Garote’s Apple IIGS notebook is filled with ideasāperhaps some unreleased game from a bygone era?
Elsewhere
Give your Apple II paddle & joystick sockets some new life
This chapter from “The Computer Controller Cookbook,” published in 1983, demonstrates several easy-to-build Apple II hardware projects including how to: A different chapter covers building a converter to use Atari joysticks on an Apple (and vice versa).
Best Freeware Programs for the Apple II
Although written awhile back, Gareth Jones put together this guide to “the best freeware programs for the Apple IIgs.” He also put together a similar guide for the Apple IIe and IIc.
Everything you wanted to know about the 6502…
This site bills itself as “the largest and most complete source for 6502-related information in the world.” Have a look at the many interesting projects based on the microprocessor Steve Wozniak chose to power the Apple II.
Playing the Rhodes Chroma with an Apple II
Kicking off our new āApple II Elsewhere’ topic are a couple of 1983 articles submitted by Sean Fahey. The Apple II was one of the first computers to interface with and control professional electronic musical instruments, in this case a 16-track polyphonic system called the Rhodes Chroma. Read all about the sequencer and interface.
Woz green-lights Apple 1 clone
Vince Briel, a computer technician in Ohio, has been working on an Apple 1 clone. The only problem was the ROM. Steve Wozniak, the designer of the machine, has now given him the go-ahead to use the original Apple 1 ROM in his clone.