Category: Apple News
The website Apple II Scans has scanned and posted the Volume III binder of the Apple Service Level I Technical Procedures manual set, dated July 1, 1984, and contains various updates from October 1984 and later. Volume III contains take-apart and basic troubleshooting and repair procedures for the Apple Modems 300 and 1200 and Apple Personal Modem, the Apple Graphics…
This blog post talks about the author’s task to put together a collection of single load / crunched games on a 32meg ProDOS volume that’ll work not only for emulators and the CFFA3000, but also as a standard partition for use with the CFFA v1 or v2, MicroDrive, Focus or SCSI drive. He seems to have accomplished that using the…
Quinn Dunki is back again with another blog post, this time talking about how she bootstrapped her Apple IIc. The article is full of useful information and fun to read. “This is a distinctly modern problem. Back in the day, the machine would have, of course, come with many bootable disks, any number of which could be used to create…
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 ///?
New York – The History of Science auction at Bonhams New York ended with the sale of the Apple-1 computer, which sold for $905,000, almost twice its high estimate, making it the world’s most valuable relic from the computer age. The winning bid went to a smiling representative from the Henri Ford Museum who triumphantly raised the paddle after battling…
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…
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…
This month, 26 years ago, the NeXT Computer was released. Salvatore Bognanni wrote a nice article about this great computer that was a commercial failure, but also it became the foundation for the successful Mac OSX. The system is a 1 foot cube magnesium case with a long cable that extends to the display. At the time, its performance spared…
This past weekend, a handful of Juiced.GS subscribers received a surprise in the mail: a French language edition of the September 2014 issue. The content was translated from the original English by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe, a polyglot contributor to the magazine. The result is Juiced.FR, which shipped a week after Juiced.GS. The timing was tricky, as I had…
