Author: Bill Martens
Sellam Abraham and Daniel Henderson have announced the availability of a new graphical New Years Demo for the Apple II. This is a New Year 2020 Demo programmed for the Apple ][ by me and Dan Henderson. It can run on any 48K Apple ][+ or better. The story and artwork are by Dan, and I wrote the lo-res graphics sprite system, which is a complete package allowing sprite and background creation as well as animating it all using BASIC…
Vince Weaver has released his entry from DemoSplash 2019 entitled “Lo-Res Escape”. The demo tells the story of a woman whose goal is to herself to read books but is being thwarted a a civilization of space traveling beings. The Demo garnered a 3rd place finish in the 2019 rendition of DemoSplash, a demo contest which is held annually at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. You can download the Lo-Res Escape Demo in 140K Disk image format from…
Chris Torrence has released the latest episode of his Assembly Lines videocast. Episode 108 goes through a myriad of items released this year for the Apple II series computers including the VidHD HDMI Card as well as the Total Replay disk image from Mark Pilgrim. If you enjoy Chris’s Assembly Lines videos, be sure to support him through Patreon at : https://www.patreon.com/ChrisTorrence
Applewin Apple II Emulatorhas been updated. Verion 1.29.7 has been released and fixes a host of bugs. Some of the changes included are as follows: [Change #726] Disk II card: supported in slot 5 via ‘-s5 diskii’ command line. [Change #737] Debugger: Changed ‘cycles’ to show the cycle delta since the step/breakpoint etc. [Bug #740] Debugger: gr/hgr/dgr/dhgr commands will honour the state of the MIXED mode. [Bug #733] Fixed WOZ ‘Wasteland’ and also NIB ‘Wasteland’. [Bug #451] Debugger: fix for BPM[R|W] triggering on control-flow instructions’…
Chuck Peddle, the creator of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor has passed away at age 82. Peddle, originally on the Motorola team that developed the 6800 series chips, was determined to develop an inexpensive chip which did not cost $300 such as the Motorola 6809 did. Originally developed while Peddle was working at Motorola, the 6502 was a major breakthrough in cost and allowed almost anyone to build a computer. Motorola told Peddle to shut down the project due to…
Denis Molony has released a new version of the Apple II Diskbrowser. UniDOS support has been added to the latest release of the program, Diskbrowser version 1.42. Apple II Diskbrowser allows users to view the contents of many different Apple II floppy disk image types and runs under Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser from the Github page at: https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser
David Mutimer has made his Booti Card for the Apple II available once again. According to his posting in the Apple II Enthusiasts group on Facebook, : The pcb’s arrived today. Booti cards are now in stock again and ready to ship. The type A cards are functionally identical to the blue cards from the last batch, however the USB modules have different connections so the cards and modules are not interchangeable. So for those of you that already have…
The crew at RetroMacCast have announced the release of their 507th episode of the RMC Podcast. This episode includes: James and John discussing the latest eBay finds including a NIB Macintosh II video card, lot of Macs, and Picasso Mac dust cover. John also gets into SimCity, and some of the latest news includes a 16″ MBP and a Twiggy Mac that are currently up for auction. RetroMacCast website You can listen to the latest episode of the RetroMacCast by going…
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our US based friends. As we take time with our families during this time, we just wanted to share our thanks for your patronage and support. We will be back in our offices on 2 December 2019.
Aaron Culliney has updated the release notes and source for version 2.1.0 of the Apple2ix Emulator for Android based devices. The emulator was developed originally to run on Android 4.0+ based devices also now runs on x86 and ARM Android devices, x64 macOS 10.9+, and x64 GNU/Linux. Improvements made in the emulator are related to the Joystick button functionality in the emulator. You can download the latest version of the Apple2ix emulator from the Apple2ix Github page at: https://github.com/mauiaaron/apple2
GGlabs has announced the release of a new version of their Apple II Apple SCSI Card Clone. According to the GGlabs website, The Apple II SCSI card from 1986 was one of the first interface cards to attach a Hard Disk Drive to the Apple II line of computers. A2SCSI is a clone of the last revision (rev.C) of the card with a few enhancements to improve compatibility with modern SCSI drives. The schematics has been reverse engineered from our…
The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator has been released. Tom Charlesworth, curator of the Applewin project, released version 1.29.3 with a slew of fixes and changes to the emulator including: [Change #692] Added command line switch to unplug HDD controller card on exit: [Change #689] Added command line switches to set CPU speed and machine type: [Change #666] Debugger: support showing video v,h and cycle count. [Bug #700] Fixed ProDOS8 2.5.0 alpha6: [Bug #695] Fixed WOZ ‘Taipan’…
John Keoni Morris has made a second run of his Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller available. The run is 20 units of the deluxe model and 5 units of the basic model. The Applesauce FDC allows users to make digital duplications of their floppy disks and store and use them on modern platforms. Applesauce FDC will duplicate Apple II, II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs, and Apple III floppies as well as Mac 400/800K floppies. For more information or to purchase a unit,…
Well, the mind of the Charles Mangin has once again come up with a project which will rock the world at its core. Bit Coin Mining on the Apple II. Yes, you heard right. Mining actual Bit Coins on the proverbial Apple II computer, the 1MHz wonder machine which has lasted 40 plus years now. While this project would have been almost a perfect April Fools project such as the now very real Java Virtual Machine for the Apple II…
Denis Molony has updated his java based Apple II Diskbrowser program. The free program which allows users to view a variety of disk images for the Apple II, has gone through a series of updates this month adding more accurate WOZ support for the application. Coordinating effort with John Morris, creator of Applesauce and the WOZ format, Denis has added support for WOZ 2.0 format to the version 1.37.0 of the Diskbrowser program. Diskbrowser also supports multiple flavors of hybrid…
John Brooks has made another alpha of ProDOS 2.5 available for the general public. ProDOS 2.5 Alpha 2 is the latest release in the new production of ProDOS which began with the release of ProDOS 2.4. and has undergone a number of changes addressing bugs and capabilities in ProDOS. This latest release is primarily a public preview according to the lead programmer and will definitely have some caveats in its functionality. For more information about ProDOS 2.5 Alpha 2, check…
Daniel Henderson has given the Apple II community the latest Apple II game. Oubliette is a simple yet effective game for the Apple II which puts the user in the position of trying to work their way through seven levels of a dungeon, collecting the prize in each level. According to the author, “Ok… It basically a medieval themed puzzle game. The knight is trapped in a dungeon (or oubliette) you and has to work out how to get to…
Applewin, the Apple II emulator for Windows machines, now has support for John Morris’ WOZ Format. The Applewin emulator is curated by Tom Charlesworth and a host of other well known Apple II community programmers. Changed in the latest release, version 1.29.0.0 include: WOZ1 and WOZ2 formats supported. read-only: images forced to write-protected (so ‘Stickybear Town Builder’ doesn’t work). only 5.25″ (not 3.5″). known issues: ‘Wizardry III’ not booting. You can download the latest version of the Applewin emulator as…
The Apple II disk crack/conversion program, Passport, has been updated. The latest release includes the following cracks: NEW: verify pure 13-sector disks (by qkumba) NEW: verify Infocom 18-sector disks (by qkumba) NEW: patchers/artsci.a (AceCalc, Magicalc, Photar) NEW: patchers/choplifter.a (Russki Duck, Choplifter) (by qkumba) NEW: patchers/dakin5.a (Neutrons, MIRV, Rings of Saturn) NEW: patchers/e7everywhere.a (Curious George series, Garfield Trivia Game) NEW: patchers/hallabs.a (Sheila, Super Taxman II) NEW: patchers/hoffman.a (Good Thinking! series) NEW: patchers/holle.a (Crime Wave, Sherwood Forest) NEW: patchers/muserwts.a (Caverns of Freitag,…
Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau has announced the release of the first batch of Applesauce disk images from his personal collection. The entire collection of disk images is available and freely downloadable from Archive.org’s repository at:https://archive.org/details/Antoine_Vignau_3.5_Floppies_Flux_May_2019_Batch
