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The Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been updated. Gerard Putter, the curator of the Virtual II emulator announced the update this morning and noted that he had added more features and quashed some bugs in the earlier version of the program. The latest release of Virtual II, version 11.2, includes additional support for the Apple //c and Apple //c+. A complete list of changes included in this release of Virtual II include the following: You can download an evaluation…

Enrico Rolfi has announced the immediate availability of The Music Studio for the Apple IIgs, the unofficial version. The Music Studio for the Apple IIgs Version 2.0.3 is available for download on Enrico’s website. According to the release notes on the site: The Music Studio is a music composition software for the Apple IIGS that was first released between the end of 1986 and the beginning of 1987. Armed with nothing more than the original program binary, I decided to…

A Note from Peter Forth, curator of the Forth2020 Programming language legacy Group on Facebook:

Ian Schmidt has released a new version of his Night Driver for the Apple IIgs. Night Driver GS 1.1 includes the following features and fixes: Night Driver GS 1.1 is a free download and is available at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/a2gs/games/nd11.po

For those of you who have been waiting for the AppleSqueezer accelerator for the Apple IIgs, Niek Van Suchtelen, the creator of the AppleSqueezer has announced that production is forthcoming. In the announcement on his wesbite, he says:

The final release of the Apple II Desktop Version 1.2 is available. That means that there are no more Alpha or Beta versions and that this will be the last update to that particular version. Apple II DeskTop is a graphical file and disk manager that also includes a host of graphical desk accessories for the Apple II series computers. Apple II desktop has also been known and sold as Mouse Desk. Some of the features of the Apple II…

Late last night, Lee Fastenau announced a little Christmas present for the Apple II world in the Call-151 group: the Game Boy version of Tetris for the Apple II, complete with all of the original screens and the source code for the game as well. This version of the game runs not only on original Apple II hardware with 48K of memory but will also run in Emulators as well. Game controls for the game: Downloading the game and the…

Recently, Apple II programmer Brian Picchi had a chance to catch up with Beagle Bros founder, Bert Kersey. According to Picchi, Bert was surprised that so many people still remembered and were fans of Beagle. Here is the recorded video message from Bert Kersey to the Apple II community: https://www.facebook.com/bpicchi/videos/533635638687240

For those of you who are fans of the Wizardry Series, there is now a new restored version of the Wizardry Proving Grounds game for the Apple II. This update includes the following fixes: A number of people contributed to this release including Chris Torrence, John Brooks, and Eric Labelle. A complete list of the changes can be found here: https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-restored/files/Wizardry-Proving-Grounds-Restored-v2.2-Readme.txt The disk is available for free download along with further update information at : https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-restored/

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of AppleIIgs Karate from . The game runs on an Apple IIgs with either floppy or Hard drive. To gain your way into the upper sect of the holy order, something your father always wanted of you, you must beat many opponents. Your journey will be a difficult one with the finest fighters in the land trying to stop you. From time to time, you may be required to perform tests to prove…

Pierre Dandumont has created a monster. Putting Mac OS 9.2 on the Nintendo Wii. While we have covered some Wii related items in the past, this is the first time where it really comes into the actual Macintosh realm. This install is not exactly a perfect run but it certainly is a good start and Pierre does a really good job of taking the user through all of the aspects of the install including the ups and downs of it….

Joshua Bell has announced the immediate availability of the Apple II Desktop graphical interface version 1.2 Beta 2. This version includes the following changes to the program: DeskTop Desk Accessories You can download the Apple II Desktop as well as the source code from the Apple II Desktop Github at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d/

Script-Central SE v7n2 has been released by Brendan Bellina. Details of this release of the Script-Central SE package release are as follows: Script-Central is a HyperCard IIGS stack collection presented as a disk magazine. Originally published on floppy disks in the 1990’s, v7n2 is the fourth issue published by Brendan Bellina released as 16 MB hard drive images. Stacks include hard-to-find content, stacks converted from Macintosh HyperCard, and original stacks. Along with the stacks themselves is a great deal of…

The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. John Morris released Applesauce FDC Software version 1.74 with the following changes: New bulk processor named Catalog Disks that will generate directory listings for image files and save them into individual txt files. Writing MFM disks now have improved write precompensation handling. It is automatically handled from the Disk Writer. From within the Mastering system of the Disk Analyzer, you can now specify custom write precompensation settings. The Flux Imager…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate release of the 9th software release as part of their 30th Anniversary celebration. The latest release is Froggy Software’s Canal Meurtre. According to the release notes on the Brutal Deluxe website, Attached to your TV like an infant to its pacifier, you enjoy cozy evenings in the calm of your apartment. However, tonight, the incredible has just happened: your favorite journalist has been murdered! Your investigative skills overcoming your acute flemmingitis, you decide…

Chris Vavruska has announced the release of the Homer finder extension for the Apple IIGS. Home is an extension of the Extras Menu “Make Alias” function in Apple IIGS System 6.0. Home proves an easy to use means to give you a quick route to finding the location of the alias as well as to examine the structure of the EasyMount alias files. It also opens the original folder where the alias points to. You can download the latest version…

The Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS has been updated. Ample is a user interface which focuses on the Apple II series computers and the Retro Macintosh platforms using the MAME emulation platform. Ample Version 0.248 includes the following changes and updates: Includes MAME 0.248. Updated Sparkle to version 2.2.0 Includes experimental Uthernet II / WIZnet W5100 emulation. Marinetti, IP65, and A2osX have been tested and should work. (This should make its way into MAME when the code is cleaned up a…

The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator for Microsoft Windows has been released. Tom Charlesworth announced the released of Applewin Version 1.30.12 with the following changes to the emulator: [Bug #1128] Increase paddle maximum offset – fixes ‘Learning with Leepers’. [Bug #1127] Debugger – fix memory search command. [Bug #1126] Fix rare crash bug (when unprotected WOZ in drive). [Bug #1125] Improve WOZ support – fixes ‘Accolade Comics’. [Bug #1121] Fix for aspect ratio in full-screen – Now…

The Virtual Apple II Emulator curated by Gerard Putter has been updated. The latest version of the Emulator, version 11.1 includes support for the Apple //c Plus. In order to use this feature, you will need to download an Apple //c Plus ROM and install it in the ROMs directory of the application. You can download the latest version of the Virtual II emulator from the Virtual II website at:https://www.virtualii.com

The latest update to the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been released. Version 1.72 and 1.72.1 of the Applesauce FDC Client includes the following changes: Improvements and Fixes in 1.72.0 The Fast Imager gets a big power up this release with support for imaging disks that have mixed track formats (like an FM-encoded track 0 with the rest being MFM). It also now supports disk whose tracks change geometry, like using different sized sectors between tracks. Also some…