In the Assembly Lines Podcast #18, Chris Torrence displayed the capabilities of the Apple II based Web Server. For those wanting to install their own, you will want to meander over to David Schmenk’s PLASMA Source page. David has made the source code available as part of the samples package for PLASMA. Web Server Source Code: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/src/samplesrc/httpd.pla
Chris Torrence, the production editor on Assembly Lines: The Complete Book, and the curator of the Assembly Lines Podcast has put together a podcast outlining all of the steps necessary to run your own web server from the Apple IIe. In the Assembly Lines #18 podcast, he runs through the network setup as well as the Apple IIe Contiki setup and in the end shows the Apple IIe serving up a simple breakout game being served to the internet by…
Seattle, Washington — November 23, 2015 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine 1978 Compendium. The Call-A.P.P.L.E. 1978 Compendium is a complete collection of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine issues originally published in 1978 by Val Golding and the members of A.P.P.L.E. The 1978 Compendium is a fully enhanced version of the issues giving the reader a window into the past of the Apple computing revolution as it was happening. All 10 issues from the first year of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine are included….
Path Finder 7 is a file management utility that should be part of everyone’s resources. On the surface, it is a Mac OS Finder substitute offering traditional access to drives and files, as well as expanded technical access to file attributes, permissions, and other information. It is compatible with 10.7 Lion through 10.11 El Capitan. As Apple changes the Finder it’s nice to have an alternative approach, and one that incorporates its own substitutes for many tools. Basic text and…
Yesterday morning I picked up my new iPad Pro. Since the first version of the iPad, I’ve been hoping for a bigger version. Yesterday my wish finally came true. The iPad Pro is physically very similar to the smaller versions – same thickness, nice curvy design, just bigger. Immediately you can feel the speed as everything opened fast and navigations are swift with no lag. The size is really good. I can read my eBooks and most PDFs at “real” size, including magazines and manuals that…
Titanium Software has releases the latest update to the OnyX maintenance software for Mac OS X. OnyX is a software package for the Mac which allows the user to perform system maintenance tasks, clean up their system, and clear unused data from their Machines. The program can also be used to repair file permissions on your hard drive as well as log files which become burdensome to machines. You can even schedule regular cleanup and maintenance tasks using the program….
The French Touch has released another Apple II Demo. Adding to their long line of unique program demos, Raster Bars is a unique raster type demo which demonstrates the graphics and sound capabilities of the Apple //e far beyond many of the games that are currently available. The Raster Bars demo will run on most popular Apple II and IIgs emulators and requires 128K and a Mockingbird version 2 for those who wish to run the demo on real Apple…
The Apple II program server for the Raspberry Pi, A2Server has been updated. According to the posting on Facebook from Ivan Drucker, the author, this update includes fixes and also installs the latest GS/OS Releases. A2SERVER 1.2.5 is now available. Its main new feature is to offer to install GS/OS 6.0.1 for network boot (as it did before), as well as community releases 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. It also now includes HFS.FST with the install, and has a handful of…
Ian Page has released a new version of his Mactracker App for Mac OS X. Version 7.5 of the Mactracker App includes a host of improvements and fixes including: – iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015), iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015), and iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) – Adds iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus – Adds iPad mini 4 (Wi-Fi) and iPad mini 4 (Wi‑Fi + Cellular) – Adds Apple TV (4th generation) – Adds Magic Mouse 2, Magic…
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Пламен Вайсилов’s VGA adapter for the //c. Needless to say, a lot of people was asking how to get one. Now the website’s store is finally open! Head up to a2heaven Store and get all your goodies from the Bulgarian Woz!
The ClamXav Anti-Virus software has been updated. The latest update to the software includes a number of improvements to the software related to backups and recovery as well as being updated for Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitain. Version 2.8.7 includes the following changes: Improved recognition of Time Capsule data volume Improved recognition of Recovery HD Added ability to reorder the items in the source list Fixed ClamXav Sentry crash on OS X 10.6 when using…
For those folks who have been shopping from Amazon over the years, or those complaining that Amazon was driving the brick and mortar stores out of business, then this story is for you. According to the Seattle Times, Amazon will be opening a store in the University District at 9:30am tomorrow morning. While many major book stores have been forced to close in the past several years, this is the first time that the entirely online Amazon has ventured into…
This month on Open Apple we sit down with Robert Bowdidge, one of three interns at Berkeley Softworks who ported GEOS to the best line of 8-bit computers. We talk about what a great place Berkeley Softworks was, along with the power of good tools and proper software engineering. Robert has great memories of the culture there, the GUI technology they had built, and the brilliant people who built it. Apparently GEOS existed for some other 8-bit computer as well, but we imagine…
A Word or Two November 2015 Apple’s sales saga continues to flummox many pundits. They forecast earnings estimates too low or too high, and when they miss, they criticize–not themselves, but Apple–as if it were Cupertino’s fault they aren’t more prescient. The latest take on this is that because Apple’s iPhone sales generate so large a percentage of the total income, and aren’t breaking records by a very wide margin these days, the company is somehow in trouble, and…
This month on Drop /// Inches, Paul’s Apple /// has trouble connecting with the world outside, so he speculates on possibilities for WiFi connectivity, and Mike’s Apple /// has trouble connecting with any worlds at all. So, we turn our attention to literature, including the full Apple /// patent, a survey of Apple II users, an early interview with Trip Hawkins, and books on the Apple ///. Paul’s gotten himself a Cursor /// and some late-era PFS software, and unexpectedly managed…
The October 2015 edition of the Marina IP stack for Apple II is now available. This project is a completely new TCP/IP networking implementation written in 6502 assembly language for the Apple II series. The Uthernet card is the network interface used, and programs interface with a Berkeley sockets-style API. Marina is not complete, for it has only a UDP implementation, and not TCP, but it does have a good DNS resolver and DHCP client. The October 2015 edition of…
Have you seen the high gloss screen savers of the Apple TV and thought to yourself, “I wish I could run that on my Mac.” Now you can. A free, open source program, Aerial allows the user to not only run the screen savers but to utilize all of the high gloss fly overs of the Apple TV. For more about this program, check out the Aerial repository on GitHub at: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
Christies Auction house is once again the focus of the Apple world. With another Apple-1 computer coming available, the question begins to arise, “How many of these machines are left?” Over the past 5 years a dozen or so of the classic Apple-1 computers have sold at various auction houses with some fetching well over $900,000 USD. The recent sale by Bonhams Auction House brought less than 40 percent of that, yet it still had a decent selling price compared…
The long-running, Apple-centric Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine has returned. Started in 1978 by Val J. Golding, the magazine has a long history with publication from 1978-1990 and 2002-2010. Produced by the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange user group, the magazine focuses on Apple-related topics including retro Apple II and Mac computing, in addition to current Apple news and general technology. Volume 25 Number 1 of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine is available to A.P.P.L.E. members today with a number of unique articles, book reviews, iOS…
I just received an Apple //c VGA adapter from Пламен Вайсилов, a prolific Apple II hardware creator. This adapter has a button that lets you switch between video modes: color, green, mono and mono-white. also simulates scanlines in all those modes. Check the video. At the time of this post there has not been pricing and availability announced, keep checking Apple II heaven site. Also important to mention is that this is only NTSC, a PAL version is on the…
