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.
2014
Posted inElsewhere, General, Nostalgia & Preservation, People
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!
Posted inApple III, Interviews, People, Podcasts
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 […]
Posted inClones, General, Hardware, Product News
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 […]
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Open Apple #40 (October 2014) : Chris Torrence, Printers, Celebrating Lode Runner
This month on Open Apple, we talk to Chris Torrence, the new Roger Wagner Volunteer Archivist on behalf of Softalk magazine. Chris is a lifelong Apple II fan, and has recently undertaken the valuable effort of producing a book containing all of Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines columns. This will include all of the articles included in Roger’s original book (Assembly Lines: […]
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La French Touch revient !
The French Touch, a group of French programmers, strikes back with Ibiza. It is a Double Low-Resolution animation running on an Apple II with 128KB of RAM. And read more information about Ibiza at http://www.ctrl-pomme-reset.fr/french-touch/
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Drop /// Inches podcast #6 released – Don Williams at Phase III
The Phase III conference was organized by the Third Apple User Group in Chicago, held October 2-4, 1987. Dave Ottalini located and digitized his audio recordings of some of the sessions at that conference, and provided them to us. We have been cleaning them up as best we can, and will release them here on […]
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Open Apple #39 (Sept 2014): Gary B. Little, New Segments, Apple IIc Cards
This month on Open Apple, we talk to Gary Little, prolific author of many technical reference books about various models in the Apple ][ line. In addition to writing great books that go deep on the hardware, Gary also wrote lots of great software, including such gems as AmDOS, and the popular Point To Point […]
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Juiced.GS Volume 19, Issue 3 now available
Volume 19, Issue 3 (Sep 2014) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2014; developer journals for both Lawless Legends and Apple2048; an interview with Robin Bailey, author of novels based on Infocom text adventure games; a tutorial for dealing with […]
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Drop /// Inches podcast #5 released – Dave Ottalini
In this episode, Mike and Paul had the opportunity to speak with Dave Ottalini, co-founder of the Apple /// Special Interest Group of the Washington Apple Pi user group. The entire episode is devoted to this conversation. And stay to the very end for an extremely interesting announcement! Show Links