Rich has placed an order for parts to build 100 additional CFFA cards. He has also ordered enough EPROMs and CPLDs to upgrade 50 of the earlier cards. If you have an older card and put in your request for the upgrade, you should have it in the next five or so weeks. The CFFA […]
September 2004
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September A2 News and Notes posted
Howard Katz has posted the September issue of Apple II News & Notes on the web. The newsletter is freely redistributable in user group newsletters.
Posted inProgramming
Syndicomm Online to host Apple II programming chat
The Apple II forum on Syndicomm Online will host a chat for programmers on Sunday, October 10th at 10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. The topics will include ideas for developing small projects that use IPC to communicate with each other to perform more complicated tasks, Marinetti programming, and other items of interest to those from […]
Posted inDeals
Seen on eBay – October 2004
Items of interest seen on eBay for the month of October 2004. Last Updated: 09/29 – ~02:20pm Central5722705959 – Ends Oct-05-04 19:19:47 PDT Apple 1 Computer with original manuals – very COOL! 5722551395 – Ends Oct-01-04 18:32:24 PDT Apple IIGS with 14MHz Transwarp, 4MB
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Apple II Contiki port progressing
Oliver Schmidt, who is porting the Contiki operating system to the Apple II, posted recently that he hopes to implement LANceGS ethernet card support if he can get a European Apple //e donated to his project. He would also like to be able to work on support for a 128K version of the port. He […]
Posted inHardware
Apple II info needed by C1 reconfigurable computer team
Jens Schoenfeld, the co-developer of Jeri Ellsworth’s C1 reconfigurable computer, is looking for experienced Apple IIgs software and hardware gurus to answer a few questions with the goal in mind of eventually creating an Apple IIgs core for the machine, that would allow it to act like a IIgs. Updated: He has the information he […]
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Syndicomm cuts ORCA/C price
Today Syndicomm sliced $10 off the price of ORCA/C, reducing the price to $40. The cut comes in tandem with a redesigned manual that is printed on three-hole punched paper, for insertion into a binder. Syndicomm cites the reduced production cost of the new version of the manual as the reason for the change. The […]
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Virtual ][ 3.1 released
Gerard Putter has released version 3.1 of Virtual ][, a great 8-bit Apple II emulator for Mac OS X. The new version includes several nice improvements; read on for details.Version 3.1 includes the following enhancements: The saved state file icons in particular are a neat feature, making it very easy to track down the saved […]
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September issue of The Lamp! posted
Lyle Syverson has posted the September, 2004 issue of The Lamp!, the monthly distillation of the best posts from Syndicomm’s A2 forum’s bulletin board.
Posted inSoftware
AppleWin emulator for Windows updated
There’s a new beta version of AppleWin available. The new version fixes some bugs. The next version to be released should be a non-beta version, and should implement some requests on the wish list.The fixed bugs are: