For nearly 4 years, Stavros Karatsoridis has been a very busy man, collecting, typing and debugging Nibble Magazine’s complete 12 1/2 year run of (1,200+) featured programs. What a remarkable achievement. Even better news, Mike Harvey (Nibble Magazine’s editor and publisher) has made all of the software from Nibble Magazine available for free! Mike’s announcement is attached below.

Exciting news from Stavros Karatsoridis!!!
ALL 1,200+ NIBBLE PROGRAMS FROM 12 1/2 YEARS ARE DOWNLOADABLE!
AND THEY’RE FREE!!!

After a 3 1/2 year effort, Stavros Karatsoridis has laboriously typed, formatted and packaged the entire collection of Nibble 1,200+ programs spanning our 12 1/2 years of publication. His 42-disk collection includes the 265 major programs that were volunteered several years ago by Sam Stoddard (see below) and goes well beyond. Stavros has also provided a scrollable Index of the Programs by Title, so you can easily search our the location of your favorites programs (on the Nibble Disks page).

So this is your chance to recapture some of the magic and charm of the good old 40-character screen with its Low-Res and Hi-Res graphics and take a program tour to that wonderful decade of the 1980′s!

WELL DONE STAVROS, AND THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF THE APPLE II COMMUNITY!

Registration for KansasFest 2014 closes on Thursday, July 10. This is your last chance to get the sessions, camaraderie, and keynote from Margot Comstock.  Also, don’t forget to register for the optional “Build Your Own Computer” workshop with Vince Briel and “Stitch Your Own Apple IIe Ornament” workshop with Sarah Walkowiak by July 10.

Here’s the latest list of sessions.  The final schedule will be available shortly before KansasFest starts.

• Off-the-Grid Total Portability for the Apple IIc (Steven Buggie)
• Sew your own Apple II ornament (Sarah Walkowiak)
• Apple II Pi (David Schmenk)
• Controlling I/O via game port interface, or “How I learned to stop worrying and love the Apple II rocket launcher” (Ivan Hogan)
• Emulator detection in 6502 assembly language (Mark Pilgrim)
• Accelerating the IIc+ (James Littlejohn)
• How to Play STAR SAGA: ONE using VASSAL (Michael Sternberg)
• AppleTalk Networking with GSport (Peter Neubauer)
• A2CLOUD and A2SERVER 2014 (Ivan Drucker)
• Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of Sara (Tony Diaz)
• Jungle Adventure: an interactive text adventure (Ken Gagne)
• 3D Print Your Next Apple II (Charles Mangin)
• Making Apple II software on Mac OS X with cc65 (Carrington Vanston)
• A.P.P.L.E. — A Highlight of Current Projects and Products (Bill Martens & Brian Wiser)
• The Third Wave: A brief history of the Apple /// Development (Mike Maginnis)
• An Overview of the Apple3rtr Emulator (Mike Maginnis)
• Getting Started with an Apple ///: Oh My Gosh, What Did I Just Buy? (Mike Maginnis)
• Computer Art Technology (Andrés Lozano)
• Build a computer workshop (Vince Briel)
• Japanese on the Apple IIGS (Ian Johnson)
• Lawless Legends top-to-bottom (Martin Haye)
• The Internet Archive: It’s Been a Busy Year (Jason Scott)
• Satin Weave (Daniel Kruszyna)
• Veronica – a 6502 pilgrimage (Quinn Dunki)

Volume 19, Issue 2 (June 2014) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features a celebration of the BASIC programming language’s fiftieth birthday; an interview with programmer Ron Graff; Charles Mangin’s introduction to using 3D printers to create Apple II parts; a behind-the-scenes look at how ADTPro accomplishes bootstrapping; reviews of the book Vintage Game Consoles and the chiptune documentaries Reformat the Planet and Europe in 8 Bits; and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS‘s second quarterly issue of 2014. Subscriptions are available at $19 for United States customers, $24 for readers in Canada and Mexico, and $27 for international customers, with several free sample issues available as PDFs.

KansasFest attendees are in for a special treat this year. Vince Briel is attending and will once again host a ‘build it yourself’ workshop. You can sign up to assemble any of his famous kits, including the brand new Ohio Scientific Superboard III (another famous 6502-based micro).

Complete details are on the Briel Computers web site.

The GSport team has announced a new release with significant improvements! Below is David Schmidt’s posting via CSA2.

The GSport team has been busy lately. Peter Neubauer’s AppleTalk emulation is the star of this release – making GSport the only modern emulator with this capability. Christopher Mason enhanced printer emulation capabilities further with a virtual ImageWriter II or LQ in slot 1. Several other items and fixes are aggregated as well.

GSport is a derivative of Kent Dickey’s KEGS Apple IIgs emulator.

Version 0.31 – 6/22/2014

New functionality:

• Added AppleTalk networking emulation with bridging to EtherTalk (See: http://gsport.sourceforge.net/appletalk.html)
• Added Imagewriter LQ printer emulation (more documentation coming – printing is highly configurable)
• Added clipboard text paste capability (OSX, Windows)
• Emulated serial ports are individually configurable as either IP or pass-through to real hardware ports
• Apple II Pi build improvements

Bug fixes:

• IN#1 and IN#2 now trigger the incoming IP port to listen when using IP simulated serial ports; previously, only PR#1 or PR#2 did
• Fixed crash when parallel.rom is missing
• Fix for real joysticks: unless the joystick is moving, GSport sets the values to zero

http://gsport.sourceforge.net

(Followups set to comp.emulators.apple2)

Daniel (Krue) Kruszyna has announced Lingerie, a ‘filer’ utility for Martin Hayes’ NakedOS, the fast and tiny OS for the Apple II.

Update your bookmarks. Tom Charlesworth announced today that AppleWin (the leading 8-bit Apple II emulator for Windows) has moved to it’s new repository on GitHub.

Hi,

Berlios has finally been closed (for OSS hosting), meaning that the AppleWin project is no longer accessible on the Berlios site.

I have been gradually migrating AppleWin over to GitHub. The move still isn’t 100% complete, but IMO it’s good enough now so that I can announce it here.

The new project URL is:
https://github.com/AppleWin

Releases are here:
https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases

Issues (bug, enhancements and questions) can be accessed and raised here:
https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/issues?state=open

NB. All the old issues and features have been migrated over.

I’m am still getting up to speed on GitHub and git, so bear with me during this initial period.

Tom

Based on the maddening ‘Flappy Bird’ game, Dagen Brock has released a reproduction (or de-make) game for the Apple II dubbed ‘Flapple Bird’.

Download 5.25″ version
Download 3.5″ version

KansasFest Special:

Order any item for local pickup at KansasFest 2014, and receive 5% off your total order. Offer valid through July 4, 2014.

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