Tag: Apple
Blake Patterson wrote in his blog “Byte Cellar” about his visit to the “Places of Invention” Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, in Washington D.C. The exhibit is not only about vintage computing, but there is an important part of it dedicated to the rise of the personal computer. Besides the article that I recommend you to read,…
[youtube WqntkEOugYY nolink] The video above shows an amazing Apple IIc mod, battery-powered and with a built-in colour monitor. Charles Mangin, the guy behind the amazing machine will be showing it off at KansasFest. Source: A2Central
BiT Evolution is finally out of Early Access and is now available to purchase on Steam! Take a dash of NES, add a twist of Gameboy and sprinkle lightly with a bit of Megadrive and Snes and you end up with BiT Evolution! Possibly the greatest Retro Game release of the year! BiT Evolution is a journey into the past…
Stories of Apple website has published the history of the Apple’s Jonathan computer. The idea was to design a simple hardware “backbone” carrying basic operations and I/O on which the user could add a series of modules, carrying hardware for running Apple II, Mac, UNIX and DOS software, plus other modules with disk drives or networking capabilities. Apple could even…
After Steve Jobs passing, the market was flooded of movies and books about Apple’s co-founder. The best known movie is ‘Jobs’ with Ashton Kutcher, but Steve Wozniak, who everyone would agree knew Jobs closely, doesn’t seem to like it. “I think that there were a lot of weaknesses about the ‘Jobs’ movie, the one with Ashton Kutcher, a lot of…
I’ve just found this link posted on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group, where Christopher Phin writes about his passion to buy vintage computers (mostly Apple in his case). It is a very entertaining and light reading, and at least for me, it reflects very precisely what I feel about vintage computers. The author said his in his 30’s which explains…
‘BiT: Evolution’ is a modern-retro platformer that pays homage to video gaming from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. This single player game follows the story of the main character, BiT. BiT starts as a simple puck from a hockey video game who finds his way outside his world and into the realm of code; A mysterious place found between game…
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…
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
A new version of the Apple II transfer utility has been released, fixing a bug that happens with computers equipped with native RS-232C. New functionality: * [Audio] Client sends test stream of data for volume tuning on host side * [Server] Text bootstrapping data is packed more densely for faster transfer Bug fixes: * Server and client agree on more…
