Open Apple #38 is published (still August – just made it. Whew!). If you’re a subscriber, it should be appearing in your favorite RSS reader or iTunes shortly if it hasn’t already. This month on Open Apple, we go deep on Lawless Legends with most of the team building it. We’ve managed to corner Seth […]
August 2014
Posted inElsewhere, General, People
A.P.P.L.E. hosting Australian Apple Review at Apple Archives
Bill Martens forwarded news of this posting from Call-A.P.P.L.E. The Australian Apple Review has been officially released by A.P.P.L.E.. The release announcement occurred last evening in the Downunder Chat on A2Central’s IRC channel. According to the announcement made by A.P.P.L.E.’s Bill Martens, “The project is the culmination of a number of people including Andrew Roughan, […]
Posted inApple III, Emulation, General, Podcasts
Drop /// Inches podcast #3 released – Dream Machines with Egan Ford
EPISODE 3: DREAM MACHINES, WITH EGAN FORD (APPLE3RTR) In this episode, we talk about some introductory and demo materials, consider some Apple /// “dream systems” and talk with Egan Ford about the work he has done preparing the Apple /// “Ready-to-Run” quick start package for the MESS apple3 emulator. Subscribe to ‘Drop /// Inches’ via […]
Posted inGeneral, Nostalgia & Preservation, Product News, Product Reviews, Rants and Raves
ICONIC: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation
I was recently given a copy of ‘ICONIC: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation’ by Jonathan Zufi to review. I’ve spent the past week poring over it in my spare time. As I turned each page, I felt mesmerized and pleasantly surprised by the book’s high-quality photography of historical Apple products. Which is odd. I’m […]
Posted inElsewhere, General, Hardware, It's a Hack!, Product News
Will there be a Carte Blanche 2?
That’s the question now being discussed on Usenet forum Comp.Sys.Apple2 right now. The new Carte Blanche would offer several improvements over the original, of which built-in VGA or HDMI output and new video modes may be possibilities. If this is something you might be interested in, drop in to CSA2 and voice your support. It […]
Posted inElsewhere, General, Nostalgia & Preservation
Mr. Yocam, if only it had turned out that way…
http://youtu.be/ZerV5WcnBAo
Posted inElsewhere, General, Nostalgia & Preservation
Level 29 BBS online, running ProLine
http://bbs.fozztexx.com
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Ivan Drucker announces updates to A2SERVER, A2CLOUD for Raspberry Pi
I’m pleased to announce updates to A2SERVER and A2CLOUD. They run on a Raspberry Pi, a premade downloadable virtual machine, or any Linux computer. Get them and read about how to set them up at http://appleii.ivanx.com. If you’re already running and want to update, type ‘a2server-setup’ and ‘a2cloud-setup’. Raspple II, the “suite” which makes it […]
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GGLabs, new RAM card vendor for the Apple IIGS
I found this IIGS 4MB RAM card on eBay, and a subsequent search for the vendor turned up GGLabs, ‘Open Source Electronics from Silicon Valley.’ It appears to be a copy of the Applied Engineering GS-RAM III but it may only be a resemblance based on the type of RAM used (ZIP-20). More details (schematics, […]