According to their site, RecycledGoods.com was established in 1997. They claim to be a market innovator in management, remarketing, and recycling of pre-owned, off-lease and surplus technology assets. Their site lists a number of Apple II computers, parts, and peripherals.
They appear to have a fairly good selection of computers and some accessories, but the prices seem to be a little high with an Apple IIc selling for $200 without the monitor. However, they do clean and test the items before they’re sold, which is a plus..

Garote’s Apple IIGS notebook is filled with ideas–perhaps some unreleased game from a bygone era?
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The web site for The Lamp! and Apple II News & Notes has been revamped. Check it out at http://lamp.a2central.com..

Andy McFadden’s Apple II disk and file archive manager for Windows has a new lower price. This shareware program was $19.95 and is now only $8.95. What a bargain!CiderPress is like a “ShrinkIt for Windows” on steroids. It offers full access to ShrinkIt archives, and allows you to view and extract files directly out of disk images, as well as create ProDOS disk images. File converters translate programs, documents, and graphics files into formats easily accessible under Windows and other systems. Disk images can be converted between several different formats..

Syndicomm, the online service and parent to A2Central.com, has slashed its annual rate from $75/year to $35/year, and eliminated the monthly and quarterly plans. That’s less than $3 per month! The new pricing kicks in on January 1. An account lets you access the Apple II forums, Apple II chatroom, a bunch of other forums (including Mac and Palm users forums, the Gamebits video game forum, the Showbits TV/movie news forum, and much more) the vast Apple II file library, a POP3/IMAP email account with spam filters, a personal web site, and a host of other features. Please help support A2Central.com by signing up today..

The newest issue of Lyle Syverson’s online publication is available for download. The Lamp! summarizes the latest discussions taking place on Syndicomm.com’s Apple II forums..

The AppleCommander Apple II disk and file utility for Java has been updated to version 1.3.1. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, the new version adds numerous features and fixes several bugs.The changes in this version include:

• Shortcut keys have been added.
• Buttons, contextual menus, and shortcuts are now enabled and disabled as appropriate.
• Implemented Save As and made other improvements to the save user interface.
• File preview now supports BASIC programs (with syntax coloring for Applesoft BASIC), graphics images, AppleWorks, text files, hex dumps and raw formats.
• You can print from the file preview.
• Opening an invalid disk image no longer crashes AppleCommander.
• There’s now a command-line interface available.

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The WaZoBoo! BBS, running the METAL BBS software on an Apple IIgs, has returned. You can access it by dialing (216) 382-7040..

Virtual ][, yesterday updated to version 2.5, has been bumped to version 2.5.1 to fix an incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.2.x Jaguar..

Gerard Putter has released Virtual ][ 2.5, the latest version of his 8-bit Apple II emulator for Mac OS X. Version 2.5 adds some great new features.The new features include:

• Support for ProDOS hard disk emulation
• Support for using a USB joystick or game pad
• Emulation of a ProDOS compatible clock card
• Improved overall efficiency of the emulation engine by about 25%, reducing the amount of Macintosh processor time used by the program
• Fixed a problem with keyboards that require using the “alt” key to generate some special characters

Check out this great emulator today!.