Syndicomm announced today, following A2Central.com’s announcement that it would be opening free Apple II related forums, that it will be closing the Syndicomm Online online service in order to focus its efforts on product development and sales for Apple II and Macintosh computers. The closure will take effect at midnight Eastern Standard Time on December 1, 2006.
Eric Shepherd
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Sweet16 1.7.2 Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X released
Eric Shepherd has released Sweet16 1.7.2, the latest version of the Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X. The new version fixes a bug that prevented writing to 5.25? disk images, and lets you mount multiple disks at a time by dragging a number of images at once into the Disks window.
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Syndicomm carrying two Nibble products for limited time
Syndicomm has two Nibble Magazine products available for purchase in its online store for a limited time. The first, Nibble: The Full 12 1/2 Years is a DVD-ROM product containing scanned PDFs of every single issue of Nibble ever published. Nibble: 16 Volume Books Collection contains 16 themed Nibble books all on one CD-ROM.
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Syndicomm posts GS+ Volume 2 and 3 CDs on online store
Syndicomm has finally added The Definitive GS+: Volume Two and The Definitive GS+: Volume Three to its online store, after releasing both products at KansasFest. These two products contain the second and third years, respectively, of GS+ Magazine in painstakingly-reproduced, searchable, PDF format.
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Sweet16 emulator updated to version 1.7.1
Eric Shepherd tonight released version 1.7.1 of Sweet16, the recently-released Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X. The new feature includes a couple of modest new features and fixes a slough of bugs. A complete list of the fixes is available on the Sweet16 web page.
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Sweet16 version 1.7 released
Sweet16, the new Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X, has been updated again, this time to version 1.7. The new version has a bunch of changes, including fixes for some (but admittedly not all) of the most-reported issues. Performance on PowerPC systems is also much improved.A complete list of the changes follows:
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Softdisk Supreme and Simply Softdisk G-S prices reduced
Syndicomm tonight quietly removed the printed indices from the Softdisk Supreme and Simply Softdisk G-S compilation CDs, reducing the price of each by $5 to $45. Each compilation still contains its index on the disc.
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Sean Fahey taking over A2Central.com
Syndicomm announced this morning that over the next few weeks, management of A2Central.com, the popular Apple II portal web site, will be transferred to Sean Fahey. Initially, A2Central.com will continue to be running on Syndicomm’s system, but it will likely be relocated at some point in the future to complete the separation.
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Sweet16 1.6.1 released
Eric Shepherd posted Sweet16 1.6.1 today. The new version of the Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X fixes a few minor bugs and may slightly improve performance on some systems. Shepherd indicates that another update will be coming soon with more significant bug fixes and improvements.
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July issue of Apple II News and Notes posted
Howard Katz has posted the July, 2006 issue of Apple II News & Notes, the freely-redistributable monthly newsletter covering the goings-on in the Apple II world.