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The Virtual Apple II website has updated their database to version 1.25. The latest version contains dozens of new box blurbs and box covers as well as a number of new games including Daniele Liverani’s new game, Genius – A Rock Game. The Virtual Apple database is used by the ActiveGS App and other Apple II emulator apps to supply all the game information and disks to their apps. To download the latest version of the app, click the update…
Virtual Apple ][ has published a new Apple ][ game. SHELL*SHOCK is a high paced action tank battle game for the Apple ][ computer. Originally written in 1985 by Peter Blum, Alan Burkle, and Jonathan Dunaisky, the game has been largely unseen until this month when it was resurrected by the original authors and sent to Virtual Apple ][. SHELL*SHOCK is unique in the Apple ][ gaming realm as it allows users to battle each other in two player mode…
The Eamon Adventures have long been one of the favorite adventure systems available for the Apple ][. With over 255 adventures written for Eamon, it is also likely the most prolific adventuring system as well. Eamon was designed in 1980 by Donald Brown and released in Recreational Computing Magazine as a public domain system. While the first dozen or so adventures were written by Donald Brown himself, most of the following 200 plus adventures have been written by over 50…
The ActiveGS Plugin, a combination browser and standalone Apple II gs emulator has been updated. Version 3.6.1307 was released yesterday in coordination with a server move and upgrade by the Free Tools Association. You can download the new plugin from the ActiveGS support website at http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ or through the Virtual Apple ][ website at http://www.virtualapple.org
Oliver Goguel, author of the ActiveGS App announced that he was pulling the latest version of his app from the App Store. Version 1.21 had been submitted and was ready to be released when a bug was discovered in the app which would cause the iPad to freeze. The bug was discovered after a beta tester used the zoom lock feature and the entire machine froze. ActiveGS has been used for many years now on the Virtual Apple ][ website…
The latest version of the FreeToolsAssociation’s ActiveGS plugin is now available for download and installation. The new plugin includes a number of improvements and is now more in tune with the mobile versions of the application. Items fix or improved include: ActiveGS is a multi-platform, multi-browser emulator written by Oliver Goguel of the FTA. You can download the plugin from the FTA’s ActiveGS website at: http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ To try out the latest version of the program, head on over to Virtual…
The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section. The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms. That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate. Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on…
