Category: Apple //c

Nishida Radio has released a photo of a prototype HDMI card for the Apple IIe that they have been working on.  Proprietor, Koichi Nishida mentioned in a short conversation yesterday that he will be creating the //c version of the HDMi card first. The popularity of Nishida’s previous cards has meant that stock has been dificult for him to maintain as most of the cards sell as quickly as he is able to assemble them.  The HDMI cards will likely…

A posting in the CSA2 Users Group has announced a cracked version of the EA game Amnesia.  According to the posting by a CSA2 user going by the moniker Random J Hacker, ” Amnesia is an Apple II text adventure written by science fiction author Thomas M. Disch.  Its copy protection is in the form of a disk check that  upon failure prevents the player from picking up any objects in the game,  including the bedsheet you are required to…

Brian Picchi, the author of Lamb Chops, has announced the release of his latest Apple ][ Game.  Retro Fever is the first release of 2014 for the Apple ][ series computer and is Brian’s second foray into the realm of Apple ][ action games.  According to the release on Facebook, ” For this game I teamed up with programmer and friend Brandon Bogle of retroswitch.com (some of you may know him as the creator of the Flyer Internet Modem for…

From CSA2 Announcment by David Schmidt:  For your consideration this Christmas day:ADTPro 1.2.9 has been released.  There are a few tweaks that came up under some heavy usage scenarios: Nibble sends now work in batch mode, and they are a little more tolerant of communications failures.  This gets really handy when you have, for example, a pile of 13-sector disks to image.  Linards Ticmanis’ 13- sector ADT13 was always an option, but due to the fact that DOS 3.2 and…

A2Command, the Norton Commander style file manager for the Apple ][ series computer has been updated.  Version 1.1 was releaved by author Peyton Byrd with the following updates and changes: This new release features several bugfixes and some improvements including: Added support for the new cc65 functions for listing devices. Fixed viewer to avoid crashing when many spaces are present in one line. Corrected the single file selection when copying. Lowercase and uppercase commands are now active. Date and time…

Let’s take a quick look at some of the latest developments in the Apple II world. Juiced.GS, June 2013 edition is available. This issue features a behind-the-scenes look at the discovery and publication of 8-bit shooting game Zéphyr; an interview with the conference services staff at Rockhurst University, host of KansasFest; reviews of Option8′s RetroConnector keyboard interface device, and of Karateka Classic and Lode Runner Classic for iOS; a history of Apple II software publisher Electronic Arts; and much, much more!…

What’s been going on in the Apple II world these past few days? Let’s take a look:   1.) Steven Weyhrich is asking about the Applesoft Firmware card in comp.sys.apple2 for his upcoming Apple II history book. 2.) The Daily Apple blog has been keeping up with daily updates. Currently we are working on Pascal and BASIC programming, and trying to use the Apple IIc as a command-line terminal. 3.) Wade Clarke has started a new web site called Wade-Memoir where he…

Virtual Apple ][ has published a new Apple ][ game.  SHELL*SHOCK is a high paced action tank battle game for the Apple ][ computer.   Originally written in 1985 by Peter Blum, Alan Burkle, and Jonathan Dunaisky, the game has been largely unseen until this month when it was resurrected by the original authors and sent to Virtual Apple ][. SHELL*SHOCK is unique in the Apple ][ gaming realm as it allows users to battle each other in two player mode…

The Latest version of Brendan Robert’s Apple // Game Server  is now available from the Apple // Game Server Sourceforge website.  Of particular note with version 3.1 of Apple // Game Server is the requirement of Java 6 on machines using the Apple // Game Server progam. The Apple // Game Server allows the user to send floppies directly to the Apple II computer over a serial connection, eliminating the need for floppies to play games on an original Apple II series…

David Finnigan, curator of MacGui and author of The New Apple II Users Guide has announced a web and email service for Apple II related materials.  The announcement on CSA2 states: Soon, the barrier to entry for starting an Apple II web site will be reduced to the time required to register an account at A2HQ.com, a site coming soon for all Apple II users! Anyone will be able to have a WordPress blog, photo gallery, and enough web space…

After a long hiatus, Dave Touvell has revamped his Apple2Info.net website.  The Apple2Info.net website,  long the home of items such as the Essential Data Duplicator (EDD) has now become a Wiki type of website allowing for user contributions to the website.   According to the announcement on CSA2: After mostly ignoring it for the last several years, I’ve revamped it and it’s now a wiki. That should make it easier for me to update and hopefully others in the Apple II…

A note from David Schmidt on CSA2 announced the arrival of the latest rendition of the ADTPro Disk Imaging software. Ok, here’s a few more goodies.  The time and date is synchronized with the host, and there’s two versions of the serial driver: one that hides between the BI and buffers, and another that stomps on the Disk II driver.  The latter is compatible with ProDOS utilities. There’s a little bit in there just for me – I don’t expect…

Book Title:  The New Apple II User’s GuideAuthor: David FinniganPages: 775 In 1993, Apple Inc. discontinued the Apple IIgs computer and all production of software and manuals for the Apple II series of computers came to a screeching halt.  Within a year, 95% of all Apple II software publishers were for the most part either shut down or they had moved on to publishing materials for the IBM PC or the Macintosh.  A sturdy handful of folks however, continued keeping…

David Finnigan, the curator of the MacGui.com website has published a new Apple ][ series users guide. The guide (http://macgui.com/newa2guide/) is currently 10 days from being released to the general public and is already available for pre-order on the Barnes & Noble online book store at: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-new-apple-ii-users-guide-david-finnigan/1111384271 for the price of $13.50 USD Although the last books for the Apple ][ computer were published more than 20 years ago, there are many machines still available on the second hand and…

David Finnigan of the Apple and Macintosh centric site, Mac Gui City has been working hard on a new users guide for the Apple ][ series computers.  the new guide with some 600 plus pages and 12 chapters will include information about 6 different Apple ][ series computers and their setup. As for a release date on the new book, according to a recent post in CSA2, david says “The first complete draft (meaning that every section of the book…

Mike Maginnis, the curator of the Apple II scans website has posted 7 of the 9 issues of  8/16: The Journal of Apple II Programming. The Journal was produced by Ross W. Lambert and became 8/16-Central in 1990 when the publication was sold to Tom Weishaar. You can download the currently available scanned issues from the Apple II scans  website at: http://apple2scans.net/2012/03/25/816-the-journal-of-apple-ii-programming/

The Apple ][ Documentation Project which was started by Marc Ressl, author of the Apple][GO emulator for cell phones and Java based systems, has reached a milestone  not thought of in the 1980’s.  With disk sizes measured in kilo bytes and hard disk images in megabytes, the project has been accumulating documentation and software over the past several years and has finally reached the 10gb plateau.  In spite of it’s large size, this is in no way the end of…

Kevin Dady is known for his strange hacks over the years, but this one is actually useful to Apple //c Owners.  Not wanting to purchase an Apple //c joystick, Kevin set out to build himself one, using a thumb controller from an XBox controller.  The result of that and a few parts from Radio Shack is a game controller that looks every bit the modern piece of equipment except for the old 9 pint //c connector. Kevin has posted a…

In 1988, Berkeley Softworks came out with what was then one of the premier operating systems for the Apple ][ series computers.  The Graphic Environment Operating System, or GEOS for short was to put it mildly, a revolution in the way that the Apple //e handled its programs.  Using capabilities only available on the Apple IIgs and other personal computers on the higher end of the spectrum of the time, Berkeley Softworks gave the lowly Apple //e, //c, and the…

The Apple II Scans website, managed by Mike Maginnis, has announced that they have added the follow on book to Gary B. Little’s Inside the Apple //e.  Inside the Apple //c was based on the initial Apple //c and covers the machine in its entirety.  Unfortunately, it is lacking in information about the second generation Apple //c as well as the Apple //c Plus which came out later.  Still the book is a wealth of information for the user who…