Tag: Apple2gs
T. C. Lim has been working on a book about Pascal programming for the Apple II gs for the past several weeks, releasing preliminary versions along the way. The book includes a number of programs his kids have developed for the Apple IIgs in Pascal, Orca Pascal, and GSoft BASIC. The book was produced with iBooks Author and is the first Apple ][ series related book to be produced specifically for iBooks 2.0. T.C. has announced the immediate availability of…
Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe has posted a new software package for the Apple IIgs. According to the posting: Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to introduce Fishhead, the Caped Copier, to the Apple II community. Fishhead is a GS/OS desktop file copier application. It offers several features which make it a powerful software for diskette and file preservation purposes: Attributes preservation — All copied files keep their original date, time and other attributes (e.g. invisible or locked) information Batch mode…
Lim Thaye Chen has made his Virtual GS Programming book available in both PDF and iBook format on the Virtual GS website. The book is the first Apple ][ specific book to have been created with the new iBooks Author package introduced by Apple this month. You can download the book in it’s entirety for free from the Virtual GS website at: http://virtual-gs.appspot.com/web/Book.html
Alex Lee, curator of the What is the Apple IIgs website has written an extensive write up about how Desktop Publishing really changed the computing world. The article shows the changes between the cut and paste era and the digital editing era and how the differences were reflected in the magazines that were produced. You can read the full article here: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/professional-desktop-publishing-and-the-apple-ii/
The latest version of the ActiveGS Plugin has been Released. Version 3.5.762 was released to address and issue with the Chrome extension deployment. ActiveGS is the Apple IIgs emulation plugin written by the Free Tools Association and used in the Virtual Apple ][ website ( http://www.virtualapple.org ) For more information, check out the ActiveGS Plugin Support page at: http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/
Ivan Drucker, creator of Slammer and NuInput has updated his website. The changes include the addition of his recently created A2Server and a new section for other projects he is working on. However, as he says, “There is no other stuff. Yet.”. Ivan’s recently release A2Server is a file server which runs on modern machine allowing the Apple //e and IIgs to connect and boot from the server. Ivan added a version of A2Server ready to go on a VMWare…
A.P.P.L.E. has updated the Apple Archives Link site with over 50 new links and now has more than 250 vintage apple links. The site includes categories for nearly every aspect of vintage apple computing including software, emulation and project related links. Some of the new features of the archives include: New Pull Down menus for each category Added DVD and Apple IIgs categories to the archives Single click to website links There currently are another 25 links remaining in the…
Thirty years have passed yet we get constant reminders of what the Apple computing world was like. One such reminder is the saga of the Data East published game Burgertime. Over the years since it’s release in 1982, there have been several renditions of the game on many different platforms and even numerous more cracks of the game, particularly on the Apple ][ computer. Recently, Rich Martin (A.K.A. Datawiz) wrote of his exploration of the winding trail of the cracks…
The iPhone / iPad version of the ActiveGS Application version 1.22 is now available in the Apple App Store. Changes in Version 1.22 include: + 60FPS support for iPad & iPhone4 + CRT Emulation + B&W & Green Monitor The application is freely downloadable from the App Store. Users can also add their own disk images to the emulator. To get the application go to the App Store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/activegs-best-of-fta/id405115025?mt=8
Brutal Deluxe Software has released an updated version of their Apple IIgs volume mounting software, MountIt. This updated version contains a number of upgrades aimed at making mounting image volumes much easier on your Apple IIgs computer. Antoine Vignau and Oliver Zardini’s posting follows: Mount your disk image files files directly under GS/OS, just like another volume. MountIt 1.4 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from…
DigiSoft Innovations Releases Apple IIgs Music Collection By A.P.P.L.E. Staff The Apple IIgs Music collection is now available for download from the DigiSoft Innovations website. Version 1.0 of the collection covers 5 disks of music from various applications of the early 1990’s. The current version of the music collection is recorded at 96K and is ready for your iPod or for background music on your website. The five CD’s included in the collection are as follows: Apple IIGS Classics –…
The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section. The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms. That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate. Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on…
