Ivan Drucker presented an informative session on A2SERVER and Apple II networking during KansasFest 2011. Now Ivan has released his work for everyone else to enjoy. Based on open-source software (Linux, Netatalk and VirtualBox), A2SERVER functions as a preconfigured virtualized AppleTalk server for your vintage enhanced Apple //e (with Apple Workstation Card), Apple IIGS and […]
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Online Apple Game Server now online
Egan Ford (aka datajerk of the jerkwerks) today announced that his web-based Online Apple Game Server is open for business. The concept is that games can be served directly to your Apple II as audio files through the machine’s cassette ports. Ford has posted a video tutorial explaining exactly how to get it up and […]
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Getting CP/M up and running on the CFFA
CP/M was a popular command line-based operating systems for PCs in the 1980’s, before Microsoft’s MS-DOS took over the platform.Ă‚ It was also available on the Apple II (and III) thanks to the efforts of third-party vendors such as Applied Engineering and Microsoft, who sold the necessary hardware to interested users.Ă‚ CP/M never really took […]
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CFFA3000 demo video posted
David Schmidt has posted a superb demonstration video of Rich Dreher’s new CFFA3000 card that is being released at KansasFest.
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Apple Service Technical Procedures Manuals
Henry Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com has scanned many of the Apple Service Technical Procedures Manuals and provided them to Apple2Scans.net to be hosted.  You can download them here.  A big thanks to Henry for doing this.
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Alex Lee on IIGS System Extensions
Alex Lee (What Is the Apple IIGS) has published a definitive collection of Apple IIGS system extensions and is sharing his advice and opinions on many of them. System extensions can expand the usefulness of your IIGS, or they can slow down your machine — even to the point of making it less stable. Sometimes, […]
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Apple II to Mac intelligent serial terminal file transfers
Use the Mac OS X Terminal and the rz and sz commands to make exchanging files between a Mac and an Apple II fast and easy.