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Apple II Community Resources
Kansas Fest 2013! The KFest committee has announced NOTHING for KFest 2013 - yet! We have every expectation that KFest 2013 dates will be announced in the "near" future. ("Near" being relative to a user of a 30+ year old machine) Given the incredible success of the last few events and the great speakers and vocal community members, it's got to happen. They even let a (gasp) Commodore lover speak last year.
Online Resources
A2Central Your Total Source for Apple II Computing
Apple II History Recently received a facelift!
Apple2Online
Mac GUI Apple II Vault A large collection of 20,000+ Apple // related files
Retro Vendors - Special thanks go to all our really helpful people out there keeping these old machines ticking and making our old dogs do new cool tricks!
16 Sector - Now the source for Syndicomm stuff as well
Reactive Micro - (On sabbatical)
a2RetroSystems
R & D Automation - Now selling CFFA 3000's with USB storage support
If you have any in particular you think would be useful (I'd like to keep it under 7-10 links) let me know!
Discussion Forum
Speech Synthesis Software for Apple II 7 Replies
Started by Lim Thye Chean. Last reply by applefreak Mar 30.
Disable AppleTalk 5 Replies
Started by Lim Thye Chean. Last reply by Lim Thye Chean Jan 22, 2013.
Briel Computers - "I Can't Solder" sale - Buy an Apple 1 Replica for $150 2 Replies
Started by Wholly Mindless. Last reply by Wholly Mindless Sep 10, 2012.
Help - I need a ProDOS 1.2 Floppy 8 Replies
Started by Hamilton. Last reply by JustSomeGuy Apr 9, 2012.
Classic Apple logo 7 Replies
Started by Lim Thye Chean. Last reply by Lim Thye Chean Mar 20, 2012.
A2Central.com - Your Total Source for Apple II Computing
KansasFest Day 1
For those willing to get up early and make the trek, breakfast happened. Others (imo) wisely chose to save their energy and sleep in. Today is the official first day of KansasFest 2014 and it’s going to be crammed full of activity. Our first event was the Garage Giveaway, sometimes referred to as ‘freebay’. Attendees […]KansasFest Day 0
Tuesday is move-in day, and it’s HOT here at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO. I arrived with James Littlejohn just before 11:00am and we were greeted by several other KansasFest attendees. We have a big turnout this year (lots of new people), about 70 Apple II enthusiasts have braved the elements, highways and crowded […]KansasFest News: All 1200+ Nibble Magazine programs available FREE
For nearly 4 years, Stavros Karatsoridis has been a very busy man, collecting, typing and debugging Nibble Magazine’s complete 12 1/2 year run of (1,200+) featured programs. What a remarkable achievement. Even better news, Mike Harvey (Nibble Magazine’s editor and publisher) has made all of the software from Nibble Magazine available for free! Mike’s announcement […]KansasFest registration closes July 10
Registration for KansasFest 2014 closes on Thursday, July 10. This is your last chance to get the sessions, camaraderie, and keynote from Margot Comstock. Also, don’t forget to register for the optional “Build Your Own Computer” workshop with Vince Briel and “Stitch Your Own Apple IIe Ornament” workshop with Sarah Walkowiak by July 10. Here’s […]Juiced.GS Volume 19, Issue 2 now available
Volume 19, Issue 2 (June 2014) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features a celebration of the BASIC programming language’s fiftieth birthday; an interview with programmer Ron Graff; Charles Mangin’s introduction to using 3D printers to create Apple II parts; a behind-the-scenes look at […]Comment Wall
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Comment by Wholly Mindless on April 10, 2008 at 6:59pm -
More great news from A2Central.com has caused me to put up an RSS feed on the Pre-Mac Goodness group.
Announcements of 4 meg GS memory cards, Uthernet network cards and an update to Virtual ][ all announced this week.
I just can't keep up!
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Comment by Wholly Mindless on April 18, 2008 at 8:05am
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Now there's a PS/2 keyboard mod for Apple ][s, a VGA card AND a superdisk controller on the way. CRAZY stuff in the A2 world. Check out the A2Central.com news feed!
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Comment by Lim Thye Chean on April 23, 2008 at 1:33am -
Hi, for all Apple II lovers who like to see some pictures, I have some photo albums in this site:
1) Apple IIGS (for images of my 2 Apple IIGS in my house)
2) Apple IIGS Applications (screenshots of various applications shown on LCD TV)
3) The Best of Apple IIGS (my personal favourite Apple IIGS photos)
Have fun!
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Comment by Ken Gagne on April 23, 2008 at 12:47pm -
I outlined Five reasons why GS/OS beats Vista and OS X. Some of its readers aren't quite sure what to make of it... ;-)
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Comment by John on April 24, 2008 at 9:51pm -
Poster-ee Goodness! I just found the IIGS poster on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/GREAT-APPLE-COMPUTER-INSIDE-STORY-APPLE-IIGS-POSTER_W0QQitemZ290225548376QQihZ019QQcategoryZ80074QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Comment by Wholly Mindless on May 5, 2008 at 8:45am
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That was a pretty cool looking poster. I don't remember having seen one of them before. It ended up going for $31.
For those that want to try to see it before eBay archives the transaction follow this link
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Comment by Lim Thye Chean on May 16, 2008 at 9:31pm
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I have added the amazing jazz song from the Apple IIGS Sales Demo in 1986 in my page. The song can be downloaded and I also add the screenshot of the demo as the album art.
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Comment by Lim Thye Chean on May 29, 2008 at 11:07am
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I added a video capture of AppleVision. Probably the first music demo for Apple II computers (written in Integer BASIC + assembly). However, I am not able to capture the sound of this program.
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Comment by Lim Thye Chean on June 10, 2008 at 12:50am
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If you have Firefox running on your PC, and you are willing to install a plugin called ActiveGS, you are welcome to test drive a GS on the web - http://virtualgs.larwe.com/ActiveGS/
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Comment by Wholly Mindless on June 18, 2008 at 8:51am
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Not long until KFest!
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