https://www.callapple.org/software/apple-ii-desktop-1-2-alpha-37-released/
The latest alpha release of the Apple II Desktop has been released. Apple II Desktop 1.2 Alpha 37 Contains a number of fixes for the desktop and features a new...
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https://www.xtof.info/coding-assembly-apple-ii.html
Oct 9, 2016 - Programming the Apple II in assembly provides a huge speed advantage over C. What is my workflow and do I debug?
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https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/
microM8 is an enhanced Apple II and IIe emulator that allows you to play and "upcycle" classic 8-bit games using 3D graphics and more. microM8 is...
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https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/apple-ii-plus-rev-7-rfi-motherboard/
The Apple II Plus, Rev 7 RFI project is offered in several options. As kit or assembled, with all ICs, DRAM, and ROMs. It is designed to be a replacement...
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/network-tools-for-the-apple-ii/
an FTP and Telnet client for your Apple II.
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2016/09/26/apple-iigs-30/
Feb 5, 2022 - The Apple IIGS turned 30 years old this month. As the youngest and most powerful of the Apple II line, how come this 16-bit machine isn't more popular?
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https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah03/
CONTENTS Hardware and Firmware Monitor ROM Keyboard BASIC Other Design Features Memory Map Notes HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE No hacker is completely satisfied with a...
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https://www.callapple.org/documentation/the-new-apple-ii-users-guide-price-reduced-for-the-holidays/
David Finnigan, author of the widely acclaimed New Apple II Users Guide, announced a price reduction of the book for the holiday season. According to the...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2020/04/27/apple-ii-bits-ten-years/
Nov 23, 2022 - I've been blogging about the Apple II every week for ten years, publishing over 600 stories. Now it's time for something different.
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https://www.kansasfest.org/
May 12, 2025 - KansasFest is the largest & longest running Apple II conference. Users and retrocomputing enthusiasts are invited for talks, contests, and camaraderie.
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https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/2787
Dec 21, 2009 - When the Apple II was first released in 1977, the computer was run from programs and data imported from a standard cassette tape played on a standard cassette...
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https://hackaday.com/2017/10/10/apple-ii-fpga/
[Stephen Edwards] had some time one Christmas. So he took a DE2 FPGA board and using VHDL built a pretty faithful reproduction of an Apple II+ computer. He...
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/woztubes-an-apple-ii-invidious-and-peertube-client/
WozTubes is an Apple II Invidious and Peertube client. It makes it possible to play videos from the internet to your Apple II.
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2019/04/29/apple-ii-bits-nine-years/
Apr 26, 2020 - Ken Gagne reflects on how and why to keep writing about the Apple II on his blog after doing so every week for nine years.
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https://www.apl2bits.net/
From hacks and mods to unearthed historical arcana to mainstream news spottings, Ken Gagne reflects on Steve Wozniak\'s most popular 8-bit computer.
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2019/09/02/maceffects-clear-case/
Sep 1, 2019 - MacEffects is back on Kickstarter with an injection-molded transparent case for the original Apple II and Apple II Plus.
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https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/digital-photography-comes-to-the-apple-ii/
Back in the very early days of consumer digital photography, one of the first stars of the new medium came from Apple. The QuickTake 100 used a novel flat form...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2016/10/03/iftf-polygamer/
Feb 5, 2022 - I interviewed Twine inventor Chris Klimas on the Polygamer podcast about the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
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https://juiced.gs/2025/04/juicedfest/
Apr 1, 2025 - Juiced.GS has ended the run of JuicedFest, the longest-running conference dedicated to the longest-running print publication dedicated to the Apple II.
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2020/04/20/juiced-license-plate/
Nov 23, 2022 - Juiced.GS editor Ken Gagne reveals the Apple II-themed vanity license plate on his 2017 Toyota Prius Prime.
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https://hackaday.com/2024/04/10/wozamp-turns-apple-ii-into-music-player/
Besides obvious technological advancements, early computers built by Apple differed in a major way from their modern analogs. Rather than relying on planned...
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https://www.callapple.org/software/mastodon-for-apple-ii-a-retro-social-experience/
Colin Leroy-Mira, a passionate retro computing enthusiast, has made a significant stride in the world of integration of vintage tech and modern tech with the...
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https://www.callapple.org/games-3/announcing-the-release-of-death-is-a-four-letter-word-for-the-apple-ii/
From Randall Frank Announcing the general release of DIAFLW, an 'adventure' game for the Apple II. This is a game we wrote in 1986 and had been...
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https://www.faq-mac.com/2024/10/hades-ii-ya-es-compatible-con-apple-silicon/
Mar 27, 2025 - Supergiant Games ha llevado la secuela de su luchador de Underworld «Hades II» a macOS, y ahora es compatible de forma nativa con el hardware de Apple...
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https://juiced.gs/
Sep 19, 2023 - Juiced.GS is a quarterly print magazine for retrocomputing enthusiasts of all models of the Apple II computer.
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https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/apple-ii-prototyping-board-from-glitchworks/
These boards were developed for internal projects and have been used in several Apple II and clone variants. It's new made, high quality protoboard...
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https://hackaday.com/2018/12/05/apple-ii-megademo-is-countin-cycles-and-takin-names/
The demoscene is an active place to this day, with enthusiasts around the world continuing to push the envelope as far as the capabilities of machines are...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2010/12/27/iigs-review/
Feb 5, 2022 - Brian Picchi, aka TanruNomad, has uploaded to YouTube his video review of the Apple IIGS, complementing Matthew Pearce's 8-bit installment of Matt's...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2016/05/16/oregon-trail-hall-of-fame/
Feb 5, 2022 - Oregon Trail has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, with original co-creator Don Rawitsch surfacing for a reddit AMA.
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https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah06/
CONTENTS Hardware Firmware Cost Bell & Howell Early User Experiences More Hardware Add-Ons Timeline Notes HARDWARE The introduction of an improved version...
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https://bytecellar.com/2022/10/29/an-apple-ii-tale-told-complete-by-the-late-tony-diaz/
Jan 3, 2025 - I’ve been an active IRC users for nearly 25 years now, and for many of those years I was a denizen of the #a2c.chat channel on the irc.a2central.com IRC...
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/wozamp-an-apple-ii-music-and-video-player/
Stream music (and video!) from the internet to your Apple II
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/shufflepuck-cafe-for-apple-ii/
Download Shufflepuck Cafe for your Apple II. This feature-complete port with a two-players mode requires an Apple ][+ with 64kB of RAM, or more recent.
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/apple-ii-projects/
A list of the various projects I make for the Apple II.
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https://nibble-magazine.com/
Nibble Magazine, founded in 1980, was a pioneer in the APPLE II market and helped jumpstart the Personal Computing Revolution.
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https://bytecellar.com/2022/03/12/a-colorful-peek-at-the-graphics-performance-of-the-apple-ii/
Mar 12, 2022 - This week Apple held a special event in which it announced a variety of new hardware and services, chief among them being a new model in the Macintosh lineup,...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2020/03/30/ahh-ahh-maggi-payne/
Mar 28, 2020 - Maggi Payne's rereleased vinyl and digital album from 2012 features music produced on the Apple II in the 1980s.
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2023/12/28/noel-2023-orleans-quicktake-apple-ii/
Les photos du réveillon cette année ont été prises avec mon Quicktake de 1994, et traitées avec mon Apple II de 1984.
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https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues/umc.cmc.2ekv47beio4duo806nhq652bv?at=1001l36gv&ct=robreiner*movies&itsct=tv_box_link&itscg=30200&mttnsubad=umc.cmc.2ekv47beio4duo806nhq652bv
Sep 12, 2025 - Documentarian Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) follows estranged Spinal Tap bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls (Michael McKean, Chr…
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2020/03/23/hall-of-fame-2020-candidates/
Mar 24, 2020 - The Strong Museum of Play considers adding Apple II games King's Quest and Carmen Sandiego to the Video Game Hall of Fame.
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https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/glider-for-apple-ii/
A Glider reimplementation for the Apple II line of computers.
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https://www.callapple.org/software/catching-snowflakes-a-game-for-the-apple-ii/
From Nicholas Bernhard, @nantucketlit@mastodon.social For any #AppleII fans out there, I've been working on my very first game. It's called Catching...
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https://thisdayintechhistory.com/06/05/the-apple-ii-enters-the-market/
Jun 5, 2025 - June 5, 1977 The original Apple II computer goes on sale. The Apple II featured an a 1MHz MOS 6502 processor, an integrated keyboard, a built-in BASIC...
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https://www.xtof.info/hires-graphics-apple-ii.html
Dec 14, 2016 - In 1977, the Apple II was the very first personal computer providing color graphics capabilities with its LORES and HIRES modes. This feat was achieved in a...
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https://history-computer.com/products/apple-ii-guide/
May 23, 2025 - Apple II was designed by Steve Wozniak in 1977. It was one of the first computer with a color display, and a major hit.
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https://computerhistory.org/blog/apple-ii-dos-source-code/
Sep 24, 2019 - Unlike the Apple I, the Apple II was fully assembled and ready to use with any display monitor. The version with 4K of memory cost $1298. It had color,...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2014/01/27/mac-turns-thirty/
Feb 5, 2022 - On Jan 24, 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh. It never would've existed, and I never would've made the switch, without the Apple II. Here's...
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https://www.apple2history.org/2012/09/23/the-apple-ii-guide-and-mark-twain/
Back in the late 1980s, Apple II developers and users were dissatisfied with the amount of attention that Apple as a company was devoting to the Apple II....
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2020/04/13/wolf3d-beta-test/
Apr 14, 2020 - At KansasFest 1998, Ken is recognized with a certificate for his significant contribution to the development of Wolf3D for the Apple IIGS.
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https://www.callapple.org/call-apple/callapple-production/the-apple-ii-monitor-peeled-released-by-a-p-p-l-e/
Seattle, Washington — July 22, 2016 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the immediate availability of the classic...
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https://www.callapple.org/software/apple-ii-desktop-1-5-released/
The latest version of the Apple II Desktop graphical user interface for the Apple II series computers is now available for download. Version 1.5 includes well...
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https://nicole.express/2024/phasing-in-and-out-of-existence.html
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe...
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https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/displaying-bitmaps-on-the-apple-ii/
The Apple II was the popular darling that truly kicked off the ascention of the company that would later bring you darlings such as the iMac, iPod, and iPhone....
apple iihackaday
https://www.apl2bits.net/2016/09/19/leigh-alexander-patreon/
Feb 5, 2022 - Former video game editor and journalist Leigh Alexander has launched a Patreon to support her Lo-Fi Let's Play, a YouTube series of Apple II gameplay...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2020/02/24/maceffects-clear-case-iie-iigs/
Feb 23, 2020 - MacEffects is back on Kickstarter with a crowdfunding campaign for an injection-molded clear case for the IIe & IIGS.
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https://www.callapple.org/software/apple-ii-desktop-v1-5-beta-1-released/
The first beta for Apple II Desktop version 1.5 has been released. This release officially moves the version 1.5 release from slphs to beta and includes well...
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https://www.apl2bits.net/2010/05/20/lode-runner/
Feb 5, 2022 - Game Informer has consistently ranked Lode Runner among the top games ever. And it all began on an Apple II.
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https://fujinet.online/apple-ii-iii/
Dec 29, 2024 - The FujiApple Rev1 hardware is now available. It uses the Apple II Smartport bus which works on the IIc (ROM0 or later, not ROM255) and newer machines with no
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https://www.xtof.info/making-apple-ii-sing.html
Jan 20, 2017 - The Apple II really lacks sound capaibilities. In this regard, it is even behing the infamous IBM PC! Adding some music and sound effects to my programs would...
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