Volume 22, Issue 1 (March 2017)

Index

Pages	Type	Headline	Author	Summary
2	My Home Page	The Host of KansasFest	Ken Gagne	In memory of Steve Gozdziewski, former Grand Gouda committee chair of KansasFest, who passed away Dec 31, 2016, at 69.
3	Letters		John Valdezco & Jon Co	The developers of Manila Gear's 4soniq card respond to Eric Shepherd's review in the December 2016 issue.
4-7	Connections	NO CARRIER? No Problem!	Mike Whalen	How to use ProTERM or Z-Link to telnet to a classic BBS being run on an Apple II.
7-10	Review	Long in the Bluetooth	Chris Torrence	A review of the AP40, an Apple II-themed wireless game controller, and the Retro Receiver, a Bluetoom receiver for the Apple II, both from 8bitdo.
11-13	Review	The Floppy Emu Fits a Niche	Evan Brewer	The Floppy Emu by Steve Chamberlin is a mass-storage device for the Apple II that doesn't require an expansion slot.
14-17	MusinGS	And the Game Played On	Ken Gagne	An interview with Joe Santulli, co-founder of the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas, which includes an Apple IIe.
18-21	Behind the Scenes	Improving the Arcane	Mark Lemmert & Mike Reimer	The upcoming 8-bit RPG Nox Archaist uses ProRWTS, Peter Ferrie's file-system driver.
22-23	DumplinGS	Forty Years of Happenings	Ken Gagne	WOzFest #6 and Oz KFest are scheduled in Australia, as are VCF East, Southeast West, and Midwest in the USA; Vince Weaver ports Portal to the Apple II; System 6.0.4 now available; ReActiveMicro begins selling a DB15-to-DB9 joystick adapter; Dagen Brock releases GSplus emulator and KSYNTHED music editor and player; Jack MacDonald's internal Apple memos about SSAFE DRM found at a Seattle Goodwill and scanned.
23	Random Numbers	Re-imaging Our Past	Eric Shepherd	What if Apple Inc. were to develop a new model of Apple II today? Eric Shepherd postulates what this hardware would consist and be capable of.
23	Advertisement			Three BBSes to telnet to.
24	Advertisement		KansasFest	Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apple II with a keynote speech by Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini of Brutal Deluxe.

Issue Links

Letters from the Land of ROM

Manila Gear
Downloads for the 4soniq card, including a PDF manual.

Connections

ADTPro
David Schmidt's bootstrap file transfer utility.

Installing Raspbian with NOOBS
How to set up your Raspberry Pi for telnetting to an Apple II BBS.

BBS disk images
ProTERM 3.1 and Z-Link preconfigured for telnet access.

Telnet BBS Guide
A list of bulletin board systems that support access via telnet.

ProTERM manual
The exhaustive, 334-page manual for ProTERM 3.1.

Review: AP40

8bitdo
Developers of retro-themed game controllers and peripherals.

AliExpress
Online retailer of 8bitdo's AP40 game controller and Bluetooth receiver for the Apple II, the Retro Receiver.

Kickstarter
Crowdfunding campaign for AP40 that ran Sep 26–Oct 26, 2016.

NES30
Gamepad off which the AP40 was modeled, using same documentation and firmware updates.

Assembly Lines
Author Chris Torrence's video podcast unboxing and review of the AP40.

Review: Floppy Emu

Big Mess o' Wires
Homepage of Floppy Emu developer Steve Chamberlin.

MusinGS: Joe Santulli

National Videogame Museum
An interactive museum of electronic entertainment, opened in Frisco, Texas, USA, in April 2016.

The Videogame History Museum
Mid-2011 Kickstarter crowdfunding project for what eventually became the NVMUSA.

PAX East 2013
The NVMUSA's Apple IIe at the Penny Arcade Expo East 2013 in Boston, Mass., USA.

Behind the Scenes: ProRWTS

ProRWTS
An improved file-system driver by Peter Ferrie (aka qkumba).

6502 Workshop
Developers of the upcoming 8-bit tile-based RPG, Nox Archaist.

DumplinGS

WOzFest #6
A one-day gathering of Apple II users on April 29, 2017, in Wollstonecraft, NSW, Australia.

Oz KFest
A multi-day gathering of Apple II users on August 30–September 3, 2017, on Bribie Island, QLD, Australia.

Vintage Computer Festival
The 2017 schedule for VCFest East, West, Midwest, and Southeast.

Portal
Vince Weaver's Apple II port of platform-puzzle game Portal.

System 6.0.4
Unofficial update to the Apple IIGS operating system.

Joystick adapter
ReActiveMicro's IBM 15-pin to Apple 9-pin joystick adapter

GSplus
Apple IIGS emulator forked from KEGS and GSPort by Dagen Brock, still in alpha.

KSYNTHED
Dagen Brock's 8-bit music player and editor.

Apple memos
Jack MacDonald's internal Apple memos about Software Security from Apples Friends and Enemies (SSAFE) DRM.