Legends tell of the days when the ancient issues of Hardcore COMPUTIST were readily available to anyone who wished to purchase them.  Those days are long past but the treasures within those ancient documents have been diligently transcribed to the pages of a modern digital reference work:

The Computist Project

For the Serious User of Apple ][ Computers

 

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Current page count: 4234 scans online

 

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Latest Updates

Bill Martens of Call-A.P.P.L.E. has provided a mirror of The Computist Project here.   Thanks, Bill!

A searchable index of all Computist articles is now online!  You can search and browse the articles at http://computist.jamtronix.com/article_index.html.  Big thanks to Jonno for making this available.

 

 

The Computist Project DVD

The Computist Project DVD is now available.  This free DVD contains the complete Computist collection in PDF and Zip format.  Email me your shipping address or any questions you might have for a free copy.

 

 

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KFest 2007

was a major success, and KansasFest '08, the twentieth anniversary of the event, has already been announced.  Lots of new faces, and a few that haven't been here in a long time. My pictures are here; they are unsorted and untitled.

 

links

For a much more extensive list of links, visit Rubywand's II Computing links page.

A2-Web – “The Mother of All Apple II Sites”.  This page has lots of Apple II-related info.  The Classifieds section is especially good – much better prices than ePay.

A2Central – huge site.  Run by Sean Fahey.  User forums, file libraries, telnet access, newsletters, chat – the list is nearly endless.

A2Retrosystems - Home of the Uther card, an ethernet card for the Apple IIe and IIgs.

Apple2.org – Tony Diaz’s site.  Home of Marinetti, the TCP/IP stack for the IIgs.  Tons (500+) of pictures of Apple hardware.

Apple2info.net - General information on Apple II hardware and software. Right now there are pages with resources for several popular peripherals.  More is coming soon.

Apple II History - Steven Weyhrich's comprehensive history of the Apple II and the company it created.

AppleWin - A popular IIe emulator for the Windows operating system.

Asimov – The premiere (and often controversial) FTP site for 8-bit Apple II disk images.

Brutal Deluxe Software – Brutal Deluxe is back online, now offering almost all of their great software as free downloads.

Call-A.P.P.L.E. – Call-A.P.P.L.E. has merged with Virtual Apple and can be now be found here.

CiderPress - Andy McFadden's infinitely useful disk image management program.  Andy has recently released Ciderpress as open-source freeware.

Floppydisks.com – Order DS/DD 3.5” / 5.25” floppies in volume from these folks.  $0.24 each for 500, $0.21 each for 1,000.

II Computing – Rubywand's page.  Home of GS WorldView, a GS-centric e-zine; the official CSA2 Apple II FAQs; and a ton of links and info.

Nibble Magazine - Nibble's former publisher, Mike Harvey has scanned the entire 12-year run of Nibble magazine to PDF.  The issues are for sale, one year per CD or as a complete CD-set or on a single DVD.  Mike has also made other collections available, including the library disks (free downloads), Nibble Mac and several   of the compilations and special publications such as Nibble Express.

Project: CFFA - Rich Dreher's CompactFlash / IDE interface card for the Apple II series.  This card allows you to use a microdrive HDD or CompactFlash card as an internal storage device.  The card is currently in production and will be available soon.  More details on his page.

ReactiveMicro - The Apple II is currently enjoying a hardware / peripheral renaissance of late, and ReactiveMicro is at the forefront of this new wave of add-ons.  Check out their page for updated prices and availability.

Shareware Solutions II – A legend in the community, Joe Kohn has been in business for years, selling the best Apple II shareware anywhere.

What Is The Apple IIgs? – Formerly, the Gaming Memory Fairway - now includes the Gaming site, as well as a collection of Application and Educational images.  According to the main page, “This site's sole purpose is to accurately represent every Apple IIgs application so they don't vanish forever while we were all waiting for software companies to reclassify their programs as freeware.”  Tons of disk images suitable for use with your favorite IIgs emulator.


 Other, non hardware-specific vintage computing sites:

ClassicCmp mailing list - ClassicCmp is a resource for enthusiasts of classic computer hardware, software, and documentation.

Vintage Computer Marketplace - Auctions and various vintage equipment for sale/trade here (currently offline).

Vintage Computer Festival - Celebrating the history of computers.  Now includes events across the U.S. and even a show in Europe.

 

site info - changelog

This site is currently hosted on DreamHost.  Page layout was done with various versions of Microsoft Frontpage; the thumbnail tables were created with Thumbs Plus 7.  Any requests, info, threats, etc. should be sent to maginnis@computist-project.net. To the best of my knowledge, nothing on this site violates current copyright law.  If you see anything infringing, please email me and I will remove it.  The opinions on this site are my own and in no way reflect the thoughts, opinions, actions, etc. of anyone else.  At all.  And finally, I apologize for the hideous layout of this page.  I’m completely lacking in any visual creativity skills and set this up on a WYSIWYG editor in less than 15 minutes.

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This page was last updated on May 3, 2008