Category Archives: Apple II

Laser 128: The Apple II From My Past That Wasn’t

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Blake Patterson

My first Apple was an Apple //c that I got in early 1984, right after it launched. It began my still-quite-saucy love affair with the Apple II and was just the first of many different Apple II systems I’d come … Continue reading →

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A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the ’80s and ’90s

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Blake Patterson

For a few years now I’ve been sitting on two DVDs full of Apple promotional videos that someone put together and auctioned on eBay. Happily, most of the content was new to me. The videos promote various Apple systems, primarily … Continue reading →

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Classic Apple II Game Deaths

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Blake Patterson

Yesterday, Boing Boing posted a video compilation of many classic arcade death scenes, set to a chiptune rendition of Mad World. It’s pretty awesome. After watching it, I was inspired to attempt a similar video, but featuring death scenes from … Continue reading →

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‘ActiveGS’ for iOS: Boundless Mobile Apple II Goodness

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Blake Patterson

Last week I wrote a post about FTA’s recent iOS release Active GS – Best of FTA [App Store]. (I wrote one for TouchArcade too, actually.) The app is a collection of Apple IIgs demoscene productions from FTA and associated … Continue reading →

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FTA Releases Apple IIgs Emulator in the iOS App Store

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Blake Patterson

Long-time readers may be aware of the fact that I’ve long been a big fan of the demoscene. I saw my first true demoscene production (or “demo”) the night I received my mail order Amiga 2000 back in 1989. I … Continue reading →

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The Apple //c Comes Home

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Blake Patterson

Long-time readers may recall that a few years ago I picked up a used Apple //c in excellent condition from eBay…and didn’t really have any place to put, here in my real-world Byte Cellar. So, I took it to my … Continue reading →

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‘Ultima V’ on the Passport: Amazing Audio from an Apple II

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Blake Patterson

So, Ultima IV is one of my favorite games of all time. I never actually made it to the end, mind you, but it is wonderfully immersive for a game that was written on a 1MHz machine and released in … Continue reading →

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WANTED: Mockingboard for Apple II

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Blake Patterson

I like to keep the stories interesting here at Byte Cellar. This is a strictly “for fun” site, so there’s a certain freedom I enjoy here as compared to the other sites with which I’m involved. And so I must … Continue reading →

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Abaton Transform for the Apple II [Updated]

Posted on August 23, 2008 by Blake Patterson

I was recently flipping through the pages of the January 1986 issue of inCider magazine when I ran across a brief write-up (edited by Paul Statt) of a seemingly magical Apple II peripheral: the Abaton Transform board. As inCider describes … Continue reading →

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The Demco Graphics Tool Kit – An Apple II Video Board

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Blake Patterson

A couple months back l was enjoying a glass of wine and flipping through the November 1986 issue of A+ magazine, which covered the newly announced Apple IIgs. I remember reading the very same magazine back in ’86 as if … Continue reading →

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