A few months ago i acquired an Apple IIgs, and to my surprise it had a Vulcan drive inside. The Vulcan was an internal combo of hard drive/power supply with a controller card. At that time, the only hard drive options were an external drive or an IDE card. The Vulcan was attractive by combining […]
Ultimate Micro just released the Scalable Oscillator v2 for use in the TransWarp GS and ZXIP-GSX. Each Scalable Oscillator is now custom tailored to fit each board better. It also now uses a better grade clock IC which provides a cleaner signal, although with this better signal came complexity of design. this item comes with […]
Stephen Heumann, author of the virtual computing client, VNCview GS, recently announced an update and the open sourcing of his client software. He updated the program to version 1.0b2 and simultaneously released the software on GitHub. From: Stephen Heumann <stephen.heumann@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Announcing VNCview GS 1.0b2 – updated and open-sourced Date: Tue, 29 Sep […]
What’s new for Apple IIgs System 6.0.2 After 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 […]
The world of Apple II is never dull; there are new projects and things happening each month! Let’s take a look at what’s going on this week: On Applefritter, some of the users there are discussing making a single Apple II archive site to mirror all the other sites. Also on Applefritter, jsa asked for help and […]
Ewen Wannop has released an upgrade to his original ByteBagger hex editor program. It is now called ChewBagger and it is a stand-alone file viewer, editor and disassembler. ChewBagger lets you view the raw data of either the data or resource fork of a file, search for target strings within that fork, using either Hex or […]
Paris, March 3rd, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce Mr Sprite, a command-line tool to manage sprites and to simplify the integration of sprites into Apple IIgs games. Programmers spend a lot of time to prepare Sprites sheets : – You have to ensure the Sprite width is a multiple of 4 pixels […]
A few weeks ago, Ewen Wannop, author of the premier telecommunications program for the Apple IIgs, Spectrum, announced that he had transitioned the program to freeware status. He has now released revised and redesigned manuals for his program, including the main program and scripting manuals. Says Wannop, I have updated the various Spectrum manuals to […]
Apple IIgs programmer Ewen Wannop announced yesterday that he has decided to change the status of his commercial software to freeware. Said Wannop: As my contribution to KFest ’12, I am reclassifying all my commercial software. From now on, all my commercial titles that have been sold by Syndicomm are now Freeware, and can be […]
Former Apple Employee Karl Grabe has given us a look into what went into the Apple IIgs when it was still known as Cortland. Karl was the lead engineer of the Rom Diagnostics team assigned to the Cortland / Vegas project. The project eventually became the Apple IIgs computer. Some great old photos provide a […]
