The History of the Apple II as a Gaming Platform

Matt Barton writes "Gamasutra is running a feature on the venerable Apple II platform, which practically defined the early home computer industry and was home to many of the greatest games and developers of all time. The authors discuss the platform's lifespan and many iterations, struggles with illegal distribution, and legendary Apple II games such as Prince of Persia, John Madden Football, and Ultima. 'How big of a problem was piracy? Although several software authors claim that they stopped developing games because of rampant piracy and the subsequent loss of revenue, piracy did expose more computer owners to more games than they otherwise would have been -- this was at a time before ubiquitous demos made it easier to "try before you buy." Another benefit of this piracy is that much of the software archived today at online repositories are the cracked versions.'"

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Crazy EDGEOutage

As many folks have reported, AT&T’s EDGE network is struggling in the midwest. Outages have been patchy but seem to have affected entire cities, or at least large areas. But to my knowledge, there haven’t been any accounts of service dropping within inches…until now.Here I sit, in downtown Cincinnati, and of the three iPhones in [...]

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[Source: The Apple Blog]

Plantronics Voyager 520 Bluetooth Headset Review

I should begin by saying that I'm not a big fan of Bluetooth headsets. I like to use one while I'm driving, but that's about the only place I can stand this piece of hardware attached to my ear. Nevertheless,...

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[Source: iPhoneFreak]

MarsEdit Update Kicks Your Blogging Up ANotch

I’m not one to get excited about dot-update releases from a software vendor, but a tool that was mentioned in my “must have” post MarsEdit has just updated from version 2.0 to 2.1, with that “0.1″ adding far more than a tenth of new features.One of my major complaints about the previous version [...]

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[Source: The Apple Blog]

Google Spins iPhone Fancy

Google has a funny relationship with Apple's iPhone when you think about it. On the one hand, the Internet giant has made some pretty killer applications for the iPhone. On the other hand, Google is pouring lots and lots of...

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[Source: iPhoneFreak]

Game Histories [Feature]

Want to learn more about some of the greatest franchises in computer gaming history? The latest addition to our Getting Started area features the inside scoop on The Sims, Madden NFL, Star Wars, Myst, and many other series with roots on the Mac.

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[Source: Apple Games - What's New]

Time Warner Filtering iTunes Traffic?

An anonymous reader writes "Starting on Thursday, January 31st, Time Warner subscribers in Texas starting experiencing connectivity issues to the iTunes store to the point where the service wasn't usable. General internet traffic issues haven't coincided with these problems, and many folks have reported that the store works as normal when they head to the nearest mega-bookstore and use their ISP instead. Time Warner has announced that they're going to begin trials of tiered pricing in one local Texas market, but I'll be darn sure to switch my provider if I hear the slightest hint of destination/content based tiers instead of bandwidth tiers."

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