Category: Apple News
Bob Bishop’s own, personal, APPLE II computer, serial number A2S1-0013 is available for auction on eBay. Bob is the author of the famous program Apple-Vision, a program in hi-res graphics that drew a room with a TV, and after the picture was complete, the man on the screen danced to the song “Turkey In The Straw”. [youtube RiWE-aO-cyU nolink] Later…
S.A.M – Software Automatic Mouth is a a software-based voice synthesizer for the Apple II. According to A2Heaven, SAM is designed to be easy to use, and with a couple of simple program statements, the user can add speech to your BASIC or machine language programs. You can see by yourself how it sounds like watching the video demo below. [youtube…
Revenge! is a magazine in PDF devoted to games and vintage hardware as well as emulation of various systems. Some of the featured articles and reviews this month: Megaman Hysteria Reviews Wings of Fury Trivial Pursuit Console Forever Download: Rev’n’GE
It was announced that MacGUI website will fade out and eventually close over the next few months. “Dog Cow” explained that last year he started to downsize his collection giving away tons of Mac related materials to whoever was willing to pay for postage. Now, the website, which has already been downsized as well will eventually close down. “Dog Cow” wants…
Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting) and Jack Nutting (not hosting) Host’s Topic: Internet of Dumb Things Are our 8-bit programming skills going to be relevant again? In this upcoming Internet of Things world, underpowered is back. The IoT and the return of 8-bit computing Retro Computing News: Ken Olsen, DEC documentary (20 minutes) 10 computers time forgot Jupiter Ace emulator (iOS) Gene…
The feat is fairly old, from 2008, but Hackaday has published an article about it today. Joshua Bell, the author of the Apple’s VNC client, shows a video streaming Second Life (!!!!) from a Windows XP to the Apple IIc over a 115kbps serial connection. If you haven’t seen it, or if you don’t rememeber what Second Life is (ba-dum-pump chsh!), check…
The Call-A.P.P.L.E. 1978 Compendium is a complete collection of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine issues originally published in 1978 by Val Golding and the members of A.P.P.L.E. The 1978 Compendium is a fully enhanced version of the issues giving the reader a window into the past of the Apple computing revolution as it was happening. All 10 issues from the first year…
We all know that it is almost certain that video-game adaptations for the big screen will be terrible (Pixel?). Also last year, in a wave of incredibility, it was announced that a live-action ‘epic sci-fi movie’ based on Tetris was being developed, but this time we are talking about another movie, more in the lines of Social Network. The film…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
