A new contest has been announced over at the Eamon Adventurer’s Guild. If you’ve read through the old NEUC and EAG newsletters, you’ve undoubtedly run across one of the contests held years ago. (This is why there are about a billion Eamons mentioning a “Life Orb.”) They tended to produce some pretty solid adventures. Of […]
Em Maginnis
Em is the former editor-in-chief of A2Central, as well as a blogger and rescuer of classic manuals and books.
Posted inProgramming, Software
Brutal Deluxe releases Mr. Sprite
Paris, March 3rd, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce Mr Sprite, a command-line tool to manage sprites and to simplify the integration of sprites into Apple IIgs games. Discover Mr Sprite at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/mrsprite/ Mr Sprite is part of the Brutal Deluxe’s Cross Developpement Tools Project, a full set of utilities available on […]
Posted inEvents, People
Bill Budge to give Pinball Construction Set ‘postmortem’ at GDC 2013
Bill Budge will be making an appearance at GDC 2013 to give a “Classic Postmortem” on his hit software title Pinball Construction Set.  From the GDC 2013 news item: … Bill Budge, father of the seminal Pinball Construction Set will lay out one of the earliest examples of an in-game editor – a title that game […]
Posted inPeople, Product News, Programming
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source
Bill Budge has posted to github the source code to his seminal hit Pinball Construction Set, according to this Y-Combinator item. Â Some sharp eyes in the comments thread noticed that although the code is for the Atari 800 version of the program, it was developed on an Apple II, a common practice in those days […]
Posted inHardware, Product News
New CFFA3000 Firmware released
Rich Dreher has released a new firmware (3.1) for his popular CFFA3000 card. Â This latest update offers, among other things, folder support on FAT volumes, “making it easier to organize a large number of disk image files.” Â Per David Schmidt’s post to comp.sys.apple 2, here’s a list of everything you can expect when you flash […]
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VCFSE 1.0 Officially Announced
David Greelish, producer of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast, has issued the following press release officially announcing the new convention: Announcing the First Ever Vintage Computer Festival Southeast The original Vintage Computer Festival was founded by Sellam Ismail and held in Pleasanton, California during October, 1997. Now, finally, the southeast region of the US gets […]
Posted inElsewhere, Events, General
VCF East 9.0 postponed
VCF East 9.0, originally scheduled for May 18th and 19th of this year has been delayed until 2014 due to venue facility damage caused by last year’s Hurricane Sandy. Â Evan Koblentz posted the following announcement to the classiccmp mailing list this evening: VCF East 9.0, scheduled for May 18-19 this year, is postponed to next […]
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The return of the A2Central Downunder Chat
Andrew Roughan has announced the return of a2central.com’s weekly Downunder Chat: After a hiatus… it is time for a come back. Calling all Apple II enthusiasts who are awake between 9pm and 11pm Australian Eastern Summer Time on Friday nights to visit the #a2c.chat channel on the A2Central IRC server. That’s probably likely to be […]