
Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
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2 | My Home Page | A Community on the Road | Ken Gagne | While traveling the country as a digital nomad, Ken visits with Apple II users and friends. |
3-4 | Cover ][ Cover | Steven Weyhrich | A review of "The Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition" coffee table book by Leander Kahney and David Pierini. | |
5-8 | Behind the Scenes | Doing More with Less | Vince Weaver | Vince Weaver, aka deater, shows us his demakes of modern games Myst, Portal, Out of This World, and Kerbal Space Program for the 8-bit Apple II. |
9-10 | Hardware | Enter the Zilog | Jay Graham | A roundup of Z80 cards and software. |
11-14,19 | Programming | Assembly on the Move | Ivan Drucker | A tutorial for using relocatable machine language routines. |
15-16 | TidinGS | Isn't It Scantastix | Kay Savetz | Announcing the Scantastix project, an initiative to scan Apple II software manuals into the Internet Archive. |
16 | Advertisement | Eaten by a Grue | ||
17-18 | DumplinGS | In a World… | Ken Gagne | Robert Woodhead to keynote KansasFest 2020; Mike Harvey of Nibble passes away; Chris Vavruska releases HTML+ and HTMLView; Apple-1 clone SmartyKit announced; A2osX updated to 0.93; Nox Archaist delayed until August 2020; Stefan Wessels releases Penetrator port; MacEffects launches Kickstarter for transparent Apple II case; Colin Fulton demos Ruby programming language for the Apple II; Ewen Wannop releases Check File; Jon Lasser announces microdrive program. |
19 | Random Numbers | Twenty Five | Eric Shepherd | Eric Shepherd reflects on how much the world has changed since Juiced.GS debuted 25 years ago. |
20 | Advertisement | KansasFest |
Cover ][ Cover
The Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition
Leander Kahney and David Pierini’s hardcover coffee table book, a follow-up to the original 2004 edition.
Behind the Scenes
deater’s demakes
Kerbal Space Program, Portal, Out of This World, and Myst for the 8-bit Apple II, courtesy Vince Weaver.
Hardware
Apple II CP/M Hardware and OSes
Software for various Z80 cards.
The Humongous CP/M Software Archives
A collection of CP/M repositories past and present.
Programming
Ivan X’s Apple II Extravaganza
Home of Ivan Drucker’s Magic Goto, NuInput, Pager, TextFileLoader, and Lammer utilities.
Apple II csa2 FAQ
A table of zero page locations in Apple II memory.
Apple II ROM
The source code for the Apple II ROM.
S-C DocuMentor: Applesoft
A disassembly of Applesoft ROM.
TidinGS
Hayden Software ORCA M Macro Assembler manual
A manual from 1983, weighing in at 450 pages.
Pillsbury Eat Smart Nutrition Program
A little-known nutrition education program for the Apple II.
Ted Nelson’s Junk Mail Cartons
Flyers, circulars, and advertisements preserved by American information technology pioneer Theodor Holm Nelson.
Bitsavers
A group that has scanned millions of pages of tech material since the 1990s.
HACK42
A group that has archived more than 1,000 items.
Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
High-quality images of games and books, including for the Apple II.
Scantastix
Everything scanned by Kay Savetz and Jason Scott as part of the Scantastix project.
PayPal.Me
Donate to Kay Savetz to support the Scantastix project.
Scantastix finances
A Google Sheet showing Scantastix’s finances and up-to-date scan statistics.
DumplinGS
KansasFest
An annual Apple II convention keynoted by Robert Woodhead and held at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, this July 21–26, 2020.
Nibble Magazine
Home of the magazine founded by the late Mike Harvey.
HTML+ / HTMLView
Tools by Chris Vavruska to view, render, and convert HTML files on the IIGS.
SmartyKit
An upcoming Apple-1 replica kit.
A2osX
Remy Gibert’s multitasking operating system for the Apple II, now at v0.93.
Nox Archaist
An upcoming 8-bit fantasy RPG, now scheduled for release in August 2020.
Penetrator
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum by Philip Mitchell of Beam Software, ported to the Apple II by Stefan Wessels.
Injection Molded Clear Case for Apple IIe and IIGS
MacEffects’ Kickstarter campaign for a transparent Apple II case.
nRuby & Fruity
Colin Fulton’s Apple II programming language and presentation software.
Check File
Ewen Wannop’s utility for users to determine if a new version of a program is available.
microdrive
Jon Lasser’s Mac utility for accessing ProDOS-formatted CompactFlash volumes.