Jason Scott has taken to Facebook to announce the inclusion of Apple IIGS and //e emulation into the JSMESS site. The Javascript MESS (JSMESS) project is dedicated to porting the MESS emulator to the Javascript language, so that many gaming consoles and classic computers can be emulated from within a web browser. It’s all in […]
September 2013
Posted inGeneral, Product News, Programming, Software
AppleIIWorks Envoy released, out of beta
You may recall, we announced the beta of Hugh Hood’s AppleIIWorks Envoy back in March of this year. Hugh has now released (a highly polished) finished application. As before, AppleIIWorks Envoy adds full Finder and Spotlight metadata support for Classic AppleWorks word-processing, spreadsheet and database files as well as a viewer to OS X. Get […]
Posted inGeneral, Hardware, It's a Hack!, Software
Ivan Drucker updates A2Cloud
A2Cloud is now out of testing and has reached it’s first official release. Users of the prior beta release are encouraged to download the new version at: http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ Per Ivan’s site, the ideas behind A2Cloud are to:
Posted inPodcasts
Open Apple #30 (Sep 2013): Charles Mangin, Jobs movie, Tetris, and S-Prize
This month on Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only monthly podcast, Mike and Ken chat with Charles Mangin, the mad scientist who puts Mac Minis inside Apple II cases and inventor of the RetroConnector. It’s our first show since KansasFest, and we share our highlights and favorite products and announcements from the show. The […]
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Brutal Deluxe Software releases BenchmarkeD
Paris, September 1st, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to introduce BenchmarkeD to the Apple II community. BenchmarkeD is a benchmark utility for the Apple IIgs. It allows you to calculate the average throughput in reading and writing files and sequential disk blocks of your ProDOS volumes. BenchmarkeD uses standard GS/OS routines to perform […]