Category: Apple Computing

ProDOS 2.4.3 is a minor release with bug fixes and updates. It replaces ProDOS 2.4, ProDOS 2.4.1 and ProDOS 2.4.2.

A hidden treasure from the early ’90s for the Apple IIGS has been recovered and released – The World of Erimar. Developed by Tony Bounds and his company Arctic Knights, this unreleased fantasy game promises a captivating experience with its SynthLAB music and a stunning palette of 256 colors all done in Hypercard 3.1.  The Developer and the Vision: Tony Bounds, the mastermind behind Arctic Knights, crafted The World of Erimar, a game that promised to push the boundaries of…

The latest issue of the Vintage is the New Old Magazine has been posted. Be sure and check out the complete rundown of the retro computing articles from November 2023 from a variety of authors in the retro computing realm. Vintage is the New Old Magazine(Volume 1 Number 3) is a full compendium of retro computing news for the past month. Produced and published by Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange, the Vintage is the New Old Magazine is a free…

Identify-][ v.3.00 is an easy to use hardware detection tool for Apple II computers or better. The main program version requires 64 kB of memory and a floppy drive. However, there is also a 48 kB version and an audio file version for cassette use available. The main software runs directly from a 5.25” or 3.5″ ProDOS floppy disk. The 48k version runs from a DOS 3.3 disk and is working on both – Integer Basic and AppleSoft machines. The…

Get ready to step back in time with the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, a free and open showcase of vintage computing treasures. Elmhurst, IL – Calling all retro computing enthusiasts, Get in your cars and get out to Elmhurst now!! The Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (VCFMW) is back for its 18th installment and is starting today!  The event promises a weekend filled with nostalgia, classic tech, and a touch of vintage charm. Hosted at the Waterford Banquet & Conference Center…

In 2004, Bleu Rose, Ltd. released Black & Blue version 10, a product which was the combined work of three years of Gary Rice’s efforts. The software market was shrinking at the time and while the product was first class, many of the users were not. The release of Black & Bleu™ v10 marks the end of our participation in the Macintosh software marketplace. The shrinking number of Mac users, the increasing reluctance of those users left to actually pay…

The Steve Jobs Archive has announced the release of a new book showcasing letters, photos, notes and other materials from the late tech icon’s life. The ePub format ebook, which hit the wires on April 11th, contains a timeline of speeches, interviews, and personal correspondences from Steve Jobs himself. Established by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and others close to the Apple co-founder, the Steve Jobs Archive has been sharing snippets and quotes from Jobs’ life since September 2022. The…

Mihai Parparita’s project, Infinite Mac, aims to provide easy access to classic Mac emulation. His project page, https://infinitemac.org, includes every version of Mac OS from the very first version, 1.0, included on the Mac 128K all the way to the 9.0.4, released exactly 23 years ago this past week. All of the OS versions are setup to run in the browser window under Javascript. The project utilizes WebAssembly ports of popular emulators such as Mini vMac, Basilisk II, and SheepShaver,…

8-Bit-Shack is a software house for the Apple ][ family computers located in the Ore Mountain region in Germany.We produce new software as games, demos and tools for your favourite machine which can be obtained as physical floppy disk via our website.We also publish software from other authors on physical floppy disk on their behalf.If you are an author and wish that we produce a physical floppy disk of your creation please get in touch with us! Visit our website…

Pierre Dandumont has created a monster. Putting Mac OS 9.2 on the Nintendo Wii. While we have covered some Wii related items in the past, this is the first time where it really comes into the actual Macintosh realm. This install is not exactly a perfect run but it certainly is a good start and Pierre does a really good job of taking the user through all of the aspects of the install including the ups and downs of it….

Thanks to the vivid support and feedback of the Apple II community ID2 V.2.11 is now officially released into the wild tonight.  The new version contains bug fixes and enhancements: New cards/hardware detected: Information about the tool and DSK-images: Visit 8-Bit-Shack’s website: https://8bitshack.org/post/id2/

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David Kinder has announced the latest release of the Inform 6 Compiler for Interactive Fiction. Inform 6.36 includes a bunch of newly added features and bug fixes including the following: Features added The algorithm used to apply abbreviations for Z-code has been replaced with a more efficient dynamic programming algorithm, based on the paper by R.A. Wagner “Common phrases and minimum-space text storage”, Communications of the ACM, 16 (3) (1973). Inform has been refactored to use dynamic memory allocation rather…

NeoFinder 8 was recently released for the Mac and is a substantial upgrade to a program that has been developed over 25 years. If you have been looking for something to catalog and manage your drives, photos, videos, DVDs, and audio CDs, NeoFinder continues to be the best program available. Beyond great features, Norbert M. Doerner is one of the most responsive developers I have encountered – listening to and implementing feature suggestions. NeoFinder is 64-bit, built for Intel and…

For this folks who are fans of the Steve Chamberlain created ROM-inator, there is good news. Kay Koba, the owner of Kero’s Mac Mods store has contracted with BMOW to create and sell them again. The ROM-inator is a replacement boot ROM which allows the Mac 128K and 512K to have up to 1mb on the boot rom. Some of the features of the ROM-inator include: Startup beep is replaced by a glass “ping” Happy Mac icon is replaced by…

In 1977, I was playing a game on a teletype at Ansbach American High School which had been written several years before. The game was something called Oregon Trail and the objective was to get to Oregon without dying. Simple enough play, yet difficult to win, if there was any such thing with the game. From where I stood, it was more like the survival of running through the meat grinder. Most my fellow students who played the game did…

We are happy to present a Minesweeper port in Double LORES for the Apple //e and IIgs. The perfect port was done by Daniel Henderson using the Magic Pixels library by Roby Sherman and runs on real wood as also in most emulators. There are two versions available. The first version is a compiled AppleSoft program that was done with TASC and shows good performance under 1 MHz system speed. The second version is the original AppleSoft version which runs also nicely in native speed.  There…

<TRUMPET_BLARE> Announcing the winners of the Spring 2021 Call-A.P.P.L.E. giveaway! First, second, and third place winners are displayed in the video below in order of spin! (Yes, you’ll have to watch to find out if you won! ) ** The First and second place winners will receive a copy of the WOZPAK Special Edition and a 1 year membership to A.P.P.L.E! ** The Third place winner will receive a 1 year membership and a special mystery gift (it could be…

As many of our readers know, the one and only Dr. Macintosh, Bob Levitus, has retired from the active Mac World. Mac Users Group Network’s Chuck Joiner interviews Bob about his latest endeavors and the goings on now that he has discontinued his focus on the Macintosh. Check out the entire interview here:https://youtu.be/gv74NJeDJrA

For those of us who are Apple and Macintosh fans, we are partial to our machines no matter what age they are. We always hate to see people destroy perfectly good machines. I think Luke Miani knows this as a real Macintosh fan as he has managed to turn an old iMac into an M1 Silicon based iMac with just a few turns of the screw. Having an old iMac and a new M1 Mac Mini, Luke has decided that…