Category Archives: Apple II

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Back in April I made a post regarding the Uthernet card, Ethernet for the Apple II. As I indicated, I laid down my $89 and ordered one as soon as I learned that a2RetroSystems was selling a new batch. It … Continue reading →

Readers will recall that one of my favorite projects of late was putting my beloved Apple //c to daily use as a text terminal to Mac OS X running an IRC client, by way of a null modem serial link. … Continue reading →

Apple II lovers take note: a2RetroSystems is selling a limited run of the $89 Uthernet ethernet board for the Apple ][+, IIe, and IIgs. As of this posting there are 16 available. I ordered mine this morning. Rest assured that … Continue reading →

I experienced 30 minutes of intense pain this evening. I took a quick glimpse at eBay’s “Vintage Computing” listings this evening and what I saw was amazing. “Vintage APPLE IIC computer NIB Sealed Never Opened II C“ That’s right. A … Continue reading →

Apple marketing has long done a number on me. And not just in these flashy days of iPod “shadow dancers” and all that hipness. No, even back in the mid-’80s days of their classy, perhaps conservative product ads featuring the … Continue reading →

So, I wanted to pick up (one) ImageWriter II color ribbon to do a few test pages from the Apple IIgs on my new Apple ImageWriter II printer. I’ve since found that one can still buy these at Staples, but … Continue reading →