Author: Paulo Garcia
[youtube FKUqQbm-GVA nolink] The KFest YouTube channel has published so far 17 videos, including a keynote by Randy Wigginton with special guest Steve Wonziak, seen above. There is a bit of background noise, but the voices are actually very clear to hear. Link: KansasFest Site
Stories of Apple website has published an interesting article telling the story of Mr. Macintosh, a stylized little man with an overcoat and hat that was etched on some early Macintosh motherboards and also appeared on some rare merchandising items. The idea was eventually abandoned but Mr. Macintosh lived on, at least for a while, both in hardware and in…
Ivan Drucker has announced this morning that the software suite for the Apple II running on Raspberry PI has been updated. The main change is full support for the new Raspberry PI 2 Model B. A2SERVER is a file server and network boot host for Apple IIgs and IIe computers. (It also works with classic Macs and modern computers, allowing…
Planet Virtual Boy has released a physical cartridge containing many games results of the last Virtual Fall Coding Competition, from first person shooters starring Mario, to polygonal Super-FX styled racers, to even remakes of ZX Spectrum classics. Wait, don’t type your Paypal password just yet. As for now, only one physical cartridge was made, for demonstration purposes. However, Virtual Boy…
AAMSX, in collaboration with CulturaChip, organized a music compo for the AY-3-89xx chip series, included as standard part of all MSX computers. As a result of the competition, 10 songs were published. The lucky people able to attend the 46th users meeting were able to buy a disk with the songs, to be played on the MSX. For everybody else,…
And you thought you’ve seen everything, eh? Usually not even considered collectable unless it’s storing a precious content inside, the media, cumbersome and space-eater, is always relegated to the least desirable vintage item to have in your collection. Well, now they have a retirement home to rely on! We’ve just learned about the Museum Of Obsolete Media, a place where…
Brendan Robert has been busy, working hard on a new version of his Java Apple Computer Emulator. During the weekend he posted some teaser screenshots on the Facebook Apple II Enthusiasts group. There, he says that the new JavaFX version is almost beta-ready. The emulator didn’t receive any update for a while, and the changes/improvements are more than welcome –…
Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman, a prolific computer game programmer, designer, and industry veteran, will be delivering a keynote at KansasFest. “Heineman learned programming at age 16 and gained fame in 1980 as the first National Space Invaders Champion with a score of 165,200. Her career soon blossomed with credits in over 250 games including classics such as Tass Times in…
The TransWarp GS is one of the best and most expandable of the accelerator cards. With its expandable cache and upgradable clock, this card is definitely a must have for every Apple IIgs user. A2Central has broken the news showing the first pictures of the cloned TranswarpGS board in testing. Within a week or so, prototypes will be shipped out…
Nextor is a disk operating system for MSX computers. It is actually an enhanced version of MSX-DOS, with which it is 100% compatible, and it identifies itself as MSX-DOS 2.31 to MSX-DOS aware applications. This version is the first one incorporating a much requested feature: the disk image emulation mode, that allows to boot the computer using disk image files…
