Volume 15, Issue 4 (December 2010) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, shipped today to all subscribers. This issue features an interview with Apple II retailer and collector Wayne Bibbens, who was featured in the documentary Welcome to Macintosh; an analysis of technologies introduced in the failed Apple III that were more […]
2010
Posted inKansasFest
Bob Bishop to keynote KansasFest 2011
KANSAS CITY, MO — December 17, 2010 — Bob Bishop, co-founder of Apple’s R&D lab, will be the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2011. Bob is part of the early history of the Apple computer and has developed numerous commercial software titles, worked side-by-side with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, written a book on assembly language programming, […]
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation, User Group
Apple’s first user group newsletter available
Brutal Deluxe has made available the last three issues of Apple’s Contact newsletter from 1978 and 1979, as well as the 32-page Best of Contact ’78. The Apple Bibliography on page 30 is filled with classic early article references on the Apple II, such as: Wozniak, Stephen, “Sweet 16: the 6502 Dream Machine”, Byte 2, […]
Posted inSoftware
ActiveGS browser plugin updated
FTA‘s browser plugin ActiveGS is a front-end based on the Apple IIgs emulator Kegs, running on Windows and Mac OS X. Version 3.2.619 was released on December 6th and includes adjustments to the emulator speed, screen shot function and various other fixes.
Posted inPeople
Becky “Burger” Heineman extensive interview
Matt Barton (author of the excellent book Dungeons and Desktops, a history of computer role-playing games) interviewed famed Apple II programmer and game developer Rebecca Heineman as part of his popular Matt Chat series. The interview is broken into four parts with possibly one more to come. Becky discusses Bard’s Tale, Dragon Wars, Tass Times […]
Posted inElsewhere, People
Saving Captain Crunch
Iconic phreaker John “Captain Crunch” Draper needs an emergency laminectomy to repair damage that has left his hands and arms in painful, near-paralysis. Without surgical intervention, the nerves will deteriorate and the paralysis may become permanent. Unfortunately, the expense of the surgery is beyond John’s immediate means. He needs help covering the costs of the […]
Posted inKansasFest, Nostalgia & Preservation
Podcasts from KansasFest 1992
After a brief hiatus, the Echoes of KFest podcast is back with more great historical content from the world’s premiere Apple II convention. Three Four recordings from Resource Central’s catalog, which was recently reclassified under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License, have been digitized by Steve Weyhrich and made available as podcasts. Each episode is […]
Posted inHardware
TreeHugger 1.0 released
krüe’s GS/OS printer port driver TreeHugger has gone through several revisions and has hit version 1.0. The latest version features a new control panel. See our previous post for more info.
Posted inGeneral
1 MHz and the Retro Computing Roundtable offer new podcast episodes
Vintage computer historian David Greelish hosts a new podcast called the Retro Computing Roundtable (iTunes). His first guests included other retro computer hobbyists Bill Degnan, Earl Evans and Carrington Vanston. The discussion includes Apple related history, as well as ENIAC, the Xerox Alto, and more. David founded the Historical Computer Society and produced an early […]
Posted inPublications
New Juiced.GS bundles and more
There are several new items in the Juiced.GS online store: the Friends For Life CD with scans of volumes 1–6 as well as tons of shareware and freeware programs for the Apple II; discounted bundles containing volumes 7–14 in hardcopy, both with and without Friends For Life; a PDF reprinting Antoine Vignau‘s three-part series about […]