Rich Dreher, creator of the popular CFFA line of Apple-1 and Apple II expansion boards, has announced that cards from the next run of 200 CFFA1 are now available to order for $109.95 + shipping.Ă‚ The CFFA1 is compatible with Vince Briel’s Replica 1, Mike Willegal’s Apple 1 Mimeo, the Obtronix clone, and of course, […]
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, Howto, It's a Hack!, Product News
David Schmenk’s QuickCam //e project gets documentation
Remember David Schmenk’s awesome hardware hack where he routed the output of an old parallel Connectix QuickCam to his Apple IIe through an Apple Parallel Card? Ă‚ Of course you do. Ă‚ Here’s how he did it, in case you want to build your own: Part I – The Hardware, Part II – The Software.
Posted inHardware, Product News
More 20 MHz Z80 coprocessor cards available
Alex Freed has announced the availability of more 20 MHz Z80 cards for sale.Ă‚ They go fast, so don’t dally if you want one.Ă‚ Here’s the text of Alex’s post on csa2: The very slow boat from China finally made it to California so I haveĂ‚ the new batch of the PCBs. Apparently I have […]
Posted inEvents, KansasFest
Oz Kfest announced
In the tradition of KansasFest, the Australian alternative gathering, Oz Kfest, will happen again this year. When last held in 2009Ă‚ it caused quite a stir: one prominent Apple II celebrityĂ‚ allegedly lamented that the lack of a followupĂ‚ to this event was their number one gripe. So here it is!Ă‚ Scheduled to again coincide with KansasFest, Oz […]
Posted inElsewhere, Events
Woz to keynote UC Berkeley 2013 Commencement
Following in the footsteps of his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who delivered the 2005 Commencement Address to Stanford, Steve Wozniak has been named the keynote speaker for UC Berkeley’s 2013 Commencement program. Ă‚ Commencement activities are scheduled to begin promptly at 9am on Saturday, May 18, “rain or shine”.Ă‚ The Daily Californian has the full text […]
Posted inGames, Product News, Software
$10,000 copies of Akalabeth go quickly
Lord British’s return to Britannia is old news – Richard Garriott’s Kickstarter to fund his new game, Shroud of the Avatar, is already up to more than 75% of its stated goal of $1 million – but did you know that pledging at the “Lord of the Manor” level, a $10,000 donation, would have secured […]
Posted inHardware, It's a Hack!
Apple //e Quickcam – Now in Hi-Res!
On Friday, David Schmenk posted a video of a neat hardware hack: a Connectix parallel Quickcam running real-time images to his IIe through an Apple Parallel Card. Ă‚ Today, he showed off the natural evolution of his hack: the Quickcam transmitting in glorious monochromatic high resolution. Ă‚ According to Schmenk, it’s slow – about 1 frame per […]
Posted inHardware, It's a Hack!, Programming
How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes really work
An extensive article detailing the illegal opcodes present in the original MOS 6502 has been posted over at pagetable.com. Ă‚ Check it out here. Note: this article is rather old (2008) (age being a relative thing on the interwebs), and as the author states, much has been written to document the opcodes already. Ă‚ The difference here […]