Ryan`s Software
Apple II software for the 21st century

Long time Apple II writer, publisher, and advocate Joe Kohn, best known for his work at inCider/A+and Shareware Solutions II, passed away this week. A2Central.com has the story.My deepest sympathies to Joe’s family. While I have not had contact with him in several years, there was no one more supportive of the Apple II.

This was my KansasFest 2009 HackFest entry; I intend to do some more work on it, but since the KansasFest committee already asked for an archive of it, here it is–I will warn you, however, that it is not even close to beta ready (even though it does work on my system).

Good luck!

Today I will be releasing two new Apple II products: IItter 1.0 (only a year late), a freeware Apple IIgs Twitter client in a New Desk Accessory and Stock Quote CDA 1.0, a public domain Apple IIgs Classic Desk Accessory which gets stock quotes; the latter includes source and compilation instructions.

Yes, I am here at KansasFest 2009; I will be releasing one program and at least announcing if not releasing another. Party on.

My KansasFest 2008 HackFest project, Bitly CDA, has just been released. Requires System Software 6.0.1, Marinetti 2.0.1 or later, and a working TCP/IP connection. It uses the bit.ly Web site to shorten URLs. Check it out here!

I announced (but have not yet released) a program at KansasFest, and I participated (for the first time) in HackFest (and won!) with another program that’s actually more ready for release.

IItter is what’s not yet done, even though I worked on it forever (like more than a year). It’s a Twitter client in an Apple IIgs New Desk Accessory. Requires Marinetti 2.0.1, System Software 6.0.1, and a working TCP/IP connection.

Bitly is a Classic Desk Accessory (that’s right, -not- a NDA, a CDA!) that takes the text content of the IIgs clipboard and submits it to the bit.ly URL shortening service, returning a shorter version.

Screenshots (and hopefully a release!)d soon.