Did you ever wish you could get something personally autographed by Woz, but can’t seem to make it out to an event he’s attending? Now you don’t have to, because like practically everything else on the planet, it’s for sale on eBay! Check out the SignedByWoz store, where you can get pictures, schematics, disks, books […]
August 2007
Posted inElsewhere
A.P.P.L.E. posts TechAlliance “The CO-OP Spirit” newsletters
A.P.P.L.E. has posted PDF scans of the short-lived, monthly TechAlliance newsletter “The Co-op Spirit”, which was published from 1991 to 1993 and subsequentlyĂ‚ discontinued in 1994. The Apple II gets some love here and there, but the newsletter is geared generally toward the Macintosh and other computers of the era. Thanks go out to Bill Martens […]
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation, People
Get Lamp teaser trailer
Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, has released to YouTube a teaser trailer for Get Lamp, a documentary of text adventures.
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation
PodBrix Woz and Jobs playset
We’ve posted a few PodBrix items in the past, because they feature our favorite hacker extraordinaire, Steve “Woz” Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple 1 and Apple II, and co-founder of Apple Computer. Without him, this site might be called “TRS-80 Technorati” or “Commodore 64 Central”… (shudder) Now, after a hiatus, artist Tomi and PodBrix […]
Posted inProgramming
Thye Chean launches Apple IIGS programming site
Thye Chean wrote in to announce his website Virtual GS Programming has been updated and moved to a new URL. Virtual GS Programming is the only site dedicated to teaching programming on an emulated Apple IIGS.
Posted inGeneral
August 2007 edition of The Lamp! available
Lyle Syverson has published the August 2007 edition of The Lamp!, a monthly collection of postings and news from A2Central’s message areas. Our FTP server contains text, Appleworks and Hypercard versions of The Lamp! for your convenience. Update: the link has been fixed. D’oh!
Posted inHardware
A2RetroSystems posts pics of prototype //c expansion card
A little old news, that was new to us… Back in June, Glenn Jones of A2RetroSystems posted pictures of his latest project in prototype — the “IIcmxp”, a multi-function card for the memory expansion versions of the Apple //c and //c Plus. The IIcmxp will feature 1024KB of RAM, SD media (to be used as […]
Posted inSoftware
ADTPro 1.0.2 released
David Schmidt has released ADTPro 1.0.2, with numerous speed and function enhancements. David’s comp.sys.apple2 announcement is attached.
Posted inGeneral
A2Unplugged show #0013 released
Podcast host Ryan Suenaga presents A2Unplugged, show #0013. In this episode, Ryan wraps up his KFest 2007 coverage.
Posted inSoftware
Java on the Apple II?
Oliver Schmidt, the person who brought Contiki to the Apple II has been busy porting NanoVM to the cc65 toolchain. In Oliver’s own words, it’s a “very minimalistic Java implementation” but this means the Apple II (and other 65xx CPU equipped computers we won’t mention) could run (in a limited fashion) Java applications. You can […]