Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/25
Reminder to self: see if I can order this:
Apple II Ethernet Module – This product is based on the Wiznet W5100 chip. It has an embedded hardware IP stack. Contiki, IP65, Marinetti and ADTPro have been updated to work with the new card.
We will be using Itead as our current PCB supplier.
The card will be assembled by Circuits Central
Source: [WayBack] Welcome to a2RetroSystems
Other links:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/21
From a while back: [WayBack] Open Apple #66 (December 2016) : Glenda “The Atom” Adams | Open Apple
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Glenda Adams, better known on the Apple II as The Atom. She was a cracker of some note back in the 1980s, and she shares great stories with us…
It reminded me of the days I started to learn programming. Good memories. @glenda_atom was way ahead of me (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03
Conditions are very, very good right now for easy, top-quality, final ingestion of original commercial Apple II Software and if you know people sitting on a pile of it or even if you have a small handful of boxes, please get in touch with me to arrange the disks to be imaged. apple@textfiles.com.
For example, piles and piles of educational software has returned from potential oblivion, because it’s about the preservation, not the title. Wonderfully done works are being brought back to life and are playable on the Internet Archive.
In other words: if you have or know someone who has disks with original, uncracked software that cannot be copied easily, let the team at the WayBack machine know as they have the resources that can help preserve that software.
–jeroen
Source: [WayBack] Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections « ASCII by Jason Scott
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
This appeared a few days back: [WayBack] http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/ssafe/Apple_SSAFE_Project.pdf
It’s about “Software and Security from Apple Friends and Enemies” an early exchange of ideas and possibilities for DRM in the Apple ][ and Apple III era.
I got it via my bitsavers.org RSS subscription, but it has been over the net in quite a few other places as well:
- Longer articles:
- PDF scans:
I think the most important quote is from the one on reddit, submitted 20170223 by vadermeer for which I added some WayBack/Archive.is links:
[WayBack] Found Internal Apple Memos about copy protection for Apple II, SARA, LISA(self.VintageApple)
Yesterday at the Seattle Goodwill Outlet, where everything is sold by the pound, I noticed the Apple logo on letterhead sticking out from a bin of books, so I started digging. What I found were the 1979-1980 files of Jack MacDonald, manager of system software for the Apple II and /// at the time
They tell the story of project “SSAFE” or “Software Security from Apples Friends and Enemies.” This was a proposal to bring disk copy protection in-house to sell as a service to outside developers. Inter-office memos, meeting notes and progress reports all give a good idea of what a project lifecycle was like. Different schemes and levels of protection are considered, as well as implementation primarily on the Apple II+ and the upcoming SARA (The Apple ///) and Lisa computers. [WayBack] Randy Wigginton is featured prominently throughout, along with mentions of Woz and many other familiar names.
The documents were all a jumble so I’ve put them in chronological order and scanned the collection, please enjoy. [Archive.is]
The reddit thread is very nice reading as it explains how close we are now to this Level 1:
Level 1. Totally secure. Absolutely no method of stealing the software. 100% effective. Note that the ideal, level 1, is achievable only through disallowing any access of any kind to the software and the computer. Not very practical in our circumstances.
and this one from boingboing:
It’s so neatly packaged and well-documented it could be a Harvard Business Review case-study.
Edit 20240819: the above Googl links pointed to [Wayback/Archive] Apple SSAFE Project.pdf – Google Drive.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/16
I recently found some old magazine issues of my early programming escapades. It reminded me of the really old days where – as a school kid – I tried to buy Nibble magazine at a regular base. It was expensive (I think it was around 8 Dutch Guilders (or NLG) – close to EUR 4 – which was a lot for me, though less expensive than diskettes that were like NLG 10 each).
But it was fun as the magazine focussed at computer programs and programming transitioned my life. From Integer Basic via AppleSoft Basic (and various smaller attempts in FORTH, MuSimp, LISA Assembler and LOGO) to Turbo Pascal on CP/M.
Recently I learned that all issues (16k pages total!) have been scanned and OCR-ed and can be obtained on DVD for a modest price. Even better: all their software is available for free.
Just follow these links:
For some history:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen
Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!
via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/11
Floppy Emu « Blondihacks tested this:
Plug-and-play disk emulation for your vintage Macintosh, Apple II, or Lisa! Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple computers. It uses a removable SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk […]
Source: Floppy Emu Disk Emulator | Big Mess o’ Wires
–jeroen
via: This week, solid state storage for your 6502.
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