The Apple II computer celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer and to celebrate, The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan is now reissued under new 40th anniversary covers.

The New Apple II User’s Guide with 40th Anniversary cover is available to order from Amazon.com for $25. This special 40th anniversary cover will only be available through the end of 2017. An ebook edition is also available for sale directly from the author. Visit the companion web site for more information.

The book has received praise and accolades from dozens in the Apple II community, including Steven Weyhrich, author of Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer; Chris Torrence, editor of Assembly Lines: The Complete Book; Eric Shepherd, well-known Apple II programmer and shareware author; and Open Apple, the Apple II podcast.

This book covers all models of Apple II, and contains everything that the new user needs to know to get started using and programming his Apple. Learn how to setup and start using the Apple, then learn how to program in BASIC. Further chapters cover graphics and sound, the disk system, networking, printing, and much more. This book is completely up-to-date and covers all recent advancements and developments in the Apple II world.

Volume 17, Issue 3 (June 2012) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2013, including a behind-the-scenes look at Jeremy Rand’s winning HackFest entry, CurtaSim; a review of David Finnigan’s book, The New Apple II User’s Guide; the conclusion of Peter Neubauer’s Logo programming tutorial series; Eric Shepherd’s outline for what System 7.0 for the Apple IIGS would be like; and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS‘s third quarterly issue of 2012. Annual subscriptions are available at $19 for United States customers, $24 for readers in Canada and Mexico, and $27 for international customers, with several free sample issues available as PDFs.

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Finnigan, proprietor of the Mac GUI Web site and author of the upcoming book, The New Apple II User’s Guide. Our eyes are caught by another new book release, The Best of Creative Computing: Volume 3, as well as the upcoming biopic based on Steve Jobs, in which actors have been cast to play Apple’s two co-founders. Prince of Persia is still big news, with the source code for Jordan Mechner’s classic Apple II game having been salvaged, released, and modified, while classic games like Leisure Suit Larry, Dungeon Master, and even Repton are enjoying literal and spiritual remakes. On eBay, we crack open the case to examine broken Apple III boards and prototype Apple IIGS boards.

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