Digital Eclipse’s interactive documentary about Jordan Mechner’s Apple II games will release for all major platforms on Tuesday, August 29, 2023.
Nostalgia & Preservation
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Karateka documentary coming from Digital Eclipse
Digital Eclipse will release an interactive documentary about Jordan Mechner’s Karateka for the Apple II, complete with playable games.
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Apple IIe video retrospective
YouTube channel The Savvy Sage shares a video reflection on forty years of the Apple IIe computer, originally released in 1983.
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CheckPoint covers Ultima via A2_Canada
LoadingReadyRun co-host Brendan “Beej” Dery promotes Apple II floppy preservation in this segment on RPG fan mods.
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Apple VHS Archive: Patents at Apple
The excellent Apple VHS Archive YouTube channel continues to unearth analog video gold. The latest update is a nine and a half minute company internal video featuring, among others, a beardless(!) Woz – by then an “Apple Fellow” – talking up the benefits and general warm fuzzies of hardware and software patents. Watching Apple patent […]
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Found internal Apple memos about Apple II copy protection
Ben Vandermeer, an Apple enthusiast in Seattle, was at a Goodwill thrift store when he discovered a stack of Apple’s internal memos from 1979 detailing “Software Security from Apples Friends and Enemies” (SSAFE), a form of digital-rights management (DRM) that Apple was developing. Writes Vandermeer: This was a proposal to bring disk copy protection in-house […]
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Happy 40th Birthday, Apple Computer Inc.!
As tweeted by early (and current) employee Chris Espinosa, today is the 40th anniversary of Apple Computer’s incorporation in California. https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/816335019207639040
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Pleins gaz by Froggy Software
Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Zephyr), is happy to announce the release of the arcade game Pleins gaz for the Apple II. This color HGR arcade game was released by Froggy Software in late 1986. As the company shut its doors […]
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Happy 66th Birthday Woz!
It’s Steve Wozniak’s Birthday today!