Floppy Days Episode 22 - The APF Imagination Machine

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