Via Marc Esslinger: A new book by industrial designer, Hartmut Esslinger of frog design, famous for being an early collaborator with Steve Jobs, explores how the first Apple computers got designed and developed. Hartmut provides a peek behind the scenes, into the making of the products that revolutionized the digital age, in Keep it Simple: […]
December 2013
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Brutal Deluxe adds LZ4 Compression to their cross development tools
Dear All, This technical article discusses the recent LZ4 data compression algorithm and its ability to become a good multi-purpose lossless compression format for the Apple IIGS computer. Mostly for game programming area, where we have to handle multi-types of data (Graphic, Sound, Music, Code, Misc data…), the availability of one generic compression/decompression algorithm will […]
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Payton Byrd announces Hayesduino
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Nishida Radio releases UNISDISK Disk II/Smartport drive emulator
Nishida Radio has released the UNISDISK, a Disk II/Smartport disk emulator for the Apple II series. You can read more about at http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/UNISDISK/english.html I’m traveling right now and will post additional details later after I get home.
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Ivan Drucker releases Raspple II
Via Ivan Drucker I’m pleased to announce Raspple II for the Raspberry Pi. It’s an easy-to-install version of the Raspbian operating system, with preinstalled, newly updated versions of A2SERVER and A2CLOUD, plus David Schmenk’s nifty Apple II Pi, and other goodies. Find it at: http://appleii.ivanx.com/rasppleii Raspple II includes: A2SERVER: Network file server and network boot […]