Brendan Robert has announced Apple Game Server 3.0 RC1 is now available for download and testing. Apple Game Server is a Java application (v1.5) that hosts disk images on a PC or Mac, and serves them to an Apple II via serial cable. Brendan’s announcement is attached:
March 2009
Posted inSite News
A2Central maintenance this weekend (March 28/29)
Coming up this weekend (March 28/29), the server that hosts our e-mail, FTP, BBS and IRC will be down for maintenance and relocation. One of the server’s hot spare drives is failing, and I must take it out of service before it completely conks out. We’re also rearranging tech equipment and office furniture in the […]
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Beagle Bros Software Repository updated
Bill Marten’s of Call-A.P.P.L.E. wrote in with the following update: The Beagle Bros Software Repository has been updated. (http://beagle.applearchives.com) Thanks to the contributions by Brian Wiser, we are now able to offer a new graphics section; Beagle Bros Graphics 4 which is a compilation of many of the graphics that appeared in ads in Nibble […]
Posted inHardware, Product News
Briel’s 4MB GS RAM card available again at reduced cost
Vince Briel wrote in to let everyone know that his popular 4MB GS RAM card (Apple IIGS only) is available again and at a reduced price of only $49 USD while supplies last.
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Juiced.GS Volume 14, Issue 1 now available
Volume 14, Issue 1 (March 2009) of Juiced.GS, the last remaining Apple II publication in print, shipped today to all subscribers. This issue features an interview with Michael J. Mahon, inventor of the NadaNet and AppleCrate; Kelvin Sherlock’s look at how he developed ProFUSE; Eric Shepherd’s review of several Apple II-inspired iPhone games; Stavros Karatsoridis’s […]
Posted inElsewhere, Hardware
Ben Heckendorn’s mad scientist approach to computer design
Computerworld.com has a feature on Ben Heckendorn, who last year created a laptop Apple IIGS. Though that particular machine is not the focus of the article, it does look at Heckendorn’s background, design philosophy, and the variety of machines he’s modified, from Atari 2600 to Xbox 360. The full transcript of the Heckendorn interview featured […]
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Retr0bright restores vintage computer plastics
The retrocomputing community is buzzing about Retr0bright, a newly developed method for restoring discolored plastic (an effect commonly referred to as “yellowing”) to their former pristine condition. The yellowing of ABS plastic was thought to be permanent, and speculated by many to be the result of the exposure to sunlight or florescent lighting. Cases that […]