User Group Membership Joining our User Group has many benefits, such as our new full-color Call-A.P.P.LE. magazine that is usually around 50 pages with lots of photos, technical articles, reviews, and interviews with legends of the industry. You also have access to all previous issues published back to 1978. Additionally, the Apple User Group Bulletin […]
James Joseph Shackel, an A.P.P.L.E. Member, Kansasfest attendee, long time Apple II user, Arizona Air National Guard Lt. Col. and Southwest Airlines pilot passed away January 19th, 2023 at the age of 58. Obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348
The April 2022 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine is available for download by A.P.P.L.E. members. You will need to log into your account to access it. This month we take a look at the history of Synergistic Software and Bob Clardy through the eyes of Ernst Klogtoft. We also re-visit the Jonathan, the prototype computer Apple […]
The March Meeting for the A.P.P.L.E. User Group Meeting was held online with the meeting being brought to order by Bill Martens. The initial items on the agenda were the releases of the February and March issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. It was announced that both of these issues would be posted the first week of April […]
<TRUMPET_BLARE> Announcing the winners of the Spring 2021 Call-A.P.P.L.E. giveaway! First, second, and third place winners are displayed in the video below in order of spin! (Yes, you’ll have to watch to find out if you won! ) ** The First and second place winners will receive a copy of the WOZPAK Special Edition and […]
Welcome to Spring 2021. In honor of a friend of the program’s birthday and the new beginnings that await us all, A.P.P.L.E. is having a book giveaway. The books have been kindly donated by the birthday boy himself. Since he is in the giving mood and feels it is better to give than receive, he […]
For those of you reading our news feed on other platforms, we are happy to let you know that there are a number of ways that you can get A.P.P.L.E. news now. First is on our website: https://www.callapple.org Our RSS feed: https://www.callapple.org/feed/ Our Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/callapple Our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/APPLEug Our Revue Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/callapple If […]
Seattle, Washington — February 1, 2019 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Walland Philip Vrbancic, Jr. are proud to announce his new DOS 4.1 Manual: Disk Operating System for the Apple II. This book is in print for the first time, features a newly-designed cover, and is over 240 pages. DOS 4.1 is […]
Over the next few days, we may have periods of going dark due to our servers being migrated to a new service provider. We started with VServers in Tukwilla,Wa. in 1997 where we would just call the server support guys out on the server farm and have problems with the machine fixed. That has changed […]
Seattle, Washington — July 21, 2017 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Kevin M. Smallwood are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book GBBS Pro Bulletin Board System: Version 2.2 and the software update that accompanies it. GBBS Pro is a user-friendly, highly-modifiable Bulletin Board System (BBS) for communications and entertainment. […]
Seattle, Washington — June 19, 2017 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy are proud to announce the immediate availability of his autobiography Cyber Jack: The Adventures of Robert Clardy and Synergistic Software. Cyber Jack chronicles Robert Clardy’s adventures throughout his self-made career as a computer programmer. He shares business advice, humorous […]
Seattle, Washington — June 19, 2017 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book Synergistic Software: The Early Games. Synergistic Software, founded by Robert C. Clardy, established itself as a computer game company in 1978 and produced more than 160 titles over the […]
We here at A.P.P.L.E. have had a busy year and as many of you know, we produced our first iOS app here this year. Structris was a coordinated effort between Martin Haye, Brian Wiser, Olivier Goguel and Bill Martens to bring the game to the iOS platform. Now just in time for Christmas, we are […]
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has updated the manual for the popular Apple II graphics programming tool Turtlesoft: Turtle Graphics for Applesoft with a new softcover manual. Originally published in 1983 by A.P.P.L.E., the new manual features revised formatting and now includes the 15 sample programs with screenshots. In addition to the original Turtlesoft […]
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange is proud to announce the book Call-A.P.P.LE. Magazine 1979 Compendium – a nostalgic look back at the early years of the Apple computing revolution through the eyes of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine and the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) user group. All 9 issues from the second year of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine […]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Harvey of Nibble magazine at KansasFest. Wanting to give the interview the broadest audience possible, I invited my good friend John Leake from the RetroMacCast podcast to participate. The interview audio can be heard on RetroMacCast episode 413. Mike Harvey, the founder and publisher of the long-lived Nibble magazine, […]
Seattle, Washington — July 22, 2016 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and David H. Ahl are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book The Colossal Computer Cartoon Book: Enhanced Edition – “The best collection ever of computer cartoons from the 1970’s!” Produced in coordination with legendary editor and publisher David […]
Seattle, Washington — July 22, 2016 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Tripp are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book What’s Where in the Apple – Enhanced Edition: A Complete Guide to the Apple II Computer. And now on November 23, 2020, due to popular demand, What’s Where in […]
Seattle, Washington — July 22, 2016 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the immediate availability of the classic book The Apple II Monitor Peeled by William E. Dougherty. Last published by A.P.P.L.E. in 1979, this release returns the book to print and for the first time in Hardcover. Writing programs […]
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 […]