David Schmidt has updated ADTPro to v2.0.2. The first update to ADTPro since March 2015, this release takes advantage the Uthernet II network card and John Brooks’ ProDOS v2.4.1 operating system, as well as assorted bugfixes.

Prolific hardware developer Mike Willegal has handed off management of his original Apple-1 clone, the Mimeo 1. The boards were first made commercially available in 2010 and "have been sold to vintage computer buffs around the world", writes Willegal. "However, the learning part of the process, which is one of things that keeps me interested in my hobbies, has not been there over the past few years."

Henceforth, the Mimeo 1 will be developed and distributed by Corey Cohen, an Apple-1 enthusiast who was previously profiled in the New York Times for his work on restoring an original Apple-1 sold at Christie’s auction house. Find the Mimeo 1’s new home at Cohen’s website.

Jeremy Rand has updated A2Bejwld, his Apple II port of the popular puzzle game Bejeweled, to v2.0. The game, originally developed for HackFest at KansasFest 2016, now features Mockingboard support. Download the game and source code at GitHub.

Rand has also released a cc65 interface for adding Mockingboard support to your Apple II project. Check out mocklib on GitHub.

This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us of her exploits in boot tracing, cracking, and distributing software in the glory days of the Apple II BBS scene.

We talk about the journey from programming to cracking, and back to programming again. We talk about the politics of the Apple II scene, and the unique experience of cracking software remotely. Think fixing your grandparents’ printer over the phone is hard? Trying cracking a game!

Can you deduce the release date of Fontrix by time-lining Apple II crack screens? We leave that as an exercise to the listener. Meanwhile, Glenda shares stories of porting Space Rogue, parties at Lord British’s house, and the old-school feel of early iOS development.

Podcast hosts Carrington Vanston of the Retro Computing Roundtable and Kevin Savetz of ANTIC have joined forces to form a new podcast. Eaten by a Grue is a semi-monthly show in which the two co-hosts play and share their experiences with Infocom interactive fiction. The first two text adventure games they’ve played are Zork I: The Great Underground Empire and Ballyhoo, both of which were originally available for the Apple II and which can now be found in the Lost Treasures of Infocom, among other ports. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

The Caverns of Mordia, an Apple II adventure game originally published in 1980, has been re-released by its author, Hans Coster. This previously unreleased version, produced in collaboration with WOzFest 5¼", adds new features, removes the original’s copy protection, and includes an updated manual. A disk image of the game and PDF of the manual can be found in the Internet Archive.

Lon Seidman, occasional sysop of the Matrix Returns BBS, recently reviewed the Apple IIGS on his popular YouTube channel. The 33-minute video covers such peripherals as the CFFA3000 and software including GS/OS, HyperStudio, Arkanoid II, and California Games.

Unfortunately, the Apple IIGS nearly went up in flames during the shoot, resulting in this "yule log".

(Full disclosure: The author of this post backs Lon Seidman on Patreon.)

From Gizmodo, someone made this appetizing gingerbread Apple II:

Check out all the sugary goodness at this Imgur gallery.

Volume 21, Issue 4 (Dec 2016) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has now shipped. This issue features coverage of Apple II Festival France; an interview with Italian programmer Daniele Liverani; reviews of the 4soniq sound card from Manila Gear, the classic stealth game Castle Wolfenstein, and a stage production based on The Oregon Trail; a tutorial for finding and interviewing historical figures in the computer industry; a guide to buying and selling on eBay; a day in the life of an Apple II consultant; and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS‘s fourth quarterly issue of 2016, its twenty-first year in print. The complete 2016 volume is now available as a bundle. Subscriptions for 2017 are $19 each for United States customers, $24 for readers in Canada and Mexico, and $27 for international customers.

The RamExpress II+ Memory Expansion Card adds extra random-access memory (RAM) and Real time clock to your Apple IIc computer. The standard memory expansion card comes with 1024K (1Megabyte) RAM.

It is now available for $69.99 through a2heaven.com. Shipping is free.