Egan Ford, the curator of the Apple ][ Game Server and the Apple ][ Disk Server, has come up with a new application which writes games directly to a disk allowing them to be played, without DOS or ProDOS on the Apple ][. According to his posting on Comp.sys.apple2 usenet group, “I just posted c2d (code to disk) to http://asciiexpress.net/files. I included the source with OS/X and Windows binaries. c2d will take a single binary (with or without 4-byte DOS…
A game originally found on Commodore 64 and Vic 20 computers in the 1980’s is now available for the iPhone. Grid Runner has been re-formatted by the original author of the game, Llamasoft Ltd., to the 1980’s coin-operated arcade style of play. Produced with high quality graphics of the iPhone, the game has a glossy arcade look to it and really could be in any arcade of the current generation. The game itself has two modes, novice and expert. The…
An iPhone user in Southern California, won their lawsuit filed against AT&T in small claims court for the throttling of “Unlimited” plan usage. The user, sued AT&T after being throttled each month after using 1.5 to 2gb of data. However, AT&T’s users with the 3GB plan receive no such throttling in spite of the fact that the plans cost about the same. The user, Matt Spaccarelli, won a judgement of $850 USD in the small claims court case after Judge…
Civilization V Campaign Edition, one of Aspyr‘s most popular new games for the Macintosh is now having issues updating in the Mac App Store. At this point, the issues have so far only affected those users running the Mac OS X Lion operating system. Aspyr Technical Support released a work around for the issue: We have a POTENTIAL workaround for getting the latest Civilization V patch from the App Store. While this workaround works for most users, we have seen…
A Mac Trojan which seems to build on lessons learned, is now attacking users in three ways. The Flashback.G Trojan targets two holed in Java, self installing if the latest version of Java is not installed. If neither of the holes is available, it tries a fake signed by “Apple, Inc.” certificate to install. The Trojan puts a number of files in /Users/Shared with the file extension .so. If you find these files on your machine, it is likely that…
A new trailer on you tube this shows a well known NASA clip from the moon walks of the 1970’s, in which one of the astronauts is preparing to launch a bird and the other one guiding him. It is a hilarious intro for the global announcement of the App coming on March 8th at 10am EST.
Apple has released an EFI Firware update for the following 2011 machines: Mac Mini iMac MacBook Pro MacBook Air The update addresses issues with HDCP Authentication as well as USB Hot Plug recognition in relation to Boot Device Selection. You can download the updates by going to Software Update under the Apple menu on you machine.
Proview, the China based bankrupt company which supposedly owns the iPad name is now suing Apple in California. The company is still embroiled in a battle in mainland China, but no decision has been made there. Proview is now accusing Apple of using deceptive practices in their purchase of the iPad name, thereby denying Proview fair value on the name. In China, Proview is denying the name was sold for mainland China operations. Source: Reuters
Former Apple Employee Karl Grabe has given us a look into what went into the Apple IIgs when it was still known as Cortland. Karl was the lead engineer of the Rom Diagnostics team assigned to the Cortland / Vegas project. The project eventually became the Apple IIgs computer. Some great old photos provide a nice nostalgia trip down Apple IIgs Memory lane. Also included on the website are a number of photos of some vintage goodies which were only…
Ron Wayne is probably the least well known Apple, Inc. Co-Founder of the three men who created the now behemoth company. He had a 10% stake in the young company at it’s founding, however, he left the company, selling his stake for a total of $2300. The media has reported that he lost potentially billions of dollars in his leaving, however, he does not see it that way. According to Ron, “I didn’t lose out on billions of dollars. That’s…
The Apple iTunes App Store, long a point of pride with Apple is now reaching the 25 billion App download mark since it’s inception. For one lucky user, that 25 Billion mark equals $10,000 USD in downloads from the store as a reward for downloading the 25 billionth download. For the rest of the users, it just means that we love our iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad enough to keep downloading apps at a high rate and as the number…
Don’t Run With a Plasma Sword (DRWAPS for short) is a high paced action game in which you are out to save the world from the alien invaders. You jump, slide, dive and run through the levels, gathering stars, killing the aliens, and avoiding the pitfalls of running on a path which is not conducive to running. While this game is not only addicting and invigorating, the sounds from the game make it as thrilling as any B science fiction…
The Beatles, the most popular band of all time, is now on your ringtone. That is that you can now download the ringtones from the iTunes store. According to the release statement, the ringtones will be available globally. The Beatles made their albums available in September 2011, quickly shooting to number one on the charts around the world. Now the Ringtones for your favorite Beatles is also available. Ringtones currently available on the iTunes store include: 1. “Love Me Do”…
A photo on the Daily, a news site covering a variety of topics, claims to be the next generation Microsoft Office Suite for the iPad. While not all that far fetched since One Note was released for the iPad, the fact that Microsoft would want to go beyond the On Live concept with their iPad based application seems a bit preposterous. With On Live, the control is all in the network, however, with an actual App, Microsoft loses all control…
Twitter has updated their App for iOS to version 4.1. The new version moves the App in line with the direction the website has been moving in recent months, adding more functionality including: Swipe shortcut Copy and paste for tweets and profiles Press and hold actions on links in tweet details Font size settings Direct Message improvements Confirmation alert for Find Friends Improved start-up time and general performance improvement Improved image quality in tweet detail Accessibility improvements Profile shows whether…
The latest version of the open source FlightGear flight simulator has been released. Version 2.6.0 includes a number of improvements primarily in the handling of AI type aircraft, making load times faster as well as the CPU cost per AI aircraft much lower. FlightGear Version 2.6.0 is available for free download and is available for all of the Major computing platforms. You can download the version for your machine from the FlightGear Website at: http://www.flightgear.org For information about the other…
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…
Apple’s lawyers in China have submitted a letter to Proview to essentially tell them to quit making remarks to the media. The letter claims that the comments that Proview CEO Yang Rongshan is making in public run contrary to the actual ruling in the case and also are falsifications of the facts. The letter is stating that Apple “formally reserve all rights to take further legal action against any individuals and tentities fort any damages that may result from defamoatory…
Apple has released an update for the Printer and Scanner Software for Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X V.10.6 based systems. The update has fixes and patches for printers from: Apple Brother Canon Epson Fuji Xeron Gestetner HP InfoPrint Infotec Lanier Lexmark NRG Ricoh Samsung Saving Xeron, Tektronix You can download the driver update for your particular printer by running the Software Update app under the Apple menu or by going to the driver website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669
The trademark dispute in China between Proview, a bankrupt supposed owner of the iPad name and Apple, the known manufacturer of the iPad, is now widening to a point where Apple is being black mailed for 2 Billion USD by Proview. While Apple purchased the rights to the name several years ago, Proview is now arguing that that sale did not cover mainland China where the iPad is made. Apple was initially being asked for 1.6 Billion in addition to…
