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…
Apple introduced its new iPad 2 today at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California by none other than the master presenter himself, Steve Jobs. He mentioned that he could not let this historic announcement go by without showing up at the show, which is interesting because this presentation was a lot less historic than the iPhone coming to Verizon…. in my opinion anyway. Back to the iPad as it were, never owning an iPad myself…
The Mac has a unique way of setting up its $PATH variable. These are the locations the BSD portion of OS X looks at to find programs to run. In this case the list of paths can be found in the file /etc/paths. To edit it the administrator needs to sudo their favourite editor since the file itself is owned by root. For example “sudo pico /etc/paths”. This is useful for the programmer who wants to have their programs accessible…
Programmers are always looking for tools to make things easier. The Terminal program included with OS X is adequate. This alternative makes things a little less spartan. According to the documentation this is an active project where the author implements features from other shells. One thing I find useful is the use of the scrollwheel as the middle mouse button for copy and pasting selected text. It also uses PC (Linux) keybindings such as <Home> (beginning of the line) and…
Once again, the rumor mills have been running up all types of conjecture of what folks think the iPad2 will be. I can tell you what it will not be. It will not contain anything from the MacBook Pro other than 1 or two new technologies. Most of it will be rehashes and improvements of current technology. First off, memory has been a major issue on the machines from the get go. I have friends who have the 16gb model…
by Rick Sutcliffe Some Things Old, Some Things New March 2011 For the last two months the Spy has digressed from the reader’s usual fare to cover two endemic ethical issues–to wit, the misconduct of the spammer, and that of the rogue board member. For March, there are many interesting technology news items to consider. To complete the title, the Spy may borrow a rumour or two, and will certainly consider things Blue (-Ray, that is.) New products are now…
This week, we were thinking about the new iPad2 and the discussions of a holder for the machine came up. So we started searching and came up with a number of case hacks or cases themselves that we thought were absolutely brilliant. The funny thing is that in another few days, many of those hacks will have to change in order to accommodate the long awaited camera that is expected to be in the iPad2. But in the mean time,…
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…
Apple and the BSD folks have included two of the four editors as part of the base install packages. The first goes by two names and is accessed via the terminal (Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal). They are either pico or nano (note the lowercase). These are almost as basic as one can get and still refer to them as full screen editors. The other editor included by Apple is Textedit. This is entirely accessed by the GUI. It has…
The A.P.P.L.E. iPhone app of the month is the program Mailroom. (http://www.usemailroom.com/) For those of you who have used the Mailplane app, this program will look quite familiar. This program allows the user of the app to control a number of GMail accounts at the same time. While the developers are different, there has been a cooperation between the authors of the two programs in order to make the iPhone based Mailroom just as good as the Mac based Mailplane…
Recently, at the Churchill Club dinner, two of Sun Microsystems top men, Scott McNealy and Ed Zander were discussing what happened in late 1995 and early 1996. At the time, Sun was the darling of the computing world and Apple was on a value of five to six dollars per share. If Apple had been bought out by Sun at that time, would we have seen the iPad and iPhones of today. Not likely according to McNealy who said “I…
The reason why people would want to set up one computer to store files for another computer are varied. For example I backed up my Linux box (PC) to a Mac before the power supply died. In my case the choice of a Mac comes down to two reasons. Ease of set up and stability. A common access method is to use ftp (file transfer protocol – note the lowercase letters). In OS X go to the System Preferences and…
The latest version of the FreeToolsAssociation’s ActiveGS plugin is now available for download and installation. The new plugin includes a number of improvements and is now more in tune with the mobile versions of the application. Items fix or improved include: ActiveGS is a multi-platform, multi-browser emulator written by Oliver Goguel of the FTA. You can download the plugin from the FTA’s ActiveGS website at: http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ To try out the latest version of the program, head on over to Virtual…
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,…
Adam Engst, the creator of Tidbits newsletter will be speaking at the MachinTech Computer users Group on April 12, 2011. According to the posting by Andy Suhaka, the MacinTech Treasurer, “MacinTech Computer Users Group, a small MUG in the southeast Denver metropolitan area (the Denver Tech[nological] Center), will be hosting a visit by Adam Engst on 12 April. The meeting will be held at Plymouth Congregational Church, 6 – 9 p.m. This is located at 3501 S. Ciolorado Blvd., Englewood,…
A story on AppleInsider reports that tests using Benchmark 6.5 show the new line of MacBook Pro machines released this week by Apple, Inc. to be 13-53% faster. To read the whole story, go to http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/26/benchmarks_of_apples_new_macbook_pros_find_speeds_13_53_faster.html The new MacBook Pro information can be found on Apple’s website at http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
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
Brutal Deluxe has once again provided a golden item from the Apple ][ era to its website. Don Fudge’s Hi-Res Secrets is available for download from the site, complete with Manual and Disk images. You can download the program at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/
