Jordan Mechner announced on his blog today that after years of searching, the original Apple II source code for Prince of Persia has finally been located. You can read the details of the discovery here.
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Bare Mimeo PCBs available again
Mike Willegal has announced that as of today, a limited quantity of bare Mimeo PCBs is available for hobbyists who want to put together their own Mimeo 1, Mike’s Apple-1 replica. Full kits are expected to be available later this summer. A bare PCB can be had for US $150. More details are available at […]
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CFFA3000 second run planned for summer 2012
Rich Dreher has announced his plans for a second run of CFFA3000 cards. Ă‚ This is great news for those who didn’t get in on the first run of cards last year. Ă‚ From Rich’s page atĂ‚ dreher.net: “We are now in the process of getting final quotes on parts for run #2 of the CFFA3000. We hope […]
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PLASMA – Proto Language Assembler for Apple
David Schmenk today introduced PLASMA. Ă‚ According to David’s write-up, “PLASMA is a combination of virtual machine and assembler/compiler matched closely to the 6502 architecture.Ă‚ It is an attempt to satisfy a few challenges surrounding code size, efficient execution, small runtime and fast just-in-time compilation.Ă‚ By architecting a unique bytecode that maps nearly one-to-one to the […]
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David Schmidt releases KEGS emulator derivative GSport 0.2
To quote David: “If you haven’t seen GSport before, it is a derivative of Kent Dickey’s KEGS Apple IIgs emulator.Ă‚ Virtual printer support from Chris Mason (now with plain text output!) and Uthernet emulation from Glenn Jones are the big-ticket improvements over that code base, along with other contributions gathered up from several other KEGS […]
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Brian Fargo to fund Wasteland sequel through Kickstarter
According to this article over at IGN, Brian Fargo, the man behind the original Apple II hit Wasteland, wants to create a sequel and he’s looking to fund it through a Kickstarter campaign. Plans are still vague at this point and the campaign has yet to go live, but you can read Brian’s thoughts on […]
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Kim Howe reclassifies his IIGS programs
Kim Howe, author of several popular Apple IIGS applications, wrote in to let us know that all of his titles have been reclassified as freeware. From his email to a2central.com: “Just wanted to advise anyone who was interested that my programs have now all be reclassified to freeware. The new versions with updated status and […]
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Uthernet pre-orders sold out
As predicted, the pre-orders of a2RetroSystems popular Uthernet Ethernet card for the Apple II sold out quickly, with all 45 cards spoken for in less than two days. If you missed out, you can still send them an email and get on the waiting list for a future run which, with the continuing popularity of the […]