Volume 17, Issue 3 (June 2012) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2013, including a behind-the-scenes look at Jeremy Rand’s winning HackFest entry, CurtaSim; a review of David Finnigan’s book, The New Apple II User’s Guide; the conclusion of Peter […]
2012
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Melissa Baron’s “73H 0r3g0n 7r41L” glitch screenprints now available
Daniel Kruszyna (AKA Krue) today made the following announcement on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace: Melissa Barron has made available screenprints of glitches she encountered while working on her 73H 0r3g0n 7r41L project. You can find the prints at Melissa’s Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MthreeL Here is a video of the presentation she gave about 73H 0r3g0n 7r41L at Kfest 2010: […]
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Brutal Deluxe’s DeluxeWare CD-ROM reclassified
Apple IIGS French programming super-group announced that their DeluxeWare CD-ROM has been reclassified as freeware. The text of their press release follows. Paris, September 11st, 2012 – Brutal Deluxe’s DeluxeWare CD-ROM now available Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini are proud to announce that DeluxeWare, their CD-ROM released in 1996 in partnership with La Pomme Illustrée, […]
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ADTPro updated to version 1.2.4
David Schmidt has released another update to his popular ADTPro disk transfer utility. New functionality: * [Client] ProDOS Serial and Ethernet clients can extract and send nibble images * [VDisk] Virtual drive over a comms link – any serial or Ethernet connection can host a virtual ProDOS disk on slot 2, […]
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Briel Computer’s second annual ‘I can’t solder sale’
Vince Briel is having what is now an annual ‘I can’t solder sale‘ with significant savings on his assembled retrocomputing products. If you’ve been considering a Replica-1 (or any of the other cool kits), now is your opportunity for major savings. Sale ends 09/16.
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Open Apple podcast #19 (September 2012) now available
This month on Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only co-hosted podcast, Mike and Ken chat with David Schmidt, the programmer responsible for ADTPro. Beyond his own program, David has also contributed to the development of Davex, GSport, AppleCommander, CiderPress, OpenEmulator, DiscFerret, CFFA3000 — and much, much more. Collectively, the show’s hosts marvel at the […]
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Another Apple-1 to be auctioned by Christie’s
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 […]
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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 […]