Em Maginnis has announced major improvements to the Computist Project. Brian Wiser has taken the archive scanned by Mike to the next level by re-cropping, color correcting and running the content through optical character recognition (OCR) making the Computist Project archives completely text-searchable. Mike scanned (with the original publisher’s permission) the entire run of Computist […]
July 2008
Posted inApple 1
Reconstructing Apple-1 BASIC
Michael Steil has produced what he calls “the first confirmed perfect dump of the 4096 bytes” that constituted the BASIC that shipped with the original Apple-1 computer. This software was recovered after Steil received a copy — in MP3 format. From his blog: The Apple I is extremely rare. Only 200 were built, and less […]
Posted inHardware
16 Sector officially opens
16 Sector has officially launched! The most mysterious site (and worst kept secret) in recent history has finally been revealed to the Apple II Community. They’re back! Sirius 8MB RAM cards (special sale price $179), Focus IDE controllers ($99/$129 w/CF) plus shipping. GREAT NEWS! We have confirmed that Tony Diaz will have quantities of each […]
Posted inHardware
Ferdinand Meyer-Hermann to release Apple][VGA card for 8-bit Apples
Ferdinand Meyer-Hermann is very close to releasing his new Apple][VGA card for Apple II, II Plus and //e. The Apple][VGA interface is designed to display crisp text and images, with accurate color rendition on modern LCD monitors. The card does not support any IIGS video modes. The price is expected to be between $150 and […]