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
Posted inGeneral, Product News, Software
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 […]
Posted inPeople, Product News, Programming
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 […]
Posted inPodcasts
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 […]
Posted inHardware, Product News
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 […]