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Time Out for Some 8-bit Fun, IIGS Style

Posted 12 October 2014 | 38 Comments | » Read more...

Tags: DOS 3.3 Launcher, FastBoot, binary, single load, crunched, Choplifter, Wavy Navy, Hard Hat Mack, Galaxian, 8-bit, Apple II, Games

Over the last couple of years I've been dabbling in a sideline - 8-bit stuff. Not so much to take the focus away from archiving stuff for the IIGS, but I've been keen to put together, as definitive as possible, a collection of single load / crunched games on a 32meg ProDOS volume that'll work not only for emulators and the CFFA3000, but also as a standard partition for use with the CFFA v1 or v2, MicroDrive, MicroDrive Turbo, Focus or SCSI drive.

Russian Apple Museum or 'the eBay Black Hole to be Found in Moscow'

Posted 4 October 2012 | 1939 Comments | » Read more...

Tags: Russia, Moscow, Apple, Museum, Apple II, Macintosh, Mac, History, Personal Computers, Newton, Apple rarities

I was planning on writing a blog dedicated to all the retro computing museums I've visited in my travels across Europe at the end of my travels (which I still hope to do) but I hit a problem: one such museum was too good not to write about straight away. If you've ever lost an auction on eBay for Apple stuff, I think I found where it went!