AppleWin, the popular Apple II emulator for Windows, is now being distributed under the GPL open source license. For details, visit the new AppleWin web site, or the CVS source code repository. The current version is now 1.12.9.0.
Eric Shepherd
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation
CNet looking for your Apple stories
CNet’s News.com technology news site is looking for readers’ stories about Apple and how Apple’s technology has affected their lives, in celebration of Apple’s upcoming 30th anniversary. Drop by and share your love of the Apple II with the world!
Posted inSoftware
CiderPress 2.4 released
Andy McFadden has updated CiderPress to version 2.4. The new version of the popular Apple II file and disk utility for Windows offers a number of new features and improvements.New features include: Fixed bugs include:
Posted inGeneral
February 2006 issue of The Lamp released
Lyle Syverson has posted the February 2006 issue of The Lamp!. This monthly newsletter compiles the most interesting and helpful posts from the Apple II message board on Syndicomm Online each month.
Posted inSite News
Server upgrade status report
Syndicomm’s server upgrade is mostly finished now. FTP access for paying customers has been restored, along with essentially all other services. A few small issues remain to be polished off, but most users shouldn’t notice them.
Posted inGeneral
January 2006 issue of A2 News and Notes released
Howard Katz has posted the January, 2006 issue of Apple II News & Notes, the freely-redistributable monthly newsletter covering the Apple II world.
Posted inSite News
A2Central.com server undergoing improvements
For the past few days, we’ve been engaged in a move to a new server, which will offer a vastly faster download speed for downloading content from our site. Most services are available once again, but a few (including FTP access, for paid Syndicomm Online members of our A2 forum) are not yet operational again. They should be back up and running soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we’re also sure you’ll love the new, faster, A2Central.com!
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation
GSoft BASIC forms the basis for media tool scripting language
Mike Westerfield, the author of many popular Apple II development tools from The Byte Works (of which he was also founder and president), recently mentioned that MediaBlender, a new cross-platform multimedia/hypermedia project system and educational tool has a scripting language that’s based heavily on GSoft BASIC, the popular Apple IIgs BASIC interpreter. Perusing the manual […]