The 2012 rendition of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC sold out in less than 90 minutes this morning. The conference which will be held from June 11th to June 15 as Muscone Center in San Francisco is an annual rite of passage for many developers. Last year the conference sold out in twelve hours, however with the demand for information about Apple products growing at a similar rate as the demand for Apple products, the developers are all…
XperimentalZ Games has released a second update this week on the iOS game Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword. This latest update was released to address an issue with resolution being a bit fuzzy on the New iPad and also a bug we discovered here at A.P.P.L.E., freezing of the game if you exited during screen loading. You can download version 1.1.4 of DRWAPS from the Apple iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dont-run-with-a-plasma-sword/id479907900?mt=8
Apple announced their quarterly profits today with their net profits up a whopping 94% over 2nd quarter 2011. During 2nd quarter 2012, Apple sold a total of 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads resulting in a quarterly net profit of 11.8 Billion USD during the quarter. They also sold 7.7 million ipods during the same quarter. The number of iOS devices is now over 365 million devices thanks to to the sales of the devices this previous quarter. Apple’s…
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…
Dont Run With A Plasma Sword, the runner game from XperimentalZ Games has been updated to Version 1.1.3. This version of the software was released to address a number of bugs, several of which were discovered by A.P.P.L.E. Staff in our testing of the game, including a bug which caused objectives to be auto completed in one particular level of the game. DRWAPS is a high speed runner game that pits the user against a number of levels of play…
Jordan Mechner posted on his twitter account about the ongoing source recovery of the original source for the game Prince of Persia. The floppies containing the source code was found in a box his father had recently discovered and shipped to Jordan. Now, the source code for the Apple ][ version of the game is available for download to anyone who wants a copy from the GitHub repository at: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Brian Fargo and his InXile team set a lofty goal when they started flirting with the idea of creating the followup to the game Wasteland. With Kick Starter being the go to place for game producers these days, Brian took his ideas to the website and laid out a number of rewards for each level of support. With a funding goal of 900,000 USD, it seemed to be a long shot according to his posts, yet it was funded and…
The Android version of the Mini vMac Emulator has been updated to version 3.2.3, bringing it inline with the current version of the Mini vMac emulator for other platforms. The emulator is available in two versions, Macintosh Plus which is a free download and the Macintosh II, a $1.99 download from the Android Marketplace. You can also download the current source code for the emulator for free as well. Gil Osher has more information about the emulator on his website…
Apple has released the same Flashback Trojan Removal Tool that is found in the Java update for OS X 2012-003 as a standalone tool. The new standalone version of the tool is for those users without Java installed. You can download the Flashback malware Removal Tool from the Software Update feature under the Apple menu or from the Apple support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1517
David Schmidt has released an update to the ADTPro disk imaging package. ADTPro allows users to convert Apple ][ and Apple /// disks to digital images for use with emulators. According to the press release on CSA2, “This release has a couple of snazzy things that folks won’t need to see very often: The bare-metal bootstrapper works in about 1/3 the time it did before. It now shifts the serial hardware into high gear to transmit the bulk of the…
Apple has released a third update to Java for both Mac OS x Lion and Mac OS X 10.6 to deal with the infections of the Flashback Trojan. Infections reached a whopping 600,000 machines globally according to three anti-virus companies that were monitoring it (Dr. Web, the discoverer of the Trojan, Kaspersky, and Symantec) , however, that number has dropped to 270,000 in recent days. The update on the Apple Support Website updates Java to Version 1.6.0_31. This brings it…
Apple has had a knee-jerk reaction to the discovery of the Flashback Trojan that has infected up to 600,000 Macs globally. Dr. Web, a small Russian anti-virus company, first discovered the Flashback Trojan and has been monitoring infections on a global basis. Now Apple has sent a Shutdown notice trying to shutdown the company’s server, saying it is being used for command and control in the Flashback Trojan bot-net. The Flashback Trojan is attacking a hole in Java and Apple…
After media reports yesterday of more than 600,000 Macs globally being infected by a Trojan taking advantage of a Known Java vulnerability, Apple has responded by releasing the second update to Java in two days. The update, 2012-002 is available for download via the Software Update feature of the Apple Menu, or from the Apple Support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1515
XperimentalZ Games has released an update to their popular iPad and iPhone runner game, Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword or DRWAPS. Version 1.1.2 adds a number of new features to the game and includes: – Revamped the objectives system in endless to add much more variations– Added an indicator in story mode, to let the player know when the section will finish– Added new leaderboards– Fixed several minor bugs The game is a high paced runner game with high…
Apple has released an update to Java for Mac OS X Lion. The update 2012-001 is intended to address issues with reliability and security. It also addresses compatibility issues for Java SE 6. This update require Mac OS X Lion 10.7. You can download the update through the software update option on the Apple menu or from the Apple support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1515
Jeff Dunham, the comedian and ventriloquist has been exposed as an avid Apple Computer collector. While his first hobby is collecting vintage automobiles, he also has a very extensive collection of older Macintosh and Apple computers from the 1980’s and 1990’s. His collection is currently numbered at 40 units, including the very first 1984 Macintosh. You can check out his collection in a photo expose done by USA today at: http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Comedian+Jeff+Dunham+collects+cars+and+Apple+computers/G3448?csp=ipmpg
Howard Cantin was the man behind the printed circuit boards for many of the early atari machines as well as the Apple01 computer. Recently, Mike Willegal, creator of the Apple-1 Mimeo, sat down with Howard in a telephone interview to talk about what when into those days and his relationships with the heads of what was then Apple Computer as well as how things went with Nolan Bushnell of Atari As for the proverbial story about how Atari refused the…
Apple has released an update to the iPhoto ’11 Application. IPhoto Verison 9.2.3 addresses a host of issues and includes the following updates and enhancements: Improves overall stability Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly on systems with multiple user accounts Fixes and enhancements included in iPhoto Versions 9.2 to 9.2.2 Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Addresses compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5 Left and right swipe gestures can now be used to navigate…
There are 10 kinds of people in the world–those who understand binary, and those who do not; programmers and users, the differentiators and the integrators; those who put people into categories and those who do not (which are you?)–and that’s as far as the Spy’s April Fools’ Day will go this year.More important, there are the self-absorbed and the empathetic, the honourable and the dishonourable, the wise and the fools, the noble and the ignoble, the theoretical and the practical,…
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/
