Man oh man what a time. You know how things come and go in cycles… This is one of those times. Lots of little things piled up… My cousin was appointed as ambassador for Le Festival du Voyageur (a major local mid-winter party in French similar to Mardi Gras). Congratulations Roger! I may have mentioned this one earlier. My new quad-core PC had a hard drive failure. It’s a good thing I backed up everything before it stopped functioning. I…
By Bill Martens Apple, Inc. this past month introduced a machine that everyone is talking about in one respect or another. While the coolness factor of the machine has been undeniable from those who have had them in their hands, there has also been a lot of negative comments about the machine. Firstly, the iPad has not even been put on sale yet, however, it has generated more buzz than almost any machine in history outside of the iPhone. This…
The latest version of the popular Macintosh based Virtual ][ emulator has been released. Version 6.3.6 has a number of changes including: * The program now accepts “dsk” image files with 41 tracks (the maximum so far was 40). * A recent Snow Leopard upgrade broke the “Make Movie from Apple II Screen” feature. This has been fixed. * Cassette tape files now get file name extension “cass” instead of “aif”. As a result, the cassette tape icon appears correctly…
MountIt 1.3 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from 32KB to the maximum RAM available), only ProDOS based. Up to sixteen volumes can be added to the system. MountIt mounts volumes as read-only if the original disk image file is locked. Otherwise, the disk image file is mounted as read/write and the following operations can be performed: read, write and format. MountIt is not ProDOS 8…
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff This month, we are back to full steam on our production and our setup. Our staff are finally back in place and we are attempting to make up for some lost time here. Getting back to our normal production schedule has been a bit problematic but thankfully we are heading in the right direction as we produce this issue. There have been several items of interest this month from A.P.P.L.E. including the back issues also have been…
2010 01 27 is now past and the iPad officially exists, instead of merely being the chief grist for the rumour mills, as for the last year. How did the Spy do on his predictions? Got the name wrong (was there a last minute iSteve change of mind because so many, including the Spy, guessed the original name correctly as iSlate?) He was right on the initial size (9.7 inch LED screen. It’s also very thin at 0.5 inch and…
Another year is here, Apple has once again shocked the world, Mac World Expo is under threat of no big company participation and we here at A.P.P.L.E. are working on more projects than we know what to do with. What that means for our members is that there will be new hardware available once again after a 19 year hiatus from the hardware realm. Our engineers have been involved in the A2GS-L01 laptop project for the past two months, and…
8BitSystem, famous for products such as the LittlePower IIc+, DoubleSeven, Switch-a-Slot and the LittleProto II, is now offereing their products through ReactiveMicro.com for reduced prices. With the prices being reduced by up to 30% on select items, the time is now to own these products for your own Apple ][ collection as this is a limited time offering. For more information, check out the ReactiveMicro.com website. About 8BitSystem 8BitSystem is a sole owner enterprise which builds custom order parts and…
Product: Yule’s Christmas Quest. Version : 1.1 Date : 2008/12/14 Publisher: Candlestone Productions Website : http://www.candlestoneproductions.com Category : Mac Intel / Game / New Release Cost : Free About The Program : Candlestone Productions has released a nifty little Christmas game / adventure game which is directed primarily at kids. Yule’s Christmas Quest is a freeware package that focuses on the idea of finding all of the gifts from the twelve days of Christmas. Santa apparently forgets where he puts…
Every year about this time, everyone begins clamouring over each other to put out the juiciest rumor about what would be presented at MacWorld Expo by Apple. So we decided we would put our hat in the ring as well and give our two cents to the pot. For months now, everyone has been putting OS X on every PC subnotebook known to man including the EE-PC. While this might not seem like a stretch, we think it is quite…
Another month with the new Spell Catcher has convinced the Spy that it shall remain a denizen of his permanent tool set. The reader will recall from last month that this is an OS X version of a product that was installed as an extension under OS 9. Now it lives, like just about everything, as an application. However, it can be set (application specifically) as the input method and so be interactive in any or all applications. This allows…
Ken Gagne, owner of Juiced GS Magazine has announced the release of the new and improved Kansas Fest website. The gathering which brings Apple ][ enthusiasts together from all corners of the earth, is held every july in Kansas City, Missouri. With attendance at around 50 members each year, new items related to Apple ][ computing are announced each year, making this one of the must attend conventions for any Vintage computing fan. According to the press release from Ken…
Product : Handbrake Version : 0.92 Cost : Free License : GPL Platforms : Mac OS X, Linux, Windows URL : http://handbrake.fr/ This month, we had the distinct pleasure of discovering a tool which makes video conversion an absolute breeze. As a football player, all of our games have been recorded on DVD and Video. While the Video could be recorded straight to the computer, the DVD presented some interesting issues. We wanted to convert our video to a format…
It looks like someone finally put a GBBS back online. Gene Buckle has put up his Age of Reason BBS using GBBS 1.3j which was developed by L&L Productions in 1986. This software ran many of the BBS’s during the 1980’s and 1990’s eventually coming to a screeching halt when the IIgs was discontinued and with the Internet becoming more popular. While many people have tried to put up BBS’s in the past 10 years, not many of them lasted. …
Many people over the past few years have been searching for the ever elusive DuoDisk Cable. Unfortunately, the longer we go in time from actual sale of the cable, the further between the sales of them on Ebay are. But now, thanks to Herb Johnson, we now have a great pinout chart of the cable which is as follows: DB25 male DB19 male 2 1 3 18 4 2 5 15 ——– 6 19 7 6 8 9 9,21 3…
Apple, Inc this week dropped their notorious NDA associated with the iPhone Development Kit. The NDA which had been the scorn of programmers around the globe had become so burdensome that developers were shying away from the iPhone due to their inability to discuss anything with any other developers. The release on the web site said “To Our Developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. We put the NDA in place because the…
The inventor of the only real multitasking Apple II computer, Michael Mahon has moved his website. The move of the Apple Crate II website was necessitated by the decision by America Online (AOL) to discontinue hosting websites. Michael has chosen Comcast as his new host for the site. The new URL is http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
Product: iListen (with USB Headset/Microphone) Cost: $149.00 Publisher: Mac Speech Website: www.macspeech.com Over the years, there have been many speech recognition packages come and go. Unfortunately none of them have been very good. Until Now. iListen came on a single CD, installed in 10 minutes on out iBook 1.33 and went off without a hitch. Upon installing it, attaching our headset which came with the package, we started to configure the system to prepare it for speech recognition. While…
The latest version of the Google Maps Plugin for Mac OS X is now available from the Google Map Plugin site. We decided that since we use Google Maps quite often, we would download and install the package on an iBook that we had sitting around. While most packages are take a lot to install, these plugins are about as easy as it gets. Just unpack the zip file from the download. Copy the plugin files from the Google Maps…
Well another month has passed, and it seems that every month we get a will later in later in the production process. The this month we have a few special items in the magazine, including reviews of iListen, by emulator, and various other software packages. In the world of innovation, Vince Briel has been working on a new version of the replica one. The latest version will include a USB connector as well as power connectors for the newer ATX…
