Prolific reproduction enthusiast Mike Willegal is bringing his talents to the Datanetics Keyboard. See Mike’s announcement (attached) for details. The Datanetics keyboard was the most common keyboard used with an Apple 1. You can see several of them in photos of original Apple 1. I am working on a reproduction Datanetics PCB. There were several […]
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AppleWin 1.18.2 available
Wayne Arthurton noticed AppleWin 1.18.2 has been posted to the BerliOS developer site. AppleWin is the leading 8-bit Apple II emulator for Windows operating systems. EDIT: we blinked, and suddenly AppleWin 1.19.0 was available.
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CFFA3000 second prototype assembled
Rich Dreher posted an 08/18/10 progress update on the CFFA3000. The news is excellent so far with the new card “working as expected”, but Rich says there’s more testing yet to done. The improved CFFA will add floppy disk emulation with disk image support for .nib, .dsk and .2mg currently in the works and other […]
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A2RetroSystems Uthernet cards in stock
As of August 19th, the popular A2RetroSystems Uthernet card is back in stock and available for ordering. Uthernet cards tend to sell out fast — if you want one (or two), I wouldn’t wait too long.
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Some Assembly Required: Incremental Progress
In this installment, we’re going to continue to learn more about the three primary registers in the 6502 processor (accumulator, X, and Y). We’ll also create our first simple subroutine. You can [download id=”1? format=”2?] for this program. Comments Before we do anything else, let’s take a moment to talk about comments. Comments are text […]
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Happy Birthday Steve Wozniak
Today, Apple co-founder, hacker, inventor and all-around good guy Steve Wozniak turns 60 years old. Happy Birthday Woz!
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Treasure Chest Project returns
Willie Yeo announced via usenet group comp.sys.apple2, the recovery and ressurection of the Treasure Chest Project web site. The TCP is dedicated to finding copyright owners of vintage media and securing permission to legally distribute them again.
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T2A2: Apple II transputer interface
Axel Muhr wrote in to share information about his new Apple II transputer interface, T2A2. Axel has included a super fast Mandelbrot demonstration video, example code and other interesting bits. Check it out.
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Super-Mon/NakedOS version 1.1 released
As promised at KansasFest, Martin Haye has released version 1.1 of Super-Mon and NakedOS. Super-Mon is a souped up extension of the Apple II System Monitor. It’s paired with NakedOS, a fast and small operating system for the 5¼” Disk ][. Both are CC0 licensed. Changes include: – NakedOS works with a Disk ][ in […]
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ADTPro 1.1.6 released
David Schmidt released an updated ADTPro over the weekend. We’re re-posting David’s announcement from CSA2 here for anyone who missed it.