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Coming this August 3rd through August 9th is the Apple II Festival France 2015, at Maska to Castera-Verduzan in Gers. Join your fellow European Apple II enthusiasts for a week of retrocomputing, gaming, hacking and fellowship. Apple II Festival France 2015 is being produced by Silicium and the Facebook group Groupe Apple II France. Link: Event Website Source: A2Central
Every retro computing aficionado will tell you that there is no better experience than running your favourite program or game in the real machine. The noises, the smell, the keystrokes, everything helps to take you back to the good old days. But unfortunately not everyone has the means (space, money, time, spouse’s approval) to keep that vintage computer around, ready to be…
Jim Salmons sent a message on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that has got us all very excited. The Softalk Apple Collection at the Internet Archive has already 42 of the 48 issues of Softalk up for you enjoyment. He and his wife were behind the effort to bring the originals to Internet Archive headquarters and get them scanned and…
We reported here last month the release of Kaboom, a game from Ninjaforce for the Apple IIGS. The group have now released a small update, mainly fixing a number of issues including: Fixed a bug where the game crashes during play. The game now stores settings and scores (oops). Typos in credits fixed (plus some names we forgot). Source: Call…
Apple2Scans has secured the privilege to host the PDF scans of the collection of newsletters from the Rhein-Neckar Apple Users Group (RNAUG), which belongs to Jesse Blue of legendary Apple IIGS demo group Ninjaforce. The first issue is already available, and although the quality is not one of the bests since the scan is from a photocopy, it is still…
Brutal Deluxe software has added a number of cassettes to their Apple II cassette collection. The library, maintained by Antoine Vignau, has now grown to 633 cassettes. Some of the new titles are: Creative computing software: Voodoo castle adventure Innovative computer programs (by Ron Graff): The patient professor Instant software: Oil tycoon Mad hatter software: Diet planning package MUSE: Maze…
This month on Open Apple, Mike Maginnis and Quinn Dunki sit down with Paul Lutus, author of Apple II software such as AppleWriter and GraFORTH. They talk about the impacts of software development on society, the value of the individual in the process, and the trials of coding software in the woods. Link: Open-Apple
[youtube o-zzW-2mWQI nolink] Technobytes shows us a teaser video of their new accelerator card for the Apple II. For now, the card is not available for purchase, and it is still being tested. Source: Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook Group
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…
[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….
