Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 1 (March 2008) shipped today to all subscribers. This issue features an interview with Dan Budiac, who bought an Apple IIc off eBay for $2,553; a review of the MicroDrive/Turbo card from ReactiveMicro.com; a retrospective on Peter Watson’s development of the popular MUG! NDA; the conclusion (for now) of Ewen Wannop‘s […]
March 2008
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Arnim Sauerbier porting LinApple to Nokia Internet Tablets
Arnim Sauerbier wrote in to share that he has ported LinApple to run on Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets. Now he’s looking for high-quality audio samples of the Disk II performing various operations. Check out Arnim’s e-mail, attached below, and help him out if you can.
Posted inHardware, Nostalgia & Preservation
Anatomy of an Apple IIc
Dan Budiac certainly has made the Apple IIc popular! PC World — which has previously ranked the Apple II as both the greatest PC of all time and the second best tech product ever — today published a photo gallery entitled “Anatomy of an Icon: Inside the Apple IIc“, in which they dissect what they […]
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New CFFA card firmware under development; 6th batch of cards on the way
Rich Dreher’s compact flash card for the Apple II continues to improve. The new version 2.0 firmware is expected to offer a 25% improvement in read/write performance, a built-in user configurable menu, and several other interesting features. The firmware will be incorporated into the new run of cards, but good news for folks with 4th […]
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A2Unplugged show #0024 released
Ryan Suenaga presents A2Unplugged, show #0024. This episode is entitled “Toolbox Programming in Pascal”. A2Unplugged can be freely downloaded from the podcast’s web site, or subscribed to from the Apple iTunes store.
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More 16 Sector riddles
Tony Diaz’s new site, 16 Sector has been updated; it contains new product silhouettes, hints and insider humor. The page title now reads “SCSI? Where we’re going, we don’t need SCSI.” and “The Vespa Lives! – But the Vespa is cold…” which for KansasFest attendees is an obvious reference to Carrington Vanston, of 1MHz! — Carrington rode […]
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February 2008 1 MHz podcast now available
Carrington Vanston, host of the Apple II podcast 1 MHz, has released his 11th episode. Dated as February 2008, this is the first episode of 1 MHz since before KansasFest 2007. Available from the show’s Web site or via iTunes, this episode covers these topics and more: How much is a new, unopened IIc worth…and […]
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A2Central.com – Your total source for Apple II computing. » ReactiveMicro announces Transwarp GS upgrades, 18MHz possible
Henry S. Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com sent me an e-mail about a new Transwarp GS upgrade service he’s about to roll out. Apparently, he has worked out all the voodoo to reliably upgrade most stock TWGS boards from 6.25Mhz/7MHz to a stable 18MHz, or even 18.75MHz (some make it, some don’t). The upgrade requires a processor […]