..and no podcast ::sigh::. I’m headed to Honolulu International Airport within the hour; will be podcasting from somewhere, soon, like before Friday.

I am leaving for Kansas City on Monday night, so I’m going to give it the best shot I have to put out a show before I leave. I’m still working on getting my programming project done before I leave (I’m like 95% there!) so that’s a priority but I’ll see what I can do… here’s hoping!

Welcome to Show 0027! Show notes to follow…

Tons going on and trying to get my project ready for KansasFest 2008. We hope to return next week.

Welcome to Show 0026! Our Memorial Day episode. Your host will be showing up for KansasFest 2008 and he plans on not sucking again this year. Our topic this week is Rez, Apple’s resource compiler, the way you create resources on your Apple IIgs. It’s a programming language that’s somewhat like C (I still hate C!). Lesson three of Toolbox Programming in Pascal is all about Rez. Go ahead and keep reusing whatever Rez code you come up with in your new projects; it’ll save you a ton of time! We’ll be back in a bit.

Welcome to Show 0025! Not the best quality, but I’m out of practice. We are -way- overdue this episode! The iBook is dead; long live the MacBook! Mahalo to donations by Gene and John! KansasFest 2008 is coming over at Rockhurst University! Your host may not be able to show up for the first time in over a decadewill be there again, barely. Our main topic: what is a resource? It’s pretty constrained to the IIgs and classic (not modern) Macintosh machines. These computers have files with two parts: a data fork and a resource fork. Eight bit IIs need not apply! Don’t use an eight bit program for file maintenance on a IIgs. You can check out various Apple IIgs resource editors (Foundation, Design Master, or Genesys, which are not in the same league as ResEdit on the Mac) or even Shadowrite or Hermes to do a little snooping around. See you all in awhile!

Sorry about the delays again; this time after a few weeks of being on call, I had a major hardware failure. New MacBook is on the way, but until then I’m rather limited in what I can do. However, I hope that all changes within the next week.

Sorry, I’m on call this week and working nine straight days starting today. Was hoping to get one squeezed in tonight but that just didn’t happen… will be back hopefully next Wednesday!

Welcome to Show 0024! This time coming to you from Coffee Talk in Kaimuki. Sorry about the unexpected hiatus, but I had lots of hardware issues this past month. In the meantime, Carrington Vanston and 1MHz! return from hiatus before we do. And Tony Diaz’s 16 Sector–well, what’s the mystery? In email, Fred Sanford recommends CiderPress and George has WordPress questions (even though he probably doesn’t know those are Wordpress questions). Blatant Plug: WordPress also powers Uncommon-Cents.net and the neglected RyansAppleSoftware.com! KansasFest approaches. The head of the committee says registration might be open by the end of March? Onto our main topic: Toolbox Programming in Pascal. This book assumes you know Pascal–if you don’t, try Learn to Program in Pascal (and the same for C). Think about your programming references; you’ll need a bunch! We’ll be back!

If I’m lucky (which I haven’t been for a long time now), the RAM module for my iBook comes back before Sunday and a new A2Unplugged gets recorded this weekend. That was the warranty return from someplace warm…

Unexpectedly, A2Unplugged is on hiatus due to equipment issues. Sorry… at least a week or two before I can get everything fixed.

Welcome to Show 0023! This episode we have listener email from Rob (twice) and Alaine (once), the latter requesting we track down Mike Westerfield of Byteworks for an interview. We also have the return of voicemail from Rocky, this time wanting to know more about Tower of Myraglen and the AppleIIGo Java based IIe emulator. We move on to our main topic of the episode: a Toolbox programming primer: you’ll want Opus ][ (and its included Programmer’s Reference to System 6.0 and 6.0.1) as well as Toolbox Reference Volumes 1, 2, and 3 and a hexadecimal calculator to get cracking on this one. Back soon!

Sorry, just too busy right now… we hope to return next week!

Welcome to Show 0022! Thanks to our special guests Kaycie Lyn, Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd of Syndicomm, Ken Gagne of Juiced.GS, and Sean Fahey of A2Central.com as we discuss what happened in the Apple II world in 2007 and what we can look forward to in 2008.

Welcome to Show 0021! If you’re going to be programming the Apple IIgs, you have a choice of programming languages; all have pros and cons, although your best choices would be between assembler, C, Pascal, and maybe BASIC. We’re definitely going to keep looking at this in coming shows, but coming up next will be our annual year end/year beginning show.

Welcome to Show 0020! If you’re interested in programming the Apple IIgs, you probably want to get your hands on a copy of Opus II, still the best programming deal in the Apple II world. You’ll also need to get access to a bunch of documentation, also available from our buddies at Syndicomm.We’ll keep covering this subject in coming weeks.

Welcome to Show 0019! Mele Kalikimaka, all. This episodes looks at two different books with the same name: Using AppleWorks GS (the white edition) and Using AppleWorks GS (the black edition). Back in a week!

Welcome to Show 0018! Like previous episodes, this show is all about a book, in this case, ProDOS Inside and Out by Dennis Doms and Tom Weishaar. Happy (almost) holidays, everyone.

Welcome to Show 0017! Email from Rob and Rob; one of the Robs warns us about using MSN Shopping to find a copy of Assembly Lines (unfortunately the copy he saw for sale is now gone, as is the page it was on). Simon writes in about the Retrochallenge Winter Warm-Up. A2Unplugged’s Web site is redesigned–did you notice? If you like it, consider buying me a beer! The topic of this week’s podcast is a review of Beneath Apple ProDOS, which is supposed to be freely available; is it a lost Lost Classic? And hey, Carrington, are you out there somewhere?

Welcome to show 0016! This episode is all about Assembly Lines: the book by Roger Wagner. See ya all in another week…