There have been some interesting new developments in the Apple II community recently. You may have noticed we haven’t reported on them. I apologize for that, but my time has been constrained with family, work and other responsibilities and obligations that have left me with precious little time for my Apple II hobby. Effective immediately, […]
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The return of the A2Central Downunder Chat
Andrew Roughan has announced the return of a2central.com’s weekly Downunder Chat: After a hiatus… it is time for a come back. Calling all Apple II enthusiasts who are awake between 9pm and 11pm Australian Eastern Summer Time on Friday nights to visit the #a2c.chat channel on the A2Central IRC server. That’s probably likely to be […]
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A2Central Google Currents edition republished
At some point over the weekend, the Google Currents edition of A2Central disappeared. No warning, no follow-up explanation from Google — just gone. I republished the edition this morning, but you’ll need to delete the old version in your Currents client (if it’s still there) and re-subscribe by visiting this new link in your device’s […]
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A2Central now on Google Currents
As of this morning, A2Central is now being published to Google’s new Currents platform. Designed as a personalized digital news magazine in the style of Flipboard, Currents lets you access your favorite news sources in a single app that features an attractive and easy to use interface. To subscribe to A2Central, download and install the […]
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A2Central maintenance this weekend (March 28/29)
Coming up this weekend (March 28/29), the server that hosts our e-mail, FTP, BBS and IRC will be down for maintenance and relocation. One of the server’s hot spare drives is failing, and I must take it out of service before it completely conks out. We’re also rearranging tech equipment and office furniture in the […]
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Site news (10-16-08)
After a great deal of consideration and advice from friends in the community (thanks everyone), I’ve decided not to add commercial advertising to the A2Central site. I’ve added a PayPal “Donate” link instead. The recent poll on the matter showed there is support (tolerance?) for advertising from the community but I just didn’t want my […]
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a2central.com now offering RSS, Twitter and e-mail delivery of news
As part of the expanded services of the upgraded a2central.com, breaking news stories are now available via a variety of means: All the above are provided completely free to the Apple II Community and are ad-free. To partake of any of these options, visit our subscription page.
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Welcome to A2Calamity.com
It started with a phone call from Tony Diaz to inform me that the server was down. “Great” I thought, “…another DSL outage, or program crash. My server has been up for months, so it probably just needs a reset”. That’s what I was telling myself as I headed downstairs to my home office. My […]