Retrobits and RetroMacCast podcast coverage
Providing post-event coverage, Earl Evans speaks with Ivan Drucker on the Retrobits podcast, while RetroMacCast interviews Mike Maginnis about KansasFest 2010.
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Introducing NuInput: A superior INPUT
If you’ve programmed in Applesoft, then you know that its INPUT command is not very capable. But now you don’t need it! NuInput is a powerful and flexible replacement for INPUT which makes it easy for any Applesoft programmer to specify maximum entry length and permitted keys, automatically convert lowercase, refuse blank entry, provide an …
Introducing Slammer, A New Way of Using Machine Language from Applesoft
By Ivan Drucker. Wouldn’t it be great if you could put whatever machine language you wanted into a standard Applesoft program with practically no performance, dependency, or stability issues? With Slammer, you can! Slammer is a new method for installing and executing machine language routines, at machine language speed, using 100% legal Applesoft. This presentation will …
Apple’s Growing Divide Between Users and Programmers
The incredibly open nature of the Apple II for development, down to the inclusion of schematics in every box, encouraged a generation of users who were also program mers. By contrast, today we have the walled garden of iPhone OS, where Apple judges all. Between these polar positions is the Macintosh. How have Apple ? …
KansasFest 2010 session update
The KansasFest 2010 schedule is filling up with sessions on BASIC programming, text adventures, dumb terminals, and iPad development.
The Forgotten II: The Apple IIe Card for the Macintosh LC
by Ivan Drucker In this session I’ll discuss and demonstrate this little-known but thoroughly awesome member of the Apple II family, and will explain how it uses the LC’s resources to create a maxed-out, souped up Apple IIe. I’ll also describe how it can be a networkable bridge between 5.25″ floppies and modern Macs. You’ll …
Fixing Time Zone, or What To Do With a 14-Drive Apple II
by Ivan Drucker In this session, I’ll demonstrate my own enhancement to Time Zone, by On-Line Systems, the original epic computer adventure (which came on six double sided floppies and retailed for $100 — in 1982). Time Zone’s Achilles heel was that it was written to use a single drive exclusively, requiring constant annoying disk …