Rumors being instigated by usually-reliable sources indicate that the Juiced.GS “Friends For Life” CD should be shipping within a matter of days. Watch the Juiced.GS web site at http://www.wbwip.com/juiced.gs for more information. .

The Big Apple Users Group (BAUG) is meeting on June 26 at 6:30. The program this month is program switchers and launchers, including The Manager, Kangaroo, TransProg III, and QuickLaunch. See our User Group Locator for more information about BAUG..

AppleLinc, which went silent three years ago, is being resurrected. They had their first meeting last night, with six people attending. The group is in its organizational phase and is planning another meeting just before Y][KFest. If you live in or around Lincoln, Nebraska, contact Roy Miller (millers@inetnebr.com) to find out how you can get involved with AppleLinc! .

Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer and the original designer and inventor of the Apple II, was inducted today into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for this achievement, along with several other people; a ceremony to honor the new inductees will be held in September. The National Inventors Hall of Fame was created in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Attorneys. Past inductees include Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, and Henry Ford. [Attribution: Associated Press] .

The official comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup Frequently Asked Questions list has officially been handed off. Two years ago, Nathan Mates stopped maintaining the FAQs, and since then there’s been some confusion over who would take over their management. Nathan decided to end the confusion and officially transferred maintenance duties to Tony Diaz this evening. You can read Nathan’s brief announcement at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2, and you can now find the official comp.sys.apple2 FAQ at http://www.apple2.org/faq..

If you’d like to have a link to A2Central.com on your web site, you can now use the special web badge in your link to help spiff up the reference! For more information, see the About A2Central page. .

a2central.com has opened its new User Group Locator page, which is a free service listing Apple II-friendly user groups and information about them. You can reach it using the button in the navigation bar to the left, or by visiting http://www.a2central.com/ugl. .

Shareware Solutions II has released the Apple IIGS version of the classic role-playing game Ultima I, ported by “Burger” Bill Heineman. Read our review online..