A2 News and Notes
November 2000

INDEX

* Opus ][ hits the streets!
* Silvern Castle 6. . . and 6.1
* Arthur Jerijian's Resolution ][ Library Released as Open Source
* Ewen Wannop Changes Back Into a Chameleon
* A2Central.com News
** Eric Shepherd Acquires Syndicomm
** A2Central.com online service to go public beta in December
** Lost Classics Comes Home to A2Central.com
** KEGS for WIndows32 Released

* Opus ][ hits the streets

ByteWorks releases its eagerly anticipated CD package, Opus ][.  Opus
][ includes the latest version of every Apple II program sold under the
ByteWorks label.  You can also get the source code to all of these
products.  Over $1600 in software, over a million lines of source code.
It's an Apple II programmer's dream!  You can get just the software
(Opus ][ The Software), just the source (Opus ][ The Source), or both
(Opus ][ The Works).  Opus ][ The Software goes for $95; Opus ][ The
Source goes for $150; and Opus ][ The Works goes for $195.  For more
information, check out http://www.byteworks.org/.  Thanks, Mike!

* Silvern Castle 6. . . and 6.1

Jeff Fink has done it again.  Silvern Castle 6.0 fixed a bunch of bugs,
added new feature, and was rewritten under Kitchen Sink Software's
MicroDot command shell interface replacement for BASIC.SYSTEM.  He also
announced a coming 6.1 with an "automap" feature.  And we thought that
the limits of the 8-bit II had been reached.

* Arthur Jerijian's Resolution ][ library released as Open Source

With even more evidence that the 8-bit Apple II is alive and well,
Arthur Jerijian has released version 1.0 of an Open Source double high
resolution graphics library for use with yuour double high resolution
graphics programs.  For more information, check out
http://resolutionii.sourceforge.net/.

* Ewen Wannop Changes Back Into a Chameleon

A nearly lost title from years past has been brought back to life. 
Well-known Apple II programmer Ewen Wannop (of Spectrum fame) has
resurrected his shareware program Chameleon, which allows transferring
files between DOS 3.3, ProDOS, Pascal, and CP/M.  It's on his Internet
Home Page at http://www.btinternet.com/~ewannop/.

* A2Central.com News

As usual, lots of A2Central.com news:

** Eric Shepherd Acquires Syndicomm

Eric Shepherd, otherwise known as Sheppy, has acquired Syndicomm, the
company that managed the Apple II RoundTables on GEnie and the A2 and
A2Pro Forums on Delphi from previous owners Dean Esmay and Gary Utter. 
Syndicomm now takes over operations of the popular A2Central.com World
Wide Website.  For more details, see
http://www.a2central.com/features/2000-11/14-syndicomm/index.html.

** A2Central.com online service to go public beta in December

In a related development, the long-awaited, Apple II accessible
enhanced A2Central.com online service goes into a free public beta
December 8, 2000.  Users will need to sign up for an account before
accessing A2Central.com via telnet.  Paid service begins in 2001.  For
more details, see
http://www.a2central.com/features/2000-11/30-a2central/index.html.

** Lost Classics comes home to A2Central.com

Lost Classics Project Director Howard Katz has announced that the Lost
Classics Project will have a permanent home on A2Central.com.  The new
World Wide Website will be located at
http://lostclassics.a2central.com/.  Details on the project, the
process of software reclassification, Katz's presentation at KFest 2000
(in QuickTime format), and the reclassified programs themselves will be
available at this site shortly.  In a related development, Katz has
joined the staff of A2Central.com as a Library Assistant and Director
of Special Projects.

** KEGS for WIndows32 Released

Kent's Emulated GS, a well-known Apple IIgs emulator for several UNIX
and UNIX-like operating systems (such as Solaris x86 and Linux x86) as
well as OS/2 by Kent Dickey, has been ported to Windows32.  For more
information on this port (and it is very UNIX-like, very little
graphical user interface for preferences and settings), see
http://www.geocities.com/akilgard/kegs32/.  For more information on
KEGS, see http://neptune.psn.net/hometown/?user=kentd/kegs/.

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