Thursday was the first full day of sessions, and we were excited to see what the presenters would come up with this year. Peter Neubauer started us off with a presentation on Macrosoft, an Applesoft-like programming language that allows one to achieve machine language speed without having to write assembly code. Peter used Macrosoft to […]
July 2010
Posted inSoftware
Ewen Wannop releases SAM2
In case you missed the announcements in Juiced.GS or Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.apple2, prolific Apple IIGS programmer Ewen Wannop has released a new version of Spectrum Automated Mailer, or SAM2. Ewen’s complete announcement is attached.
Posted inElsewhere, General
MICRO magazine added to Apple Archives site
MICRO Magazine library viewable on the Apple Archives A.P.P.L.E., the Apple Vault and 6502.org are pleased to announce that an unprecedented cooperation has brought forth a re-release of MICRO magazine to the general public. The new site at http://micro.applearchives.com is the result of many hours of hard work by a number of people within the […]
Posted inKansasFest
KansasFest 2010 – Tuesday/Wednesday
Tuesday KansasFest started early for me this year. James Littlejohn drove up Saturday and spent the entire weekend helping me sort and organize my Apple II collection in the sweltering Kansas heat. This is an ongoing project that I sometimes fear will never get done — I’ve simply hoarded collected too much stuff over the […]
Posted inHardware
Early Apple mouse prototype
Antoine Vignau scored an early Apple II mouse prototype dated November 12, 1980. Visit his site for pictures of the heavy 3-button device.
Posted inSoftware
Sweet16 Apple IIgs emulator version 2.2 released
Sweet16 2.2 for Mac OS X has been released; this is the latest version of Eric Shepherd and F.E. Systems’ Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X. One of the key changes is that by default, Sweet16 now limits the emulated IIgs speed to 40 MHz. Previously, the default was to go as fast as […]
Posted inKansasFest
KansasFest prize patrol
[This is a re-post of a message from the official KansasFest Mailing List sent out by KansasFest attendee and Organizing Committee member Peter Neubauer. It contains the list of prizes announced on the KFest blog.] The prize collection for KFest is looking pretty impressive thanks to generous vendors and mysterious “anonymous benefactors.” Check out the […]
Posted inKansasFest
Pre-KansasFest crunch and countdown
Next week, we begin our on-site coverage of KansasFest. I know a lot of our readers wish they could be there in person but couldn’t make it. So, A2Central will try to keep you vicariously involved with daily write-ups and information on new developments. This year, we’ve borrowed Em Maginnis and Andy Molloy from Juiced.GS […]