Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 3 (September 2008) shipped today to all subscribers. This issue features Andy Molloy’s report on building a Replica 1 at the Vintage Computer Festival; Em Maginnis’ review of the Computer Gaming World DVD; Eric Shepherd’s guide to beta testing; Howard Katz’s review of CFFA v2.0; KansasFest 2008 coverage; and much, much […]
September 2008
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Apple II Quickies (09-26-08)
Apple II emulation has come to the 8-bit Atari, thanks to Piotr “Artax” Mejer. Read all about it (in Polish – use AltaVista to translate) here, and download it here (7-Zip file). Requires a real or emulated 8-bit Atari with 128KB. Might be fun for all you crossover retro-computists. Blake Patterson tweeted this out 10 […]
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Fall 2008 Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine available
The Fall 2008 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine (Vol. 20 No. 4) has been published. The magazine is available as a free download from the A.P.P.L.E. web site at http://www.callapple.org/current_issue.html
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Apple II Revision 0 kit price reduction
Mike Willegal wrote in to get the word out that the price for his Replica Apple II Revision 0 Kit has been reduced to USD $349.00. He was able to get great prices on components, and is passing the savings on. The replica kits are in stock and ready to go. Also on Mike’s workbench […]
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ADTPro 1.1.1 released, more Apple /// enhancements
David Schmidt continues to add additional support for the Apple /// in ADTPro 1.1.1 New functionality: Bug fixes:
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Retro road trip followup
I left the house around 7:00am on Saturday the 6th. I noted that it was cloudy and cool, and felt a moments regret that I hadn’t checked the weather report. No matter, I was on my way to Oklahoma to see James Littlejohn. My Apple //e and IIc Plus motherboards were in the car and […]
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Overclocking the Apple IIc Plus (just got easier)
James Littlejohn has successfully overclocked his Apple IIc Plus to 10MHz with nothing more than an oscillator change and it works really well. Old news, right? Overclocking the IIc Plus has been around awhile; hackers have been bumping the speed on the IIc Plus for years using various techniques. The most common procedure has been […]
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New beta of AppleIIGo 2.0 released
AppleIIGo is an Apple ][ series emulator written in Java, programmed by Marc S. Ressl. The latest 2.0 beta (build 301) is available from the AppleIIGo Project Site. According to Marc, “This build implements an Apple IIc ROM 04 with two 5.25? disk drives, two UniDisk 3.5? disk drives, and two SmartPort hard disks. It […]
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Geoff Weiss releases MegaMemoryTester
First announced and demonstrated at KansasFest 2008, Geoff Weiss has now publicly released MegaMemoryTester (MMT) for the Apple IIGS. MMT features two test routines, one for testing individual bits for errors and another for verifying that memory maintains it’s contents persistently over a period of time. MMT was put through it’s paces during KFest on […]
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Apple II emulator for Nintendo DS announced
“GrizzlyAdams” on the site retroemu.com has announced that he has developed an Apple II+ emulator for the Nintendo DS. You can read the announcement and the emulator specifications in this message thread.