Category: Apple News
Brian Picchi, the curator of the Tanru Nomad Computer Museum and author of the 2013 Apple II game Lamb Chops, has released his source code to the public. According to Brian, the game is his first attempt to write something for the Apple II using 6502 assembly, so you shouldn’t expect the most clean code ever. It is a great…
[youtube _hxdz6c8bHg nolink] Dave tears down the 1983 vintage Apple Lisa, the first graphical user interface machine that pre-dates the Macintosh. Link: EEVBlog
Juice.GS is the only printed magazine for the Apple II, and it is now on its away to you doorstep, dear subscriber! This month the magazine is being shipped with two different covers to commemorate Shadowgate, the Apple IIGS point-and-click adventure that’s been resurrected for a new generation of gamers. If you don’t have done yet, subscribe to that great…
Magic Goto is now available, so you can program in Applesoft without ever having to think about line numbers, yielding better organized and much more readable code. It lets you GOTO, GOSUB, or ONERR GOTO a label in a REM statement. For example, GOSUB “showMainMenu” will find the line containing REM “showMainMenu”. Magic GOTO is self-contained in your Applesoft program…
After much tinkering and optimizing, Bill Buckels has released v1.0 of Bmp2DHR, a graphics converter for 8-bit Apple II computers. Check out Bill’s site for the impressive results! Link: Bmp2DHR website Source: A2Central
Roger Wagner’s Assembly Lines was an important information source for many programmers in the 1980’s. The article ran in Softtalk magazine over 33 issues. Chris Torrence has edited and published this book in close coordination with Roger Wagner under the Creative Commons 2.0 license and it is now available in hard cover from LULU.com for the production only pricing of…
After several years of quiet bit-rot, CiderPress and NuLib2 have received some new updates NuLib is a disk and file archive program, similar in principle to PKZIP, and CiderPress provides the features that Apple II enthusiasts need to manage their disk and file archives. Open them, view their contents, and copy files between them. There are other programs that provide…
Yes, here we are back with news about Apple 1 auctions and astronomic prices! Today, the Apple 1 up for auction that we posted about few weeks ago, was sold at Christie’s. The surprise is that it was sold for a price below of what was expected – “only” $365,000. Considering that on a previous auction back in October, an…
Wozpak Special Edition is a 350 page book with the notes from Steve Wozniaks’s Apple-1 and Apple II notes was produced in coordination with Steve Woznaik by Brian Wiser and Bill Martens. Call A.P.P.L.E normally sells it for the list price of $49.95, but during the holidays, it is 20% off at just $39.96. You can purchase it following the…
Apple II Scans website announced that, thanks to Kevin Savetz, who also secured Antic’s permission to post these volumes, the entire 9-issue run of II Computing has been scanned and is now available for download. II Computing was published bimonthly from Oct/Nov 1985 to Feb/Mar 1987, for a total of nine issues. Each magazine had its own theme (Science, Education,…
