| Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | My Home Page | Assembling the Party | Ken Gagne | Nox Archaist demonstrates what's possible in the Apple II community when developers work transparently and collaboratively. |
| 3-8 | MusinGS | Post Nox | Ken Gagne | A post mortem of Nox Archaist with Mark Lemmert, Chris Torrence, and Beth Daggert of 6502 Workshop. |
| 9-14 | Event coverage | Virtual KansasFest | Joe Strosnider | Coverage of KansasFest 2021. |
| 15 | Behind the Scenes | TextBoot | Peter Ferrie | Behind the scenes of TextBoot, Peter Ferrie's winning HackFest 2021 entry. |
| 16-18 | Retrospective | Space Hack | Stephane Racle | A profile of Robert Grumbles, who used his Apple II to hack into NASA as a teenager, and who later developed the game Doom Valley. |
| 18 | Advertisement | RetroChallenge | ||
| 18 | Advertisement | Digital Dinos | ||
| 19-21 | Behind the Scenes | Teaching Markdown | Jeremy Rand | Behind the scenes of md2teach, Jeremy Rand's tool to convert markdown documents to Teach word processor files. |
| 21 | Behind the Scenes | Just a little Babeling | Chris Vavruska | Behind the scenes of Chris Vavruska's MarkdownGS, a Babelfish translator that converts markdown files to other Apple II text formats. |
| 22-23 | DumplinGS | Crossing Streams | Ken Gagne | Applecorn brings BBC Micro software to the Apple II; Dan Gordon releases Realm: Rays of Nightmare RPG; Brutal Deluxe brings Arcan's Bill Palmer point-and-click adventure game to the Apple IIGS; Peter Hirschberg releases GS.Asteroids and GS.Adventure; Charles Mangin releases A2QR; Jeremy Rand releases BuGS v2.0 and A2GSBuildPipeline v3.0; Taeber Rapczak releases a2asm; Chris Vavruska releases PDF Writer; Joshua Coleman develops Arduino Nano into temperature-sensitive fan for the Apple II; Ewen Wannop releases HexCalc. |
| 23 | Simplicity Notes | Alive and Online | Steve Weyhrich | KansasFest 2021 revitalizes Steve's enthusiasm for the Apple II. |
| 24 | Advertisement | Attack of the PETSCII Robots |
My Home Page
Polygamer
A podcast interview with Beth Daggert of Nox Archaist.
MusinGS
Nox Archaist
An 8-bit computer role-playing game (CRPG) from 6502 Workshop.
Behind the Scenes: TextBoot
TextBoot
Peter Ferrie’s winning HackFest 2021 entry.
Retrospective
Feds Won’t Prosecute Teens Who Hacked Into Space Agency Computers
An Associated Press (AP) wire story from February 27, 1985, about Robert Grumbles.
Behind the Scenes: md2teach
CommonMark
A strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown formatting.
md4c
A Markdown parser implementation in C.
md2teach
Jeremy Rand’s markdown-to-Teach text converter ORCA shell program for the Apple IIGS.
MarkdownGS
A translator module for Babelfish by Seven Hills Systems that converts markdown text formats to other Babelfish supported formats.
Babelfish
A file translation system for the IIGS in the form of a New Desk Accessory (NDA).
DumplinGS
Applecorn
A ProDOS application that provides an environment for Acorn BBC Microcomputer language ROMs to run.
Realm: Rays of Nightmare
An Ultima-style RPG from Dan Gordon.
Bill Palmer
An Atari ST point-and-click adventure game released by Arcan in 1987 and now ported to the Apple IIGS by Brutal Deluxe.
Peter Hirschberg
Author of GS.Asteroids and GS.Adventure games.
A2QR
Charles Mangin’s 8-bit generator of Quick Response matrix barcodes, or QR codes.
BuGS
Jeremy Rand’s arcade-style insect shooter, now updated to v2.0.
A2GSBuildPipeline
A way to build 16-bit Apple //gs software in C or assembly from within Apple’s Xcode development environment under macOS, courtesy Jeremy Rand.
a2asm
Taeber Rapczak’s assembler written in Go.
PDF Writer
Chris Vavruska’s PDF exporter for the Apple IIGS.
Apple II Plus cooling with the Arduino
Joshua Coleman’s temperature-sensitive Apple II fan.
HexCalc
Ewen Wannop’s 64-bit hexadecimal, decimal, and octal calculator for the IIGS.
