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The January 2006 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine has been released and is now available on the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) web site. This month’s issue includes items covering topic ranges from Apple II software libraries to Mac OS X related issues. It also includes The Northern Spy’s 2006 Prognositications.

A preliminary version of ReApple, an Apple ][+ emulator for Linux, has been released. The emulated Apple ][+ features a Z80 card.

AppleCIDER, a User Group from Rochester, NY has listed items on eBay which were signed by Woz. Links can be found at the bottom of CIDERs webpage. Items include a signed printout of the ‘Sweet 16’ assembly code and Apple II Floating Point Routines. There is also a mousepad or two.

Having trouble keeping up with the web’s numerous classic video game and classic computing news sites? Retro Roundup is a new site that serves as a one-stop source for classic computing and retro video game news. Retro Roundup collects headlines from more than a dozen sites (including A2Central.com), newsgroups, and other news sources into a single page.You can customize the site to move your favorite news to the top of the page or to hide a site’s headlines from view.

Retro Roundup was created by Kevin Savetz, curator of the Classic Computer Magazine Archive and AtariArchives.org..

Join us in Syndicomm’s Apple II forum chat room on Friday, November 12th at 7:00 pm PST for our monthly Programmers and Developers Real Time Conference. We’ll continue the discussions we had last month, and present new ideas!.

Kaffe, a Java-like virtual machine, has a new port for the Apple II family (requires a 65C02). Visit the project Kaffe home page or read the announcement of the new port
Be sure to look at the posting date on this one..

Lucas Scharenbroich has released a new demo of his generic tile engine which features enhanced parallax effects..

Eric Rothfus is working on a floppy emulator for the Disk ][ interface. He already has something similar working on his TRS-80. This would be a device that would connect to the Disk ][ card and to a PC’s serial port, so that the PC would serve up a disk image so that the Apple II would think it was reading off a floppy disk. He is looking for people to test or help him out.This project could be of interest to people who want to use disk images on an Apple II without having to write a real disk each time.

This device has an RS-232 port on one side and a vintage-machine floppy connector on the other. The idea is that you download a floppy image to the “Semi-Virtual Diskette” (SVD) (on your PC) and then boot the Apple II, which thinks
the SVD is a real Disk ][ drive.

The SVD was originally created for the TRS-80 line, and has since been expanded to include the Heathkit H8/H89.

Now Eric is looking to tackle the Apple II, but wants to see if anyone is interested. If you think it would be useful, please let him know.
More importantly, if you could beta-test the device when it is ready for the Apple II, that would also be helpful.

Also, the driver software is PC-based, so he is looking for help getting a Mac version written. The user interface uses Tcl/Tk, but there are 2 programs written in C. Feel free to download the software off of the web site so you can see what it is like.

For more information, visit the SVD web site..

The creator of MazezaM, drHirudo, has just released a new program for the Apple II called BoxWorld. It’s a classic “Sokoban” clone and includes source code. Available at http://drhirudo.foronlinegames.com/.
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