We haven’t done any Woz-stalking lately… fortunately for us, Bruce Damer has recently posted a video of Woz visiting the DigiBarn facility back in December 2006.

ReactiveMicro has added the LittleExpanderPlus ($165.00 USD) and the LittlePower //c+ Adapter ($20.00 USD) to their online catalog. Both items are from 8bitsystem, and were previously announced by James Littlejohn at KansasFest 2008.

Yohanes Nugroho has released WiiApple, an Apple IIe emulator for the Nintendo Wii video game console. You can download the emulator from his blog site (Tinyhack).

For the first time in nearly two years, there’s a new version of CiderPress, Andy McFadden‘s Windows utility for accessing and converting Apple II archives and files. New in this version:

• Added Apple /// Business BASIC conversion (courtesy David Schmidt)
• Fixed recognition of CP/M 3.x disks
• Fixed handling of “data only” CP/M disks

CiderPress is an open source project, courtesy SourceForge.net.

After a nearly 23 year run as the premier Apple II Communications package and after collecting accolades, including two Awards of Excellence for the “Best Apple II Software”, of which ProTERM won this award twice and no other Apple II software ever took the trophy, and the best now gets even better!

Starting with the release of the Terminal program that set standards and took the Apple II community by storm in 1987 when Greg Schaefer of GBBS fame brought us ProTERM 1.0, ProTERM continued to set standards with constant releases through version 2.1. In the Spring of 1990, ProTERM changed publishers to InSync Software, they were “in-sync” with what Apple II users demanded when they delivered an improved ProTERM 2.2. Many asked why 2.2, and not 3.0? Well, this was just a teaser of things to come. In the Fall of 1991 after an intense 18 month development, InSync proved once again that the best can be made better and ProTERM 3.0 was released to rave reviews.

It didn’t stop there. After yet another 15 months of fine tuning, and after InSync became InTrec, ProTERM 3.1 was released to keep up with then current technology. InTrec and Greg may have outdone themselves with that release as it lasted all these years and was able to adapt to all the modem changes over the years.

Today, with the warmest regards to the entire Apple II community of both then and now, from InTrec Software, Jerry Cline, Greg Schaefer, Tony Diaz, Dave Miller, that we bring you ProTERM A2 version 3.1, for your everlasting enjoyment.

ProTERM has enjoyed tremendous support from the community throughout it’s entire existence. It was even said that Nine out of Ten Pirates preferred ProTERM. So while ‘Talk is Cheap’, ProTERM is now Free. ProCOMM? No, ProTERM is the real Pro. So quit MouseTalk’in around, click on over and discover the end all, get all, premier Apple II Telecommunications package today!

ProTERM will be available soon via the newly returning Apple II Lost Classics Project repository. An online support forum has been created at http://16sector.com/forum/

Along with the application itself, the 340 page users manual is being converted to PDF, and is still a work-in-progress, to be released alongside ProTERM.

With the change of status to (C) Freeware, please realize that InTrec can not give one on one support for ProTERM any longer and that support has now been transferred to the community at large.

I am proud to have been able to arrange for, and prepare ProTERM 3.1 and its 23 years of history for release to the Apple II Community. Please enjoy it.

Tony Diaz/16 Sector

ProTERM 3.1 is (C) 1991-1993 Greg Schaefer, and the ProTERM package and documentation are (C) 1991-2009 InTrec Software.

I’m always happy to find a new Apple II developer website, but sometimes one will come along that really gets me excited! Such is the case with AppleLogic, a site that says it’s “devoted to preserving the brilliant hardware designs of retired Apple systems”. Wow!

This is sort of a follow-up to the earlier posting about Alex Freed’s Apple II FPGA interface. AppleLogic is where the card originated from and… that card is merely the tip of a very large and ambitious undertaking.

Apparently, an FPGA-based Apple //e is nearing completion, and plans are underway to create FPGA-based Apple IIGS and Apple ///+ machines as well.

The site also features TONS of research material for the true Apple II geek; ROM and ASIC listings, manuals and technical data. This is pure nerdcore — check it out now!

FishWings author Charlie Danemark has released WASP, a Windows-based Applesoft editor. Charlie’s posting made on comp.sys.apple2.programmer is attached:

I’ve written a program (WASP) that you can download if you are interested. It is a Windows based Applesoft BASIC programmer (editor, IDE, whatever you want to call it) that works in conjunction with AppleWin. It is not bug-free but it is generally usable (at least on my machine with Windows XP).

With WASP you can write programs from scratch or load them from disk images. You can then run them in AppleWin with one click of a button.

If you decide to use it please read the documentation and Read Me.txt file (included) as there are some ‘features’ that need some explanation.

More information and download at:

http://mysite.verizon.net/charlie.d/wasp.htm

If (when) you find bugs please report them to:

WASPreport@verizon.net

And put the words WASP & bug in the title.

Happy New Year,

Charlie

Alex Freed posted pics of his tantalizing Apple II FPGA interface, which can turn a Field-Programmable Gate Array into an IDE interface card (or virtually any other Apple II-compatible hardware device).

Tony Diaz informed A2Central that he is in the process of resurrecting the (ironically lost) Lost Classics Project, and will be adding its content to the Apple II Online Reference (apple2.info) site.

This is a developing story, and updates are imminent.

Update #1
“I’ve got the core of the site installed, I’m working on content now.”