While the most recent Apple-1 auction failed to close with a successful sale – bidding on the non-functional unit didn’t meet the $80,071 minimum price – another unit is scheduled to hit the auction block in November.  This particular Apple-1 is not only complete and working, but  comes with several original peripherals including a 9? […]
Em Maginnis
Em is the former editor-in-chief of A2Central, as well as a blogger and rescuer of classic manuals and books.
Posted inHardware, Product News
Latest batch of Mimeo-1s to go on sale
The latest batch of Mike Willegal’s Mimeo-1 Apple-1 replica kits is scheduled to go on sale shortly. Willegal has upped the revision number to 1.01 to go with some changes he made to the latest version: What follows is summary of changes. 1) I changed the solder mask to matte. I’ve had a few people […]
Posted inProduct News, Software
Brutal Deluxe is fEDD up!
October 1st, 2012 – Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, founders of Brutal Deluxe Software, are proud to introduce their newest software to the Apple II community. “I’m fEDD up†is Brutal Deluxe’s second answer to nowadays preservation of 5.25″ diskettes on the Apple II. Its main features are: Essential Data Duplicator compatible If Utilico Microware’s […]
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Melissa Baron’s “73H 0r3g0n 7r41L” glitch screenprints now available
Daniel Kruszyna (AKA Krue) today made the following announcement on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace: Melissa Barron has made available screenprints of glitches she encountered while working on her 73H 0r3g0n 7r41L project. You can find the prints at Melissa’s Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MthreeL Here is a video of the presentation she gave about 73H 0r3g0n 7r41L at Kfest 2010: […]
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Brutal Deluxe’s DeluxeWare CD-ROM reclassified
Apple IIGS French programming super-group announced that their DeluxeWare CD-ROM has been reclassified as freeware. The text of their press release follows. Paris, September 11st, 2012 – Brutal Deluxe’s DeluxeWare CD-ROM now available Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini are proud to announce that DeluxeWare, their CD-ROM released in 1996 in partnership with La Pomme Illustrée, […]
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ADTPro updated to version 1.2.4
David Schmidt has released another update to his popular ADTPro disk transfer utility. New functionality: * [Client] ProDOS Serial and Ethernet clients can extract and send nibble images * [VDisk] Virtual drive over a comms link – any serial or Ethernet connection can host a virtual ProDOS disk on slot 2, […]
Posted inApple 1, Auction
Another Apple-1 to be auctioned by Christie’s
Image source: Mike Willegal’s Apple-1 Registry AOL’s DailyFinance News reports that another original Apple-1 computer is to go on the auction block at Christie’s on October 9. This particular machine, which comes from the estate of former Apple employee Joe Copson, is expected to fetch as much as $127,000 USD, though it may go for […]
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HP’s History of the Floppy Disk credits Apple II for format’s popularity
Hewlett-Packard has published a well-written article by Steven Vaughan-Nichols called The History of the Floppy Disk. Vaughan-Nichols goes all the way back to the format’s invention by IBM engineer David L. Noble, who was assigned by Alan Shugart to develop, “a reliable and inexpensive system for loading microcode into the IBM System/370 mainframes using a […]