There are a number of the recorded sessions now on YouTube from Kansasfest 2015. For those of you who were unable to attend, this is a chance to catch up on some of the unique sessions and presentations made during the annual pilgrimage to Kansas City. You can find the complete list of available videos at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kansasfest+2015 A.P.P.L.E.’s presentation was made by Brian Wiser this year and begins at 2:15 of the video shown below.
An interesting piece of video comes to us this morning from Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe software. It is a project by French Professor Max Tournarie, who decided he could attach a card reader to the Apple II Euro back in the 1980’s. The reader simply sends binary code to the Apple II, either zeros or ones. While most readers of the era were fairly high speed, this one simply processes the cards in a slow but methodical manner. Check…
Since the announcement of the availability of the newly-released Apple IIgs System 6.0.2 a week ago, over 22 years since the last release, the feedback has been positively awesome from all around the world. That is great news for our active and enthusiastic Apple II community. CallApple.org news of the release has been featured on over 50 major blogs and related news sites with the announcement having been viewed over 800,000 times and the disk images downloaded more than 5000…
Jeremy Rand has released his 2015 Hackfest entry, Sudoku for the Apple II. The posting, from the KFest mailing list includes all of the source code for the project as well as the Apple II emulator ready DSK disk image. A video of the program in action has been posted by the Kansasfest comittee to YouTube: Additional features have been added to the program post Kansasfest and the latest disk is available for download now. For more information about the…
Kansasfest 2015 has ended as one of the more successful gatherings in the past 20 years. With 76 attendees, this event continues to prove that the Apple II computer is not dead and that there is a lot more life in those computers. A.P.P.L.E. thanks those who attended our session this past Saturday at the event and for the input provided during the session. We look forward to attending the 2016 rendition with even more product announcements and seeing all…
A.P.P.L.E. is proud to announce a reduction of the price of The WOZPAK Special Edition just in time for Kansasfest 2015. The WOZPAK Special Edition is a complete restoration of the original WOZPAK from A.P.P.L.E. and has additional material not included in the original WOZPAK. The WOZPAK Special Edition is available in Softcover and Hardcover through the Lulu bookstore.
The Mac Gui software repository has added over 700 new files to their library. According to the site’s owner and curator, David Finnigan in CSA2, Of particular note are the files in the CP/M category; these came from a disk collection that I bought last year. If anyone is using Vista drives, I may have some useful files in there for you. Owners of Franklin Ace clones may also find some new disks there of use. This one is pretty…
What’s new for Apple IIgs System 6.0.2After 22 years, 2 months, 2 days and 2 hours since System 6.0.1 was released, this is a summary of the visible changes. There have been many bugs fixed and many features added that are not immediately visible–they will enable developers to create better future products. Be sure to also read the Shortcuts file on the SystemTools3 disk for more information. Finder (see also Finder Help)The list is FSTs now includes the RDOS 3.3…
Nick Lee (@nickplee on Twitter) has successfully put the Mini vMac Emulator on the Apple Watch. Running Mac OS 7.5.5, the watch performs as a full blown mac. However, the speed is rather slow and although it proves the concept, we doubt that there are many people who will have the eyesight to actually read anything but the largest text on the screen. Still it is a cool proof of concept and well worth the viewing.
WWDC 2015, the 26th edition of Apple, Inc.’s World Wide Developer Conference kicked off in San Francisco with Tim Cook and the Apple Team delivering a number of items to the Developers in Attendance. The annually held WWDC event gives developers around the globe a chance to rub elbows with the Apple Team and to meet other developers. For those of you who were not able to watch the Keynote live, it is now available online at Apple’s website at:…
Press Release from Ewen (Speccie): I have today updated a few items on my website, and released a blast-from-the-past… SAM2 goes to v2.0.5. This is a very minor bug fix. Spectrum goes to v2.5.4. A bug was fixed, and a couple of minor adjustments were made. More importantly, Spectrum is now released as a stand-alone bootable 2mg disk image, that can be booted and used “as is”. A new Installer is provided on the disk, which allows Spectrum to be…
Our friends in Miami and France have come together to provide the Apple II Quark Catalyst scans and disk images. When asked about the project to bring this back out of the realm of the lost software, Javier Rivera said, “This is one package that many users had for their Apple II’s, but no one seemed to have it at this point. When we finally found a copy of it, we made sure to get it into digital format as…
Once again I converted a 15″ Apple Color Monitor IIe to a modern display, using a 15″ color LCD screen. I had to cut lots of plastic from the front plastic panel of the IIe monitor, but didn’t compromise the integrity of the plastics and locking mechanism. To solve the main issue – the curved screen, I added a black cardboard pieces to close the gaps with the flat screen. after several tries found it was the best approach keeping…
A graphical scene artist, Myles Stonecutter, is undertaking the publishing of a 90 page fairy tale book using graphics on the Apple II computer. The book has taken Stonecutter more than a year to work out and according to his Kickstarter page, is nearing completion. All of the graphics were produced on an Apple II computer using the Blazzing Paddles software package and according to Stonecutter, “Took a lot of pixel picking to get the best out of the GUI…
Ian Kim, a member of the Korean Apple II community has developed a new Mockingboard compatible sound card for the Apple II series computers. According to the introduction document sent to A.P.P.L.E, Apple II Fans and Afficiandos, I’m am a member of the Korean APPLE II group in community. Having grown up with the APPLE II and having spent tons of time with it, I have a particular fondness for the machine, It was my first computer and if its…
While we normally do not talk about devices that are not Apple produced, this story of emulation caught our eye. Corbin Davenport has managed to get the Open Mini VMac III emulator to run on his Android Wear. While the sight of the old school Mac OS System 6.0.3 booting on an android device might be almost sacrilegious to the true Apple Fan, it is still pretty cool. However, at the same time, Corbin seems to be a bit finger…
A few weeks ago I posted a story about a LCD color conversion, here’s a video of two converted LCDs in action. Enjoy!
Apple has released an update to their Camera Raw Support package for Yosemite. Update 6.04 adds RAW Compatibility for the a number of cameras including the following: Canon EOS 5DS* Canon EOS 5DS R* Canon EOS Rebel T6i / 750D / Kiss X8i Canon EOS Rebel T6s / 760D / Kiss 8000D Fujifilm X-A2 Hasselblad CFV-50c Hasselblad H5D-50c Leica C (Typ 112) Nikon 1 S2 Nikon D7200 Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II** Panasonic LUMIX CM1 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF7 Pentax MX-1…
The AppleIIScans.net website has posted the Apple IIc Users Guide. The guide originally published in 1984 by Brady Communications and authored by Gary Phillips and Donald Scellato features the Picaso style Apple //c on the cover of the book. It is available in PDF format from the Apple2Scants.net website at: http://www.apple2scans.net/2015/04/20/apple-iic-user-guide/
Ninjaforce has released an update to their Bomberman clone, Kaboom. Version 1.01 addresses a number of issues including: + Fixed a bug where the game crashes during play. + The game now stores settings and scores (oops). + Typos in credits fixed (plus some names we forgot). Kaboom is for the Apple IIgs and can be downloaded from the Ninja Force website at: http://www.ninjaforce.com/html/products_kaboom.html
