Category: Vintage

Mike Maginnis, curator of the Apple II Scans website,  announced the availability of the second edition of Open Apple, the podcast with he and Ken Gagne.  Join them as they delve into their blast from the past and their favorite software from yesteryear. According to the releases on CSA2, “This time, Mike and Ken are joined by Ivan Drucker: two-time  KansasFest alumnus, Juiced.GS staff writer, and Mac consultant based out of New York City. News this month includes a look…

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…

The ActiveGS Plugin has been rolled back to version 3.3.201 due to a bug which was discovered to be causing the Safari version of the plugin not to work.  Work is ongoing and a fix is expected soon.  In the interim, if the plugin is not working in your browser when you visit the Virtual Apple ][ website, we recommend uninstalling the plugin and re-visiting to re-install the older version of the plugin. If your broswer is working fine with…

Brutal Deluxe Software, know for its contributions to the Apple community over the years both in Software and in vintage item reviews and documentation, has once again dug up a few golden items for the community to enjoy.  Three vintage French videos are once again viewable. They are as follows: – Le club Apple, 1986 A French-speaking video from Apple France, which introduces its users’ club and after sales department. – Un Apple pour tous, 1987 A French-speaking video from…

Oliver Goguel, author of the ActiveGS App announced that he was pulling the latest version of his app from the App Store.  Version 1.21 had been submitted and was ready to be released when a bug was discovered in the app which would cause the iPad to freeze.  The bug was discovered after a beta tester used the zoom lock feature and the entire machine froze. ActiveGS has been used for many years now on the Virtual Apple ][ website…

Everyone has probably had one or two programs over the years that they had during the early days of Macintosh that they wished there was a modern equivalent to.  While most of us only dream of those retro packagers, one early mac user, Scott Baret wrote an interesting post on just such a list of items he wanted over at the 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Website about his list of items complete with his equivalent finds in the computing world…

Mike Willegal has posted a photo of his fully assembled Brain Board for the Apple II. The Brain Board turns an ordinary Apple ][ computer into an Apple-1 allowing the user to perform all of the same functionality of the Apple-1 computer while utilizing the Apple ][ cassette interface and keyboard for I/O. For more on the brainboard, check out the post at: http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=1321

Brutal Deluxe Software has released an updated version of their Apple IIgs volume mounting software, MountIt.  This updated version contains a number of upgrades aimed at making mounting image volumes much easier on your Apple IIgs computer.  Antoine Vignau and Oliver Zardini’s posting follows: Mount your disk image files files directly under GS/OS, just like another volume. MountIt 1.4 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from…

Antoine Vignau, curator and creator of the Brutal Deluxe Apple cassette project has announced that there are more cassettes added to the project this week.  According to his announcement: Thanks to some recent purchases on eBay, I have received the following cassettes: – Program Design Incorporated: memory builder / concentration, analogies iq-builder, story builder / word master – Programma International: Echo, Magic squares, Match wits The manual of those cassettes are now online on brutaldeluxe.fr, I need more time to…

A post on CSA2 this morning mentioned the donation of the entire collection of disks from famed Apple ][ hacker, The Saltine.  The collection has been converted and is available on the MacGui.com website.  Release from D. Finnigan follows: “Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his  single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some  140 5.25” disks, to Mac GUI Vault to be archived. Now the Apple II world has access to…

Brutal Deluxe has posted photos of many of their hardware items in a new photo gallery.  The gallery with a number of hard to find and one of a kind Apple ][ items is at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/pictures/ Arcording to the post by Antoince Vignau of Brutal Deuxe, “The pictures are or were part of our collection and if some items interest you (trade, info, scans, etc.), contact us and we’ll tell you the status of the items.” In the past year,…

The latest version of Applewin-NTSC from Sheldon Simms is available for download.  This version of the program is now in its 5th release. The latest version of the program includes the following improvements: You can download the program from the Applewin-NTSC website at: http://wsxyz.net/applewin.html Sheldon also has mentioned the source code being on Berlios Soon

Mike Maginnis has brought another great piece of Apple history to the world through his new Apple ][ Scans site.  Inside the Apple //e by Gary B. Little is now in PDF format on his site and freely downloadable. You can download the PDF by going to the Inside the Apple //e page at: http://apple2scans.net/apple-ii/inside-the-apple-2e

Dr. John Matthews posted a note this evening about AppleCommander release candidates being available online.  AppleCommander allows users to manipulate disk images on the Mac in a Java based environment.  For more information, you can check out the AppleCommander website at: http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander

Payton Byrd of the A2Command Development team released the following post on CSA2 about the release of A2Command 1.0 earlier today: Release Notes Introduction This is the full release version of A2Command 1.0, dated February 21, 2011. These notes supersede any prior version’s notes. All prior releases may be found on the project’s website at http://a2command.codeplex.com/releases/ where you can read the release notes for older versions as well as download them. This version of A2Command is intended to replace any…

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,…

If you have a spare Apple ][ sitting around and always wanted the Apple-1, now you can have your cake and eat it too.  Mike Willegal has developed a new “Brain Board” which is essentially an Apple-1 computer on an Apple ][.  The card itself slides into an Apple ][ slot and performs just like an Apple-1 when the Apple ][ is turned on.  The Brain Board uses the Apple ][ cassette interface for all program loading and saving. In…

Ken Gagne posted a note today on CSA2 about a new podcast being hosted by Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne.  The announcement was as follows: Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, two long-time Apple  II users, are proud to announce the Apple II community’s first co-hosted podcast. “Open Apple”, a monthly show dedicated to Steve Wozniak’s most famous personal computer, begins broadcasting today at http://www.open-apple.net/ with a new episode to come every month. “When we got home from KansasFest 2010, we…

Robert Justice has produced a new Compact Flash card for the Apple //c computer which connects to the smartport interface of the external disk drive connector.  The card is still in the initial stages so it is not exactly a completed product but it is certainly showing promise.  You can read more about the card at: http://www.users.on.net/~rjustice/SmartportCFA/SmartportCFA.htm

Brendan Robert and Nick Westgate released a new Java based Apple ][ emulator which has a number of features not found in other emulators.  The new emulator also runs on a number of OS platforms that are normally not supported by emulator writers.  The full release from Brendan is below: Jace (Java Apple Computer Emulator) has finally been poked and prodded enough to be a usable emulator.  It’s not AppleWin, nor will it ever try to be.  But it is…