Juiced.GS Volume 12, Issue 2 (June 2007) is now in subscriber’s hands. Among this issue’s features are an interview with copy protection expert Roland Gustafsson; Ewen Wannop’s “TCP/IP for Dummies”; a look at the development of Appleworks emulator Deja IIx by its author, Mark Munz; and Em Maginnis’ review of the FTP client SAFE2. This […]
Ken Gagne
Editor & publisher of Juiced.GS, the Apple II community's longest-running print publication dedicated to the Apple II; co-host of the Star Trek podcast Transporter Lock; digital nomad at Roadbits.
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The History of Zork
Via Slashdot comes a six-page feature on the history of Zork, a classic series of text-based adventure games (or interactive fiction). The article looks at Zork‘s predecessor, the original Colossal Cave game; and Zork’s impact on gaming to follow. Full interviews with Zork’s designers, excerpted in the article, are also available online. In related news, […]
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June 2007 1 MHz podcast now available
1 MHz, the Apple II podcast, has released its June 2007 episode, available from the show’s Web site or via iTunes. Host Carrington Vanston describes this episode: In this episode, I try to sort out when the Apple II really turned 30… and whether Retro Thing and Retrocomputing Times are going to have to wrestle […]
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The History of MECC and Oregon Trail
Courtesy Slashdot comes a look at the history of MECC and Oregon Trail. From the article: MECC was for many years one of the major producers of educational content including courseware, videos and educational computer games for the Apple II … MECC was instrumental in ensuring the U.S. was ahead and invested sufficiently in educational […]
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SAFE2 FTP client for GS/OS updated to v2.1.6
Ewen Wannop has updated Speccie’s Automated File Exchange (SAFE) 2, the standalone FTP client, to v2.1.6. This bug fix release corrects an issue with the TCP/IP connect/disconnect buttons not properly recognizing the current connection state, as noted by Ryan Suenaga in his recent podcast of A2Unplugged.
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Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0
Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0 is occurring this weekend in Wall, New Jersey. The event will feature hardware, speakers, and presentations of classic computing from the 1940s forward. The festival’s organizer, Evan Koblentz, writes in his blog, Technology Rewind: “Any computer wiz older than 30 knows about the legendary MOS Technology 6502 processor — the […]
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Woz on Apple II and DIY; Apple II a PC Breakthrough
eWeek posted two stories today that pay homage to the Apple II in its 30th year. “Woz on Apple II and DIY” is an interview with Apple II inventor Steve Wozniak as he reflects on how the Apple II helped bring about the modern era of computing and telecommunications — and how much of it […]
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Gaming Villains Hall of Fame
Computerworld.com has a gallery on the ten ‘baddest’ villains in electronic gaming, with a winner and runner-up in each of five categories, such as Most Memorable, Most Sinister, and Most Persistent. In the Most Terrifying department, the winner is none other than the Nazis that hound Apple II users as they escape from Castle Wolfenstein, […]
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Jobs & Gates on the Apple II
At this week’s All Things Digital conference, Walt Mossberg emceed a joint interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The entire session is captured in seven videos at the site AllThingsD and begins with the two icons reminiscing about their companies’ origins. Specifically, the first video segment, from time indices 6:53 to 9:11, the contributions […]
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Significant IT contributions since 1967 survey
Computerworld magazine, which turns 40 years old this year, is surveying its readers to determine the most significant IT people and products of the last four decades. Among the product candidates are both the Apple II and VisiCalc, the world’s first electronic spreadsheet; and VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin is among the choices of people who […]