| Pages | Type | Headline | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | My Home Page | Trading Places | Ken Gagne | Seeing Mike Westerfield of The Byte Works twice, 24 years apart, prompts Ken to reflect on the milestones in each other's lives. |
| 3 | Letters from the Land of ROM | Mark Lemmert | Mark asks why the KansasFest elevators at Avila had phone jacks; Ken responds, with an anecdote from Mike Westerfield. | |
| 4-7 | Review | Emulation Evaluation 2022 | Ivan Drucker | Ivan offers his annual review of the latest Apple II emulators, including Virtual II, AppleWin, KEGS, OpenEmulator, AIPC, Ample, MAME, ApplePi, cyanIIde, and Clock Signal. |
| 8-11 | TidinGS | The Perils of Xenobia | Stephane Racle | How to tell an authentic Apple II floppy and manual from a forged reproduction or duplicate. |
| 11 | Advertisement | Data Europos and Captain's Quarters | ||
| 11 | Advertisement | Digital Dinos | ||
| 12-14,19 | Review | Squeezing More Performance | Peter Neubauer | A review of AppleSqueezer GS, an accelerator and memory card by Niek van Suchtelen. |
| 15-17,19 | Connections | Ken Gagne | A directory of online Apple II communities and alternatives to Twitter, including Mastodon, reddit, Usenet, message boards, and more. | |
| 18 | DumplinGS | Comings & Goings | Ken Gagne | Josh Renaud recovers Yaakov Kirschen's Jewish educational software from Geshen; Brutal Deluxe releases Canal Neurte and AppleIIgs Karate; Oregon Trail movie in the works; Warp 6 BBS v4.0 released; Margot Comstock and Lyle Syverson pass away. |
| 19 | Pop the Stack | 762 Apples | Kay Savetz | How Russ Walter's Secret Guide to Computers & Tricky Living hacked the Internet Archive. |
| 20 | Advertisement | Nox Archaist |
My Home Page
APDA Software Library
Apple Programmers and Developers Association software for the Apple II, now for sale from Juiced.GS under license from The Byte Works.
Review: Apple II emulators
Virtual II
Gerard Putter’s venerable 8-bit Apple II emulator for macOS.
AppleWin
A solid Apple II emulator for Windows.
AppleWin for Linux
A Linux port of AppleWin.
Mariani
A macOS port of AppleWin.
KEGS
Kent’s Emulated GS, by Kent Dickey.
GSport
David Schmidt’s fork of KEGS.
GSplus
Dagen Brock’s fork of KEGS.
KEGS IIgs emulator
James Sanford’s Android fork of KEGS.
DynaPro
A KEGS feature for moving files between the emulated and host environments.
OpenEmulator
A cross-platform emulator of many legacy computer systems.
Apple in PC
AIPC, an Apple II emulator for Windows.
Ample
Kelvin Sherlock’s MAME frontend.
MAME
The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
ApplePi
J. B. Ward’s Apple II emulator for Raspberry Pi.
cyanIIde
An embeddable emulator for websites.
Clock Signal
A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms.
TidinGS
Finding Deceit in the Chambers of Xenobia
Stephane Racle’s chronicle of an Apple II transaction gone wrong.
Review: AppleSqueezer GS
AppleSqueezer GS
An accelerator and memory card for the Apple IIGS.
BenchmarkeD
A benchmark utility from Brutal Deluxe for the Apple IIGS.
Connections
oldbytes.space
A Mastodon instance for retrocomputing enthusiasts.
digipres.club
An instance of Hometown, a fork of Mastodon.
Apple II Enthusiasts
A popular Facebook group.
/r/apple2
A reddit subreddit of Apple II users.
Tumblr
Content tagged #apple2.
Woz
Nick Hamze’s Apple IIGS theme for Tumblr.
Apple2Infinitum
A Slack workspace for Apple II users.
##apple2
A Libera.chat IRC channel.
comp.sys.apple2
csa2, a Usenet newsgroup accessed via Google Groups.
Applefritter
Tom Owad’s Apple II message board.
Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer
Association for the Preservation of Classic Computers, a German message board.
Telnet BBS Guide
An online directory of bulletin board systems.
BBS disk images
An Juiced.GS compilation of free Apple II telecom software.
Feedly
An RSS aggregator.
Retro Roundup
A curated collection of Apple II sources and content via RSS.
DumplinGS
Kirschen’s Apple II games for Gesher
Josh Renaud’s blog post about recovering the Jewish educational titles of Yaakov Kirschen.
Canal Meurtre
Brutal Deluxe’s Apple IIGS port of Froggy Software’s 1987 murder-mystery game for the Macintosh.
Apple IIgs Karate
Brutal Deluxe’s Apple IIGS port of Paradox/ElderSoft SoftWare’s 1987 karate game.
Warp 6
Free 8-bit BBS software for the Apple II, originally by Jim Ferr and now by Scott Johnson and Paul Lee.
