Remember the Dual Mockingboard card we posted earlier and now want so badly? Check out the latest from Fabrice Montupet! New video modes! Sprites! Colors galore!
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KansasFest 2016 HackFest videos and downloads
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_8ByM2n4E2vNBY4gv_73iQaV1Ahpr6K2 Rob McMullenOmnivoreJumpman Level Editor Jeremy Rand Bejeweled Project Page Bejeweled Bootable Disk Image Kay Savetz Kaverns of KFest Project Page Kaverns Bootable Disk Image Paul Hagstrom WavyDots Project Page
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4am releases Passport, automated copying tool
Passport is a verification program for 5.25-inch Apple II floppy disks. It can verify all unprotected disks and many copy-protected disks. It can also create a copy of the original disks in a standard 16-sector format, and optionally apply patches to the copy to help make the copy work properly. BOOM! Jeremy Barr-Hyde is already […]
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KansasFest Special from UltimateMicro: Universal PSU Kit $89.99
Henry Courbis writes: With KansasFest only weeks away I wanted to remind attendees about the specially priced show offer from Ultimate-Micro.com for the Universal PSU Kit: https://goo.gl/amFHma You’ll receive a $10 discount plus save the regular shipping charges, plus your order will be hand-delivered to you at KFEST. Ultimate-Micro staff will also be available to […]
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MSX games and applications on the Apple II?
Ian Kim of South Korea is a busy person. He’s apparently working on a Z80 co-processor board that will run MSX programs on the Apple II. I’ve used Google Translate (the site is on Korean) to get a pretty good translation here.
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Ian Kim produces first internal Mockingboard for the Apple IIc
Ian Kim has beat a few other similar projects to the punch with his new Mockingboard 4c, an internal Mockingboard compatible card for the Apple IIc. It appears to be music only (no speech synthesis). Details are very limited at this time, but we know (or don’t know) the following: Lots of pictures to see […]
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Java on the Apple IIGS?
Miraculously, Java on the Apple II isn’t something new. But Mike Kohn is taking a different approach and experimenting with Java Grinder (which recently added support for the W65C816 CPU) to produce code that will execute on an Apple IIGS.
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A2Heaven opens its gates at last
Plamen Vayssilov has opened A2Heaven.com, a new Apple II site to sell his Apple II products. The site will also host a blog and forums for technical support. Plamen, a Bulgarian retro-computing enthusiast, has been prolific in cloning and reverse-engineering and even modernizing several Apple II peripheral products, such as the Mockingboard, AE RAMWorks and […]