Third part on the Apple II:

• News
• New acquisitions
• Feedback
• Books, Software, Modern Upgrades, Online Stores, Emulation, Current Web Sites
• Special guest host Carrington Vanston!!

Items mentioned in this episode:

News

• Throwback Network - http://www.throwbacknetwork.net
• “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer” by Boisy Pitre and Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20
• “West Of Eden, The End of Innocence at Apple Computer" by Frank Rose - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615278841/?tag=flodaypod-20
• "Ready Player One: A Novel” by Ernest Cline - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307887448/?tag=flodaypod-20

New Acquisitions

• “Color Computer Graphics” by William Barden, Jr. - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006Y3B06/?tag=flodaypod-20
• “Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9” by Dale Puckett and Peter Dribble

Vintage Computer Shows

• Vintage Computer Festival East:
• http://www.midatlanticretro.org/
• http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/VCF-East2014/
• http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/VCFE91/

• http://www.go4retro.com/2014/04/11/back-from-the-vintage-computer-festival-east-9-1/

• Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml

• Vintage Computer Festival Europa - http://www.vcfe.org/E/
• Vintage Computer Southest 2.0 - http://www.vintage.org/2014/southeast/
• KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org/
• VCF Midwest 9.0 Website - http://www.vcfmw.org/
• VCF Midwest 9.0 More Info - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/
• VCF Midwest Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/

Books

• Compute’s First, Second and Third Book of Apple
• Apple II User’s Guide by Lon Poole
• Programming Surprises & Tricks for your Apple II/IIe Computer by David L. Heiserman
• AppleSoft Tutorial from Apple, Inc. - based on Apple II BASIC Programming Manual by Jef Raskin; rewritten for AppleSoft by Caryl Richardson
• Beneath Apple DOS by Don Worth and Peter Lechner - Beneath Apple DOS is intended to serve as a companion to Apple's DOS Manual, providing additional information for the advanced programmer or the novice Apple user who wants to know more about the structure of diskettes.
• Apple II/IIe Computer Graphics by Ken Williams, founder and CEO of Sierra On-Line Inc
• AppleSoft BASIC Toolbox by Larry Wintermeyer
• Apple Graphics Games by Paul Coletta
• Machine Language for Beginners by Richard Mansfield
• Micro Adventure is the title of a series of books for young adult readers, published by Scholastic, Inc.
• Golden Flutes & Great Escapes by Delton Horn
• Sophistication and Simplicity, the Life and Times of the Apple II Computer by Steve Weyhrich, 2013 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0986832278/?tag=flodaypod-20
• The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnegan, 2012 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615639879/?tag=flodaypod-20
• iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith, 2006 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393061434/?tag=flodaypod-20
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, 2011 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451648537/?tag=flodaypod-20
• WOZPAK Special Edition - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1304231321/?tag=flodaypod-20
• What’s Where in the Apple by Prof. William F. Luebbert - http://www.whatswhereintheapple.com/

Software

• VisiCalc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visicalc
• AppleWorks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks
• Apple Writer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer
• ProTerm - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterm
• Zork Series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
• Apple Invaders - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5JZulzFQE

Modern Upgrades & Connectivity Options

• ADT Pro - http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/
• Apple II Game Server - http://sourceforge.net/projects/a2gameserver/
• CFFA3000 - http://www.dreher.net/
• Apple II Pi - http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/wordpress/?p=167, https://ultimateapple2.com/
• A2Server - http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/
• A2Cloud - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkOxe4mjHg
• RaspApple - http://appleii.ivanx.com/
• Uthernet Card - http://a2retrosystems.com/
• a2mp3 card - http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=21
• Nishida Radio http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/english.html
• SDFloppy II from Bulgaria http://www.ebay.com/bhp/apple-disk-ii

Online Stores

• 16sector - http://16sector.com
• Ultimate Apple II - https://ultimateapple2.com/
• Option8 - https://www.tindie.com/stores/option8/
• Nishida Radio http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/english.html
• Syndicomm - http://store.syndicomm.com/

Emulation

• Virtual II - http://www.virtualii.com/
• Open Emulator - https://code.google.com/p/openemulator/
• AppleWin - http://applewin.berlios.de/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/applewin.berlios/?source=recommended
• JACE - http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-ace/
• Virtual Apple II - Apple II in a browser - http://www.virtualapple.org/
• MESS/JSMESS - Multi-Emulator Super System http://jsmess.textfiles.com/messloader.html?module=apple2e&scale=2

Current Web Sites & Other Forums

• Terry Stewart video on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENno_zzst2U
• A2Central - http://www.a2central.com
• MacGUI - http://www.macgui.com/
• comp.sys.Apple2 - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sys.apple2
• Facebook group Apple II Enthusiasts - https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/
• IRC chat - http://widget02.mibbit.com/?server=irc.a2central.com:6667&channel=%23a2c.chat
• Apple Fritter - http://www.applefritter.com/
• Open Apple Podcast - http://www.open-apple.net/
• Apple Archives - http://applearchives.com/
• Apple II Scans - http://www.apple2scans.net/
• Apple II Game Server Online - http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/
• Apple II Disk Server - http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/
• Brutal Deluxe Software - http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html
• Every Apple Ad - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7JtADjbou7JBD9Ly_w3Mz9RTVVY2T_hy
• Apple II Online - http://apple2online.com/index.php
• The A2 Home Page for Apple II downloadable software! - http://www.a2-web.com/a2netsoft.html
• Archive.org Apple II Disk Image Collection - https://archive.org/details/apple-ii-disk-collection
• The Apple II Lost Classics Project - http://lostclassics.apple2.info/
• Asimov software repository - http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/

Other Books/Sites Used for Reference

• Apple II on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ii
• “Sophistication and Simplicity” Book by Steven Weyhrich - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0986832278/?tag=flodaypod-20
• Steve Weyhrich’s Apple II History Site -http://apple2history.org