Note: We need it!