The Facebook Apple II Enthusiast’s forum is discussing the sad news that Bob Bishop, famed programmer and early Apple employee has passed away. Call-A.P.P.L.E. has a nice write-up of what’s known so far, and the KansasFest site has posted a tribute to Bob, who was keynote speaker at KansasFest 2011. RIP Mr. Bishop.
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Tecnobytes sells out limited batch of Apple IDE cards… more coming soon
Tecnobytes Classic Computers announced yesterday via the Facebook Apple II Enthusiasts forum a small run of 10 boards for their new Apple IDE card (a ‘replica’ of the original CFFA v2.0 from R&D Automation) would be for sale. Within a few hours, they were quickly snapped up for $125 each (including shipping). Tecnobytes promises more […]
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Open Apple #40.5: Quinn and Mike watch The Goldbergs
Now for something completely different. We have a bit of a gap between shows here on Open Apple, due to the timing of some interviews we have lined up. Rather than keep you waiting, we thought we’d try something wacky. In this “episode” of Open Apple, Quinn and Mike sit down together and watch The […]
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French Touch releases new demo ‘Unlimited Bobs’
You can get more info and download French Touch productions from http://www.ctrl-pomme-reset.fr/french-touch/.
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GGLabs out with new 8MB RAM card for Apple IIGS
GGLabs has started selling an 8MB RAM card on eBay called the RAMGS-MAX. Similar to their 4MB RAMGS card offering, this card uses ZIP style DRAMs, making the board extremely compact. Also as before, it appears this card will be open-source. I think I’ll try to get one of these boards and check it out.
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Control Open-Apple Reset
Inspired by this Apple ][ of sysop Dj on RMAC, a DiversiDial (D-Dial) station based in TX. Call up at telnet://rmac.d-dial.com — Runs on real Apple ][ computers!
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Drop /// Inches interviews Colette Askeland
You probably know that Dr. Wendell Sander is the “father” of the Apple ///, and that Daniel Kottke was the lead tech for the Sara project. But did you know that before Colette Askeland was doing board layout design for the original Macintosh prototypes, she was the PCB layout artist for the ///? For some […]
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UltimateApple2 and ReactiveMicro to bring Transwarp GS clone (and more) to the masses
The trigger has been pulled, UltimateApple2 and ReactiveMicro are going to attempt to clone the much sought after (and often freakishly expensive on eBay) Applied Engineering Transwarp GS accelerator. Will they be heroes or zeroes? Others have tried and failed, so this is a risky but potentially rewarding project. UA2/RM already offer tweaker upgrade products […]