Category: Emulation
John Morris, creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, has announced an update to the Applesauce FDC Software. The two successive releases, 1.69 and 1.69.1 include the following changes to the program: Client Release 1.69 More Heathkit H-17 work. Improved disk writing of H8D files. Added loading/writing support for 80 track disks. Imaging of 80 track H-17 disks still needs some work. Support for Heathkit HDOS has been added allowing you to extract and view files as well as Fast…
Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest version of his Ample interface for MAME on Mac OS. Ample version 0.246 is an Apple and Macintosh only version front end for the MAME emulator. In this version are the following updates: Includes MAME 0.246. Includes experimental Uthernet II / WIZnet W5100 emulation. Marinetti, IP65, and A2osX have been tested and should work. (This should make its way into MAME when the code is cleaned up a little more.) You can download the latest version…
Gerard Putter has informed A.P.P.L.E. that our request for Apple IIc support within the Virtual II emulator has been fulfilled. The latest release of the Virtual II Emulator, version 11.0, includes a ton of new features and fixes including: Added emulation of the Apple //c. Simplified the installation by including, in the Help description, download links for the proper ROM files. When creating a blank diskette image, you now have the option to initialize it right away as a DOS 3.3…
The major feature of this release is the inclusion of a system to allow users to create their own disk format definitions to be used by Applesauce. There is now an Applesauce folder in your user’s Documents folder where files will be stored that can expand the features of the client program. Within the Formats folder, you will find two files: hardsector_config.json and ibmsector_config.json. You can use these files to create new hard sector disk formats as well as formats…
Thomas Harte has announced the latest update of his Clock Signal multi-platform emulator. The 23 July 2022 release includes the following changes and updates: corrects an error in Amiga HAM output that transposed red and blue channel modifications; improves Amiga sprite display: for programs that use both DMA and direct sprite accesses, and with regard to playfield interactions; and rejigs the macOS binding to try to reduce CPU load and avoid a potential audio-ending race condition. Though it is now…
Kelvin Sherlock has released a bug fix release of the Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS. The latest version 0.244-1, includes the following updates: Includes experimental Uthernet II support. IPRAW, MACRAW, and UDP sockets should be fine. TCP/IP sockets are a little rougher (resends and timeouts not yet implemented) but wget65 and A2Stream worked in my tests. Tested: IP65 (requires a recent version with DHCP fixes) Tested: Marinetti (make sure you have the most recent Uthernet II link layer) Tested: A2OSX (the initial DHCP request sometimes get…
An update to the Applewin Apple II emulator has been released. Applewin 1.30.10 was released by Tom Charlesworth as a major bug fix update and includes the following change: [Change #51097] Extend Uthernet II to support DNS offloading. [@audetto] Details: https://github.com/a2retrosystems/uthernet2/wiki/Virtual-W5100-with-DNS No need for ethernet, so now works with host PC’s WiFi. Supported by @oliverschmidt‘s A2Stream v1.2. NB. This virtual DNS is enable by default (but can be disabled via the Config UI). NB. Real W5100 chips don’t offer this! [Bug #1078] WOZ…
Tom Harte has released an update for his ClockSignal multi-platform Emulator for Mac OS. The latest update resolves an issue which was preventing both the Apple IIe and the Enhanced Apple IIe emulations from detecting an attached floppy disk drive. Other platforms that the Clock Signal Emulator contains currently are: Acorn Electron;Amstrad CPC;Apple II/II+ and IIe;Atari 2600;Atari ST;ColecoVision;Commodore Amiga (not 100% accurate yet)Commodore Vic-20 (and Commodore 1540/1); Enterprise 64/128;Macintosh 512ke and Plus;MSX 1;Oric 1/Atmos;Sega Master System;Sinclair ZX80/81; andSinclair ZX Spectrum….
The Ample MAME Apple related interface for MAC OS has been updated. kelvin Sherlock released the latest version of Ample, Version 0.242 to align up with MAME 0.242 as well as to add a few new features to the program including: Software list search has improved of diacritics. Software list search skips over a leading “the” since it’s often inconsistent. Fixed some issues with the selected MIDI device being forgotten when devices change. ROM Manager now has a “Move to…
Kelvin Sherlock has released an intermediate bug fix release for the Ample MAME interface. Ample is an Apple centric graphical interface for MAME running under MAC OS which allows users to quickly configure and run a variety of Apple 1, II, III, IIgs, Apple II clones, and retro macintosh computing platforms. The bug fix, released as Ample version 0.241-1 resolves the following issues: The previous build had problems with the Preferences window. When running MAME, a software list entry is…
The Apple related MAME emulator frontend for Mac OS, Ample, has been updated. Ample version 0.241 matches the latest release of the MAME Emulator and includes all Apple related retro computer systems in a single, easy to use and configure interface. The Ample frontend is the creation of Kelvin Sherlock and is generally updated with each release of MAME. According to notes about the latest version of the interface program, “Bookmarks and Recent Disk Images were switched over to use…
Tom Charlesworth has released a new edition of the Applewin Apple II Emulator for windows. Version 1.30.8 is the latest version and includes a lot of new debugger features and bug fixes. Changes [Bug #1023] WOZ support: Tweak to track sync support. [Bug #1020] WOZ support: Significant bit-cells after a gap between latch access upped from 50 to 100. Fixes: What’s My Logic, Forbidden Quest, The Isle of Mem. [Bug #1018] Support AN3 for //e models. [Bug #1015] Registry: fix support for legacy ‘Harddisk…
Kelvin Sherlock has released the fifth release of his itty-bitty-vtty vt-100 emulator for the Apple IIgs. The program emulates the vt100 with a modem port running at 9600 baud and 8N1 which are the same as the MAME emulator defaults. Changes in Release 5 fix issues identified by vttest. aside from things that can’t be supported, it’s pretty good now. control-space generates a control code (0x00) command-Q to quit command-L to toggle local/online mode control panel only available in ROM…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. Applesauce 1.60 includes a number of new features and new supported formats as well as new disk sizes. Some of the changes and fixes included in this version are as follows: Improvements and Fixes There has been a major under the hood change to how Applesauce stores and manipulates low-level flux data. This change brings better efficiency and accuracy to many parts of the app. Hopefully I didn’t break anything…
Kelvin Sherlock has announced the immediate release of the AMPLE Apple specific front end interface for MAME. This interface runs under Mac OS X version 10.11 and later and provides the user an easy to use interface with all of the Apple I, II and III series computers, Apple II clones, and early Macintosh related emulator interfaces complete with setup screens which allow quick setup and usage of the App. What Changed Changes included in the 0.240 release of AMPLE…
Gerard Putter has released the latest version of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator for Mac OS. The latest version, 10.6.5, includes some cool upgrades for the free version of the program as well as for the base emulator. What’s new in version 10.6.5 Twenty years ago I started the Virtual ][ project! Because of this anniversary, I include a free upgrade for all users with a limited license; from now on this license includes the full matrix printer emulation. If…
From Kent Dickey, curator of the KEGS Apple IIgs Emulator has announced an update for Mac OS and Linux. KEGS v1.16 has been released with the following changes: – Better cursor focus tracking, less likely to have an invisible cursor when KEGS is no longer the active window.– F5 now toggles the status display at the bottom on/off. This state can be saved in config.kegs.– Added Dynapro image support–mount a host directory as a…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated to version 1.59. New and Improved DIsk Image Format Support Now supports loading KryoFlux Raw image files. While loading it also recognizes 5.25″ double-density disks that were improperly imaged at 360rpm and will automatically time-shift them to 300rpm to correct them. Opening IMD (ImageDisk) files is now supported. Exporting IMD files also has several improvements. Improved support for SCP (SuperCard Pro) disk images. Improved support for DFI (DiscFerret) disk images….
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator for MacOS has been updated. Virtual II Version 10.6 includes a slew of user requested additions to the emulator including the following items: Improved the unshrink feature. The extracted files are assigned the metadata stored in the archive: ProDOS file type, aux type, file creation date, as well as file modification date. Support for disk images with 13 tracks per sector (file extension .d13). Note that these disk images can be mounted, but any…
Kelvin Sherlock has updated his Ample front end for the MAME emulator. Ample is a Apple Centric front end for Mame with emphasis on Apple II Series and Retro Macintosh related emulation. Version 0.239 brings the Ample front end in line with the latest release of MAME and adds a new section to the interface for the Franklin line of computers including the Franklin Ace 100, 500, 1000 and 2200. There are also some improvements to the Apple SCSI CD-ROM…
