Aug 20, 2014
News, upcoming vintage computer shows, feedback.
Main topic: The APF Imagination Machine
Links Mentioned in the Show:
News
KansasFest - http://www.kansasfest.org
Book “Apple Files” by David Miller - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0835901912/?tag=flodaypod-20
Book “Apple II the DOS Manual Disk Operating System” by Apple Computer - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QTD2SA/?tag=flodaypod-20
CFFA3000 - http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
Book “The HP Way - How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company” by David Packard - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097V3ELU/?tag=flodaypod-20
Model I System Expansion (MISE) - http://home.comcast.net/~bartlett.p/MISE/
F18A VGA for the TI-99/4A - http://codehackcreate.com/archives/30
VCF Midwest - http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/, https://www.facebook.com/events/257907004391707/
VCF East 10.0 - http://www.midatlanticretro.com/
Feedback
RetroChallenge 2014 Summer Challenge - http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-2012sc/
Terry Stewart’s RetroChallenge Entry - http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2014-06-30-fixing-C4P-ram-expansion-board.htm
Emulation
APF emulator for the PC (Enrique Collado of Spain) - http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/apf0308.zip
MESS (emulation) - http://www.mess.org/
Current Web Sites/Links/Mail Lists
Yahoo Mailing List - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apf_consoles_and_computers
Archive.org Console Library for the APF - https://archive.org/details/apfm1000_library
APF Imagination Machine Owner’s Manual - http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/images/Manuals/78_APF_Imagination_Machine-Manual.pdf
APF Technical Reference Manual - http://classictech.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/1980-apf-imagination-machine-technical-reference-manual-1-80.pdf
APF BASIC Language Reference Manual - http://hcvgm.org/Static/Manuals/APF/APF%20BASIC%20Language%20Reference%20Manual.pdf
APF Imagination Machine BASIC tokenized file - http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/APF_Imagination_Machine_BASIC_tokenized_file
commented APF BIOS by Adam Trionfo - http://hcvgm.org/Static/Hacking/Roms/APF_ROM.zip
Digital Press Video Game Database - http://www.digitpress.com/faq/apf.htm
Orphaned Games (Adam Trionfo) - http://www.orphanedgames.com/APF/
The Old Computer ROMs - http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=APF/Imagination-Machine
APF Imagination Machine Demo at YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzppKYQzcQ
Old-computers.com - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=584
Homebrew Software - http://www.orphanedgames.com/APF/homebrew_cartridges/homebrew_cartridges.html
Newsletters/User Groups - http://hcvgm.org/APF_UserGroup.html
Info World May, 1980 - http://books.google.com/books?id=XT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT13#v=onepage&q&f=true
Popular Science May, 1980 - http://bit.ly/1oKpRF1
article on Ed Smith, one of the designers of the APF, Black Enterprise, Dec. 1982 - http://bit.ly/1vUPSu2
Popular Science November, 1981 - http://bit.ly/1pv8pED
References
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_Imagination_Machine
APF Page (Larry Greenfield) - http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/
Home Computer and Video Game Museum (Lance Squire) - http://hcvgm.org/APF_Imagination_Machine.html
Closing
Throwback Network - http://www.throwbacknetwork.net