Sunday, April 20, 2008 Adding new pictures to this website is still more tedious than I would like. Nevertheless, I have two new additions to the Museum section that were compelling to me. One is the " portable IIGS you may have heard about recently. The other is information about another Apple II "clone", the TrackStar emulator card for IBM PC AT-series computers.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 I've decided to help pay for the web site by trying out the Google AdSense stuff. I've resisted this for the entire life of the Apple II History site, but if it helps pay the costs of hosting, etc, then it is a small price to pay. For those who don't like ads, forgive me and just ignore them. For those who want to help the site, click on an ad or two.
Sunday, April 6, 2008 Thanks again to GeeDee 2008, we have a vitrual Red Book on the site. Check out the Downloads section and get the PDF. The scanned book is still a work-in-progress, not in terms of completeness, but in quality. Check back periodically to see if there has been an update.
Sunday, March 16, 2008 Courtesy of a donation, the site has a new logo! Many thanks to GeeDee 2008.
Monday, February 25, 2008 E-mail page is again working.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 Added a link to the Gallery Of Undiscovered Entities (GUE) [not the Greater Underground Empire]. Have you ever heard of Apple II software from Costal Software? American Eagle Software? The Logical Choice? Neither have I; but these were some of the software companies that sold programs on tape during the earliest days of the Apple II. Visit this site and learn more about them, or contribute information if you have it!
Also, the E-mail link is broken; I'm working on getting it fixed.
Friday, October 23, 2007 Added a link to Tony Diaz' Apple II Online Reference, the place to go for Apple II info.
Sunday, July 1, 2007 I've occasionally had readers of the Apple II History site write, asking for help in getting data off of old Apple II disks. Now, I have somewhere to refer these requests. A new link on the Links page points to RetroFloppy.com, where all your classic data translation needs can be met.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Thanks to a couple of contributions, I've got an update to the Apple II ad "Simplicity" page here, and also have covers of the first two Contact newsletters from Apple in 1978 here (thanks to Len Fettig). I also have a copy of the Apple II Reference Manual that preceded the "Red Book" here, thanks to Mensenator.
Also, I've finally found and fixed the problem that was preventing downloads from that section from working. My apologies for those who have repeatedly tried to get one of these files in the past year.
Tuesday, February, 2007 A correction of an error I made when I first created the Apple II Achievement Awards pages several years ago. I managed to copy some information from the 1999 awards page to the 1998 awards page, resulting in exclusion of several awardees. Thanks to one of them, Kelvin Sherlock, I have corrected the 1998 page here.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Links involving the history of the Apple II in particular, or Apple Computer in general are always welcome (heck, I know that others besides myself know things about these topics!!) Here is another one that I've been told about: The Apple History Challenge. The link appears on the Links page.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Mark Percival's got a keen eye. He pointed out to me that I've had the wrong date listed for a long time for the starting date of Softdisk GS disk magazine. It did not begin publication in November 1988, but rather in November 1989. Consider this corrected, and many thanks to Mark for the information!
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Apple II emulation is getting into more and more devices. Now we have AppleIIGo, an emulator that works on MIDP 2.0 compatible mobile phones. Check out the link in the Links section.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Podcasting about the Apple II? That's what showed up this week from the folks at Twitch Asylum. This podcast is all about games, with some of their focus towards the "retro" side of gaming. In the latter half of episode #6 of Twitch Asylum Video Game Radio, they discuss the influence of the Apple II on video games, and the influence of gaming on the design on the Apple II, referencing this site as a partial information source. You can get the podcast here.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Joshua Coventry e-mailed these pictures to me of an Apple II promotion product that I've not yet seen or heard of: An Apple II Jigsaw Puzzle.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Paul Zaleski is taking his own interest in the history of the Apple II. He informed me of a couple of mistakes in Chapter 12 in the area of accelerators for the Apple II, and has put up a detailed article on the subject at Wikipedia.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Thanks to e-mail from Ryan Schmidt, I have corrected the name of the variety of the apple fruit and audio manifacturer whose names were similar to the original code name for Jef Raskin's projectthat eventually became the Apple Macintosh computer. Previously, this had been identified as "Mackintosh", which is more correctly a type of overcoat. "McIntosh" is the variety of Apple, and the name of the audio manufacturer McIntosh Labs. This was mentioned in the Timeline for September 1979.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Podcasting about the Apple II? That's what showed up this week from the folks at Twitch Asylum. This podcast is all about games, with some of their focus towards the "retro" side of gaming. In the latter half of episode #6 of Twitch Asylum Video Game Radio, they discuss the influence of the Apple II on video games, and the influence of gaming on the design on the Apple II, referencing this site as a partial information source. You can get the podcast here.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Joshua Coventry e-mailed these pictures to me of an Apple II promotion product that I've not yet seen or heard of: An Apple II Jigsaw Puzzle.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Paul Zaleski is taking his own interest in the history of the Apple II. He informed me of a couple of mistakes in Chapter 12 in the area of accelerators for the Apple II, and has put up a detailed article on the subject at Wikipedia.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Thanks to e-mail from Ryan Schmidt, I have corrected the name of the variety of the apple fruit and audio manifacturer whose names were similar to the original code name for Jef Raskin's projectthat eventually became the Apple Macintosh computer. Previously, this had been identified as "Mackintosh", which is more correctly a type of overcoat. "McIntosh" is the variety of Apple, and the name of the audio manufacturer McIntosh Labs. This was mentioned in the Timeline for September 1979.
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Thanks to e-mail from Greg Cotrill, who used to be associated with Sirius Software, I have a more accurate description of the game " Wayout" in the Museum section.
Friday, November 25, 2005
In Chapter 20, "Magazines", and in the Museum entry for II Computing, I have corrected an error identifying the final issue of this magazine as being the December 1987/January 1988 issue. It was actually the February/March 1987 issue that was the final, and the cover that had been identified as Dec 1987/Jan 1988 was the Dec 1986/Jan 1987 issue. Thanks to Gene Linkoski for pointing out this error and providing the correction!
Monday, October 24, 2005
In Chapter 20, "Magazines", I've added a link to Mike Harvey's Nibble website, and the availability of the entire run of Nibble on DVD or CD.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Monday, January 17, 2005
Thanks to info from Jos Grupping of the Flight Simulator History site, I've got additional information about the versions of Flight Simulator that were released for the Apple II.
Friday, May 14, 2004
Thanks to an email from John Dilks, who was show manager for the famous PC'76 computer show that featured the first big demonstration of the Apple-1, I've corrected the place in Chapter 2 where this is mentioned. He pointed out to me that the Apple-1 was not the only 6502-based computer demonstrated at the show. There was also the KIM-1, and a computer I had not yet heard of, the Baby. Thanks for the info, John!
Monday, May 3, 2004
I've come across two significant sources of first-hand historical information about Apple Computer. The Apple Computer History Weblog and Folklore both provide blog space for stories written by people who worked at Apple. Additionally, I've added a category for "Fan Sites", for those enthusiasts who have something they want to say about their own experience with the Apple II. All of this can be found on the Links page.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Thanks to an e-mail from Jim of The Mothership! web site, their address in Links has been fixed. If you haven't looked at it recently, it is worth another visit.
Monday, January 26, 2004
Thanks to e-mail from Brantley Coile, I have corrected the name of the Association for Computing Machinery that was mentioned in Chapter 2 where Stan Veit's experiences with the Apple-1 are recounted. The original entry called it the "Association of Computer Machinery", which is is not only doubly incorrect, but (as Coile pointed out) makes it sound as if the Computer Machines are themselves in an association.
Of course, considering how we tend to think of our computers in anthropomorphic terms, this might not necessarily be totally inaccurate... nevertheless, since the ACM really does exist and has a specific name, I've corrected this error. Thanks Brantley!
Monday, January 12, 2004
Thanks to a reader e-mail, I've corrected the start date of A+ Magazine, moving it from January 1983 to the correct November 1983.
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