We have begun an eBay auction for a 4 MB RAM-GS card from Sequential Systems. It’s new, still in its factory-sealed box. Upgrade your IIGS!.

The AppleLinc user group of Lincoln, Nebraska will meet Thursday, October 26 at 7:00 PM and again on Saturday morning, October 28, at 9:00 AM. Both meetings will take place at the Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church at c. 12th and Old Cheney Road. .

a2central.com is sponsoring another group buy of the LANceGS ethernet card. This group buy is for ten cards at $155 each, including shipping. Three slots in this group buy are already taken, so if you want to join in, email groupbuy@a2central.com right away! .

We’ve begun making some enhancements to the look and feel of the a2central.com site. This will come in two or three stages over the upcoming couple of months. The first stage is currently in progress. The first improvement is a simplified list of options to the left, and an improved selection at the top of the page as well, with larger and more readable buttons. Also, the buttons now highlight when you mouse over them, to help make them stand out better. If you see any problems with the site caused by this upgrade, please let us know. .

Shareware Solutions II announced today that Spectrum is now available for purchase through their online store. In addition, upgrades to the new Spectrum 2.4 may be purchased for a small fee (with proof of purchase). The full version of Spectrum is $35 and may be purchased on either 3.5″ disk or CD-ROM; prices for upgrades vary depending on the version you currently own. .

The latest issue of Juiced.GS is now available. Chock full of Y][KFest recap, it’s a fun reminder of good times for those that were able to attend, and full of insight for those that were not. .

Jeff Fink has announced the upcoming release of Silvern Castle 5.2. The new version’s tome viewer returns to the search screen after exiting Dogpaw instead of going back to the extras menu. Also, the requirement to ask for registration instructions is gone (Jeff is getting frustrated by the lack of feedback on the game?if you play it, please let him know what you think!). Adds the Tome of Arcana?hints, tips, and reviews from Delphi’s A2 forum and Juiced.GS. In addition, BASIC.SYSTEM 1.4.1 is supported (some people have problems with 1.5), and startup has been sped up. .

The latest issue of Juiced.GS magazine has started to arrive in the mailboxes of happy Apple II users. We’ll have an overview of the new issue’s contents once we have our copy. .

Brutal Deluxe, developers of a number of Apple IIGS games and utilities, including Convert 3200, Blockade, and The Tinies, has a new web site at http://www.brutal-deluxe.net. Check it out! .

A2Central.com has an RC5-64 cracking team, cleverly called Team A2Central.com. This contest is designed as an experiment in large-scale parallel computing projects over the Internet. Vast numbers of home computers, running a special program in the background, work to solve small portions of a large mathematical problem. In this case, to decrypt an encrypted message without knowing the key?the password that was used to encrypt the message. If you’d like to contribute, download the client software for your computer (there’s no Apple II client, unfortunately), configure and run it, and then, after you appear in the RC5 statistics, click the “I want to join this team” link at the bottom of the Team A2Central.com statistics page. We’ll have more detailed information available soon. .