Tag: Apple

Stories of Apple website has published an interesting article telling the story of Mr. Macintosh, a stylized little man with an overcoat and hat that was etched on some early Macintosh motherboards and also appeared on some rare merchandising items. The idea was eventually abandoned but Mr. Macintosh lived on, at least for a while, both in hardware and in…

Ivan Drucker has announced this morning that the software suite for the Apple II running on Raspberry PI has been updated. The main change is full support for the new Raspberry PI 2 Model B. A2SERVER is a file server and network boot host for Apple IIgs and IIe computers. (It also works with classic Macs and modern computers, allowing…

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Exchange posted an article telling about his early experience with Beagle Bros software and how that influenced how he thinks about software today. “Playing with the Beagle Bros quirky Apple II floppies in middle school and high school, and the smorgasboard of oddball hobbyist ephemera collected on them, was a rite of passage for me…”…

Back from a long hiatus, Drop III Inches podcast has Mike and Paul discussing+ the newly-available cornucopia of games for the Apple ///, and then introducing the next bit of audio from the 1987 Phase III conference. The conference presentation was a panel discussion of the future of Apple III hardware and SOS, with Bob Consorti of On Three and…

Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore 64. Changes in this version are: Supports for multiple keyboard & joystick mappings. Improvements for the VIC II and USB devices. Visit Dirk’s web page for all the details. Website: http://www.dirkwhoffmann.de/virtualc64/