Category: Bug Fixes

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced a fix for the Adventure game “Mystery of Kikekankoi”, in which one command within the game would not work. According to the post by the developer of the Apple II version, Antoine Vignau: One could not CUT ADHESIVE on the boat of “The Mystery of Kikekankoi”. Now, one can UNGLUE TAPE and get the key. A maintenance release of the English version of the game is now available @ https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/kikekankoi/ Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software…

Since the announcement of the availability of the newly-released Apple IIgs System 6.0.2 a week ago, over 22 years since the last release, the feedback has been positively awesome from all around the world.  That is great news for our active and enthusiastic Apple II community. CallApple.org news of the release has been featured on over 50 major blogs and related news sites with the announcement having been viewed over 800,000 times and the disk images downloaded more than 5000…

A couple of weeks ago I noticed my HP printer was no longer printing two sided pages. Strictly speaking this was with Linux but it could happen with the Mac as well since they use the same printer driver software… I figured it was an application problem with Thunderbird and Firefox since all the other applications (and computers on my LAN) worked fine. It never occurred to me it was a driver problem. Thanks to some prodding by Adam T….

Apple has released an update to Safari to address several issues with Adobe Flash.  Safari 5.1.7 brings the app up to date and in line with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and addresses the following issues with the browser: Improve the browser’s responsiveness when the system is low on memory Fix an issue that could prevent webpages from responding after using a pinch to zoom gesture Fix an issue that could affect websites using forms to authenticate users Disable versions of…

Apple has had a knee-jerk reaction to the discovery of the Flashback Trojan that has infected up to 600,000 Macs globally.  Dr. Web, a small Russian anti-virus company, first discovered the Flashback Trojan and has been monitoring infections on a global basis.  Now Apple has sent a Shutdown notice trying to shutdown the company’s server, saying it is being used for command and control in the Flashback Trojan bot-net.  The Flashback Trojan is attacking a hole in Java and Apple…

Mozilla has released an update to the Firefox Browser that they have classified as a critical update.  The update, Version 10.0.1, fixes a security flaw in version 10.0 as well as a Java freezing problem that was in previous versions of the browser. New items in the update include Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented CSS3 3D-Transforms are…

Sorry to say, many of the “corrected” versions of LPak lA still have a bad copy of Program 8. If you are ordering Library Pak 2 and ask us with your order, we will add program 8 from Library Pak la to your tape. The main reason for this was simply our lack of time to check the tapes. Forgive?

Here is a patch to correct one of the few bugs found in Applesoft II. The HTAB function will space 2 places further to the right than intended unless corrected with this patch: POKE (HM-28), 202 where HM = the value of HIMEM: for your Apple. This should be done after loading & prior to running.

The May 1978 Contact! newsletter from Apple Computer, Inc. contained a number of required patches to repair bugs in Applesoft I. Array Indexing Problem Fix Long line Fix “END” Statement Fix FRE(0) Function Fix