Author: A.P.P.L.E.
Emai//er, the email and Usenet news software package for the Apple //e Enhanced or Apple IIgs, has been updated. Emai//er version 2.1.14 is a major update, coming after a nearly two year hiatus, and updates the suite to the latest version of IP65. Changes in the program according to the author, Bobbi Manner, are as follows Addresses tickets #75 and #76 in the ticket database.. The IP65 release Emai//er has been using was a couple of years out of date, and various improvements…
The Apple II Software Enthusiasts Challenges have produced a slew of new games over the past few years and now comes the latest Apple II game from Raphael Rezende: Oribita. Orbita is a high resolution arcade style game completely written in Applesoft with everything in less than 4k! This includes the instructions, the sprites, the controls, the scoring and other game elements. The game itself uses the keyboard for control of the shooters in the game and game play itself…
VOCinit, a Temporary Initialization File (TIF) for the Apple IIgs computer and the Video Overlay Card has been updated. This update comes 29 years after the initial release of VOCinit and the original author, Richard Wifall has put it out as freeware. Version 1.0 of VOCinit allows users for force the Video Overlay Card settings to either be complete Apple IIgs graphics or full input video on boot up. The program uses the Caps Lock on the keyboard to control…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller software suite has been updated. Version 1.70 was released by John Morris with the following changes: The most anticipated feature of this release is a powerful new disk writing system that works from the Disk Analyzer. Almost anything that can be loaded into the analyzer can also be written to disk, including copy protected software! But, using this feature effectively does require that you have at least a basic understanding of how disks are structured…
The Apple II Desktop has been updated. Version 1.2 Alpha 48 includes a ton of updates. The program is now available in eight languages. Updated features include: General Added Sample.Media folder with some samples of various file types. Improved appearance of keyboard shortcuts in buttons. Improve appearance of ()^ glyphs in system font. DeskTop Improve error message for full volume directories. Show prompt when double-clicking a binary file, instead of just ignoring. Disk Copy Show disks as “DOS 3.3” rather…
A new version of the Ample Interface for MAME has been released. With the release of MAME 0.247, Kelvin Sherlock has updated his Apple centric Ample Interface to 0.247. The Ample MAME Interface is a MAC OS based, easy to use configuration panel and selector for the Apple based emulators in MAME. Ample includes an abbreviated custom version of the MAME emulator which only includes Apple-1 Emulation, Apple II series computer Emulation, Apple II Clone Emulation and Macintosh emulation from…
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest will be held September 10-11, 2000 at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, Illinois. The show will open at 9am with Sellam Ismail giving the keynote at 10:00am. As this is the 25th anniversary of the Vintage Computer Festival, his keynote will highlight some of the history of the VCF events. Also highlighting the event will be David Greelish (The Apple Lisa Documentary), Ron McAdams (Collecting Classic Macintosh Computers Is for EVERYONE!), Frank Palazzolo (Demon Debugger), Bill Degnan…
The Don Bluth fans in the audience will be super excited about this one: Space Ace II for the Apple IIGS courtesy of the good folks over at Brutal Deluxe Software. Ace looked at Kimberly, the baby Borf cradled in her arms and he thought back to all that had happened. It began when the evil adult Borf constructed his ultimate weapon – the Infanto Ray. It could transform anyone into a harmless infact with a single blast and with…
Core v5 for the AppleSqueezer GS was released recently. It fixes an issue that a few users were having with sound on early IIGS motherboard revisions (at least, for 2 out of 4 people who reported this to me), and I’ve also received some limited feedback that it improves VidHD compatibility. VidHD was working for many already, but this should improve things further, and means that if you were still using v3, you should be able to now use v5….
Tom Harte has released an update to the ClockSignal Emulator for MacOS. The emulator is a multi-platform emulation system which allows clock signal accurate emulation of retro computing platforms. The updated release of the ClockSignal Emulator includes the following changes: partially enables a properly-serialised blitter for the Amiga, mostly replacing the tentative instant blitter of previous releases; adds 1mb and 4mb RAM size options for the Atari ST; improves support for .ST disk images of non-default geometry; resolves a crash…
Our friends over at Brutal Deluxe software have released a new update for Hypercard IIgs. The update is primarily oriented around the Y2k issues that the long date in the program had. You can download the latest version of the Hypercard IIgs application from the Brutal Deluxe website at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr
Andy McFadden has released the latest version of Ciderpress for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Ciderpress 4.1.0 includes the following updates: Added save and restore of main window placement (issue #41). Added workaround for ProDOS sparse file issue (issues #15 and #49). Updated to modern build tools (breaks WinXP support). A Win32 installer binary for Windows 7 and later is attached. For older versions of CiderPress, which will run on systems dating back to Win98, visit http://a2ciderpress.com/. You can download the latest version of the…
John Morris, creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, has announced an update to the Applesauce FDC Software. The two successive releases, 1.69 and 1.69.1 include the following changes to the program: Client Release 1.69 More Heathkit H-17 work. Improved disk writing of H8D files. Added loading/writing support for 80 track disks. Imaging of 80 track H-17 disks still needs some work. Support for Heathkit HDOS has been added allowing you to extract and view files as well as Fast…
For those of you following the Apple II Desktop project, there is a new release, version 1.2 alpha 47. This release includes two new localizations of the project, Swedish and Danish. It also includes a slew of other new features and fixes including the following items: General Add Swedish localization. Add Danish localization. Handle mirrored SmartPort drives in ProDOS 2.0.1-3 (as well as ProDOS 2.4). #685 Improved pointer cursor appearance on dark backgrounds. Clicking on blank lines will clear list…
The gals over at Paleotronic (Melody and April) have been busy with their two new web-based interface for Applesoft and for assembly language (MERLIN) editing and assembling. According to their release, We’ve created two new web-based interfaces for our cyanIIde Apple II webassembly emulator! The first allows you to load and edit Applesoft BASIC programs using a CodeMirror-based editor with syntax highlighting and colon line separation. You can choose from a library of hundreds of BASIC programs, edit them, and…
*trumpet sounds* Howdy folks! Our first programming challenge in a long while is to create a game in Applesoft that allows the player to perform “strange jobs/tasks”. What do I mean by strange? How about a banana peel stacker? Or catching parrots with a net and a jetpack? Hopefully you get the idea! Your game can be any size you wish. The only rules are: It must be your own original creation, written primarily in Applesoft (binary files used for…
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…
