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: […]
2014
Posted inGeneral, Software
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/
Posted inApple III, General, Nostalgia & Preservation, People, Podcasts
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 […]
Posted inGeneral, Hardware, Interviews, Nostalgia & Preservation, People, Podcasts, Programming, Software
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 […]
Posted inKansasFest, Publications
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 […]
Posted inApple III, General, Interviews, People, Podcasts, User Group
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
Posted inGeneral, Hardware, Product News
Something new coming from Tecnobytes
Apparently a new compact flash controller is on the horizon from Tecnobytes Classic Computers. We’ll post details and pricing when the info is available.