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After a multi-year effort to remaster GS+ Magazine and make it available digitally, the remaining issues of GS+ are now available – completing the collection. All issues have been remastered and re-typeset, with enhanced graphics. The 37 issues of GS+ Magazine published from 1989 through 1995, along with all of the floppy disk images for the magazine, are officially available in the A.P.P.L.E. Store, along with official GS+ T-shirts, mousepads and other goodies! You can purchase the entire “Ultimate” collection…

The Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange users group is proud to announce, in coordination with copyright holder Kevin M. Smallwood, the immediate availability of the GBBS Pro Newsletters from the L&L Productions days. These newsletters were intended for the sysops and GBBS Pro owners around the world. Now, for the first time, they are freely downloadable by the general public. There were 11 known issues of the GBBS Pro Newsletter published by L&L Productions in April 1987 to May 1988….

Chris Vavruska has released a version of the tile game Sokoban for the Apple IIgs. The release, which according the author, came out of a need to explore the Generic Tile Engine on the Apple II GS. According to him, “I have been wanting to play around with Lucas’ GTE for a while so I ported a version of the puzzle game Sokoban to the GS.” Also, as a quick witted Antoine Vigau pointed out, there is no sound in the…

The Clock Signal Emulator (CLK), a multi-platform emulator for Mac OS by Tom Harte has been updated. This update is primarily focused on the BBC Micro emulation and includes the following changes: CLK is a clock accurate emulator that supports a number retro computing platforms including the following: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles,…

The latest version of the Ample Emulation Interface for the MAME multiplatform emulation package on Mac OS has been updated. Ample 0.281 includes the following updates: You can download the latest version of the Ample package from the Github page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample

Snow, the open source Classic Macintosh Emulator has been updated. The Latest release, Version 1.1.0 includes a myriad of updates including the following: “Snow emulates classic (Motorola 680×0-based) Macintosh computers. It features a graphical user interface to operate the emulated machine and provides extensive debugging capabilities. The aim of this project is to emulate the Macintosh on a hardware-level as much as possible, as opposed to emulators that patch the ROM or intercept system calls. It currently emulates the Macintosh…

The latest version of the Tom Charsworth managed Applewin Emulator for Windows has been updated. This is fairly extensive update with the following changes being made to the system: Applewin has been one of the longest actively developed Apple II emulators and supports the Apple II through Apple IIe platforms. The is no support in this emulator for the Apple IIc, IIc+, IIGS or the Laser 128 series. The latest version of the emulator can be downloaded from the GitHub…

Fredrik Ramsberg, curator of the PunyInform library, has announced the latest edition of the PunyComp programming contest for PunyInform library users. The PunyComp 2025 event requires all submissions be made by the 1 December 2025. Voting by the public on the best submissions will begin shortly thereafter and will end on 1 January 2026. The winners will be announced after that. This years theme requires players of your game to interact with an animal within the game in order to…

The Ample MAME interface for Mac OS has been updated. Ample version 0.280 marks the 72nd release of the Ample MAME Interface brings the interface in line with the latest release of MAME and includes two new ROMs which can be downloaded within the interface. Also, this release of Ample now requires a minimum of MacOS 10.14 or newer. To download the latest version of Ample, check out the Ample GitHub page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample

The 350 Point version of the classic text adventure game, ADVENTURE is now available on more than 32 different retro computing machines including the latest version for the Mega 65. The game is sometimes called Advent, because the system it was created on in the 70s would not allow filenames to be more than six characters long. This game is sometimes considered as the very first text adventure. This particular version of the game came out on 24 November 2024,…

From our friends David Greelish and Randy Kindig: Stay tuned, new chapters are coming up for the great classic book, “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer,” in audiobook form, and on YouTube. See the discussion where Randy Kindig (Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast) and I discuss it, Stan Veit and more, as an introduction! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpxqp11HpZw The NEW audiobook chapters of “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer: From Altair to IBM, A History of the PC Revolution.” By…

Philip Lord has introduced a version of Pac-Man in AppleSoft BASIC. The game is a text based version of the popular arcade game. While this may excite many Apple II fans, this game at the moment is only for emulators as it is absolutely too slow to run on a normal Apple II at 1 MHZ. However, the game does run and plays actually quite well for the Apple II fan running either Applewin or Virtual II. Notes from the…

From Nicholas Bernhard, @nantucketlit@mastodon.social For any #AppleII fans out there, I’ve been working on my very first game. It’s called Catching Snowflakes. https://codeberg.org/nantucketlit/snowflakes You play as Billy Bigfeet, and the goal is to catch as many falling snowflakes as you can.  The game is playable using an Apple II emulator. I’m using a #freesoftware license.

Some highlights:PunyInform v6.0 is out! Some highlights: https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases

The Ample graphical interface for the MAME emulation platform has been updated. Ample is as the author, Kelvin Sherlock puts it, “A slightly more user-friendly front-end for using MAME as an emulator.” This update includes Includes the MAME 0.279 compatibility. Also this version now requires MacOS 10.14 or later. Ample now includes emulation for the Apple 1, II and III series computers as well as a number of clones. It also includes Retro Macintosh, Acorn, Atari ST, Commodore, Oric and…

From Alex Lee: Ever wanted a convenient way to play all commercial IIGS games with little fuss? Like Total Replay but includes every genre of IIGS specific game as well as some demo examples pushing the G and the S in your sweet 16? Look no more! If you’ve got a storage device that supports 7 smart port devices, like the CFFA3000, Micro Drive Turbo, CFFA 1 & 2, BOOTi, SCSI drives (but not the Floppy Emu) and an Apple…

Henry Lowe has announced the release of the version 1.9 update to his Card Cat card identification software for the Apple II series computers. This latest version of the software includes the following changes and updates: You can download the latest version of the Card Cat program from the Henry’s website for the program at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/

From Jawaid Bazyar, I’m very pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.4.0. GSSquared is a complete Apple II systems emulator. Version 0.4.0 offers significant enhancements (see below). Ready-to-run Binaries for MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel “fat” binary); Windows 64; and Linux Ubuntu 22.04 provided at the github release page: https://github.com/jawaidbazyar2/gssquared major updates to the current release:

The Ample graphical interface for MAME emulation has been updated. Ample version 0.278 also known as Ample Release 70 is a MacOS based interface which allows users to easily access and use a number of emulation platforms included in the MAME package. Ample includes a number of emulated computing platforms including an extensive focus on the Retro Apple II / III series computers and clones including the China Education Computer and the Franklin series computers, Retro Macintosh platforms and the…

Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe software has announce that the Apple II cassette archive project has reached a total of 727 cassettes for the Apple II computer having been identified and archived. Started in 2011, the project has a stated goal of identifying and archiving all cassette based software for the Apple II computer. This project has progressed mostly in drips and drabs over the years but the current number is unbelievable. According to Antoine’s post announcing this milestone: In…