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Ferdinand Meyer-Hermann to release Apple][VGA card for 8-bit Apples

Ferdinand Meyer-Hermann is very close to releasing his new Apple][VGA card for Apple II, II Plus and //e. The Apple][VGA interface is designed to display crisp text and images, with accurate color rendition on modern LCD monitors. The card does not support any IIGS video modes. The price is expected to be between $150 and $200 [...]

Alex Lukacz’s CHED project

Alex “Lukazi” Lukacz of Brisbane Australia wrote in to tell us about his CHED project. The purpose of CHED is to completely replace the floppy and hard disk drives with a disk image-based system featuring an LCD interface. Alex has posted a few entries detailing his progress on CHED and pictures too. Check them out, [...]

Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 2 now available

Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 2 (June 2008) shipped on Friday to all subscribers. This issue features an interview with Henry Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com; Mike Maginnis’ review of ADTPro; a collective look at KansasFests past; a survey of disk copy protection methods by Antoine Vignau — and much, much more! This is Juiced.GS’s second issue of 2008. [...]

Another batch of Uthernet cards available (UPDATED)

Glenn Jones of A2RetroSystems has confirmed he has another batch of the ever popular Uthernet card available for sale, at $89 USD, plus shipping. The Uthernet is an Ethernet card for slot-equipped Apple II series computers. Last April, A2Central posted Glenn had 20+ cards available. They were all gone within a day or so. It’s a [...]

A2Unplugged show #0027 released

Ryan Suenaga presents A2Unplugged, show #0027. This episode is entitled “Marinetti Programming Primer” an introduction to coding TCP/IP aware applications using Marinetti on the Apple IIGS. A2Unplugged can be freely downloaded from the podcast’s web site, or subscribed to from the Apple iTunes store.
 

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2007, but my first mac experience was 1986, 7 years after my Apple II+
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A2Central.com BACK Online!

Sean Fahey (a member here) has managed to get A2Central.com back online after an outage. For the whole story, check out this link Despite Revision3's problems with Media Defender, Media Defender was probably not involved in the abuse of a2central.com

Posted on June 10th, 2008 at 9:48pm — No Comments (Add)

It's not Retro, it's just old (Tandy 100)

Well, this fits the old and retro even if it isn't mac/apple (If someone can post their easy bake oven pics, I can post Tandy pics!) This article in PC World shows a dissection in photos of an old Tandy 100 portable computer. It was a terribly neat system for its time and still has some possible uses (although the 300 baud modem doesn't sound too great). Enjoy!

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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:09pm — No Comments (Add)

A2Central - Offline

I'm not sure I can really handle this. It's kind of like finding out that a friend has a horrible disease and you wonder if they're going to make it. A2Central went offline. This scared me as A2Central was (and still is, and BETTER BE AGAIN) the center of the Apple // world. This not two months before KFest. It's back up with an "offline" page so I'm assuming that it's coming back but it must have been a serious failure to have disappeared so utterly. At first I thought it was simply a DNS hac… Continue

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 at 9:39am — No Comments (Add)

Long time, no post... So...

It makes sense that I post about old stuff. Wandering the a2central.com site tonight I looked into Luddites Apple //e web server. I was wondering if it was still up after all the abuse we'd all given it. So, I jumped over and took a look at it. Still there, 2000+ hits. But I noticed a link to a C64 running the same software. When I got over there I found a much more C64 like page with a lot more info AND more than 60,000 hits. Looks like a challenge to… Continue

Posted on May 15th, 2008 at 10:27pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Apple ][ Resources updated on "Pre-Mac Goodness"

I've added some links to some very useful Apple ][ Community resources on the Pre-Mac Goodness page. It includes information about "Summer Camp for Geeks" - KansasFest and the incredibly helpful A2Central site. There are lots of cool things happening this year with ReactiveMicro,… Continue

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At 7:53am on May 17th, 2008, Robert 'Bo' Huttinger said…
lol sorry I misundertsood :D I was in fear of the pixel police at my door!

cheers.bo
At 5:33am on May 16th, 2008, Robert 'Bo' Huttinger said…
im not sure what that means. If its an issue of too many images, I thought the images were interesting for several reasons. In the interest of being a part of this community, I thought Id share. I could've uploaded them individually over time maybe? Is that what you mean? Is there an upload restriction? Is retromaccast running out of space? If so Ill happily take them off and save space for more intriguing images. Is the issue that they're taking up too much screen real estate? Maybe I (the user) could have the option to upload them directly to an 'album' so it wouldn't be a swath of images. Albums only hold 20 at this point. Maybe it was bad netiquette and if so, sorry :D, lesson learned. cheers!
At 4:20am on May 16th, 2008, Lim Thye Chean said…
For a feel of how Apple IIGS looks like on LCD TV, please visit my album "Apple IIGS Applications" (http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/album/show?id=1672786:Album:15145).
At 9:25am on May 15th, 2008, Classic Computing said…
Hey, I just connected that my one comment on my Stan veit podcast page is from you - "I thought it was great! I am still waiting for more!" Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 09:22 AM

Well, I'm trying hard to finish chapter two this week, so be looking for it! I am getting back to my hobby like a man on fire! Stan's book deserves to get more out there as soon as possible too. Thanks man!
At 7:56am on May 13th, 2008, Classic Computing said…
Whoa, just Wholly?! Oh, OK, well . . . then, that will be "Mr." Classic Computing to you then! Just kidding. My first computer, you know that I owned and used, was in 1986 - a Commodore 64. Though a good ol' Apple ][+ was the first personal computer I ever used, in college, in 1982. Yeah, my collection has shrunk a bunch since 1994. Mostly because my family has grown, plus some moving around, money troubles, etc. When I first started collecting, we had our first child on the way. Now I have three. But, I think I have a nice collection now too. I have focused now more on handhelds and some laptops and portables. I still love the hobby, but the collecting of hardware aspect has lessened greatly, but as I've mentioned, mostly out of realities of my life.
At 11:08am on May 12th, 2008, Classic Computing said…
Hi Wholly (I was trying to find out your real name). My name is David. That picture was taken by a reporter from "Texas Monthly" magazine waaaaaaaaay back in 1994. I will be adding a newer picture soon, with my current fat face! Here's the full pic -


I hope to convert that article about my collecting hobby at the time into a pdf soon and put it on my website. Yeah, that's an original Commodore PET 2001 there. Ah, but also my original Lisa 2 behind me too! Plus a couple of terminals, and my arm is on top of a Commodore SX-64. Thanks for commenting!
At 10:24pm on May 3rd, 2008, Lim Thye Chean said…
Not a new drive... the old one - we take it out, bend the head here and there, and it seems to work again... for some disks. :)

Anyway, seems like this web site is quite quiet nowadays...
At 9:22pm on May 3rd, 2008, Lim Thye Chean said…
Good news! I got my non-working drive working again... at least partially, not all the disks work. So now I got 2 drives, one each for the 2 Apple IIGS I got. I made one of these (the one that accompanied me 18 years ago...) into a "Media Center" playing DiversiTune and FTA demos... and my son now has his own BASIC machine doing programming.
At 10:06pm on April 20th, 2008, Lim Thye Chean said…
Please check my photo pages... I have a couple of new photos for my old pal and screenshots.
At 8:14pm on April 20th, 2008, Lim Thye Chean said…
Just to let you know that my old Apple IIGS - a machine I owned 18 years ago (and now 20 years old since I bought 2nd hand) - now come back alive. I also got myself another floppy drive, and now I am taking more photos again!

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