KansasFest 2015, the 27th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 14 –19 in Kansas City, Missouri. Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman, a prolific computer game programmer, d…

Folks, Went to an AUSOM members-only swap meet on the weekend, didn't pick up a much mac stuff, a couple of Pismo CD and DVD drive units, a couple of games, stuff, boxes of stuff,…

What are your opinions on the screen of the PowerBook 5300cs? Is it the worst of the worst of passive matrix or is it one of the better ones? Better or worse than 1400cs?

I added a basic 68k programming guide to the wiki. Right now it just covers installing MPW and compiling a basic program, but the next tutorial will go more in-depth and cover aspe…

Rare Voodoo 5 6000 video card http://cgi.ebay.com/3Dfx-Voodoo-5-6000-AGP-128MB-Video-Graphics-Card-RARE_W0QQitemZ300393220766 Not many of these got out before 3dfx gave up and so…

Does anyone know what opens HQX files? I assume it's StuffIt? If so, what are the TYPE and CREATOR for HQX files? The site where I downloaded all these files must have blown awa…

This is certainly one way to kick off the new year: with a French Foreign Mega-Conquest. Here's the story. On December 24, 2009, I left the United States to visit my grandparents …

I used to have the URL for where Apple keeps the PDFs of Inside macintosh and the tech notes. I can't find my bookmark and my google-fu is failing me. Anyone have it handy?

Google gets it wrong. According to their 20 Year Usenet Timeline, the first post mentioning Macintosh and Lisa was made on August, 1982. In fact, the earliest post mentioning Maci…

It has confounded me for a while that I somehow have managed to not acquire an Apple IIe for my retro-computing collection, but that problem has now been solved. I turned up a loc…

I was messing around with TvPad on my Newton the other day and thought, "Hey, how cool would it be if someone were to write a Newton app that controlled Front Row on the Mac!?" Th…

got this monster i dug out of a box, missing lots of stuff, but i forget if the mobo was any good or not. What is the pinout of the DC jack? thanks.

It seems to me that since the original 128K and 512K can run BBS software to share e-mail and files via those old networks, and later, services like FidoNet allowed those dial-up n…

Of late I have noticed that the Lounge is full of Non-Mac Conquests. Now its great to hear what people has been able to find/salvage but should we not have all that in a separate …

I recall reading a tutorial once about converting a Disk II to use directly on an Apple III, instead of buying the more expensive Disk III mechanism. But in recent Googling, I can …

My old Mac SE, which I just finished de-yellowing, has a sticker stain. The sticker itself was from an aftermarket computer upgrades store, and the majority of it was transparent. …

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Ok, now I'm just really pushing things here, aren't I? Aside from my project to write a network game for the Apple II, I also want to look into Unix or any other multi-tasking i…

I just found this adapter on eBay. Since Genesis controllers are compatible with Atari, this is a loophole to allow using a Genesis controller with an Apple II, right? Has anybody …

Hi, I'm using the built-in SSC emulation in my GS and have it connected by serial port to a Classic running ClarisWork's communications module. Everything is perfectly fine: I can…

Hi, I saw a post about recelling a 500 series intelligent battery and it got me wondering if anyone has had any luck with recelling a Duo's NIMH battery. I love my 2300c to death,…

...exists as this: http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKPP1 I'm sure somebody will get Oregon Trail going asap.

hi everyone i've been learning assembly language for a few weeks, and felt most comfortable doing it on an apple // well, and emulated apple // .i dont' have any money to buy a re…

hi i've recently gotten back into programming and in addition to the higher level stuff, i'm working on programming the 6502. so i've gotten applewin and believe it or not my libr…

I was wondering if any of you can still successfully send email from your Newton. I've been able to set up Eudora to receive messages, but modern email servers seem to require SSL…