This month on Open Apple, we close out the year with our traditional Year-End Roundtable discussion. We’re joined by Eric âSheppy’ Shepherd, Sarah W., and Carrington Vanston. We talk about alternate universes, our collective love of the IIgs, and Quinn takes cheap shots at Carrington. It’s the holidays, so Commodore users are given a respite. […]
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Mike Willegal shares VCF repair/maintenance presentations
Mike Willegal is one of the most knowledgeable hardware hackers in the community. So when Mike shares his accumulated wisdom, it’s probably something you’ll want to snag for your own reference library. Check out Mike’s âApple II Repair Tipsâ page and also his recent VCF presentations in PDF format. General Troubleshooting Apple II Maintenance Good […]
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Bill Buckels releases Bmp2DHR v1.0 ‘best Apple IIe graphics converter on the planet…’
After much tinkering and optimizing, Bill Buckels has released v1.0 of Bmp2DHR, a graphics converter for 8-bit Apple II computers. Check out Bill’s site for the impressive results!
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Dagen Brock’s ‘Winter Demo’ for the Apple IIGS
SNOW Get the disk image here
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New vintage music channel on SoundCloud featuring Apple II
Jonas G. aka âStynx’ has created a new channel on SoundCloud called âVintage Micro Musicâ featuring recorded game and demo music he’s found on old floppies. Look for more samples from Jonas in the future, using: EDIT: Per Jonas, the samples are not his compositions and the attribution has been removed. Apologies to Jonas and […]
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Roger Wagner’s ‘Assembly Lines: The Complete Book’ re-released under Creative Commons
Announced by Chris Torrence via Usenet Comp.Sys.Apple2 Assembly Lines: The Complete Book is now available! The book contains all 33 of Roger Wagner’s articles from Softalk magazine, as well as appendices on the 6502 instruction set, zero-page memory usage, and a beginner’s guide to using the Merlin Assembler. The book is currently available for 40% […]
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Ivan Drucker releases ‘Magic Goto’
Announced by Ivan Drucker via Facebook