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February 2001
Posted inSite News
Syndicomm schedules system test
We will have a brief service outage while Syndicomm tests the Uninterruptible Power Supply software on its main server. Our services will be down for 10-15 minutes at around 1:00 PST today. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Posted inSoftware
Silvern Castle 7.1 update available
The latest version of Silvern Castle is now available. You can download the 7.1 update here on A2Central.com.
Posted inSoftware
Generic Tile Engine beta 2 released
Lucas Scharenbroich has released the second beta version of his Generic Tile Engine graphics library for Apple IIGS programmers.
Posted inUser Group
February AppleLinc group meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska
The AppleLinc user group in Lincoln, Nebraska will hold two meetings in the upcoming week to discuss Apple II computers, problem solving, and shareware. The first meeting is Wednesday, February 28 at 7:00 PM, and the second is Saturday, March 3 at 9:00 AM. Both meetings will be held at the Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church […]
Posted inGeneral
Delphi online service\’s text and web sides to divorce today
In a long expected move, Delphi announced yesterday that effective noon Eastern time (9:00 AM PST) today, they will permanently turn off their software that keeps the web and text sides of their service in synch with one another. While both sides of their service will remain operational, people that use the text service and people that use the web service will no longer see each other’s messages in the message board.
Posted inGeneral
Another Apple II rescue operation
A woman in Brown Deer, Wisconson (Milwaukee County) has contacted us. Her husband, recently passed away, was an avid Apple II collector, and she needs someone to take the collection off her hands. She has over 100 Apple IIe, IIc, and IIGS computers and some assorted older Macintosh models, as well as printers, software, cables, […]
Posted inKansasFest
KFest 2001 registration opens
At long last, registration for KFest 2001 has begun! If you’ve attended KFest in the last three years, register before March 31 to pay only $200 for a double room. Otherwise, it’s $225 before April 15, and $275 after April 15. This is shaping up to be another great KFest, so be sure to sign […]
Posted inSite News
Syndicomm server upgrade completed
Our parent company, Syndicomm, has completed a major server upgrade, which has resulted in vastly improved performance for all our services.
Posted inGeneral
Apple IIe rescue
We have a report of a school preparing to dispose of 30 to 50 complete Apple IIe systems, all with monitors, disk drives, and printers, as well as a number of Echo speech synthesizer cards and boxes. Anyone who can pick them up in Texas is welcome to take them; they’re scheduled to be hauled […]