Category: Apple News
Ninjaforce, known as the responsible team to bring Wolfstein 3D for the Apple IIGS has just released a new game: Kaboom! KABOOM! is the only action game for the Apple IIGS where up to four players can play simultaneously, and it is available now as a free download. If you don’t have an Apple IIGS or its emulator, the website…
In this episode, Paul and Mike talk about the wooden Apple /// sculpture featured on the cover of Apple Magazine v2n2 and an email interview with Tom Eckert, the artist who created it. Other topics include the issues and ultimate success in booting an Apple /// with only an SD-card drive emulator, the feasibility of using alternative CP/M cards, the…
KansasFest, the 27th annual convention dedicated to the Apple II computer, is now open for registration. Users, programmers, hobbyists, and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited to Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 14, through Sunday, July 19, for six days and five nights of sessions, demos, announcements, contests, and camaraderie. Link: Registration Form
[youtube tCYn9drHx2E nolink] Instructables has published an amazing DIY project that will make all your friends that are buying smartwatches dying out of jealously: an Apple II watch! As you can see on the video above, it is not a mock up, but an actual watch that works! The tutorial shows how to make you for yourself, step by step….
You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…
This is a very interesting article showing how to emulate an Apple II using a microcontroller, like the Arduino Uno. The author shows how he implemented first the 6502 emulator, and then added the BASIC Interpreter. The first original Apple II had 4k or RAM, and the Arduino emulator provides only 1.5K free, which is enough to run some small…
After a long time, there is an update for Uthernet II card for Apple II. The developer has stated that the first prototypes were having problems on Apple IIGS rom 3, and unenhanced Apple II. The card was working well on Apple IIGS rom1 and the enhanced IIe. Based on some help and feedback, a new PCB was made and…
A2Central has published an article about their impressions of some new products from UltimateApple2 and ReactiveMicro, an NSC successor that is slimmer than the original No-Slot Clock and features a user replaceable coin cell battery. About the original NSC, it was explained that “…No Apple II (prior to the IIGS) had a built-in clock. (…) All alternatives at the time…
[youtube uK8Iba29UK8 nolink] Watch the evolution of Apple keyboards from 1983 to today and see people’s reactions to them on the YouTube channel by The iBookGuy. Link: YouTube
Juiced.GS is completing 20 years in print, publishing the first issue of 2015. Among other articles, on this issue they review ‘Assembly Lines: The Complete Book’ and talk about how to use Xcode to cross-compile cc65 code. I am looking forward to get my copy! Link: Juiced.GS
