Image source: Mike Willegal’s Apple-1 Registry AOL’s DailyFinance News reports that another original Apple-1 computer is to go on the auction block at Christie’s on October 9. This particular machine, which comes from the estate of former Apple employee Joe Copson, is expected to fetch as much as $127,000 USD, though it may go for […]
August 2012
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HP’s History of the Floppy Disk credits Apple II for format’s popularity
Hewlett-Packard has published a well-written article by Steven Vaughan-Nichols called The History of the Floppy Disk. Vaughan-Nichols goes all the way back to the format’s invention by IBM engineer David L. Noble, who was assigned by Alan Shugart to develop, “a reliable and inexpensive system for loading microcode into the IBM System/370 mainframes using a […]
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Update brings JACE out of beta
Brendan Robert released a new JACE update yesterday. Here’s the list of new features, fixes and release notes: This is the first major release, bringing this emulator within a hair of my original vision for what I wanted it to be: it is a complete recreation of the computer I had growing up. (yaaaaaay!) There […]
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CFFA 3000 order limit raised to 4
Now that the initial demand for CFFA 3000 cards has been met, Rich Dreher has raised the order limit to 4 cards. If you had ordered the maximum 2 cards per customer before, you can now order 2 more. There are only about 120 cards left — when they’re gone, there might not be another […]
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Mike Willegal’s SUPERPROTO general sales now available
Mike Willegal announced that he is now selling his SUPERPROTO Apple II prototyping kits and PCBs: I’m going to open up general sales of SUPERPROTO kits and PCBs. Price will be $65 for a SUPERPROTO kit. Bare PCBs (no components) are going to be $35 each. I’m also offering a bundle deal of 4 bare […]
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Video: Randy Brandt at KansasFest 2012
Randy Brandt today posted an edited video of his A History of AppleWorks session from KansasFest 2012. Brandt’s presentation, which clocks in at just over two hours and five minutes, is an extensive accounting of his Apple II programming experiences. Brandt begins with his early days learning to code on an Apple II Plus and […]
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Trip Hawkins interview
Edge Online has posted an extensive interview with EA founder and early Apple employee, Trip Hawkins. Ă‚ The long piece has been serialized and posted over several days. Ă‚ Among other things, Hawkins talks about his time at a young Apple Computer; founding Electronic Arts and dealing with “superstar” programmers such asĂ‚ Richard Garriott,Ă‚ Dan Bunten, andĂ‚ Bill Budge; and […]
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Open Apple podcast #18 (August 2012) now available
On the August episode of Open Apple, Ken Gagne speaks with Wayne Arthurton, who recently attended his first KansasFest since 2004, and Paul Hagstrom and Jeremy Rand, both first-time attendees at the world’s premier annual Apple II convention. In this panel-format discussion, the four veterans discuss their personal highlights from the show, what motivated them […]
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AppleWin emulator updated
AppleWin, the popular 8-bit Apple II emulator for Windows, has been updated to version 1.21.1.0. Ă‚ This new version features the following changes and fixes. Changes:. [Feature #4399] Allow Z80 SoftCard to be inserted into slot 4 or 5. (Allows CP/M v3 to work). Reworked Configuration (property sheets) to allow multiple hardware changes.. Updated Help […]
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ADTPro 1.2.3 released
David Schmidt posted news of a new version of ADTPro via Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.apple2 (attached).