Author: Paulo Garcia
It is common knowledge that Dr. Wendell Sander is the “father” of the Apple ///, and that Daniel Kottke was the lead tech for the Sara project. But did you know that before Colette Askeland was doing board layout design for the original Macintosh prototypes, she was the PCB layout artist for the ///?
This is the second post published by Wiebo de Wit on his blog – DevDef. This time he explains all about the most common file formats, file management and settings related to these files. Link: DevDef Blog
CBM prg Studio Version 3.2.0 released. A couple of new assembler directives and a source map view are the main new features in this version, as well as a few bug fixes. New features in v3.2.0: PTEXT and NULL directives. NULL added to GenerateTo directive. Colour printing. Source overview. Link: www.ajordison.co.uk
It was post on World of Spectrum a link to a great lineup of pixel art computers and video game consoles by Mazeon. It is worth to check it out, not only for the pixel art but also for the clever animation like the glitched Speccy above Link: Retronator Source: World of Spectrum Forums
Following our tradition of high-quality magazine scans, we are making available for download the issue 15 of Amiga Format, that was missing for a long time. You can check the new magazine scan in 300dpi following the menu Downloads -> Magazines. As all other magazines, this one is now hosted on Internet Archive where you can download the PDF, or…
This month of October, the original Prince of Persia game is turning 25 years old. Looking at the game today running on my Apple II, I still think how great the animation is, considering the limited hardware the Apple II is for today’s standards. To celebrate this date, its creator, Jordan Mechner wrote a nice post on Tumblr where he…
Atari 800 – Best Game Pack’ is an All-In-One game pack includes the best Atari 8-bit games, screenshots, adverts, covers, manuals, the spreadsheet of high scores club and easy-to-use front-end. The objectives of the game pack are ‘Preservation of best Atari 8-bit games and their database’ and ‘Providing user friendly front-end for running games and accessing database’. Link: Website Download:…
It was published by Wiebo de Wit on his blog – DevDef – the first part of a series of articles explaining the usage of the Ultimate II. According to the author, the device is “a nice piece of hardware but the documentation? Not so much”, and this is what motivated him to write more about it. On this first…
When leaving Kansas Fest, Quinn Dunki had an extra package on her luggage: an Apple IIc Plus. In a very long post, with lots of pictures, she takes the computer apart, showing details about the machine, its components, how it is put together and much more. It is really worth to take the time to read it all, following the…
This month on Open Apple, Quinn Dunki and Mike Maginnis talk to Chris Torrence, the new Roger Wagner Volunteer Archivist on behalf of Softalk magazine. Chris is a lifelong Apple II fan, and has recently undertaken the valuable effort of producing a book containing all of Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines columns. That and much more for your Apple fix this…
