V17I1 (Mar 2012)

March 30, 2012 · Add a comment

Cover ][ Cover

The Complete Historically Brewed
David Greelish's paperback reprint of his complete newsletter.

Apple Core

Kickstarter
The leading crowdfunding platform for USA artists.

RocketHub
An online crowdfunding platform for creative projects.

The Jason Scott Sabbatical
Jason Scott's first Kickstarter project, which funded the completion of the Get Lamp documentary.

The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack
A second campaign to fund the simultaneous filming of three documentaries.

Bring a great computer history zine back to a new audience!
David Greelish's Kickstarter to fund The Complete Historically Brewed.

Double Fine Adventure
Tim Schafer's $3.3-million fundraiser for an original adventure game.

Wasteland 2
Brian Fargo's Kickstarter campaign for a sequel to the Apple II RPG Wasteland.

Ultima – The Ultimate Collector's Guide
Stephen Emond's RocketHub project for an Ultima RPG companion book.

The Disko Apocalypse Tour!
8 Bit Weapon's 2010 chiptune tour.

Hadean Lands: Interactive Fiction for the iPhone
Andrew Plotkin's project to develop text adventures for iOS devices.

CFFA3000
Rich Dreher's CompactFlash For Apple, funded without crowdfunding.

Briel Computers
Vince Briel's full-time business, ripe for a Kickstarter.

Other crowdfunding sites
For musicians, Australians, and others.

Review

Apple II DMS Drummer Software
Chiptune music utility, from 8 Bit Weapon and Michael J. Mahon.

MusinGS

Randy Brandt
AppleWorks, Quality Computers, and Beagle Bros veteran.

Beagle Bros Software Repository
An archive of Beagle Bros software, now available for download as freeware.

Programming in Logo

UCBLogo
The University of Berkeley Logo for many platforms.

3D Logo
By The ByteWorks and now sold by Syndicomm.

DumplinGS

KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

Shrink-Fit X
Kelvin Sherlock's ShrinkIt decompressor for Mac OS X.

Fishhead
Brutal Deluxe's file copying utility for GS/OS.

Slammer
Ivan Drucker's utility for using assembly routines from Applesoft BASIC.

Kim Howe
Freeware versions of Telnet NDA, Shipwrecked!, Yahtzee NDA, and Arachnid.

Apple II History
Steve Weyhrich's history of the Apple II, coming soon in book format.

Not Another Apple Podcast?!
David Greelish and Blake Patterson's podcast about Apple retail.

Jordan Mechner
Creator of Prince of Persia announces a reboot of its predecessor, Karateka.

Storytime with Jordan Mechner
Keynote speech at PAX East 2012, a gaming convention held April 6–8 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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V16I4 (Dec 2011)

December 23, 2011 · Comments Off

My Home Page

Apple II ornament pattern
Embroider your own miniature Apple II! Provided to Juiced.GS under Creative Commons by designer Sarah Walkowiak. See more photos here.

Review: CFFA3000

R&D Automation
CompactFlash and USB storage interface for the Apple II.

Waiting list
Sign up for the second batch of CFFA3000 cards, due in 2012.

Discussion forum
Ask questions and receive support about the CFFA3000.

Review: TLC

Instruction manual
Hasbro's user manual (PDF) for the Tiger Learning Computer, a portable educational tool based on the Apple IIe.

Photo gallery
Additional photographs of the TLC, courtesy Andy Molloy and Kristi Petters.

Cover ][ Cover: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs
The first authorized biography of Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson.

Behind the Scenes: Escape! From The Homebrew Computer Club

David Schmenk's homepage
Author of HBCC, with pages devoted to Apple and retrocomputing.

DumplinGS

Apple founding contract for sale
The document that established the empire, as auctioned by Sotheby's.

Silver Platter
Kelvin Sherlock's NDA HTTP server, now freeware.

GSoft BASIC
The Byte Works' 16-bit implementation of the BASIC programming language, now freeware.

NuInput 2.0
Ivan Drucker's assembly routine to replace Applesoft INPUT.

The Complete Historically Brewed
David Greelish's Kickstarter-funded compilation of Historically Brewed newsletters

Apple II DMS Drummer Software
Chiptune music utility, from 8 Bit Weapon and Michael J. Mahon.

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V16I3 (Sep 2011)

September 27, 2011 · Comments Off

II the Max

SoundMeister
16-bit sound card for the Apple IIGS.

Sirius RAM
8 MB RAM card from 16Sector.

GS RAM
Vince Briel's 4 MB RAM card, currently out of stock.

Uthernet
An Ethernet card compatible with 8- and 16-bit Apple II computers.

System 6.0.1
Free, legal downloads of the Apple IIGS operating system.

DiskMaker
Convert disk image files to real disks using your IIGS.

DiskMaker 8
Convert disk image files to real disks using your enhanced Apple IIe, IIc, or IIc Plus.

MountIt
Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini's utility for mounting disk images directly within GS/OS.

GUPP
Nathan Mates' Grand Unified Patcher Program.

HFS Patch
Stabilize the Hierarchical File System translator (HFS FST) with this bug fix.

BeagleWrite GS
A GS/OS-based graphic word processor from Beagle Bros.

Games
A collection of games for the Apple IIGS.

ProSel 16
"The first, best, and most complete hard disk management system for the Apple IIGS" by Glen Bredon.

Diagnostic codes
Decipher your Apple IIGS's self-test results.

BRAM batteries
Replacement batteries for your battery RAM.

A2MP3

A2MP3
Vince Briel's hardware-based MP3 player for the Apple II.

80-column version
Michael Kent's modification to the open-source software for the A2MP3 card.

Brain Board

Brain Board
Mike Willegal's Apple-1 expansion card for the Apple II.

Wozanium Pack source code
Emulate the Brain Board!

Brain Board assembly
An hour-long video tutorial by Eric Rucker.

Brain Board demo
See the Brain Board in action.

Brain Board manual
Assembly and operations guide (PDF).

Wendell Sander
Apple-1 software recordings, ready for a music player like an iPod or iPhone.

DumplinGS

KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

Guess who's coming to KansasFest?
John Romero! Photo by buzzpuzzle; use licensed under Creative Commons.

SheppyWare
Sweet16, SideClick, and Trasher, all by Eric Shepherd.

T40
Antoine Vignau's 40-column text-screen editor.

fortycolumns
Daniel Kruszyna's gallery of T40 art.

BASUG/Apple2000
Ewen Wannop's scans of the British Apple Systems User Group's publication.

Ronald G. Wayne
Apple co-founder and author of autobiography Adventures of an Apple Founder: Atari, Apple, Aerospace & Beyond.

Jason Scott's Kickstarter
A fundraising campaign to produce three documentaries, including one about the 6502.

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V16I2 (Jun 2011)

June 25, 2011 · Comments Off

II the Max

BeagleWrite
A ProDOS-based graphic word processor from Beagle Bros. Also available via FTP.

ProTERM
A comprehensive 8-bit telecommunications program, now freeware.

Beagle Bros
Software from developer Beagle Bros, now freeware.

Games
An exhaustive collection of freeware ProDOS games. Also available via FTP

ShrinkIt
Andy Nicholas's Shrinkit v3.4 for creating and unpacking ShrinkIt files. Also available via FTP.

ADTPro
Create, transfer, and convert disk images between an Apple II and a modern machine.

RetroFloppy
David Schmidt's commercial service for converting your disks for you.

Apple II programming books
From APDA, Byte Works, and others, now sold by Syndicomm.

Apple's documentation
Scans of original manuals for Apple II products.

Drive head cleaning & alignment
Disk II floppy drive maintenance.

Apple II disk drive cleaning
YouTube video tutorial by David Schmidt.

Retr0bright
A product for removing the yellow tint from your original hardware.

Musings

Don Worth
Author of Beneath Apple Manor, Beneath Apple DOS.

Tribute

@rsuenaga Scholarship Fund
Benefits the University of Hawai'i, in memory of Ryan Suenaga.

Connections

RetroFloppy
Cables for connecting an Apple II to another computer.

Lost Classics
Home of ProTERM and MODEM.MGR.

Apple hacking for fun and profit
Paul Weinstein's tutorial for using an Apple II as a terminal.

Review

WriteRoom
Distraction-free writing for Mac OS X and iOS.

WriteMonkey
A Windows "zenware" word processor.

Q10
Freeware word processor for Windows.

Dark Room
Unofficial Windows version of WriteRoom.

Deja IIx
Run AppleWorks Classic under Mac OS X.

Deja II
Run AppleWorks Classic under Mac OS Classic. Also available via FTP.

Freedom
Disable your Internet connectivity to prevent distractions. Mac and Windows.

Anti-Social
Disable access to social media to prevent distractions. Mac only.

RescueTime
Monitor your Internet activity to identify time-wasting trends.

Behind the Scenes

Oregon to 03RG0N patch
Martin Haye's patch to turn Oregon Trail into Melissa Barron's hacked 03RG0N TR41L.

DumplinGS

KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

Syndicomm
Vendor of popular Apple II software, now managed by Tony Diaz of 16Sector.

Brain Board
Mike Willegal's Apple-1 card for the Apple II.

NiftySpell
Spellcheck NDA by Chris Vavruska, now freeware.

Don Lancaster
Free PDFs of Assembly Cookbook

Apple II Concert
Hosted by Chris Kallemyer and Jason Torchinsky of the Machine Project.

Smartport Virtual Hard Drive
Access USB via your floppy port.

Random Numbers

Sheppyware
Software by Eric Shepherd.

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V16I1 (Mar 2011)

March 24, 2011 · Comments Off

Getting Started

A2-Web
An index of Apple II vendors and publishers of hardware and software.

B&R Computer Services
Great for printers, keyboards, mice, and an extensive software catalog, including AppleWorks.

DigitalDinos
Catalog includes magazines, manuals, keyboards, and controller cards.

MC Price Breakers
Sells CPUs, cables, RAM cards, and cables.

comp.sys.apple2.marketplace
Usenet newsgroup csa2m is one of the oldest online Apple II marketplaces.

Apple II Classifieds
Part of A2-Web.

Craigslist
The online equivalent of the classifieds.

Freecycle
Give away and collect stuff for free.

KansasFest Vendor Fair
An open market held at each year's KansasFest convention.

Syndicomm
Seller of starter kits and software archives.

GNO Apple II Archive
An FTP archive of free Apple II software.

Apple Core

Leadlight
Survival horror comes to the Apple II in this Eamon text adventure from Wade Clark.

Eamon Adventurer's Guild Online
Every adventure for and piece of information about Eamon, curated by Matthew Clark.

Zarf's Interactive Fiction
Andrew Plotkin's guide to IF.

Learn Inform
Learn the popular Inform 7 programming language for interactive fiction.

Text Adventure Development System
TADS 3, a popular alternative to Inform.

Musings

Photo gallery
Additional photos of Alan Floeter not seen in the print edition!

The MindCraft Assembler and Macrosoft
Alan Floeter's popular programming language.

Magic with Macrosoft
Peter Neubauer's KansasFest 2010 presentation (PDF).

Adagio Concepts
Alan and Valerie Floeter's music studio.

Connections

IIGS System 6.0.1 and ProDOS 4.0.2
Bootable system disks for the 8-bit and 16-bit Apple II.

Bernie ][ the Rescue
A powerful Apple IIGS emulator for Mac OS Classic, no longer supported.

Sweet16
Eric Shepherd's incomparable Apple IIGS emulator for Mac OS X.

Contiki
An 8-bit FTP-capable operating system for the Apple II.

Marinetti
A TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS.

SAFE2
A standalone FTP client for the Apple IIGS.

KEGS
Kent's Emulated GS, an open-source, cross-platform Apple IIGS emulator.

FishWings
A Windows-based Apple II file and archive utility.

CiderPress
An open-source Apple II file and disk image viewer and translator for Windows.

AppleCommander
An open-source, cross-platform Apple II file and disk image utility.

ProFUSE
Kelvin Sherlock's utility for mounting ProDOS disk images in Mac & Linux.

Babelfish
An Apple IIGS NDA for converting files.

Dumplings

KansasFest
Annual Apple II convention in Kansas City, Missouri

Brain Board
Mike Willegal's expansion card to turn an 8-bit Apple II into an Apple-1.

VCF East 7.0
The annual Vintage Computer Festival at New Jersey's InfoAge Museum.

Apple IIc Smartport CompactFlash Adapter
Robert Justice's prototype CF reader.

A2Command
A Norton Commander-like file manager.

Open Apple
A monthly podcast by Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne.

Antoine Vignau's photo gallery
Thousands of original photographs of Apple II hardware, software, and accessories.

ASCII by Jason Scott
Blog of Jason Scott, director of BBS: The Documentary and Get Lamp (occasionally NSFW).

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