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


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