Category: Documentation
Seattle, Washington — July 5, 2019 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Ken Nozaki are proud to announce the immediate availability of his “Apple Tic-Tac-Toe” game. Apple Tic-Tac-Toe is an age-old game which is great fun for kids of all ages – and programmed by a kid! This version is a completely designed and programmed version of the game intended to make the computer one of the toughest opponents possible. Availability The “Apple Tic-Tac-Toe” manual is available through…
Brutal Deluxe has announced the addition of over 150mb of new Cortland documents. The documents, from 1985 through 1987 include a hose of items covering topics from Apple Talk to SANE Tools to the addition of the APDAlog France. You can download the documents in a series of individual files or in zipped batches from the Cortland documentation site at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/cortland.html
About the Australian Apple Review Posts Several of the Australian Apple Review articles have been re-typeset and integrated with the main A.P.P.L.E. site as part of our push to make all material searchable and available to the general public. Many of these articles are from the old Apple II website created by Terry Allen, which originally housed the articles. There will be more coming soon as we take on the project page by page. Original posting from the Apple II…
The WOZ format, the mainstay of the Applesauce project by John Morris, has been officially released. This new format for reading and writing Apple II floppy disks allows emulators to more accurately reflect the actual data on an Apple II floppy disk and disk image. Version 1.0 of the format document is now available for download to developers via John’s website at: http://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/woz_reference.pdf
John Morris, creator of the Applesauce project, has released a preliminary version of the document outlining the new WOZ format for Apple II disk imaging. The format which was created specifically for the Applesauce project, allows emulators to more read the disk images which are produced by Applesauce as well as to write disks in a manner that is more accurate. Applesauce, which was highlighted in Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine V.27 N 02 , is a hardware solution which reads and writes…
Seattle, Washington — July 21, 2017 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Kevin M. Smallwood are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book GBBS Pro Bulletin Board System: Version 2.2 and the software update that accompanies it. GBBS Pro is a user-friendly, highly-modifiable Bulletin Board System (BBS) for communications and entertainment. It has advanced features that can be configured by a novice, yet challenge advanced programmers. Originally released between 1980 and 1993 for Apple II computers,…
The Apple II Scane website has added a slew of new items including the manual for Apple-Cillin II, another issue of The Apple Education Newsletter, and “A Personal Guide to Computers”. The documents are freely downloadable from the site and can be reached at: http://www.apple2scans.net
The documentation / manual for the Apple II game, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, is now available from the Apple II Scans website. The 10mb download offers a high definition look into the Silas Warner produced game and is a free download. For more information or to download the manual, check out the Apple II Scans website at: http://www.apple2scans.net/2017/01/04/beyond-castle-wolfenstein-muse-software-1981/ Those users who wish to try the game out, you can find it on the Virtual Apple II website at: http://www.virtualapple.org/beyondcastlewolfensteindisk.html
David Greelish has released his 2014 compilation of the Historically Brewed / Classic Computing newsletters as a PDF. Historically Brewed was a 1990’s publication that was published by The Historical Computer Society. The book contained all nine issues of the Historically Brewed and the premier issue of Classic Computing. This book offers an interesting look back at the history of some of the biggest names in the computing revolution including Altair, Xerox, and Byte and contains items from Apple community…
I just received an Apple //c VGA adapter from Пламен Вайсилов, a prolific Apple II hardware creator. This adapter has a button that lets you switch between video modes: color, green, mono and mono-white. also simulates scanlines in all those modes. Check the video. At the time of this post there has not been pricing and availability announced, keep checking Apple II heaven site. Also important to mention is that this is only NTSC, a PAL version is on the…
After I gave a presentation on Retrobrite at KansasFest, people asked me to write about the process, never wrote about Retrobrite as there are so many articles and videos on the internet but finally found some time to write about it. There are many ways to Retrobrite. I avoid submerging because it’s a waste of peroxide, and maybe toxic for the environment, also don’t wrap in plastic as it allows areas to wrinkle and get more concentrated than others, promoting…
The AppleIIScans.net website has posted the Apple IIc Users Guide. The guide originally published in 1984 by Brady Communications and authored by Gary Phillips and Donald Scellato features the Picaso style Apple //c on the cover of the book. It is available in PDF format from the Apple2Scants.net website at: http://www.apple2scans.net/2015/04/20/apple-iic-user-guide/
For a long time I have been looking for the Apple //c Flat Panel LCD, one of the nicest items on the line. This monitor was short lived as its readability was poor and the item expensive. It was retired early so not many were produced, which is what makes them rare and sought today by collectors. I was lucky enough to be able to secure one, but quickly disappointed when first using it. I am a hands-on person that…
David Greelish’s fine historically compendium, Classic Computing: The Complete Historically Brewed is now available online in a PDF Ebook. The book which was produced in 2013 contains all issues of the Historically Brewed magazine. You can download the book for free from the Classic Computing website at: http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/HB_Book.html
Assembly Lines: The Complete Book has been released. Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines was an important information source for many programmers in the 1980’s. The article ran in Softtalk magazine over 33 issues. Chris Torrence has edited and published this book in close coordination with Roger Wagner under the Creative Commons 2.0 license and it is now available in hard cover from LULU.com for the production only pricing of $21.74. To order a copy of the book, you can go to…
Paul Hagstrom has posted a number of the ST.MAC magazines on his blog. Known as Softtalk Mac officially or Saint Mac unofficially, the magazine was the natural progression for the SoftTalk enterprise which ran from 1980 to 1984. The first issue of ST.MAC was released in February 1984 but was to run only until August of that year due in part to the shut down of the Softtalk enterprise. Now enjoy a bit of that era as we face the…
As we all know, it’s never a dull moment in the world of Apple II. Let’s look around and see what’s happening. We are all still looking forward to Dr. Weyhrich’s Apple II History book. The Daily Apple blog is talking about podcasts, emulators, and the prices of old Apple equipment. option8 made a USB to Apple joystick adapter. It lets you plug in a USB joystick. Bill Buckels is still at work with Aztec C, and now has Aztec…
Dr. Steven Weyhrich’s upcoming history book, Sophistication & Simplicity, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com for $22.40. It will go on sale 1st December 2013. Weyhrich states on his blog that, I will say that although the core of the material in the History has not changed much, there is additional information in nearly every section, as well as a more interesting presentation of that material. In other words, the $29.95 price of the book (before Amazon’s discount) is not…
Volume 18, Issue 3 (September 2013) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2013 and Oz KFest; reviews of the book The First Apple and the movie Jobs; the concluding chapter in our history of Electronic Arts; and much, much more! This is Juiced.GS‘s third quarterly issue of 2013. Subscriptions are available for both 2013 and 2014 at $19 for United States customers, $24 for readers in Canada and Mexico, and $27 for international customers, with several free sample…
Jim Salmons has announced The Softalk Apple Project, a site dedicated to preserving one of the most iconic (and ironically short-lived) Apple II magazines ever published. Softalk magazine was published in four full volumes between September 1980 and August 1984. In total, over 9,100 information-rich pages chronicle a pivotal period in the history of Apple microcomputing. Currently this on-line archive contains only a brief profile of each issue available to the project. A Kickstarter funding campaign is coming soon.
