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…
If word of what’s really going on ever got leaked by the media, it would trigger a world panic. It would immediately destroy the economy of every country in the world. Every business would close down. Money would become worthless. Highways would become impassable. Food stores would quickly be stripped by mobs. Power would shut down, taking water supplies with it. All communications would end. No radio, TV, telephones, mail, Fed-X, UPS, and so on. Would this mess cause fewer deaths than…
Press Release 19 November 2003 A.P.P.L.E. Releases Call-A.P.P.L.E. Complete Collection (Seattle, Wa.) – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange is pleased to announce the release of the Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine Complete Collection. This collection is a 15 CD Set which includes every issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine released from 1978 through 1990. This collection has been two years in the making and now thanks to the efforts of David Craig, Bill Martens, and Val Golding, the collection is now available to all Apple…
Apple recently astounded developers (some of whom had made plans, including hotel reservations) by moving WWDC from San Jose to San Francisco and postponing the affair by a month. This after the date had supposedly been set a year in advance. Ostensibly this was done in order to place into developers’ hands copies of the new version of OS X, code named “Panther”. However, there is apparently much more going on at One Infinite Loop than meets the eye. What…
OS X Ramblings The Spy has mentioned problems and concerns with OS X in this space several times. Applications quit suddenly, permissions get unglued, and updaters fail to solve the problem. Recently the Applications folder on a new 1G TiBook got a mind of its own: Any attempt to move an application to it or to a subfolder caused the finder to quit and restart, the attempted action not performed (a self-taught folder action). No problem with text and other…
“Hey, Professor, how’s it going?” “Oh, hi, Nellie,” I replied, sparing her a mere nibble of attention from the article I was writing. Then I did a doubletake. She shouldn’t be here. When I turned around, Nellie had claimed a chair and was perusing one of my Macintosh magazines. (Of course I read the competition.) “What are you doing here on a Monday morning? Aren’t you supposed to be working?” “Worm”, she announced laconically, flipping to the game reviews. “What…
The introduction of the one Gigahertz version of Apple’s TiBook, closes the gap between the high end laptop and desktop units. Compared with the 500MHz model of two years ago, the new units have twice as much of almost everythingÑspeed, cache, video and main memory, and disk drive space. Both the video memory and the 1M L3 cache are DDR, which ought to improve throughput on many common functions. The main memory is PC-133S. There’s also a Super Drive in…
‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes– and ships– and sealing-wax– Of cabbages– and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.’ –from The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll appropriately introduces this annual (four times at least) roundup of next year’s happenings, especially since this is the second anniversary of the all-electronic, eclecticly meandering Northern Spy. The Spy fared well last year as some forecasts for 2002…
