The WOZPAK Special Edition has been re-published as a hardcover book. The new book is still the same 352 pages of Apple II information, however, it now fits nicely on the collectors shelves. The WOZPAK Special Edition was produced by Bill Martens and Brian Wiser and released as a paperback book in time for KansasFest 2013. This is one book you won’t want to miss and the Hardcover is…
Gerard Putter has updated the Virtual II emulator for the Mac. Version 7.5 has been released with Version 7.5.1 hot on its heels to fix an issue in the 7.5 release. Included in the two releases are the following updates and fixes: 7.5 Support for two Mockingboard cards in one machine, in order to listen to max. 12 channels. Corrected an issue with double low resolution colors. Added an experimental feature: the super serial card emulation can now work with…
CURVED/labs, a German company has come up with a design for an Anniversary Mac which pays serious homage to the 1984 Mac 128. Using all of the advances of the past 30 years and the style of the current Apple computers, the Neue Mac designed by CURVED/labs is a hybrid of many items including an SD card slot replacing the floppy disk from the Mac128K. Sadly, this is just a design and no physical machine exists but the design is…
Back in 2012, I bought an Apple //c to mod it put a G4 inside. When I started cleaning it, I went online to do some drive alignment, chip reseating and general restoration. That’s when I stumbled upon Retr0bright. First I had some trouble finding xantam gum, so i settled for Arrowroot. Waited for a weekend and on a Saturday, I lay down all the parts on the sun for a full day. The parts were so yellow, that I…
According to data released on the App Store Distribution page of the Apple Developer Support site, adoption of Apple’s latest version of their iOS 8 is now at a 68% of all iOS devices. The site also says that 96% of the devices are using at least iOS 7 leaving just a miniscule 4% of devices using older iOS’s. It does not go into detail as to the device breakdown so it can only be assumed that the 96% is…
Cash away the old year passes as Cupertino has to be a happy place given the wild success of the iPhone 6. Only now are wait times reverting to normal after the most successful product launch in tech history. Apple is once again in ascendancy, Samsung and other rivals descending. The question is, what does iTim do to keep the momentum going, or will 2015 be a relative disappointment by comparison? Try iPhone 6s and 7, refreshes of Apple TV…
Paris, January 6th, 2015 – Brutal Deluxe Sofware releases Merlin 32 Merlin 32 is a multi-pass Cross Assembler running under Windows targeting 8-bit processors in the 6502 series (such as 6502 and 65c02) and the 16 bit 65c816 processor. It is compatible with Glen Bredon’s Merlin 16+ syntax, including support for Macros, Pre-processor, Logical Expressions, Conditional Operations, Variables, Loops, Local Labels… It can build fixed position object code or relocatable executables (OMF v2.1) as we can find on 16-bit APPLE…
Over the years of the computer revolution, we always knew one fact. 48K or 64K or RAM memory or Random Access Memory, was not ever exactly 48K or 64K. When we bought our computer, we always expected and knew that we would be limited in what of that memory we could actually use. The Disk Operating System would eat a good chunk as would the Basic Interpreter. But now in this day an age where those not educated in computer…
Virtual Apple II released an update to the Virtual Apple II database today. Version 1.28 of the database includes a number of new software packages as well as updates to items recently added including a manual for David Schmenk’s PLASMA based game, Rogue. For those users utilizing the database through their ActiveGS Apps or other mobile based applications, you can update the database automatically through the notification which will appear shortly on your display. All other users can check out…
David Greelish’s fine historically compendium, Classic Computing: The Complete Historically Brewed is now available online in a PDF Ebook. The book which was produced in 2013 contains all issues of the Historically Brewed magazine. You can download the book for free from the Classic Computing website at: http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/HB_Book.html
Brian Picchi, the curator of the Tanru Nomad Computer Museum and author of the 2013 Apple II game Lamb Chops, has released his source code to the public. According to his posting, “With the release of the new Assembly Lines book, I thought I’d share the source code to Lamb Chops which borrows almost entirely from concepts covered in that book. I wrote it in November of 2013 when I was first learning 6502 assembly language so it may be…
Dave Cheney has posted an Apple-1 Replica build project which utilizes the Arduino platform. The build covers all aspects of the Apple-1 and is small enough to actually be inserted into almost any case. The Mega6502 is basically a two chip Apple-1 computer improving in the same tradition of the great Steve Wozniak (@woz on twitter), reduction of the number of chips required for the computer. For more information about the Mega6502, check out Dave Cheney’s blog at: http://dave.cheney.net/2014/12/26/make-your-own-apple-1-replica
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A critical Network Time Protocol issue has been patched by Apple, and is available for OS 10.8 through 10.10.1 via the Mac App Store. While most Apple updates are user option installable, this particular update is being pushed out by Apple automatically in order to prevent machines from being hi-jacked by hackers. If you have not seen a notification on your screen, you can install it from the App Store.
Nishida Radio, makers of the disk emulator, UNISDisk, have announce that all units have sold out for 2014. No new orders will be taken for some time. According to Koichi Nishida’s posting on his website, he needs some time off to deal with some health issues that have arisen. For more information about the UNISDisk or orther Nishida Radio products, check out their website at: http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/english.html
X-Plane 10 for the iPad has been released. The latest version of the ultra-realistic flight simulation package for the iPad has a number of features which put it on a par with the desktop version of X-Plane. These features include: 5 scenery regions A brand new combat system Multiplayer over the Internet Access to the brand new challenges & tutorials The Cessna 172 aircraft model. An additional 9 aircraft (including the Airbus A320, A-10 Warthog, and F-22 Raptor) are available as in-app purchases. These…
David Schmenk, the creator of the PLASMA SDK for the Apple II has released a proof of concept game for the Apple II. Rogue, an old school adventure game is intended to prove that PLASMA is capable of handling real algorithmic conceptual development. David’s full release statement: To prove that PLASMA is capable of real algorithmic development, and looking forward to some Lawless Legends investigations, I built an intermediate project for your amusement. Harking back to the days of yore,…
The Virtual Apple II website database version 1.27 is now available. Those users who are using emulator apps which rely upon the Virtual Apple II database for their apps and data can download the latest version. This latest update includes new data for over 200 apps as well as a number of new games that were not in the previous version. Virtual Apple is an online disk repository for the Apple II computer which features disks, manuals, as well as…
Assembly Lines: The Complete Book has been released. Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines was an important information source for many programmers in the 1980’s. The article ran in Softtalk magazine over 33 issues. Chris Torrence has edited and published this book in close coordination with Roger Wagner under the Creative Commons 2.0 license and it is now available in hard cover from LULU.com for the production only pricing of $21.74. To order a copy of the book, you can go to…
Randy Brandt announced the availability of the 30th Anniversary Edition of the Beagle Bros Game I.O. Silver. According to his posting, “Looks like we made it! The 30th anniversary Edition of Beagle Bros’ I. O. Silver is now available for free download (with in-app purchases) from the Apple store. It’s been a labor of love for the past few years. Please support us by downloading it and giving it a try for free!” I.O. Silver was originally released by Beagle…
