Versions were also released for the IBM PC and compatibles, and the Apple IIGS.

The Apple IIGS used a digital sound chip designed for the Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer, and later models used a custom sound system and upgraded processors, which drove other companies to improve their own offerings.

The replacement ID badges for the front lid, used in the Apple IIe to IIGS upgrade.

When the Apple IIGS computer was introduced by Apple Computer in September 1986, Apple also announced it would be making an upgrade kit for the IIe available for purchase.

It proved unpopular as it did not include a mouse ( which is an essential part of the IIGS, much like the Macintosh ); the keyboard, although functional, does not mimic all the features and functions of the Apple Desktop Bus keyboard, as well as lacking a numeric keypad ; and some cards designed for the new 16-bit machine did not fit in the Apple IIe's slanted case either.

* Apple IIGS

Among other design changes, it included the same trademarked inlaid Apple logo and recessed port icons as the Apple IIc and IIGS before it, but it essentially retained the original design.

Dragons three reviewers — Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser — praised the Apple IIGS port, calling it a " must have " title for arcade fans.

Category: Apple IIGS games

* List of Apple IIGS games

Category: Apple IIGS games

It, along with the Macintosh SE, was the first Macintosh computer to use the Apple Desktop Bus ( ADB ) introduced with the Apple IIGS for keyboard and mouse interface.

During this short time, Romero did the artwork for the Apple IIGS version of Dark Castle, a port from the Macintosh.

During this time, John and his friend Lane Roathe co-founded a company named Ideas from the Deep and wrote versions of a game named Zappa Roidz for the Apple II, PC and Apple IIGS.

The Apple IIGS ( stylized as II ) is the fifth and most powerful model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer.

Keeping with Apple's " Apple II Forever " slogan of the time, the IIGS set forth a promising future and evolutionary advancement of the Apple II line, but Apple paid it relatively little attention as the company increasingly focused on the Macintosh platform.

The Apple II featured an integrated keyboard, sound, a plastic case, and eight internal expansion slots.

Apple launched a print ad campaign for the song concurrent with its release showing a photo of the band with the slogan The Beatles as Nature Intended, indicating that the sound of " Get Back " harked to the group's earlier days.

Though the original blend sequences from the original album remained the same, Sasha and Digweed re-created the album using Apple G4 laptops in order to create, what they considered, a better quality version of the original mix, with recording techniques simply not available in 1994, as well as the advantage of crystal clear audio, and spatial separation of frequencies within the song, making it sound more dynamic.

The inclusion of a professional-grade sound chip in the Apple IIGS was hailed by both developers and users, and hopes were high that it would be added to the Macintosh ; however, it drew a lawsuit from Apple Records.

Though the IIGS was allowed to keep the Ensoniq, Apple has not included dedicated hardware sound synthesizers in any of its Macintosh models since ( though of course, third-party products exist ).

The Mockingboard is a sound card for the Apple II family of microcomputers built by Sweet Micro Systems.

The standard Apple II machines never had particularly good sound, especially when compared to competitors like the SID chip-enabled Commodore 64.

During the development of System 7, the two Apples concluded a settlement agreement from an earlier dispute when Apple added a sound synthesis chip to its IIgs machine.

* Early Apple sound designer Jim Reekes corrects Sosumi myth ( Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing, 24 March 2005 )

Apple offered some systems configured this way, marketed as " DOS Compatible " — a card with dedicated x86 CPU and RAM was used, while the Mac hard drive, sound subsystem, networking and input provided services to the PC.

Soundtrack Pro was a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc. featured in Logic Studio, which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects.

Standard audio CDs ripped in iTunes into Apple Lossless format streamed to the Airport Express will output a bit-for-bit identical bitstream when compared to the original CD ( provided any sound enhancement settings in iTunes are disabled ).

vMac and Mini vMac emulate a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1. 1 to 7. 5. 5. vMac and Mini vMac support central processing unit ( CPU ) emulation from Motorola 68000 to 68040, display output, sound, floppy disk insert, HFV image files, and more.

However, a scene in the true sense of the word didn't emerge until the introduction of the Apple IIgs and its high-quality ( for the time ) graphics and sound capabilities.

One of the primary critiques of Commodore's computers was that their BASIC programming language dialects lacked easy sound, graphics, and input device commands, like their competitors in the Apple II and Atari 8-bit families – requiring obscure PEEK and POKE sequences, or machine language routines, to generate high-resolution graphics, sound and music, or read from joysticks and paddles.

* Phasor ( sound synthesizer ), a stereo music, sound and speech synthesizer for the Apple II computer

were known for their traditional surf rock instrumentation and sci-fi sound bite song introductions, but their later albums like EEVIAC ... and A Spectrum of Infinite Scale were known for their use of synthesizers, printers ( like the Apple ImageWriter II ), and their more abstract, experimental sound.

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

The Apple I's built-in computer terminal circuitry was distinctive.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.

It was also a less expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC as a general-purpose business or home computer.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

It superseded Integer BASIC and was the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.

Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft and its name is derived from the names of both Apple and Microsoft.

Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

No provision was added in the 128 kB Apple IIe and Apple IIc models ' BASIC interpreters for the new machines ' extra memory and double-resolution graphics, or for the Apple II's 16-color mode.

It seems likely that memory constraints were at the root of these differences, as the Apple II ROM had only 10 kilobytes available for the interpreter, and the improved hi-res graphics support was clearly a higher priority.

The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command.

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.