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This issue features reviews of the A2FPGA and FujiNet cards; our annual roundup of the latest Apple II emulators; a behind-the-scenes look at Wizardry 3.1; and much, much more!
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This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2024; behind-the-scenes looks at Stephen Heumann’s SMB FST, Lucas Scharenbroich’s Generic Tile Engine, and Kevin Powers’ Great Garage Giveaway game; a retrospective on game show Tic Tac Dough; and much, much more!
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With 29 years of continuous publication and on the cusp of a momentous milestone, Juiced.GS is excited to announce that the magazine is barreling ahead into 2025, when it will publish its thirtieth annual volume.
“Completing its third decade, Juiced.GS will continue to astonish and delight the Apple II community, from readers to contributors and newcomers to veterans,” said editor and publisher Ken Gagne. “As always, we’ll work with the community’s software developers, hardware manufacturers, book publishers, and more to get the inside scoop on upcoming products and releases, giving subscribers everything they need to find innovative and exciting ways to enjoy the Apple II.”
Upcoming articles include behind-the-scenes look at Stephen Heumann’s SMB FST and Lucas Scharenbroich’s Generic Tile Engine; an analysis of various hardware copy protection schemes; a review of FujiNet for the Apple II; a look back at Bob Bishop’s Tic-Tac-Dough and Apple’s Porsche 935 K3; a roundup of the year’s best Apple II emulators; and coverage of KansasFest 2024.
Current subscriptions of Juiced.GS will automatically renew on January 1, 2025. Rates for readers in the USA and Canada will go up $1 each, to $21 and $26, respectively; rates for other international destinations will go up two dollars to $30. Customers can check their subscription status, opt out of automatic renewal, or update their mailing address anytime by visiting their online account.
New subscribers can sign up today to receive the 2024 volume, including the two issues published thus far and two more still to come, at our 2024 rates; or they can place an order to begin a new subscription in 2025.
To celebrate our upcoming new volume, we’re having a sale! PDF-only editions of our back-issue bundles of volumes 1–10 and volumes 11–20 are each 20% off until the end of July: $64 gets you 10 years, 40 issues, and over 800 pages of Apple II reviews, interviews, and how-tos. Additionally, all PDFs include free shipping!!
Apple II Forever!
This issue features a review of Digital Eclipse’s 3D remake of Wizardry; a 25-year retrospective of the film Pirates of Silicon Valley; coverage of Steve Wozniak’s recent commencement speech; reviews of the game Shuriken and the book DOOM Guy; and much, much more!
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APRIL 1, 2024 — LEOMINSTER, MA — Gamebits, publisher of the highly acclaimed Apple II magazine Juiced.GS, has entered into a colossal content-sharing agreement with OpenAI, developers of the large language models used by ChatGPT and DALL•E.
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” said Ken Gagne, editor of Juiced.GS. “Technology will soon automate all online creativity and art — and Juiced.GS wants to be included. By feeding our retrocomputing content into OpenAI’s LLMs, we’ll ensure that the history of computing will inform the future of content.”
“Our dataset has long lacked insight into an essential period of Apple history,” said Sam Altman, current CEO of OpenAI. “Despite ingesting everything from AppleWorks to Oregon Trail, we still need to know everything that has been done with the Apple II in the 21st century. With the inclusion of Juiced.GS, we’ll now have that modern perspective on this quaint machine, and our chatbot will finally stop hallucinating such historical ‘facts’ as Steve Jobs growing up on a peanut farm, SimCity being released for the Apple IIGS, and the Apple II being outsold by the Commodore 64.”
The licensing agreement, modeled after those previously negotiated with Tumblr and reddit, permits OpenAI unrestricted website access in exchange for an undisclosed but sizable sum to be paid to Gamebits.
“I explicitly trust OpenAI to make fair and intelligent use of everything we will provide it with,” said Gagne.
“Wait a minute,” said Kay Savetz, freelance contributor to the magazine. “I’ve written dozens of articles for Juiced.GS — and my contract says I retain the copyright to them. I don’t want OpenAI absorbing all my hard work without credit! Don’t I get a say in this??”
“Trust me,” was all Gagne had to say.
Upon transferring the agreed-upon licensing fee to Gamebits’ offshore bank account, Altman pointed OpenAI’s bots and crawlers to the Juiced.GS website to begin the hungry silent running of consuming decades of exclusive Apple II news, reviews, interviews, and how-tos.
However, the ingestion ended as quickly as it began, leaving Altman in shock. Looking over his master control program, he was heard to say, with increasing agitation: “W-what??… Where is everything? There’s nothing here but a few links and cover photos… What do you mean, it’s a ‘print magazine’? Who prints things anymore?!? Where’s the online content?? Where are all the PDFs???”
With a wink and a nod, Gagne responded: “We much appreciate OpenAI’s generous contribution to keeping our hardcopy edition alive for many years to come.”