Guillaume Courtier has written a Macintosh OS X application that will decode the serial number on your Apple IIGS, IIe Platinum, IIc Plus and Macintosh. The serial number will reveal the date and month, and also where the computer was manufactured. Requires Macintosh OS X 8.x-10.x 64bit You can download the app from: http://museepgc.perso.sfr.fr/download/Serial%20Number%20Decoder%201.2.dmg
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Burgertime 08/16/2015: Coding with Burgerlib
Rebecca Heineman has posted the latest Burgertime video to YouTube. Be sure to subscribe for the latest, greatest news and development info from Burger Becky.
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New game released at Apple II Festival France 2015
Antoine Vignau reports a new game was released during Apple II Festival France 2015. I don’t speak or read French very well, but it appears to be an adventure game written by Benoit Triquet and René Speranza. The game is entitled “Nono et la pomme arc-en-ciel” or (apologies if I get this wrong) “Nono and […]
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Brian Fitzgerald grants release of source code to TAXMAN, Pac-Man clone
Rebecca Heineman has announced via Facebook that she has been given permission to the release the source code to 1981’s “TAXMAN” from H.A.L. Labs by the games programmer Brian Fitzgerald. TAXMAN is notable for being one of the first (and best) clones of the famous Pac-Man arcade game. It was so good, AtariSoft sued and […]
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UPDATED x2: Byte Works ORCA/C source code heading for GitHub?
This is a developing story, but it looks like the source code for ORCA/C may legitimately be heading for hosting on GitHub. This may mean the patches for ORCA/Pascal and other Byte Works products are also going to be made available as well. UPDATE: And here it is, the source code. And YOINK it’s gone. […]
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Rebecca Heineman releases source for IIGS version of Space Ace -UPDATED
UPDATED POST: 07/30/15 I’ve converted all of the art for Space Ace into animated gifs and created Mac and PC based tools to convert the GIFs into Iigs format data. The tools are built against Burgerlib and the 65816 code is built with a modified version of a65816. Both Burgerlib and a65816 will be updated […]
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Geoff Weiss updates MegaMemoryTester to v2.1
Geoff Weiss has updated the premier IIGS RAM verification utility MegaMemoryTester to version 2.1 — you can get it from the program’s support site here: http://mmt.gwlink.net/
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Jeremy Rand updates A2Sudoku
Jeremy Rand has updated his 2015 Hackfest winning entry A2Sudoku to version 1.2 — you can get a .DSK image directly from here: https://github.com/jeremysrand/a2sudoku/releases/download/1.2/a2sudoku.dsk The main change is that when you enter a value, any scratch values in cells in the same column, row or sub-square are automatically updated. So, if you enter a “5” […]
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KansasFest 2015 Saturday Report
Saturday’s report is brought to you by third year attendee Mike Whalen. So, as I write this at 11:18pm on Saturday, July 18 2015. KansasFest is well and truly over. There no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It’s over, Johnny. It’s over! NUTHIN IS OVUH! YOU CAN RELIVE THUH DAY!! Well, okay, I suppose […]
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KansasFest 2015 Friday Report
Friday’s report is brought to you by third year attendee Mike Whalen. Friday (Day 3) Friday is nearly always bittersweet for me, at least in the few years that I’ve attended the show. Why? Well, thoughts of returning to the Real World(tm) begin to intrude. Oh no! It’s almost over. What will I do? I […]