Bill Budge will be making an appearance at GDC 2013 to give a “Classic Postmortem” on his hit software title Pinball Construction Set.  From the GDC 2013 news item: … Bill Budge, father of the seminal Pinball Construction Set will lay out one of the earliest examples of an in-game editor – a title that game […]
February 2013
Ewen Wannop releases Phoenix file undelete utility
Esteemed Apple IIGS programmer Ewen Wannop has released Phoenix, a file undelete utility for ProDOS and GS/OS. Ewen’s announcement is attached. Announcing the release of the Phoenix File Un-Deleter Utility Accidentally deleted a file from a ProDOS or GS/OS disk? Need to recover it? Then Phoenix is at hand to help you. Phoenix handles all […]
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source
Bill Budge has posted to github the source code to his seminal hit Pinball Construction Set, according to this Y-Combinator item. Â Some sharp eyes in the comments thread noticed that although the code is for the Atari 800 version of the program, it was developed on an Apple II, a common practice in those days […]
Open Apple podcast #24 (February 2013) now available
This month on Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only co-hosted podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Jimmy Maher, the historian behind the renowned blog The Digital Antiquarian. A published author, Jimmy provides us with his perspective on the pros and cons of going with a publishing house over the recent trend in retrocomputing toward […]
New CFFA3000 Firmware released
Rich Dreher has released a new firmware (3.1) for his popular CFFA3000 card. Â This latest update offers, among other things, folder support on FAT volumes, “making it easier to organize a large number of disk image files.” Â Per David Schmidt’s post to comp.sys.apple 2, here’s a list of everything you can expect when you flash […]