Alexander Krauss of ByteBoosters writes in to let us know that their Apple IIGS Stereo Sound Card and Digitizer with line-out is now available: DarkSound by ByteBoosters. Take full potential of the IIGS Ensoniq sound chip by enabling Stereo output. Furthermore use the Audio Digitizer feature to sample sound and use them on your IIGS […]
Em Maginnis
Em is the former editor-in-chief of A2Central, as well as a blogger and rescuer of classic manuals and books.
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Open Apple #67 (January 2017) : Year End Roundtable!
This month on Open Apple, we round out the year with our annual tradition of sitting around a virtual table with some friends of the show, discussing whatever comes to mind. Mike and Quinn are joined by Jeremy Barr-Hyde, Jorma Honkanen, Kate Szkotnicki & Chris Torrence. We have a really fun mix of Apple II […]
Posted inNostalgia & Preservation
Happy 40th Birthday, Apple Computer Inc.!
As tweeted by early (and current) employee Chris Espinosa, today is the 40th anniversary of Apple Computer’s incorporation in California. https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/816335019207639040
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Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us of her exploits in boot tracing, cracking, and distributing software in the glory days of the Apple […]
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Add a little Apple II to your holiday cheer!
From Gizmodo, someone made this appetizing gingerbread Apple II: Check out all the sugary goodness at this Imgur gallery.
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Open Apple #65 (November 2016) : Alex Lee, What Is The Apple IIgs?
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Alex Lee, purveyor of the canonical IIgs reference site What Is The Apple IIgs? We talk about what it was like being one of the brave few with this machine, and that feeling of living in a secret world of incredible graphics and sound that nobody […]
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Simulating a Burroughs 220 on your Apple II
If you ever wanted to simulate a Burroughs 220 vacuum tube computer on your Apple II, rejoice! Those lucky enough to be at KansasFest this past July had the opportunity to check out Michael J. Mahon’s preliminary work on his B220SIM. Functional but limited at the time, B220SIM aimed to show off the state of […]
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Nox Archaist milestone: Shattered Stone
The hard-working developers over 6502 Workshop have announced a major gameplay milestone in the development of Nox Archaist, which is illustrated in a video through the short story: Shattered Sword. In this episode, our hero travels to town and faces an epic struggle to get his sword repaired after breaking it over an ogre’s head. […]