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The Print Shop Club – Create Apple II Print Shop printouts on-line

74 points by empressplay 4y ago

dang 4y ago
Related: The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856006 - July 2021 (44 comments)
CharlesW 4y ago
TIL Broderbund still exists¹ and The Print Shop² is still a thing! ¹ https://www.broderbund.com/ https://www.broderbund.com/ ² https://www.broderbund.com/the-print-shop-23-1-deluxe https://www.broderbund.com/the-print-shop-23-1-deluxe
- laserdancepony 4y ago
  Wow.
- mysterydip 4y ago
  Note that, like Atari, it's not the same thing anymore. Quite the history article on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund
- rootw0rm 4y ago
  that's crazy. I don't think I actually used the Apple version, but I definitely remember the MS-DOS version of Print Shop Deluxe
jasperry 4y ago
I remember how Print Shop-made banners were all over my elementary school in the 80s. The fonts became instantly recognizable to me. It was easier to make banners then than now, because continuous-feed printers were more prevalent.
- neilv 4y ago
  Taping together letter-sized sheets of paper just isn't the same thing as a continuous banner coming right out of your school's AV cart Apple II printer, ready for coloring. :) The other thing thing the fanfold paper was good for was laying out a code listing on the floor, ready for marking up with pen and occasionally a straightedge.
juliangamble 4y ago
Bring back the Apple II Broderbund program "The Toy Shop" for online prints. That was amazing. https://mikeandlace.wordpress.com/category/paper-automata/ https://mikeandlace.wordpress.com/category/paper-automata/
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nohankyou 4y ago
I had the DOS version. It was our 80s version of 3d printing, on dot matrix. I had built everything in the app by the end of it and my parents bought a lot of refills of their sticky paper from Egghead.
ofrzeta 4y ago
I am impressed how their emulator MicroM8 emulates an Epson MX-80 printer to write a PDF: https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/help/peripherals/ https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/help/peripherals/
th0ma5 4y ago
Using Print Shop in an emulator helped me write a driver of sorts for an old dot matrix someone gave me which I went into detail about in this talk https://youtube.com/watch?v=45aeGWPRL0g https://youtube.com/watch?v=45aeGWPRL0g
joshu 4y ago
Virtual II lets you plug in a real printer into a virtual Apple IIe. It's much, much quicker than this web-based emulator. Unfortunately, when I print it's mostly fine, but skips one single line. I don't think it's flow control issues, though, since it almost entirely works. Instead I print to PDF, and then use an older Ghostscript to drive the printer. It requires some scaling, though. Holiday cards this year are sorted, at least! https://twitter.com/joshu/status/1601454795885199366 https://twitter.com/joshu/status/1601454795885199366
- theyknowitsxmas 4y ago
  thanks for the tip

74 points by empressplay 4y ago

dang 4y ago

Related: The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856006 - July 2021 (44 comments)

CharlesW 4y ago

TIL Broderbund still exists¹ and The Print Shop² is still a thing! ¹ https://www.broderbund.com/ https://www.broderbund.com/ ² https://www.broderbund.com/the-print-shop-23-1-deluxe https://www.broderbund.com/the-print-shop-23-1-deluxe

laserdancepony 4y ago
Wow.
mysterydip 4y ago
Note that, like Atari, it's not the same thing anymore. Quite the history article on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund
rootw0rm 4y ago
that's crazy. I don't think I actually used the Apple version, but I definitely remember the MS-DOS version of Print Shop Deluxe

jasperry 4y ago

I remember how Print Shop-made banners were all over my elementary school in the 80s. The fonts became instantly recognizable to me. It was easier to make banners then than now, because continuous-feed printers were more prevalent.

neilv 4y ago
Taping together letter-sized sheets of paper just isn't the same thing as a continuous banner coming right out of your school's AV cart Apple II printer, ready for coloring. :) The other thing thing the fanfold paper was good for was laying out a code listing on the floor, ready for marking up with pen and occasionally a straightedge.

juliangamble 4y ago

Bring back the Apple II Broderbund program "The Toy Shop" for online prints. That was amazing. https://mikeandlace.wordpress.com/category/paper-automata/ https://mikeandlace.wordpress.com/category/paper-automata/

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nohankyou 4y ago

I had the DOS version. It was our 80s version of 3d printing, on dot matrix. I had built everything in the app by the end of it and my parents bought a lot of refills of their sticky paper from Egghead.

ofrzeta 4y ago

I am impressed how their emulator MicroM8 emulates an Epson MX-80 printer to write a PDF: https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/help/peripherals/ https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/help/peripherals/

th0ma5 4y ago

Using Print Shop in an emulator helped me write a driver of sorts for an old dot matrix someone gave me which I went into detail about in this talk https://youtube.com/watch?v=45aeGWPRL0g https://youtube.com/watch?v=45aeGWPRL0g

joshu 4y ago

Virtual II lets you plug in a real printer into a virtual Apple IIe. It's much, much quicker than this web-based emulator. Unfortunately, when I print it's mostly fine, but skips one single line. I don't think it's flow control issues, though, since it almost entirely works. Instead I print to PDF, and then use an older Ghostscript to drive the printer. It requires some scaling, though. Holiday cards this year are sorted, at least! https://twitter.com/joshu/status/1601454795885199366 https://twitter.com/joshu/status/1601454795885199366

theyknowitsxmas 4y ago
thanks for the tip