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The Princeton Apple II Users Group will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Friday, September 10th at Dave Ciotti’s place. Apple II enthusiasts from New Jersey and beyond are invited to attend..

Jason Scott is nearing completion on his 3-DVD documentary covering the history of the Bulletin Board System. He has conducted 200 interviews with many of the movers and shakers of the BBS scene, and it’s looking like the historical value of the project will be high. Be sure to check out the “Heroes” trailer. No doubt the Apple II will be mentioned (one such example is the RIPCO BBS, founded by Dr. Ripco in 1983 and run on an Apple II).

The site also contains a list of no less than 38 BBS programs released for the Apple II, with downloads! There is even mention of Litfal, an Apple IIGS BBS (perhaps the only IIGS specific BBS program). .

In a classic case of staying up too late coding, TheirIP.NDA 1.0b2 was released with a significant bug that prevented the resolving of domain names; to compensate, programmer Ryan Suenaga stayed up later and completed TheirIP.NDA 1.0b3, which fixes that bug. It can be downloaded at: http://lamp.a2central.com/ryans_software/TheirIP.NDA/TheirIP1b3.BXY. The new version also fixes a bug related to drawing controls in the window..

Lazarus Long has updated the ADFS utility for Mac OS and Mac OS X to version 1.0a36. This utility lets you work with files on DOS 3.3, ProDOS, Apple Pascal, and CP/M disks on your Macintosh. The new version fixes several bugs that would damage ProDOS disks..

Howard Katz has posted the August issue of Apple II News & Notes, a free newsletter for Apple II users..

Call APPLE appears to be in transition, but editor Mike Pfaiffer has been trying to keep the publishing cycle alive. The October issue, which is combined with his Digital Civilization publication, has an article on the “Network from Heck” by Bart Prine. Read how Bart’s Apple IIs are integrated into his home network..

Starting this month, I’m going to change how I list the deals and auctions in this section.To cut down on fluff and wasted space (and maybe because I’m in an organizing mood), I’ve determined a change is necessary in how I list auctions. Auctions for a given month will be listed in the body text instead of the intro and they’ll be sorted by the month and time they end. The intro may mention some highlights but nothing more. For example, this month will be Seen on eBay, September 2004.

Specials, vendor deals of interest and other sources will still get their own stories..

Items of interest seen on eBay for the month of September 2004.

Last Updated: 09/14 – ~11:50am Central5123619857 – Ends Sep-20-04 20:16:39 PDT
AST VisionPlus Digitizer (video capture) card

5720239352 – Ends Sep-18-04 19:57:32 PDT
Apple IIGS, Transwarp, GS-RAM Plus, 800MB IDE

5719094361 – Ends Sep-12-04 11:05:13 PDT
Apple IIGS, Transwarp, SCSI, PC Transporter and LOT more!

5718476545 – Ends Sep-08-04 13:32:05 PDT
Apple IIGS, Applied Ingenuity InnerDrive, ZipGS, Extra RAM

5717878205 – Ends Sep-05-04 13:05:16 PDT
4MB RAM card for Apple IIgs

5718132963 – Ends Sep-02-04 20:05:36 PDT
Apple non-DMA SCSI card

5718133617 – Ends Sep-02-04 20:09:14 PDT
Apple non-DMA SCSI card

5718135496 – Ends Sep-02-04 20:19:41 PDT
NEW Focus 170MB

5717309123 – Ends Sep-02-04 07:49:32 PDT
Sequential Systems (CVT) RAMFAST Rev D 256K

5717310374 – Ends Sep-02-04 07:57:58 PDT
Sequential Systems RAM-GS.

Stephen Heumann has released version 1.0b1 of VNCView GS, the Virtual Network Computing client for the Apple IIgs. The new version improves performance in raw mode, and supports resizing the server’s screen while connected to it. Click here to download it..