User Group Membership Joining our User Group has many benefits, such as our new full-color Call-A.P.P.LE. magazine that is usually around 50 pages with lots of photos, technical articles, reviews, and interviews with legends of the industry. You also have access to all previous issues published back to 1978. Additionally, the Apple User Group Bulletin we share has discounts on software for your Mac from a variety of vendors around the Apple world. If you are not an A.P.P.L.E. member…
For those of our retro friends north of the border, the Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club has announced their first meeting of 2025. The announced meeting will be on the 16th of January from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the Chilliwack Cowork at 12-8465 Harvard Place, Chilliwack, BC, Canada, British Columbia. The Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club generally meets the 3rd Thursday of each month and topics include a variety of Retro computing platforms. The host of the event is Rob C FrameHaven . For more…
The Vintage Computer Festival SoCal 2025 is scheduled for February 15 to 16, 2025 from 9AM to 6pm each day of the event. This years event is scheduled to be held at the Hotel Fera Event Center in Orange, CA. Tickets are now available for attendees of the event. VCF SoCal is also still seeking Vendors, Speakers and Sponsors for the event. More information concerning these items are available at the VCF SoCal event page at:https://www.vcfsocal.com
UPDATED: The latest version of the game Star Fury for the Apple II has been released. Star Fury version 1.21 includes some changes to the stages of the game and how it handles the ending of main stage challenges. Also a scoring bug has been updated in the minor update. Star Fury is a high speed arcade style game for the Apple II by Brazilian game author, Raphael Rezende. His latest game includes elements which make it a challenge for…
Ian Brumby has announced the release of the latest version of the Crossrunner Apple II GS Developer Environment for Windows. Cross Runner version 1.1 includes a host of fixes and changes including: You can download the latest version of the Crossrunner environment and get further information at the Crossrunner website at: https://www.crossrunner.gs/
Kelvin Sherlock has announced the immediate release of the latest version of the Ample Graphical Interface for MAME on Mac OS. This latest version includes addition Mac support as well as some updates on the Apple II series side. IMPORTANT: Apple IIgs roms need to be updated. Apple //e, and //c roms should be updated.(//e and //c added international version, IIgs added an international character set). This latest update includes the following changes: Ample is a free download and the…
Crucible is a recently developed app for MacOS that allows users to program 2MB SMC ROM SIMMs. The app was developed by Satanic Mac Club and One Geek Army, with most of the programming handled by One Geek Army. One Geek Army is known for developing DiskJockey, a popular disk image editor. Beta Version 2.0 Released Version 2.0 introduces new Split and Join modes, making the app useful beyond just SMC ROM SIMMs and enabling it to stand alone as…
Expect Apple tohave a big hardware year in 2025, with new phones, tablets, Apple TV and a new MacPro. The latter has become somewhat of a niche product of late, as busy professionals can now use a laptop as a heavy duty machine with suitable accessories such as multiple external monitors and bulk storage without sacrificing much by way of workflow capability. Still, for people doing video editing and/or running multiple high-demand applications at once, the big bulky desktop beast…
David Schmenk has released a new 32mb Disk image of DHGR RGB conversion samples within Plasma for the Apple II series computers and Emulators. According to his posting: For those wanting to play with DHGR RGB conversions at home, I’ve made a disk image (32 MB!) of PLASMA and sample images for you to convert. I’ve also documented the process to add your own images so you can amaze your family and friends with your 40 year old digital picture…
Happy New Year to all of our members and readers. We wish you and yours the best of the new year and all that it will bring. A.P.P.L.E. Staff
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. This update is primarily a patch update with several fixes to the software including the following: Enhancements and fixes for 2.0.1 Also included in this release is an update for the Firmware of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, version 2.77. These updates can be downloaded through the Applesauce FDC Client. For more information about this update, the Applesauce FDC or the client software, check out the website at:https://www.applesaucefdc.com
A2_4am has updated his Apple II game, Million Perfect Letters. The latest version, Million Perfect Letters Version 1.2, has version 1.2, simplifies disk access and compresses some files on disk. Actual gameplay is unchanged from the previous version and according to the posting, this version matches the version included in A2_4am’s Total Replay Apple II compilation library. According to the game page on Internet Archive, “Million Perfect Letters is a shifty word game for the Apple ][. It runs on any…
Henry Lowe has announced the release of the latest version of his Card Cat Apple II card identification program. Card Cat 1.7 includes a host of additional cards in the catalog including the following: Card Cat will run on all Apple II series computers from the Apple II plus through the Apple IIgs. It can identify 87 different Apple II cards and even functions properly on an Apple II emulator. Additional information and the Card Cat 1.7 program is available…
Wayne Goldsmith has produced a new version of the proverbial Matrix screen for the Apple II computer. Using standard ascii text, this little Apple II program will produce an effect to that seen in the Matrix Movies.
VCF East 2025 Exhibitor Registration is open: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSedyn…/viewform… The show will be April 4-6 in Wall, NJ @ InfoAge Science and History Museums Check the web page for updates over the next few weeks https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/
Mark Moxon has announced an update to the Apple II version of the dis-assemblies of the source code for the game Elite. This particular update removes in-text mentions of deep dives as they are unreliable and also include an update of deep dive titles within the elite-data.asm file of the Elite source code. The entire updated version of Elite and the source code is available online at:https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-source-code-apple-ii Other versions of the game are available from Mark’s GitHub page at:https://github.com/markmoxon
The Ample MAME Interface has been updated. The Kelvin Sherlock maintained project for MAC OS is now at version 0.272. This latest version includes an update bringing the Ample interface in line with the latest version the MAME emulator. Also included in Ample version 0.272 is a new ROM management capability which allows users to specify their own URL for ROMs or to use the A.P.P.L.E. supported library. The latest version of the Ample MAME Interface and all source code…
Client Release 2.0 – https://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/Applesauce_200.zip The Applesauce client version 2.0 is finally here! After many months of work refactoring, rebuilding, and modernizing the low-level foundations of Applesauce it is all back together and working better than ever. Even though a lot of work went into supporting the upcoming Applesauce+ hardware, I didn’t forget about all of you existing users and have lots of improvements in this release. NEW FIRMWARE 2.76 Current Applesauce units (all revisions) have a new firmware version…
For those of you who missed out on seeing David Greelish’s wonderful documentary movie, “Before Macintosh”, you can now watch it free on YouTube. “Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa” is a fascinating look into the computer that really changed the way we used personal computers; it started the modern personal computer revolution! Not only did key people from the project go on to help create the Macintosh, but so did key components of both hardware and software. In the end, Apple…
Star Fury is a high speed arcade style game for the Apple II by Brazilian game author, Raphael Rezende. His latest game includes elements which make it a challenge for even the best of the gamers on the Apple II and is sure to challenge you. Star Fury version 1.1 includes both keyboard and Joystick control. The full package includes the Apple II Emulator ready 5.25 inch floppy disk image, floppy disk label image, and the game manual in PDF…
