We start September with great news from ReactiveMicro, the Apple II innovator that provides the community with modern solutions for our vintage hardware, like the Power Supply replacements for all Apple II and /// computers. The new product is a composite to HDMI converter, optimized to be used with retrocomputer signals like the apple II. As most people know, modern monitors, mostly the large LCD, OLED and large screens are created for large pixels (4 & 8K) while the composite…
Denis Molony has released an update to his Apple II Diskbrowser program. The Apple II Disk Browser is a JAVA based app which will run on all platforms and allows users to view the contents of an Apple II disk image. Version 1.48 has a number of fixes as well as new features for Text Files which allow certain items such as the Byte count of the file to be turned off. For more information or to download the Apple…
The RaSCSI board is now available for old Macs. You could potentially emulate HD’s and CDROM’s with it.RaSCSI is a virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi. It can emulate multiple SCSI devices concurrently, provides a control interface to attach / detach drives, as well as insert and eject removable media. Simply launch the software, connect the RaSCSI interface board to your Mac and the devices will be recognized as physical SCSI devices! Currently it is unknown…
Apple and Tesla last week split their stock, the former by four-to-one and the latter by five-to-one. Since splits make the price of a single stock lower, such actions tend to attract more retail investors and this pushes the price up further. In the case of Apple this is merely the latest in a long line of such splits, now amounting to a 224:1 total from the beginning. Looking back on the initial IPO in 1980, this is equivalent to…
Note from Scott Harvey about Nibble Magazine To All fans of Nibble Magazine, Thanks to everyone who has supported Nibble over the years. As most of you know, my father passed away last fall after a very quick battle with lung cancer. He wanted me to continue the Nibble legacy as we continue on, and I’m excited to tell some of the stories of Nibble from a different perspective. The new website is up, and it’s a work in progress. …
James Savage and John Leake have released the 536th episode of their RetroMacCast. In this episode, James and John discuss their latest eBay finds including: An Apple dealer sign The black ADB Mouse II, A sealed copy of the Macintosh manual. Michael Mulhern the Joins the RetroMacCast Crew to take a look back at August 1990 in Macworld magazine and included in the episode is the news of the day including: Action Retro’s cursed SE, Fortnite 1984 ad parody. To see all of…
Apple II Email Suite Bobbi Manners has announced the release of the email//er Apple II Suite version 1.0. The AppleII Email Suite consists of the following six ProDOS programs: POP65.SYSTEM is a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) client for the Apple II with Uthernet-II card. EMAIL.SYSTEM is a simple user interface for reading and managing email. It works together with POP65 and SMTP65. EDIT.SYSTEM is a simple screen editor, integrated with EMAIL.SYSTEM. ATTACHER.SYSTEM is used for creating multi-part MIME…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin is a windows based Apple II emulator and many of the fixes in this latest version 1.29.14 are related to issues with Windows 10 and networking. Tom Charlesworth and his team, winners of the 2020 Apple II Forever Award, have announced more than a dozen fixes in their latest release of Applewin. [Change #822] Updated Uthernet card support to use Npcap for Win10. [Change #806] Added support for ‘Base 64A’ –…
Apple User Group Bulletin – August 17, 2020……………………………………………………………. This month’s featured vendor is O’Reilly Media. O’Reilly has been a part of the user group community for more than 30 years, so it is hard to remember back to 1978 when it was a small consulting company with a focus on UNIX and related technologies. By 1992 many user group members were reading copies of the Whole Internet Users Guide and Catalog while our more adventurous members were reading Programming Perl. Today, O’Reilly is an…
From the notes of the renowned hacker, A2_4am comes the release of the latest version of his Anti-M Apple II Disk Booting Utility: “Anti-M v1.7 is out: https://github.com/a2-4am/anti-m/releases/tag/v1.7 Anti-M can boot any 5.25-inch Apple II disk on any Apple II, including – 13-sector disks – SpiraDisc on //c or IIgs – games that require a ][+ or 6502 – booting from drive 2 Version 1.7 adds support for “Odin” and fixes some bugs.”
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff A never before seen Take 1 movie comes to us by way of its creator, Eric Iwasaki. Star Voyagers is a high action Take 1 movie which spans an entire 10 Apple II disk package! According to Star Voyagers Creator, “When I stumbled upon Bill Martens’ Take 1 Movie Site, the timing couldn’t have been more amusing. I had just celebrated 30 years working as a game developer in the interactive entertainment industry…a career that my Take…
Here’s the downloadable free companion project for my latest book, GarageBand For Dummies Second Edition The free download includes the GarageBand project (which you can edit or alter any way you like), my finished stereo master of the project, and my PDF notes. The song is an oldie entitled, “The House of the Rising Sun.”Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus and his All GarageBand BandClick here to play The House of the Rising Sun (final mix)Download
Sellam Abraham has announced the official release of GReasy Graphics System 1.0, a complete low-resolution graphics sprite and background animation tool with integrated editing suite and programming library for the Apple ][ line of computers.Features: Up to 31 sprites of any dimension- Up to 32 background frames- Small memory footprint (<5K with fully initialized sprite system) Documented and easy to use Applesoft BASIC interface- Includes drawing program, sprite editor, and &-command extensions for quick & easy development Download GReasy Graphics…
James Savage and John Leake have released the 536th episode of their RetroMacCast. In this episode, James and John discuss their latest eBay finds including Apple stockings, clear case Fat Mac, and Power Mac G4 Cube. John puts an SSD in his Lime iMac, and news includes using an old iBookand Mac OS 8 Javascript app. Also in this episode are a host of other items: StarTech.com IDE to SATA Hard Drive or Optical Drive Adapter Converter PNY CS900 120GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal Solid…
Applewas the first corporation to reach a stock valuation of $1 Trillion. Spectacular latest earnings results have pushed that to $1.85T, putting the company back in first place worldwide and poised to become the first to surpass $2T. Not bad for the little outfit from Cupertino that all the pundits once forecast would fail. Earnings were up in all categories, including its somewhat neglected computer business. Look for the antitrust and breakup vultures to circle. The Spy is still happy…
An unexpected highlight at KansasFest 2020 was the introduction of a speedy, new Apple II emulator by Tamas Rudnai, dubbed “Steve ][.” Written for macOS Mojave and later, Steve ][ has a modern interface with many options and works with the popular WOZ format. According to Tamas, “Steve ][ tributes the two co-founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Wozniak was the evil genius hardware designer and inventor, while Jobs was the brilliant marketing and visionary person behind the…
For those of you who use Facebook, the Apple II Software Enthusiasts group (known for its ongoing two-liner and other programming challenges plus software and programming discussions) is starting a new bi-weekly challenge: “Starting tomorrow, we’re launching a new feature in the group where we’ll be posting a special challenge every couple of weeks to encourage our beloved Apple II community to turn on their machines and have some quick distractions and fun! Some of these challenges may focus on…
Tom Harte has updated his multiple platform emulator for MAC OS X. This emulator has the capability of running OSes from multiple Apple platforms as well as many other retro computing systems. This release of the Clock Signal emulator applies some fixes to the Qt version of this emulator. SDL and native Mac versions are not altered in any way. Specifically: a potential crash when using machines with indicator lights (e.g. drive access lights) has been corrected; additional feedback is…
The CrowCousins have released a new version of Magic-Pixels, their double lo-res painting program for enhanced Apple //e, //c, and IIgs models and it’s a big one. Version 2. 6 includes a number of notable features including: – An all-assembly, major UI overall that is wicked fast at 1 Mhz – You can now import .DBL files, and trace/draw on top on them, only capturing the drawing actions performed in a saved drawing file. You can also export the updated…
Adventurer’s Log Game Day 13: Why did I listen to that ornery mage? Now we’re on a quest to find an uncharted ocean island. Wow, that sea serpent was huge! When it thrashed its tail and swamped the ship, I thought we were goners. Game Day 15: Made it back to the Captain’s Quarters pub. Best ale in Wynmar! We picked up some tips on navigation from a cranky sailer. Also picked up some new, um, vocabulary. Definitely not meant…
