Volume 24, Issue 1 (March 2019)

Juiced.GS Volume 24, Issue 1 (March 2019)

Index

PagesTypeHeadlineAuthorSummary
2My Home PageCave of WondersKen GagneA trip to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky brings to mind Colossal Cave Adventure and the Apple II community.
3Letters from the Land of ROMMark DeckerWhen teachers and parents didn't have Mark's back, the Apple II provided a way out.
4-6ReviewRedefining VideoAndrew RoughanA review of the VidHD HDMI card by Blue Shift Inc.
7-9Tech-torialLaser TransmutationGeoff WeissHow to export Apple IIGS files as PostScript and open/convert them using Ghostscript.
9AdvertisementGamebitsSophistication & Simplicity by Steve Weyhrich.
10-11RetrospectiveBetter With AgeVince BrielA breakdown of the many ways the Apple-1 evolved into the Apple II—and some surprising features that were better in the original.
12-14MusinGSEmulation's First CutAndy MolloyAn interview with Randy Ubillos, developer of II in a Mac as well as later programs such as Final Cut Pro and iMovie.
15-16Behind the ScenesFantastical InvestmentChris TorrenceWhat 6502 Workshop learned in their failed Kickstarter for Nox Archaist, and how the second crowdfunding campaign coming in May 2019 will be even better.
17-19DumplinGSA Cold Day in Kansas CityKen GagneMark Pelczarski of Polarware & Penguin Software to keynote KansasFest 2019; VCF announces 2019 event dates; GORF, WOzFest, and QFest come to Australia; 8bit-Dude releases Slicks 'n' Slide; Vince "deater" Weaver releases Out of This World 8-bit demake; Steve Chamberlin updates Floppy Emu to Model C; ReActiveMicro partners with Fabien Bénattou to sell Disk ][+ kit; Michael Packard announces Darkstar Unhinged game; Roby Sherman releases The Sparkstone: Tales of Florb, an Interchoice game; 4am releases Anti-M; Antoine Vignau patches WordPerfect GS to v2.1b; Ewen Wannop announces end of Spectrum Internet Suite (SIS) support; Chris Torrence releases Motter Tektura font.
19Random NumbersSeptember 1986Eric ShepherdSheppy recalls the day he met Greg Templeman and John Dukehart and was introduced to the Apple IIGS.
20AdvertisementKansasFest

Issue Links

Review: VidHD

VidHD
The official page for manuals and firmware for Blue Shift Inc.'s HDMI card.

Ultimate Universal Power Supply
ReActiveMicro's PSU for IIGS computers with power-hungry accessories.

EhBasic
Michael Guidero's Apple II port of the late Lee Davison's EhBASIC.

Pitch Dark
4am's frontend for exploring and playing Infocom text adventures on an 8-bit Apple II.

Mind Blown
A video demo by Charles Mangin.

Tech-torial: PostScript

Ghostscript
An interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, for modern computers.

LibreOffice
An office suite that can be used for editing PDFs on modern computers.

Inkscape
A professional vector graphics editor for Windows, macOS and Linux.

LaserWriter driver
An updated GS/OS driver released at KansasFest 2018.

MusinGS: Randy Ubillos

II in a Mac
Disk images, user manuals, and archived articles about the first Apple II emulator.

Behind the Scenes

Nox Archaist
Homepage for an original 8-bit RPG, launching on Kickstarter on May 2, 2019.

DumplinGS

KansasFest
Apple II convention being held in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 15–21, 2019, and keynoted by Mark Pelczarski of Penguin Software and Polarware.

Vintage Computer Festival
A series of retrocomputing events being held across the USA in 2019.

GORF
The premiere Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival, being held April 24–28 in Melbourne, Australia.

WOzFest
An Apple II gathering being held May 25 in Sydney, AUstralia.

QFest
An Apple II gathering being held May 25 in Brisbane, AUstralia.

8-bit Slicks
An Apple II port of the classic MS-DOS game Slicks 'n' Slide.

Out of This World
Vince "deater" Weaver's 8-bit "demake" of the Apple IIGS game.

Floppy Emu
Model C of Steve Chamberlin's floppy and hard disk emulator.

Disk ][+ Kit
Fabien Bénattou's hardware kit, now sold by ReActiveMicro.

Darkstar Unhinged
The latest game from Michael Packard of Snacking On! Software.

The Sparkstone: Tales of Florb
An Interchoice game by Roby Sherman of Infinite Blern.

Anti-M
4am's bootloader for copyrighted games.

Productivity Applications > Word Perfect">WordPerfect GS v2.1b
The word processor patched for Y2K.

Spectrum Internet SuiteSIS, a IIGS graphical web browser no longer supported by Ewen Wannop and Geoff Weiss.

Motter Tektura
Apple's font, recreated by Chris Torrence of the Assembly Lines podcast.