Should A2Central.com have more serious polls?.

We’ve just listed for auction on eBay an Apple Extended Keyboard II, another Pascal book bundle, and a copy of Programming the Apple II in Assembly Language. .

A new version of the LANceGS ethernet card driver is now in testing. The new driver works around features currently missing in the Marinetti TCP/IP stack to provide router support?with the new driver, it’s possible to connect to systems outside your local network, through switches, routers, and DSL or cable modems. LANceGS owners that would like to try the new driver are urged to email ///SHH Systeme and request a copy. .

The Swedish AUG’s fall meeting will take place on October 21 at 13:00 Central European Time (CET). For more information, visit http://www.appleusergroup.org. If you’re not in Sweden, you can join the meeting online via CU-SeeMe at the IP 130.244.126.146 (both video and sound). There may also be a presence on the #apple2 channel of EFnet on IRC. The topic for the meeting is emulators. .

The Aurora Area Apple Club will meet Thursday, October 12 at 7:00 PM at 900 North Lake St. (Route 31) in Aurora, Illinois, in the basement community room. This month’s program will be “Minutes by Minutes”, a demonstration by the user group’s secretary. .

A2Central.com has ended the auction of the PC Transporter software early; one of our readers has offered to donate a softwareless PC Transporter card and 5.25-inch disk drive to be added to the auction. Once we have the hardware, we’ll start the auction over again, with the card included. .

We’ve now added DiskCopy versions of Apple’s System 6.0.1 for the Apple IIGS and of the Apple II 8-bit system disk to our Apple software download area. These are available compressed using either StuffIt or Zip. Other software will become available in these formats soon..

We’ve begun an auction of the PC Transporter software, version 2.0.2, on 5.25-inch floppy disks..

Howard Katz of the Lost Classics Project has informed A2Central.com that Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software (now a developer of popular Macintosh games) has released its Apple II commercial game Xenocide as freeware, as well as its entire shareware product line, including games such as Senseless Violence, Grackle, Copy Killers, Cosmocade, and Orbizone. We’ll have a complete list once it’s all sorted through. A2Central.com thanks Howard for his efforts once again..

Kim Howe, author of the in-progress Arachnid web browser, has released his first Apple IIGS game, Shipwrecked! . It’s an adventure game written in HyperCard IIGS, so you’ll need a copy of HyperCard to play it. You can download the HyperCard IIGS disks from A2Central.com. .