Files

Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works just fine.

Apple II Redbook, Digital Edition 2023
Apple II Redbook, Digital Edition 2023

This is a PDF of the Apple II Redbook, the original reference manual for the Apple II from 1978. But it is more than just a PDF scan of an original; this is a digitally edited version that recreates the original look of the Redbook, but fixes the poorly printed parts of it to look as if it were printed with modern technology, rather than what was available in those early days.

Back in 2008, Gerry Doire created this and asked me to share it on the Apple II History web site. It has not changed in the last 15 years until Gary Graham took a look at it. He found typos in the 2008 version, and fixed the fonts to be more consistent with the original book.

This is still a work in progress, but Mr. Graham asked me to post this corrected version of the PDF, and some further improvements are still planned.

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Ahs Spring 1994
Ahs Spring 1994

When Resource Central was trying to reinvent itself as the International Computer Owners Network (ICON), publisher Tom Weishaar put out several issues of a newsletter called “Ahs”, a pun on “Oz”, and Kansas (where he was based). This is the first issue from Spring 1994.

Minecraft Apple IIe and Skyblock schematic
Minecraft Apple IIe and Skyblock schematic

This is an MCedit schematic format file (zipped) for the Apple IIe built in Minecraft (updated for 1.12.1), as featured on a blog post elsewhere on this site. Download this and use MCedit to paste it onto your world. (Note: I am not going to describe how the MCedit process for loading schematics works – you will have to learn that elsewhere on the Net).

Also, as a bonus build, I have included my old Skyblock island, recreated in Creative mode from videos and screenshots I took from my old Hatfilms Skyblock account several years ago.

Appalogue June/July 1982
Appalogue June/July 1982

Catalog of Apple II products from the summer of 1982