Howard Katz has posted the September 2005 issue of Apple II News & Notes, the freely-redistributable newsletter for Apple II users.
September 2005
Posted inHardware
2nd run of Uthernet cards available
Glenn Jones’ Uthernet cards are available once again. This ethernet card for the Apple II costs $89US. Visit his website for more info.
Posted inSoftware
MindCraft Assembler and MacroSoft available again
Nibble Magazine’s Mike Harvey has re-released the MindCraft Assembler and MacroSoft BASIC-like macro package. These excellent developer tools make it easy for non-assembly-language programmers to write fast programs for the Apple II.
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation
"Music Video" done on an Apple II
Check out this unsolicited music video done for the song “Beautiful Ground” by the band Grandaddy. The video was created using an Apple ][+.
Posted inHardware
Rich Dreher’s CFFA card nearing 4th production run
Rich Dreher confirmed for A2Central that he has enough interested people signed up to proceed with a 4th production run of his popular CFFA Card. Rich is shooting for a December 2005 availability timeframe.The CFFA is an IDE interface that is primarily used to interface a compact flash module or Microdrive to the Apple II, […]
Posted inSoftware
Michael Mahon releases standalone version of RT.SYNTH
Practically everyone in the Apple II community knows about Michael Mahon’s NadaNet and Applecrate Projects. Now he’s released RT.SYNTH, the Real-Time Single-Voice Music Synthesizer. Michael’s announcement follows: After getting the 8-voice CrateSynth working, it became clear that running only on an AppleCrate severely limited its potential users. So I’ve developed RT.SYNTH, a real-time single-voice music […]
Posted inSoftware
SDDApple 0.06 released
SDDApple 0.06 is an Apple II Plus emulator written using Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).According to the author, SDDApple at this time is very limited. The disk routines are only working properly for NIB images so you may want to crack out that old copy of em2emu. Like apl2em, the emulator expects its disk images to […]
Posted inGeneral
Rumors that Washington Apple Pi is ditching Apple II, /// false
A2Central.com has received word from Washington Apple Pi that the rumors that have been going around that they are ditching their Apple II and Apple /// support are false. They are simply clearing out a room full of donated equipment and software they no longer have room for. Their support for the Apple II and […]
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September issue of The Lamp! posted
Lyle Syverson has posted the September, 2005 issue of The Lamp!, the monthly newsletter covering the most interesting articles from the Syndicomm Apple II forum.
Posted inDeals
Washington Apple Pi user group downsizing inventory
WAP is having to downsize its inventory to reduce the amount of storage space needed. If you’d like to rescue some of this stuff before it goes into a dumpster, read on.