After a great deal of consideration and advice from friends in the community (thanks everyone), I’ve decided not to add commercial advertising to the A2Central site. I’ve added a PayPal “Donate” link instead. The recent poll on the matter showed there is support (tolerance?) for advertising from the community but I just didn’t want my […]
October 2008
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation, People, Product News
Get Lamp documentary update
Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, recently updated his blog with news on his latest project, Get Lamp, a documentary of text adventures: I have finished going through all 120 hours of footage for useful clips. This is the most dreary aspect of the way I do these documentaries. I listen to an interview […]
Posted inApple 1, Hardware
Obtronix Apple 1 reproductions available again
Obtronix is auctioning off 10 more build-it-yourself Apple 1 reproduction kits on eBay. These kits are famous for their accuracy in replicating the Apple 1, and include the same components that Woz used back in the day. You’ll have to provide a case, keyboard and power supply, but everything else required is included.
Posted inHardware
Random Access (10-14-08)
An overclocked 8MHz Apple IIc Plus seems visibly faster than an Apple //e equipped with an 8MHz ZipChip. I haven’t done any real testing, but the animation speed in games is obviously different when the machines are compared side by side. Is it because the Apple IIc Plus has an oscillator change, whereas the //e […]
Posted inGeneral
Apple II Quickies (10-09-08) UPDATED
A new BBS is online, running on real Apple II hardware and accessible via Telnet (one user at a time). Check out The Age of Reason BBS, running GBBS 1.3j (wow, that’s going waaay back) at: telnet://aor.retroarchive.org The board doesn’t yet support the telnet “will echo” negotiation sequence, ssoo yyoouu”ll ggeett dduupplliiccaattee cchhaarraacctteerr ssttrriinnggss unless […]