Tag: Apple II Enthusiasts
Open Apple podcast has released a special episode produced by Mike Whalen about the 2016 Kansasfest. Back in July, Mike attended Kansasfest equipped with his audio production gear. While enjoying the Applepaloosa that happens every year, he captured a series of interviews and biographies. The production is superb in quality and content, giving a vivid image of what is Kansasfest, why people spend…
Open Apple podcast is now available for download to entertain you during your commute! This month’s episode brings a lenght interview with Alex Lee, the creator and maintainer of the “to-go” Apple IIgs website – What Is The Apple IIgs? “Alex walks through the history of IIgs emulators, and all the ways that the IIgs Finder was actually better than the Mac….
If you are one of the 70+ lucky ones that are going to the 2016 edition of the long-lasting Apple II enthusiasts gathering Kansasfest, you will be happy to know that several vendors will be giving extra discounts to their products. Here is the official announcement: “KansasFest is a great opportunity to meet some of the vendors who support our community. …
Although it is the only Apple II podcast around, it deserves the “best” title. Open Apple brings every month a nice balance of technical, geek and normal retro computing discussions regarding the Apple II. This month’s episode, number 55, brings Henry Courbis, co-proprietor of Ultimate Micro, serial entrepreneur, and Open Source guy. Henry is boldly going where no hobbyist has gone before, by…
Commodore 64 has so many active demoscene groups active and releasing many demos throughout the year that is hard to keep up. Apple II enthusiasts, on the other hand, haven’t been so lucky.t least in terms of quantity. At least in terms of quantity! If we focus on quality, however, Apple II community has plenty to celebrate thanks to French…
Rxsherm has published a 3-minute video on YouTube showing how would be if ‘Siri’ was available for the Apple II, circa 1984. The author’s ‘Siri’ has a complete full-text parser that can understand multiple phrases and punctuation, software-based voice synthesis, access to external (some) external data and more. This ‘Siri’ voice is not as pleasing as the modern version, but…
Floppy Emu is a Floppy Drive emulator for the Apple II and Macintosh classic. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk drive, requiring no special software or drivers. The new rev B brings welcoming new features:…
KansasFest 2016, the 28th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19 – 24 in Kansas City, Missouri. This edition will have a very important presence, Mike Harvey, founder and publisher of Nibble magazine, the “Magazine for Apple II Enthusiasts”. Nibble was published between 1980 and 1992. KansasFest is an annual convention offering Apple II users and retrocomputing enthusiasts…
Ultimate Micro has announced that although the first run is sold out, they are planning to have a second run of the Mockingboard sound board very soon. There is no date set yet, but you can keep up to date accessing the store website and also its forum. Link: Ultimate Micro
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…
