After many years of service as the editor of a2central.com, Sean Fahey has stepped aside. Eric Shepherd, the founder of a2central.com, has resumed ownership of the site, and has selected a new editor-in-chief. Our new editor is a well-known blogger, writer, and pundit with his finger on the pulse of the Apple II community. With […]
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Sweet16 status update
Eric Shepherd, author of the Sweet16 emulator for the Mac, posted an announcement today about the status and future plans for Sweet16. He starts with a comforting “this isn’t a death announcement!”, then continues: With that out of the way, I know it’s been a while since the last update to Sweet16, and that it […]
Posted inProduct News, Programming, Software
Merlin 16 assembler macros for System 6.0.1 updated
Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd has released an updated version of his Merlin macros for System 6.0/6.0.1 (fixing a broken Toolbox macro) and a new version of his Merlin GS/OS macros (there’s no functional improvement to the new version of the GS/OS macros; just updated contact information in the comments). The macro files included with Merlin 16 […]
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Sweet16 3.0.3 released
Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd has released Sweet16 3.0.3. The key changes in this release are a new About box—the first portion of Sweet16 to be rewritten as Cocoa code—and the following two key bug fixes: There are a few other changes as well, so be sure to review the release notes. Sheppy says he’s especially excited […]
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Sweet16 3.0.1 Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X released
Eric Shepherd has announced the release of version 3.0.1 of Sweet16, the Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X. This release fixes a few bugs in the KansasFest-launched version 3.0, and adds one new feature to the debugger. Some highlights of the changes include: Shepherd notes that it’s necessary to install updated versions of the […]
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Sheppy Releases “Trasher” Extension for Apple IIgs
Trasher is a new extension for the Apple IIgs that adds support for using Command-Delete on your keyboard to delete the selected icons in the Finder. In addition, if you have Sheppy’s SideClick contextual menu manager installed, you get “Move to Trash” and “Empty Trash” contextual menu items as appropriate based on what icon or […]
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Syndicomm Changes Management, Maintains Catalog and Commitment to Apple II
Syndicomm, the distributor of the largest catalog of Apple II products in the world, has been operated by Eric Shepherd since the fall of 2000. Recently, growing family commitments and expanding full time employment responsibilities have sharply limited the amount of time he has available for developing new software. For that reason, he set out […]
Posted inProgramming
Some Assembly Required: Let’s Do It Again
Last time, we looked at how to increment and decrement the values in registers. The code sample wasn’t very interesting, but learning how to use INC and DEC is a key step in learning how to build code that repeats tasks. A loop is a code sequence that executes over and over again until some […]
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Sweet16 Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X updated to version 2.2.1
Eric Shepherd has released Sweet16 2.2.1, a minor update that corrects an issue with how the disk controller is emulated, which lets certain disk activities work correctly; for example, you can now start up in ProDOS 8 then switch to GS/OS by running the GS/OS bootstrap “PRODOS” file.
Posted inProduct News, Programming
Partial Draft of Toolbox Programming in GSoft BASIC Released
When GSoft BASIC was first released by The Byte Works, Mike Westerfield (of The Byte Works) contracted Eric Shepherd to adapt his book “Toolbox Programming in C” for GSoft BASIC. Work proceeded apace for a while, but stalled when issues were run into getting the code samples for chapter 7 (on printing) adapted. When it […]