This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Tony Diaz- KansasFest committee member, and consummate Apple II collector. With KansasFest just days away, we go deep on Tony’s amazing collection of unique prototypes, documents, peripherals, and the stories that go with them. If there’s a person with deeper knowledge of the early history of […]
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Apple //e Quickcam – Now in Hi-Res!
On Friday, David Schmenk posted a video of a neat hardware hack: a Connectix parallel Quickcam running real-time images to his IIe through an Apple Parallel Card. Ă‚ Today, he showed off the natural evolution of his hack: the Quickcam transmitting in glorious monochromatic high resolution. Ă‚ According to Schmenk, it’s slow – about 1 frame per […]
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New CFFA3000 Firmware released
Rich Dreher has released a new firmware (3.1) for his popular CFFA3000 card. Ă‚ This latest update offers, among other things, folder support on FAT volumes, “making it easier to organize a large number of disk image files.” Ă‚ Per David Schmidt’s post to comp.sys.apple 2, here’s a list of everything you can expect when you flash […]
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Mike Willegal’s SUPERPROTO general sales now available
Mike Willegal announced that he is now selling his SUPERPROTO Apple II prototyping kits and PCBs: I’m going to open up general sales of SUPERPROTO kits and PCBs. Price will be $65 for a SUPERPROTO kit. Bare PCBs (no components) are going to be $35 each. I’m also offering a bundle deal of 4 bare […]
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CFFA3000 Run #2 is almost here
Rich Dreher updated his project status page yesterday with the following: The assembly house has just informed me that they have shipped 280 (a little over half of the batch) CFFA3000 boards and Remotes to me. They should be here next week. The remaining 220 boards will follow in a few more weeks. I will […]
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Meet the G4 Apple IIc!
From Charles Mangin comes news of his latest hardware hack, or in his words, “Frankintosh”. Ă‚ This is a G4 Mac Mini hidden in an Apple IIc case. Ă‚ Mangin has a niceĂ‚ blog post where he goes over the steps he took to stitch these two machines together and there’s a greatĂ‚ Flickr gallery to accompany his description. […]
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Did Apple really revolutionize power supplies?
Ken Shirriff takes an in-depth look at the history and design of computer power supplies in this well-written piece over at his blog, and takes a moment to question the conventional wisdom held by fans and historians, that Rod Holt’s design for the Apple II power supply revolutionized the industry, a view which was also […]
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Getting CP/M up and running on the CFFA
CP/M was a popular command line-based operating systems for PCs in the 1980’s, before Microsoft’s MS-DOS took over the platform.Ă‚ It was also available on the Apple II (and III) thanks to the efforts of third-party vendors such as Applied Engineering and Microsoft, who sold the necessary hardware to interested users.Ă‚ CP/M never really took […]