Articles by Alex Lee

This article has been written… a) to help anyone who’s interested in Apple IIGS software development (from a complete non-expert) and b) to express my jealousy of how the gaming home brew scene on other abandoned platforms is thriving: Space Harrier has been ported to the Atari XL, and as …

I was inspired to pursue a career in graphics thanks to various individuals; lucky for them as it means they get a good pat on the back some 20 odd years later as I can remember each of those that gave me so much inspiration.

Back when I was using

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Many moons ago, I came across something on an Amiga website that could only make a petty, immature Apple IIGS user like me and about 10 other people on the planet smirk.

You see, ‘The Official Amiga Software Catalogue’, a printed publication ‘describing over 300 of the best Amiga software,

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Over the last couple of years I’ve been dabbling in a sideline – 8-bit stuff. Not so much to take the focus away from archiving stuff for the IIGS, but I’ve been keen to put together, as definitive as possible, a collection of single load / crunched games on a

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In the Facebook Apple II enthusiasts’ group, a discussion led to a revelation when it comes to portraying the visual history of the Apple IIGS and its communication programs.

Matt Owenby, aka ‘The Red Flame’, posted nostalgically about the IIGS specific colour ANSI terminal program he co-wrote back in the

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I was planning on writing a blog dedicated to all the retro computing museums I’ve visited in my travels across Europe at the end of my travels (which I still hope to do) but I hit a problem: one such museum was too good not to write about straight away.

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My name’s Alex…and I’m an icon-holic.

I never used to care about them much. In my futile quest to speed-up my original IIGS with 40 meg Vulcan hard drive, 2.25meg of RAM and ZipGS at 8Mhz, I actively deleted unattractive icons so the Finder would be that much zippier…if

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Growing up, I loved Apple II magazines A+, InCider, Nibble and the Apple IIGS Buyers Guide.

They were all very well produced, intensely professional publications. They mirrored the high visual standard set by Apple with fantastic product photography, terrific typography and clever copy. I was excited to come across any new

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I loved the 1990 California Demo by Mr Z and the FTA, which told the story of their visit to California – meeting the late Joe Kohn who had sung the praises of their work in many an article, as well as meeting the Apple II development team at Apple itself. Digital

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