Apple II World Achievements 2012

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Achievements in the world of Apple II, year 2012

01 - Antoine Vignau, who lives in the future, welcomes us to 2012
02 - Brutal Deluxe adds more k7 tapes
03 - Steve Nickolas speculates on "64k only" filecracks
04 - Bill Marten's A.P.P.L.E. posts Australian Apple Review
05 - Brendan "BluRry" Robert makes some JACE updates
06 - Egan Ford makes an Apple Disk Server Beta
07 - BLuRry updates the old Apple Game Server website
08 - Bill Martens updates Apple Archives Links site
09 - Mike Maginnis starts posting more news at A2Central
10 - Lim Thye Chean writes an iBook on Apple IIGS programming for kids
11 - ict@ccess gives us an essay on Virtual String Memory for Applesoft
12 - Alex Lee writes about Professional Desktop Publishing and the Apple II
13 - Dan Lovy visits comp.sys.apple2
14 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.0
15 - Ivan X introduces A2SERVER
16 - Gene Buckle's Age of Reason BBS goes down due to "Snowpocalypse"
17 - Mike Willegal makes us think with his Apple 1 trivia
18 - Brutal Deluxe releases Fishhead, the Caped Copier
19 - Bill Garber makes 12 bit color VGA Carte Blanche modification
20 - David Finnigan asks about Contiki FTP. No one answers. (Haha!)
21 - Ewen Wannop releases SNAP v1.1
22 - Bill Marten's A.P.P.L.E. web server gets an upgrade
23 - BluRry is still hard at work on his JACE
24 - Open Apple podcast #12 is out!
25 - Gene Buckle puts Age of Reason back online
26 - Brendan Robert gives us lovely MIDI emulation from JACE
27 - Marc S. Ressl gets floating bus emulation working
28 - Brutal Deluxe Software releases Beauvais 1992 slide-show
29 - Mac GUI Usenet offers email subscriptions for newsgroups
30 - Garberstreet gets a new name
31 - The Apple II Documentation Project celebreates 10 GB of files
32 - Ewen Wannop's SNAP v1.1.3 goes into beta testing
33 - Ken Gagne puts back issues of Juiced.GS on sale
34 - KansasFest 2012 registration opens
35 - Open Apple podcast #13 comes out
36 - N.N. Thayer randomly (sort of) spots an Apple II
37 - Brian Picchi reviews The Immortal
38 - David Schmenk releases PLASMA, virtual machine and assembler
39 - David Finnigan orders ORCA/C on disk with manuals from Syndicomm
40 - Ewen Wannop releaes SNAP v1.1.3 and SAFE2 2.2.5 after much testing
41 - Open Apple #14 podcast released
42 - David Finnigan announces new Apple product on 1st Apr. Not taken
seriously.
43 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.1
44 - Oliver Schmidt unveils all GEOS file structures
45 - Jordan Mechner finds Prince of Persia source code
46 - David Finnigan announces his new Apple book. Is now taken seriously.
47 - Brian Picchi makes Dogfighters of Mars game
48 - Open Apple Podcast #15 is out for listening
49 - Daniel Kruszyna writes a forth style Apple II cross assembler
50 - BluRry's Mockingboard support in Jace is "almost there"
51 - Softdisk disappears from Syndicomm
52 - Open Apple podcast #16
53 - Apple I auctioned. David Finnigan suggests selling house to buy it.
54 - New cassettes from Brutal Deluxe
55 - Antoine Vignau receives his SPVHD
56 - CFFA 3000 now available for ordering
57 - Bill Martens updates the Apple Archives site
58 - The New Apple II User's Guide on sale. David Finnigan quits his job.
59 - Ewen Wannop makes Sweet16 Starter Kit
60 - Hot Rod appears. Discusses single most tabboo topic on csa2: piracy.
61 - WUSDN to support the Apple II
62 - Antoine Vignau has an Apple II cake meeting in Nantes, France.
63 - What's Where in the Apple eBook
64 - Brutal Deluxe Software releases CADIUS
65 - Alex Freed discusses remake of the Mill 6809
66 - Open Apple podcast #17
67 - BLuRry cheats at Prince of Persia
68 - Mike Willegal has SUPERPROTO Apple II prototyping kits at K'Fest
69 - aiiadict asks about GSBarnDoor
70 - Daniel Kruszyna adds Electric Duet support to sixtyfive
71 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.2
72 - Kansas Fest 2012!
73 - BluRry makes more cheating functions in his JACE
74 - drkenb puts more inCider magazines on his Apple2Online.com site
75 - Hot Rod cracks more Apple II software, with notes on how.
76 - Ewen Wannop updates the various spectrum manuals
77 - Antoine Vignau gets a IIe with weird display.
78 - David Finnigan discovers AppleMouse firmware easter egg by mistake.
79 - AppleWin 1.21.1.0 emulator is released
80 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.3
81 - Marc S. Ressl releases OpenEmulator 1.0.3 with Apple II Plus.
82 - Brendan Robert adds working RamFactor emulation to JACE
83 - Ewen Wannop releases TABBS library archive
84 - Ewen Wannop releasses Spectrum as freeware
85 - Hot Rod uploads waves of new disks to Asimov
86 - chausenbo has a crazy idea about Apple II and Raspberry Pi
87 - Gene Buckle takes Age of Reason BBS offline for good
88 - Steve Nickolas offers his opinions on 'tros vs. pure cracks
89 - BLuRry produces first stable version of JACE
90 - Ivan introduces Magic Gosub for Applesoft
91 - Brutal Deluxe puts more cassettes to total 570 online
92 - Mac GUI Usenet gets enhanced search engine. But it's slow.
93 - Brutal Deluxe's DeluxeWare CD-ROM now freely available
94 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.4
95 - retrogear reverse engineers ProDOS v2.0.3 and posts code
96 - Dave Touvell updates apple2info.net
97 - David Finnigan announces A2HQ.com web hosting. There is interest.
98 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.5 with VDrive
99 - Brutal Deluxe Software releases I'm fEDDup program
100 - David Schmidt releases ADTPro 1.2.6 with faster audio
101 - Antoine Vignau puts more k7 on his site
102 - Benoit releases Peersoft, an Applesoft BASIC extension
103 - David Finnigan proposes to nuke another csa2 sub-group, csa2.comm
104 - Daniel Kruszyna releases a new version of sixtyfive
105 - Steve Nickolas gets close to 20 disks full of crunched games
106 - BluRry continues to improve JACE
107 - gids.rs details his Unix command line programs
108 - Steve Nickolas releases QIX for ProDOS
109 - Kevin works on an avr device to work with Virtual Serial drive
110 - Mike Maginnis can't wait to get an SPVHD
111 - Antoine Vignau starts a tribute section on Brutal Deluxe site
112 - Benoit releases two utilities for Applesoft
113 - retrogear publishes a disassembly of BASIC.System v1.5
114 - Antoine Vignau crows about his 15 MHz IIgs. Bravo.
115 - Brutal Deluxe Software releases Window Capture
116 - Rich Dreher makes a firmware update for the CFFA3000
117 - Steve Nickolas ponders Donkey Kong possibilities. All is possible.
118 - David Finnigan officially opens A2HQ.com. New blogs commence.
119 - Antoine Vignau gets fooled by a fake game. Decides to show csa2 too.
120 - Antoine Vignau recovers his credit with an Apple 8080 k7
121 - Tempest asks about unreleased IIgs games. Is told he can't have.
122 - BLuRry finds it hard to understand the gospel of Sather
123 - retrogear mentions Pascal Maze Creator. Is told to pony up for 1.3.
124 - Steve Nickolas releases Word Attack for ProDOS
125 - BLuRry fiddles with Gandalf graphics, posts report
126 - Conrad announces IIgs Transwarp clone. Gains mass popularity
overnight.
127 - Brian Picchi makes a new Applesoft game for Retrospectiva
128 - Brendan Robert works on rewind feature for JACE
129 - Rob "gids.rs" asks for names for CLI program. Gets obscene suggestion.
130 - gids.rs decides on CLEAR - Command Line Environment for Applesoft
131 - Marc Ressl announces leader change for Apple Documentation Project
132 - Randy Wigginton to be keynote speaker at KansasFest 2013
133 - Ewen Wannop releases ByteBagger and SAFE2 v.2.2.6
134 - Bill Buckels updates the Appleoldies site
135 - Brian Picchi releases Deadly Orbs Applesoft game
136 - dagz makes a Festro Apple II demo with source code
137 - Kevin shows us his cat. Woof!
138 - Rich Dreher releases another firmware update for CFFA3000
139 - Apple II survives end of the world 21 Dec 12
140 - Chris Morse posts list of highly covetable Apple II domain names
141 - David Finnigan makes improvements to Contiki Web Browser
142 - Nama opens a new web site, neoncluster.com 
143 - Steven Weyhrich announces title, publisher, and date for his book
144 - Conrad announces pre-orders of Transwarp clone.
145 - Benoit updates Peersoft

On to 2013!

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