It’s official! Nox Archaist will have at least beta support for Mockingboard music when released. For more details check out the blog post here! https://www.6502workshop.com/2019/04/mockingboard-support-update.html
Once again Carrington and Kevin take on the Infocom world with a run through of one of the classic titles. This episode, number 28 for those who are counting, the check out the little known title, Catch A Butterfly. While most folks might thing this was an elaborate scheme to pull off the ultimate April Fools joke, the joke really fails particularly hard since a demo of Catch a Butterfly was included as part of the first sampler (ID1) from…
Charles Mangin has announced an update to his SIM8800 Altair Emulator for the Apple II. SIM8800 is a graphical version of the Apple80 Altair Emulator by Dann McCreary and shows the standard Altair “lights” in low resolution graphics on the Apple II screen. The Update to SIM8800 includes the a menu giving the emulator ability to run two flavors of BASIC and also includes Microchess as well as the original Kill-The-Bit as a demo now. SIM8800 comes complete with a…
The transition of the computing industry from the large scale mainframe to the hobbyist to the personal computer brought with it a large amount of information to be shared and disseminated to the populace. It was during this transition in which the hobbyist magazine industry grew up and in which great turmoil existed due to the human condition. Prominent within the pages of the magazines of the era were the detailed thorough explanations of both the hardware and their associated…
The next great thing has, for some time now, been wearables. Smart watches haven’t made much of their time on the market, though. After all is hard to expect people to buy a smart watch when so few wear watches. And, how many people really need smart T-shirts or running shoes? These are all interesting, even geeky ideas, but like smart refrigerators, fit in the category of devices earnestly seeking for an application, but not finding much. Fitness and health,…
Registration for the 2019 rendition of Kansasfest has opened. Kansasfest is an annual gathering of Apple II enthusiasts from around the globe which takes place in Kansas City, Missouri each July. This years event will be held from the 16th to the 21st of July with a number of people arriving even earlier to enjoy the socialization with other like minded people. The 2019 version of Kansasfest will be highlighted with a keynote from Penguin Software CEO, Mark Pelzarski. Creator…
RetroMacCast has announced the availability of three new episodes of their podcast. Episode #389, #390, and #391 all have been released today. The RetroMacCast is a vintage Macintosh based podcast run by James Savage and John Leake. it is available as a free download from the RetroMacCats website at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/
The Nox Archaist Kickstarter launch on May 2nd is right around the corner so we thought you might enjoy seeing a preview of what we have in store! We hope to earn your support!
Denis Molony’s Apple II DiskBrowser program for the mac has been updated. Version 1.0.34 now has support for the WOZ 2.0 format created by John Morris. The Apple II Diskbrowser is a Java based disk viewer which allows users to view a myriad of disk types including both Normal DOS / ProDOS disks as well as Pascal and hybrid disks. You can download the latest version of the program from the DiskBrowser Github page at: https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/
In his latest episode, Chris Torrence reviews the recent updates to the VidHD HMDI adaptor for the Apple II, the Kboo Wdrive SD Floppy, and the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller. Watch now!
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.28.4 was released as a bug fix with the following changes to the emulator: [Change #616] Improved accuracy for ‘RGB (Color Monitor)’ for hires. [Bug #611] Holding down F9 to cycle through the video modes results in occasional flicker with garbage. [Bug #627] Rainbow demo not working correctly when vertical blend is enabled. [Bug #628] Filename suffix check for .gz and .zip needs to be case-insensitive. Applewin is for Windows based…
MARCH 8, 2019 — KansasFest 2019, the 31st annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 16 – 21 in Kansas City, Missouri. Mark Pelczarski of Penguin Software, well-known for numerous graphics utilities, books, and games, will join us with a keynote presentation to celebrate the Apple II. Pelczarski began publishing graphics-related Apple II software in 1978 while in his early 20’s under the brands Penguin Software and Polarware. He is an entrepreneur, author, programmer, consultant, and professional educator. Mark…
The Spy’s Fourth Law reminds us Marketshare Lags Mindshare by two to five years. Long before the Internet was invented but was detailed here as the Metalibrary, the Spy warned that bringing people closer together electronically, far from creating the other pundits’ global village, would exacerbate old prejudices, hatreds, and uninformed beliefs, thus promoting division, not unity. This is exactly what the Internet has delivered–an echo-chamber platform for reinforcing differences rather than enabling dialog, much less promoting true tolerance. The…
John and James have been busy with a new episode of the RetroMacCast. The latest episode, number 288, includes a bevy of topics including: EBay finds: color ImageWriter II ribbons, Apple TV promotional display, iPod Red Sox. They declare their retrolutions for 2019, and news includes an Apple catalog graphic, Mac84, and VCF Northwest. You can find the latest episode of the RetroMacCast at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/
The 6502 Workshop team is launching a Kickstarter campaign on May 2, 2019 to produce a collector’s edition of Nox Archaist! Nox Archaist is a brand new tile based 8-bit RPG inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale. It is written for the Apple II computer, but is easily playable on any modern Mac or PC via emulation. It’s been designed and hand-coded from scratch by a team of awesome programmers and artists, and even a few legends from the golden…
Hugh Hood, Longtime Apple II fan and programmer has announced a new TimeOut series product, TimeOut Edit BASIC 5.4 for Appleworks 5.1 Users TimeOut series products have long been the defacto go-to products for users of Appleworks with its series of timely and useful plugin utilities, designed to make the Appleworks a more complete package. While most users have long given up Appleworks as their production package, the programming arena is one area of usage not really foreseen as one…
In his latest Assembly Lines podcast, Chris Torrence creates a new version of Motter Tektura that is visually similar to the font used by Apple Computer back in the 1970’s and 1980’s. You can download the new font here: https://archive.org/download/AssemblyLinesPodcast91/MotterTekturaRetro.otf
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.28.2 was released today with a few changes and fixes. According to the Github, these include the following: [Change #616] Support vertical blending for ‘RGB (Color Monitor)’ for hires. Support the old AppleWin 1.25 vertical blending for hires via a ‘Vertical Blend’ checkbox. [Change #621] Support RGB AppleColor card’s 160-color pixel mode by squashing 640 pixels into 560 pixels. Squashing is done by losing every 8th pixel. [PR #623] Do not…
Steven Paul Jobs, Co-Founder and visionary of Apple would have been 64 years old today. Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak, creator of the Apple-1 and Apple II computers, and Ron Wayne, the oft maligned and forgotten third partner started the company that most of us have come to know and whose products we all now use on a daily basis. While much has been written about Steve over the years both in the positive and the negative, yours truly has…
For those in the Apple community who were wondering what happened to the Nishida Radio site, it is now back online. Nishida Radio, run by Apple II hobbyist, Koichi Nishida, is well known for their Video adapters for the Apple IIGS as well as their UNISDISK Air storage and wireless card for the Apple II series computers. Currently, no products are listed for sale, however the main contents of the site seem to be fairly current. Also a product lineup…
