Retrobits Podcast host Earl Evans will be our guest in Syndicomm’s Apple II chat room on Tuesday, Sept. 27th at 7:00 pm PDT (10 PM EDT). Earl’s podcast explores multiple platforms from the “old days”, and the Apple II has been prominent. Give him a listen then come to our RTC to share your stories! To attend, you must be a Syndicomm Online member.

Ullrich von Bassewitz announced cc65 version 2.11.0 is now available for download. cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools.

cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including the Apple II (and other microcomputers). See the website for complete details on this release.

John Matthews ported the Forth language to ProDOS back in the mid-1980s for the Apple-Dayton User Group. Known as ProForth, it’s a free download from his website.

The eighth West Coast is scheduled for November 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. See classic computers and hear from the people who made them classics!

Apparently the issue we previously called the August issue was actually the September issue, since Howard Katz has just posted the August issue of Apple II News & Notes. Oops.

The Princeton, New Jersey, Apple II Users Group will meet at 7:30 PM in Dave Ciotti’s basement. The topic of the meeting is undecided at this point, so be sure to be there when the mystery is resolved!

GSE-Reactive has updated their website and they are now taking orders for products (///SHH Systeme MicroDrive, NoSlot Clock). Additional product selections are anticipated to be available very soon. UPDATE: GSE-Reactive has announced that their new Mockingboard clone will be available September 16, for $65 USD. You can read more about here.A2Central reader “Tech” adds, “The people at GSE-Reactive are currently working on such projects as Floppy, Sound, RAM and Accelerator cards for the IIe and IIgs. A Compact Flash Hard Drive solution is also under development for the IIc/IIc+.