David Schmenk amazed KansasFest attendees with his game ‘Escape From the Homebrew Computer Club 3D’. It’s a first person shooter, minus the shooting, that uses low res graphics to produce a 2 1/2 dimension game running on all models of the Apple II. The object is to help Woz find his way out of a […]
2011
Posted inKansasFest, Product News, Software
SideClick 2.0 released
Hot on the heels of the Sweet16 update, Sheppy announced SideClick v2.0. SideClick is a contextual menu manager for the Apple IIGS, supporting right mouse button and control-clicking to open an object’s contextual menu.
Posted inSoftware
Sweet16 v2.3 released
Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd today announced the release of Sweet16 v2.3, the premier Apple IIGS emulator for MacOS X. See the release notes for a complete list of additional features and bug fixes.
Posted inHardware, Howto, KansasFest, Product News
CFFA3000 demo video posted
David Schmidt has posted a superb demonstration video of Rich Dreher’s new CFFA3000 card that is being released at KansasFest.
Posted inPodcasts
Open Apple podcast #6 (July 2011) now available
The July 2011 episode of Open Apple, the only co-hosted Apple II podcast, is now available. This month, Mike and Ken discuss user groups, Mini-Appler boot code, past KansasFests, and classic arcades. Find the episode on the Open Apple Web site or in iTunes.
Posted inElsewhere, General, User Group
BASUG/Apple2000 Magazine archive online
Ewen Wannop has posted the following announcement: The British Apple Systems User Group, renamed in 1986 to Apple2000, ran continuously from 1981 to 1992, and was the National Apple User Group for the UK. Over that period of time, they published regular magazines and other publications, much of which may not have been seen outside […]
Posted inPublications
Juiced.GS Volume 16, Issue 2 now available
Volume 16, Issue 2 (June 2011) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, is now arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes. This 24-page issue features an interview with Don Worth, author of Beneath Apple Manor and Beneath Apple DOS; a review of modern-day word processors that re-create the AppleWorks environment; a tutorial for using the […]
Posted inApple III, General, Hardware, Help, Howto
Apple Service Technical Procedures Manuals
Henry Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com has scanned many of the Apple Service Technical Procedures Manuals and provided them to Apple2Scans.net to be hosted.  You can download them here.  A big thanks to Henry for doing this.