Author: A.P.P.L.E.
Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest version of his Ample interface for MAME on Mac OS. Ample version 0.246 is an Apple and Macintosh only version front end for the MAME emulator. In this version are the following updates: Includes MAME 0.246. 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 little more.) You can download the latest version…
Sean Gugler has released an update to his Apple II version of the Ultima IV Remastered program. The Ultima IV Remastered A2 program is Seans remaster of the program from the 1985 binary code for the Apple II computer. This latest release includes a few bug fixes: Ghost and Zorn would not move onto swamp (regression since 1.2.0). Dungeon monster AI mistakenly rejects moving south as if trying to return north (regression since 1.2.0). Not always noticeable since it has…
Gerard Putter has informed A.P.P.L.E. that our request for Apple IIc support within the Virtual II emulator has been fulfilled. The latest release of the Virtual II Emulator, version 11.0, includes a ton of new features and fixes including: Added emulation of the Apple //c. Simplified the installation by including, in the Help description, download links for the proper ROM files. When creating a blank diskette image, you now have the option to initialize it right away as a DOS 3.3…
Denis Molony, the author of Apple II Disk Browser, has come up with a nifty tool for Apple II users who want to get to the guts of their floppy disk images in a hurry. Apple II Disk Browser is a tool which allows you to flip through several of your disk images at a time and see the actual contents of those images right down to the sector level. It also includes a very nice disassembler which makes viewing…
Brutal Deluxe has announced the immediate availability of the Don Bluth game Space Ace. in a posting from Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe, he announces the game: Don Bluth’s Space Ace for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 7th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Dexter, better known as “Ace”, is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander Borf, who is seeking to attack Earth with his “Infanto Ray” to render Earthlings helpless…
Jeremy Rand of Rand-Emonium Software has created a Wordle puzzle solver program for the Apple II. Wordle Solver offers a word and then takes input via a series of x, ? or ^ characters from the user to facilitate the next guess in the puzzle. The program can guess a word in just a few moves and is actually quite usable on most Wordle puzzles. You can download the program for free from the Rand-Emonium Software website: Download a disk…
Micah Cowan has released an update to his Kansasfest 2022 Hackfest project, a2vimode. a2vimode provide unix based vi like editing command to the Apple II prompt which are accessible during editing. a2vimode Version 0.3 pre-release implements some workarounds to unpleasant abuses that ProDOS attempts to employ against the prompt routine, and a ProDOS disk is now included with the release assets. You can download a2vimode for free from the a2vimode Github page at:https://github.com/micahcowan/a2vimode
Lucas Scharenbroich, author and creator of the Generic Tile Engine for the Apple IIgs, has released a first beta of the engine on the GTE Github page. This release comes post Kansasfest where Lucas released a number of new demos of the GTE Engine. The Generic Tile Engine (GTE) project is a tile engine built to exploit the unique hardware capabilities of the Apple IIgs personal computer. It supports the Apple IIgs super hires graphics mode (320×200, 16/256 colors) and…
From Nick Baggarly: Hi everyone, After 37 years, the Safehouse BBS has switched back on using its original telephone number! Mention The Safehouse to an Apple II devotee from the 1980’s and don’t be surprised if they enthusiastically recite the telephone number from memory: (612) 724-7066! This was an iconic bulletin board that lives in infamy and one that my 14-year old self called very often. It was created and managed by John Pechacek, aka the “Apple Bandit” who ran…
Thomas Harte has announced the latest update of his Clock Signal multi-platform emulator. The 23 July 2022 release includes the following changes and updates: corrects an error in Amiga HAM output that transposed red and blue channel modifications; improves Amiga sprite display: for programs that use both DMA and direct sprite accesses, and with regard to playfield interactions; and rejigs the macOS binding to try to reduce CPU load and avoid a potential audio-ending race condition. Though it is now…
The latest update for the ORCA/C Compiler for the Apple IIgs package from Byteworks Inc. has been released. This release includes a bevy of enhancements and bug fixes including: Support for new language features from C99 and C11: Compound literals Hexadecimal floating-point constants Unicode strings and characters in code Type qualifiers or static in the declarations of array parameters Support for new library features, mainly from C99 and C11: Unicode conversion functions Many new <math.h> functions from C99 strftime function for formatting date/time strings va_copy macro…
The Nox Archaist team announced has announced their new expansion pack for Now Archaist, Lord of Storms. According to their website, You have learned of Lord Estintar’s suspicions that the cult has something to do with the increase in storm activity. He charges you with investigating. The task will not be easy, but you accept this duty. Your quest will take you to uncharted reaches of the Isles of Wynmar. Traps, puzzles, and powerful magic items await, which may or…
Ralle Pa has announced the release of an updated version of the 512 KB NVRAM Drive Card for the Apple II computer. According to the posting on FaceBook, the newer version uses one less chip than the older version. This card is a ProDOS based card and uses a special protocol to write to the card via a newly released driver for the card. Ralle has released all of the schematics and related files to the public through his Github…
If you are an old school ASCII art fan like we are, then you will like the website Adelfaure.net. The website, created by one Adel Faure, features a slew of ASCII art , tools and games from over the past several years and even goes so far as to use ASCII Art for their menu selectors. The site itself allows users to view the art in JGS5, 7 and 9 font modes, single, double or triple size modes as well…
From the VCF SE Folks : It’s (4) days until our annual Vintage Computer Festival Southeast, version 9.0. Marc Tessier will present Tiny Replicas (and some bigger ones too!)! Come see Marc’s 3D printed tiny replicas of micro computers and game consoles along with working replicas of the Enigma machine and Apollo Guidance Computer! Marc will also be speaking on the creation on the Enigma and AGC replicas. VCF SE 9.0 will be July 15-17, 2022 at the Renaissance Atlanta…
Brutal Deluxe’s own Antoine Vignau announced the release of the third rendition of Dragon’s Lair for the Apple IIgs. According to the release notes on the Brutal Deluxe website, A year has passed since Mordroc’s demise at the hands of Dirk the Daring. Having pursued the evil wizard through the depths of time, Dirk confronted Mordroc in the chamber where Daphne lay in a deep, magical slumber. Using the wizard’s own magic against him, Dirk managed to get the Ring…
Script-Central SE v7n1 has been released. This is the third issue of Script-Central Special Edition. Script-Central is a HyperCard IIGS stack collection presented as a disk magazine. Originally published on floppy disks in the 1990’s, v7n1 is the third 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 information as well as updated instructions on…
Kelvin Sherlock has released a bug fix release of the Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS. The latest version 0.244-1, includes the following updates: Includes experimental Uthernet II support. IPRAW, MACRAW, and UDP sockets should be fine. TCP/IP sockets are a little rougher (resends and timeouts not yet implemented) but wget65 and A2Stream worked in my tests. Tested: IP65 (requires a recent version with DHCP fixes) Tested: Marinetti (make sure you have the most recent Uthernet II link layer) Tested: A2OSX (the initial DHCP request sometimes get…
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange is proud to announce a major update to our legacy magazine offerings. In our quest to upgrade offerings for A.P.P.L.E. members, all legacy Call-A.P.P.L.E. PDF magazine issues and website pages have been updated. The biggest change in the magazine issues is that the extraneous borders have been removed for a more streamlined reading experience. The OCR of the new versions are also greatly improved for those members who wish to copy text or programs from…
