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For those of use who used Apple computers in the early 1980’s, there have been two constants in the gaming world. The first was Oregon Trail which every school age child of that generation still recognizes today. The other, while not as recognizable, was just as influential in the Text Based Interactive Fiction realm. That would be Eamon, the adventure system created in 1980 by Donald Brown. Over the years since his initial version of the Beginners Cave appeared in…
A new version of the Beagle Bros game, I.O. Silver for the iPhone and iPad has been released. The iOS game, developed by Evergreen Computer Services, LLC has been updated to version 1.3, includes updates to the package for iOS 11 as well as fixing a host of items including: – Fixed a problem when bugs are released and come back on the screen, sometimes they act as if they’re squashed by a non-moving chip and vanish — to be…
David Schmidt has announced the immediate availability of ADTPro 2.0.2. The latest update includes ProDOS 2.4.1 as the base operating system as well as a host of other new features and bug fixes including: New functionality: Support added for Uthernet II based on new integrated IP65 library from Oliver Schmidt (http://oliverschmidt.github.io/ip65/) Integrated John Brooks’ ProDOS 2.4.1 as base operating system for all ADTPro actions (Speediboot, text bootstrapping, base disks, etc.) [VDrive] Uthernet II virtual Ethernet driver from Oliver Schmidt that…
From Jeremy Rand via the Kansasfest List: Today, I received the new No Slot Clock from Ultimate Apple 2 as found here on their store: https://www.ultimateapple2.com/catalogzen154/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_16&products_id=70 This inspired me to do some coding to try to use my new toy. It turns out that cc65 will use a real time clock if one is present and supported by ProDOS. The No Slot Clock just needs a special .system program to launch first to enable support for the clock in ProDOS. …
The source code to Taxman, one of the more popular Apple II games in the early 1980’s has been announced as being released very soon. Hailed as the best Pac-Man clone available, Taxman plays nearly identical to the original Pac-Man. The original game was so accurate in detail, it drew the ire of the lawyers at Atari. The game was a complete remake of Pac-Man right down to the animations which run between every few levels. Brian Fitzgerald wrote the…
Brian Picchi, the curator of the Tanru Nomad Computer Museum and author of the 2013 Apple II game Lamb Chops, has released his source code to the public. According to his posting, “With the release of the new Assembly Lines book, I thought I’d share the source code to Lamb Chops which borrows almost entirely from concepts covered in that book. I wrote it in November of 2013 when I was first learning 6502 assembly language so it may be…
David Schmenk, the creator of the PLASMA SDK for the Apple II has released a proof of concept game for the Apple II. Rogue, an old school adventure game is intended to prove that PLASMA is capable of handling real algorithmic conceptual development. David’s full release statement: To prove that PLASMA is capable of real algorithmic development, and looking forward to some Lawless Legends investigations, I built an intermediate project for your amusement. Harking back to the days of yore,…
Dont Run With A Plasma Sword, the runner game by XperimentalZ Games has been updated. DRWAPS includes 5 levels of difficulty in both a challenge mode as well as an endless arcade style mode. Each level of the challenge mode concludes with a Boss fight which allows the user to continue to the next level upon completion. The Endless mode includes a variety of objectives, some of which upon completion, unlock the next level of the Endless Mode. The lastest…
The Eamon Deluxe Newsletter for March 2013 has been posted on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online website at www.eamonag.org. Eamon Deluxe is the creation of master Eamon adventure writer Frank Black. He recently released Eamon Deluxe 5.0 for multiple platforms and this month talks about the possibility that Don Brown and Jon Walker could be one and the same person. For more, check out the newsletter at: http://eamonag.org/newsletters/acrobat/Eamon_DeluXe_NewsletterV3n01_03-2013.pdf
Intuiware has released an update for Changes Meter, the URL change checking software. Change Meter Version 1.80 includes a host of fixes including improved Growl support, basic support for proxies,and they have fixed the problem of the program incorrectly reporting URL changes. Some of the addition changes within the program include: Added option to hide unchanged URLs in the menubar icon menu Added full support for Growl 2.0 Added basic support for http and https proxies, using the settings stored…
Two new Eamon reviews from Thomas Ferguson are now available on the Eamon Adventurers Guild website. The Reviews of Adventure # 253, The Prisim of Shadows and # 254, Dawn of the Warlock, both of which were written by Wade Clarke and James Anderson give the new offerings high praise and marks. Eamon is an Adventure design system developed by Don Brown in 1979 and has over 255 adventures currently written for the system. Recently, the system has made its…
Xperimentalz Games has announce that the popular runner game, Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword for iOS devices is now a free download. The game, which features five level of story and boss levels as well as five levels of endless play, allows the user to gain points through the play and upgrade the runner’s abilities, outward appearance and revivability. This game has been featured on Call-A.P.P.L.E. a number of times and is one of our favorite games for the…
Here is the situation… My father was asked to take some pictures for a club he attends every week. He generally prints them out when ever someone asks for a copy. He also prints out a series of thumbnail pictures on a single page. I gather this is called a contact sheet. This time around the Windows program he used decided not to recognise the network printer. This was very odd because all the other programs on his machine saw…
This is of concern to people running Intel Macs, PCs, or Virtual Machines. As of May 23, 2012 the official version of Mint 13 is available from http://linuxmint.com. If anyone has the RC version, it seems to have updated successfully to the official version. The release comes on a single layer 800MB DVD. There are two versions at the moment. Cinnamon (a Gnome 3 fork) and MATE (a Gnome 2 fork). I have installed the 64 bit RC of Cinnamon…
For many of us, Super Mario Brothers was one of the first Nintendo games or Famicon games we owned. That was the epitome of the 1990’s gaming scene and had only one aspect to the game. Now there is a new Super Mario Brothers game, Mari0 which introduces a host of elements including portal gun mechanics. The open source game is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh and the complete source code is also available. Some of the new features…
This is a generic sort of article… I have only tried it on one type of machine but this advice may prove useful in other situations. As regular readers know, I volunteer at an educational non-profit organisation every Friday as a systems administrator.One of the privileges is I get to borrow a computer every so often for one of my projects. In this case I had a computer I was using as a file server (using FreeNAS v7.x). Since I…
The latest version of the open source FlightGear flight simulator has been released. Version 2.6.0 includes a number of improvements primarily in the handling of AI type aircraft, making load times faster as well as the CPU cost per AI aircraft much lower. FlightGear Version 2.6.0 is available for free download and is available for all of the Major computing platforms. You can download the version for your machine from the FlightGear Website at: http://www.flightgear.org For information about the other…
Program: Namco Arcade Platform iPad and iPhone URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/namco-arcade/id465606050?mt=8 Price: Free (Somewhat) NamcoBandai Games has released their entry into the realm of vintage gaming on the iPhone and iPad, Namco Arcade. Sadly, this is as far as the excitement went. While many of us who lived in the arcades in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the quarters we plunked into the machines were for real play on real machines. We certainly were not willing then nor now to buy…
Push Panic!, the game that brings new meaning to the columns theme is available as a free download. The program which drops multi-colored boxes as you do your best to explode them, is not just a challenge, it is also addicting. Your objective is to explode as many boxes as you can, keeping the boxes below a red line. The more boxes you “link” together in the explosions, the higher the score. Push Panic! works on both the iPhone and…
The Donut Games free game of the week this week is Monkey Flight, a delightfully entertaining game which will keep you going for hours. The game now has 60 levels in the challenge section of the game, making for even more fun. This game is one you must get! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311768443&mt=8
