You should contribute because its awesome to support those still developing for the apple ii and not just because you get cool stuff when you do though that. It is really worth to take the time to read it all, following the link. The iigs is a different kind of monster than the plain ii, but here goes. In the comedy department, we get back to our roots making fun of wizardry. We talk about his apple i replica, his apple iigs laptop, and adam sandler for some reason. After a curious enquiry by quinn dunki via the open apple podcast, mitch spector has been able to provide what noone else has.
Contents my favorites apple ii resources apple ii products apple history links retrocomputing links apple ii emulation apple 1 links apple photo collections miscellaneous links my favorites applearchives large site archiving apple ii magazines pdfs and software from the 1980s. I realized my parents did have a nice rgb monitor, and i just needed to make a custom cable for it. Rhode island apple group providence riag is the ocean states premier support organization for users of all apple and apple os computers apple ii, apple iii, lisa, macintosh, and all clones using apple operating system software are welcome here. Aug 04, 2017 aiiee, which is pronounced as in aiiee, schweinhund, is a new apple ii emulator that performs animated software visualization and time travel. This month on open apple, the part of quinn dunki is played by rcr podcast. Sep 19, 2017 this month on open apple, the part of quinn dunki is played by rcr podcast cohost carrington fake quinn vanston.
Quinn dunki of open apple paul hagstrom of retrocomputing roundtable and drop. Pc users in the audience might be wondering why these drives are 800k instead of 720k, as they are used to. The iigs is a continuation of the earlier apple ii computer line, and is designed to be backwards compatible with apple ii software and hardware. In this video podcast, charles mangin from covers basic and advanced topics on repairing, upgrading and working with apple ii computers and peripherals. Held every july at rockhurst university in kansas city, missouri, kansasfest typically lasts five days and features presentations from apple ii experts and pioneers, as well as games, fun events, afterhours hallway chatter, latenight or allnight runs out to movies or restaurants, and more. I recently joined hosts quinn dunki and mike maginnis for a chat about all things iigs, how i got started with the platform, how i got started archiving iigs software and. Robert woodhead of sirtech software, wellknown as the cocreator of the wizardry series of computer roleplaying games, will join us as the keynote speaker. When leaving kansas fest, quinn dunki had an extra package on her luggage. A build pipeline for making 8bit apple ii software on os x using cc65, applesoft basic or merlin32. An apple ii related podcast by mike maginnis and quinn dunki. Last time, we got the apple ii rom dumper to the point where it would dump the entire contents of a circa1980 factory mask rom. Due to apple computers decision to discontinue production of the apple iigs in late 1992 and. Backplane and mainboard for a 6502 computer hackaday. It was on the apple iigs, and i was building an elaborate space combat game.
Aiiee a new apple ii emulator t phelps kansasfest 2017. Later machines of this early generation, such as the amiga, apple iigs, and original mac, took. Openapple podcast, podcast, an apple ii related podcast by mike maginnis and quinn dunki. Open apple listen to podcasts on demand free tunein. All the latest from the world of vintage computer hobbyists, collectors and enthusiasts. By day im a freelance software engineer, developing everything from games to applications to mobile apps. This recording, digitized by antoine vignau, was originally distributed by resource central catalog product number at018 and has been generously reclassified under a creative commons 3.
Session, geoff weiss, postscript printing on the apple iigs. The site is all about a browserbased emulator of the iigs, but when a game is selected to run, the website includes a download link. Thus, the iic plus includes a custom asic and sram cache to manage this drive. The apple iic was the fourth model of the apple ii. Greg branche, matt gulick, and jim luther presented this session, creating apple iigs device drivers, at kansasfest 1990. It provides facilities for accessing the file system, controlling inputoutput devices, loading and running program files, and a system allowing programs to handle interrupts and signals. More iigs educational software from orange cherry and unicorn now archived. This was fine for the apple iigs and macintosh, but was a problem for the iic plus. A working knowledge of assembly language programming for the 6502 or 65816 is also assumed, but you do not need to be an experienced programmer to begin using the prodev ddt. The apple iigs was the first computer produced by apple to use a color graphical user interface, as well as the platinum light grey color scheme and the apple desktop bus interface for keyboards, mice, and other input devices. Insanely good site that covers gs software and more.
Quinn dunki more than likely experienced a big taste of that nostalgia. Virtually anything that went wrong in software brought the whole machine down. The iigs motherboard was a concern because its the one and only apple ii model with a. Sep 12, 2012 apple news, photo galleries, downloads, and discussion forums. There have been many bugs fixed and many features added that are not immediately visiblethey will enable developers to create better future products. The apple iic plus is arguably very arguably from my experience the best apple ii computer ever made. Later machines of this early generation, such as the amiga, apple iigs, and original mac, took this to extremes with positively huge roms. Here you will find as much of that information has has been made available for archival purposes.
This project was built based on the one created by quinn dunki but it has been expanded to add the following features you can create applesoft basic, ca65 assembly, cc65 c and merlin32 assembly projects. Recently, quinn has been fascinated with the iic plus, and has gone so far as to build a. By quinn dunki september 20, 2015 attempting to close the loop on my 30yo rom hacking efforts. Quinn referred to the apple ii computer as the apple iigs model. The apple ii has no interrupts and no support hardware of any kind. Retrocomputing roundtable monthly podcast about all things in retrocomputing. Get the best deals on apple iigs and find everything youll need to improve your home office setup at. This month on open apple, as is tradition, we present the megapodcast recorded live at kansasfest. Quinn dunkis apple iic plus teardown vintage is the new. Meanwhile, mike and quinn talk about apple porsches, pinball construction set, and western design center. The heart of the circuit is a row of capacitors which do the translation from the parallax joystick to what the apple ii expects. File archive every kansasfest produces a wealth of media, from handouts and flyers to audio and video recordings of sessions.
Sometimes there are many ways to accomplish the same task. If youre not already subscibed to the open apple podcast, the most regular podcast devoted to the apple ii, well, youve now got another reason to check it out. Apple used variablespeed motors to cram more data onto the disk. At present your authorized apple dealer isnt likely to be as much help with the gs as he would have been back then. The lost classics project site getting apple ii and iigs software reclassified as freeware, with downloads. Gsos is an operating system developed by apple computer for its apple iigs personal computer that uses the prodos filing system.
If you want to try using a iigs as your daily driver, launch cows with extreme. The gs letters in apple iigs are rendered in uppercase. Music is software a2 dms synth mix by computeher, used with permission. The monthly meeting is held on the third tuesday each month at the compusa in warwick usually.
The 28th kansasfest is history and fierce devotees of the apple ii are already looking. The worlds last remaining and longestrunning apple ii print publication. This month on open apple, we bring you the traditional big group podcast that we record every year at kansasfest. Syndicomm online store great resource for apple ii hardware and software.
However, quite a few people that commented on the techcrunch article confirmed that it was actually the apple iic model instead. Of course i had to overengineer the cable and make a custom pcb. I spent some time working out all the gotchas in this, and will share that hardearned knowledge with you. Software that runs on the apple iigs can be divided into two major categories. Thanks to petar puskarich and his recovery of archives he made back in the mid 90s, weve got some new 2image additions to what is the apple iigs. While backwards compatible for running most apple ii games, the apple iigs has a native 16bit mode with support for graphics, sound, and animation capabilities that surpass the abilities of the earlier apple ii.
All orders placed during this time will ship starting 30 december 2019 provided we have all necessary information including phone number and email address. This month on open apple, we sit down with glenda adams, better known on the apple ii as the atom. Kansasfest 2020, the 32 nd annual apple ii convention, is scheduled for july 2126 in kansas city, missouri. You should contribute because its awesome to support those still developing for the apple ii and not just because you get cool stuff when you do. I found his name easily enough on the games title screen and did some searching and found the website of a polish software company he. It was also the first personal computer to come with a builtin wavetable samplebased. Wherein retrocomputaria interviews quinn blondihacks dunki. We cover modern day vintage tech events, new developments for old hardware. Apple ii bits ken gagnes blog about modern day use of an apple ii. A good source of iigs games in disk image format ie. For the iigs people have also used the gbs8220 which is a scan doubler popular for arcade boards, but i dont think that supports composite. Aiiee, which is pronounced as in aiiee, schweinhund, is a new apple ii emulator that performs animated software visualization and time travel. Kegs emulates an apple iigs accurately at between 8mhz and 120mhz on pretty much any unixlinux computer, win32, or mac os x.
Download the new update for your 39yearold apple ii. While featuring the macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the commodore amiga and atari st, it remains compatible with earlier apple ii models. Iigs software ksherlock, website, orca patches, gsos apps, gnome. Apple ii bits, blog, interesting articles by the juiced. Well, im a canadian, living in california, trying to keep all my projects under control. For use with apple iigs emulators such as sweet16, kegs, gsport, and any other apple iigs emaulator. This years recording includes, in no particular order. Treasure chest project another site getting apple ii and iigs software reclassified as freeware, with. It replaces some sound effects with some overthetop four letter words and its a hoot to play all over again. Of all the computer system in my past, the apple iigs which we. Youll leave the session with a basic mouse driver that you can tweak and use in your own programs. Many books, manuals and even some magazines for the apple ii and lots of other systems. Quinn dunki, an engineer for gaming company scopely and coding goddess.
Gather round a virtual table to discuss todays news about yesterdays computers. Shes an active hacker of all things retrocomputing, in both hardware and software. This year we managed to twist the following arms into joining us. Jan 01, 2011 greg branche, matt gulick, and jim luther presented this session, creating apple iigs device drivers, at kansasfest 1990. Aug 29, 2015 virtually anything that went wrong in software brought the whole machine down. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us of her exploits in boot tracing, cracking, and distributing software in the glory days of the apple ii bbs scene. We will test software, fix hardware, program it, hack it, and. Jun 30, 2015 this is a 10 min video showing how to build the apple iigs system software 6. The iigs was the first apple computer system to utilize the apple desktop bus. Here are my contributions to the apple ii community. But first i would like to address the auxtypo, er auxtype issue recently discovered with the 6. Apple2onlinestore the apple2onlinestore will be closed in celebration of the holidays 19 december29 december 2019.
Sep 16, 2016 software developer john brooks decided to commemorate one of the most successful apple ii versions, the apple iigs, which was released thirty years ago on september 15, 1986. The gs in the name stands for graphics and sound, referring to its enhanced multimedia capabilities, especially its stateoftheart sound and music. This month on open apple, the part of quinn dunki is played by rcr podcast cohost carrington fake quinn vanston. The iigs cpu even has builtin mos 6502 emulation, which is the cpu in the apple ii line of computers.
Tunnels of armageddon for the apple iigs byte cellar. Other apple iigs emulators and other kegs ports casags kegsosx a port of kegs using the sdl library to mac os x. In which i break out a logic probe and make a variety of beep beep noises, as well as covering some basics on the iigs. It seems like getting good video of any apple ii is tricky, because of the quadrature color trickery that woz did. The apple iigs styled as iigs, the fifth and most powerful of the apple ii family, is a 16bit personal computer produced by apple computer, inc. You should contribute because its awesome to support those still developing for the apple ii and not just because you get cool stuff when you do though thats. For programs created in the annual hackfest competition, see the hackfest page. Most of your favorite retrocomputing podcasters attend kansasfest each year, and we all get together in a basement room to record a giant group podcast. Quinn dunki has a great post on her blog blondihacks about looking through her moms basement for some retro electronics to save. Site of vince briel, maker of the replica 1, an apple i compatible computer and more. Tune in for a casual chat with your favorite retro podcasters, and get a behindthescenes peek at what makes kansasfest special. Its portable, faster than the iie, had a much higher capacity builtin drive, and since the plus could run at 4mhz, it was faster than the strange eight or sixteen bit apple iigs. The prodev ddt8 is compatible with the apple e and enhanced e.
In a very long post, with lots of pictures, she takes the computer apart, showing details about the machine, its components, how it is put together and much more. Check it out here over the holidays, i took the rare opportunity to dig through the stockpile of childhood belongings in my parents basement. Hackfest participants are given a focused period of time while at the event to create from scratch a program that does something cool. The first is the original owners guide for the rom 01 apple iigs. Apple ii, apple 2, kansasfest, apple ii peripherals, apple ii mouse, computer mouse, quinn dunki. Apple ii megademo is countin cycles and takin names. Contribute to blondie7575mouseii development by creating an account on github. You need to bear in mind that it was written in 1986.
At the start of january, quinn dunki uploaded a youtube video accompanied by a detailed blog post about her holiday quest to revive the early apple computer in. Kansasfest also known as kfest is an annual event for apple ii computer enthusiasts. The 6502, 65c02 and 65802 65816 iigs are supported. Open apple monthly podcast dedicated to the apple ii, hosted by mike maginnis and quinn dunki. The apple iigs stylized as iigs is the fifth and most powerful model in the apple ii series of personal computers produced by apple computer. This series of apple ii articles inspired me to try to solve the apple iigs display problems i had mentioned on my comment before. A postkansasfest mark lemmert of 6502 workshop returns to the show to promote the new nox archaist kickstarter.
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