Tag: apple2 software

Easily download from comp.binaries.apple2

The Usenet newsgroup comp.binaries.apple2 contains about 2-3 thousand Apple II programs, but they’re tricky to download to an emulator or a real Apple II, owing to the fact that they’re all encoded with ASCII armor. Well thanks to Format Converter, technology that will decode all the Apple II and Macintosh file formats, these files from comp.binaries.apple2 can be easily downloaded to your computer as a ShrinkIt file. BinSCII files will be decoded (usually to ShrinkIt archives) and so will Executioner…

Brutal Deluxe Apple ][ Cassette Collection Updated

The Apple ][ specific Cassette Tape collection maintained by Brutal Deluxe has reached 589 tapes and is continuing to grow nearly daily.  Antoine Vignau, curator of the site has added a number of items in the past few days including items from the following vendors: A.P.P.L.E. (Library pak 1C/2B), Hayden (Applesoft utility programs, Engineering mathematics-1, Revive, Slow list/stop list) MUSE (Maze game) Programma (Ampersoft, Jumpout/Shooting stars, Saucer war, Time clock) Systems design lab (Funpak I by Chuck Sommerville) Tsukumo (Apple…

Notorius Hacker Saltine Donates Collection to MacGui

A post on CSA2 this morning mentioned the donation of the entire collection of disks from famed Apple ][ hacker, The Saltine.  The collection has been converted and is available on the MacGui.com website.  Release from D. Finnigan follows: “Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his  single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some  140 5.25” disks, to Mac GUI Vault to be archived. Now the Apple II world has access to…

Brutal Deluxe adds Don Fudge’s Hi-Res Secrets

Brutal Deluxe has once again provided a golden item from the Apple ][ era to its website.  Don Fudge’s Hi-Res Secrets is available for download from the site, complete with Manual and Disk images. You can download the program at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/

Telecommunications Software Review

By Cecil Fretwell Telecommunications is not a new subject. A way of defining telecommunications would be “communicating over long distances.” The Indians in a sense telecommunicated information using smoke signals, while their jungle counterparts used drums to relay their messages. Those of us who work with personal computers have become the modern day natives and need to have the ability to communicate between computers. This article will concentrate on the software aspect of the telecommunications process by reviewing several packages….

Current Library Programs

Library Pak 1B $ 5. 00 Library Pak 2 $ 5.00 Programmers Workshop II $ 6.00 Disk Workshop $ 6.00 Integer Basic Tutorial $ 15.00 Danny’s Text Editor $ 45.00 Apple Box {mini-modem} $ 18.50 Apple Box II (with speaker) $ 23.50 Applesoft Workshop {watch for notice} Programs submitted to our library and accepted will receive a free library Pak.