Author: A.P.P.L.E.

Thx to your support and feedback ID2 V.2.11 is now officially released into the wild tonight. The new version contains bug fixes and enhancements: BugFix: Detection of SLOT AUX on Apple //e with a 6502 CPU had a bug showing the card physically in AUX SLOT to be listed in SLOT 7. With a 65C02 CPU the detection worked correctly. This has been fixed in this version. BugFix: Slot scans for SATURN RAM cards now also take place in slots 5, 6 and 7 withou… See more For more…

From Antoine Vignau at Brutal Deluxe Software: Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 5th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Get it at : https://brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair2/

An update to the Applewin Apple II emulator has been released. Applewin 1.30.10 was released by Tom Charlesworth as a major bug fix update and includes the following change: [Change #51097] Extend Uthernet II to support DNS offloading. [@audetto] Details: https://github.com/a2retrosystems/uthernet2/wiki/Virtual-W5100-with-DNS No need for ethernet, so now works with host PC’s WiFi. Supported by @oliverschmidt‘s A2Stream v1.2. NB. This virtual DNS is enable by default (but can be disabled via the Config UI). NB. Real W5100 chips don’t offer this! [Bug #1078] WOZ…

John Romero, the author of the computer game Doom among many other games and owner of Romero Games, has announced his memoir. The book, DOOM GUY – Life in First Person is a look back at Johns forays in the gaming industry and where it has gone during his tenure. Although the book is not being released until the 23rd of January, 2023, people can pre-order the book today at:https://www.amazon.com/Doom-Guy-Life-First-Person/dp/141975811X/

This week, TubeTimeUS on Twitter announced that he had successfully replicated the Quadram Quadlink card from the 1980’s.  While Quadram was better known for their RAM cards, the Quadlink offered a ray of hop to those computer users who wanted the best of both worlds, the XT and the Apple II. Sporting a look right out of the inside of the Apple II computer, the Quapple is a quick and easy way to repurpose the IBM XT into a machine…

The April 2022 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine is available for download by A.P.P.L.E. members. You will need to log into your account to access it. This month we take a look at the history of Synergistic Software and Bob Clardy through the eyes of Ernst Klogtoft. We also re-visit the Jonathan, the prototype computer Apple never built and Steve Jobs shot down upon seeing. There’s an expose of absolutely breathtaking photo collection of this Jonathan computer and what could have…

Chris Vavruska has released the GS Speaker App on the Microsoft Store which allows a WindowsPC to communicate with your TCP networked Apple IIGS running the Listener application by Jeremy Rand. For more information or to download Listener, check out the Listener Github page at: https://github.com/jeremysrand/Listener The App is a free download from the Microsoft App Store at:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/gs-speaker/9n8qzmc31969?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Brutal Deluxe has released another Don Bluth software package, Dragon’s Lair : Escape from Singe’s Castle . The game is for the Apple IIgs and comes on either a single 6mb disk image or on eight 800k 3.5 inch floppy disk images. The source code for the game is also being released. To download the game or the source code, check out the Brutal Deluxe Dragon’s Lair : Escape from Singe’s Castle  webpage at:https://brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair1/

The latest version of the Apple II Desktop project has been released. Apple II Desktop is a graphical interface for the Apple II series computers. Joshua Bell has pushed out Apple II Desktop Version 1.2 Alpha 44 and included in this release are the following changes: General Handle mirrored SmartPort drives (ProDOS 2.4 only). #685 Alerts: Use different bitmaps when there are (?) or are not (!) multiple buttons. File Pickers: Fix path shown when folder is opened. #682 Don’t prefix disk…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the source code and the graphics data for the Apple IIgs version of the arcade game Dragon’s Lair. After releasing the game earlier this month, this most recent release is for the developer crowd. Both releases are provided on 3.5 inch floppy disk image and can be downloaded from the Brutal Deluxe website at:http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/sourcecode/dragonslair.html

Brutal Deluxe Software has made the original source code for the French adventure game, Le Manoir de la Crapule, available for download. Originally written in 2017 by Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, the engine in the game is an 8-bit engine which upports 40/80-col modes, loads pics from 40-col to SHR, recognizes three words within a 100-char sentence, and can run in 48K. The engine may be used freely with appropriate attribution and retainment of the copyright messages in the…

Tom Harte has released an update for his ClockSignal multi-platform Emulator for Mac OS. The latest update resolves an issue which was preventing both the Apple IIe and the Enhanced Apple IIe emulations from detecting an attached floppy disk drive. Other platforms that the Clock Signal Emulator contains currently are: Acorn Electron;Amstrad CPC;Apple II/II+ and IIe;Atari 2600;Atari ST;ColecoVision;Commodore Amiga (not 100% accurate yet)Commodore Vic-20 (and Commodore 1540/1); Enterprise 64/128;Macintosh 512ke and Plus;MSX 1;Oric 1/Atmos;Sega Master System;Sinclair ZX80/81; andSinclair ZX Spectrum….

From the Kansasfest Committee: KansasFest 2022, the 34th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19–24, both remote and in-person. Robert Woodhead, well-known as the co-creator of the Wizardry series of computer role-playing games, will join us as the keynote speaker. Registration opens April 17. Information about the COVID restrictions for in-person attendees is here. At an early age, Robert Woodhead, aka Trebor the Mad Overlord, was consumed by two passions: computer programming and not having to have a real job. He first achieved this…

Vince Weaver has released a “Proof of Consept” version of his Lemmings remake for the Apple II computer. Originally created in 1991, the game Lemmings was created for several platforms including the Apple IIgs. During his viewing of the 30th Anniversary video of the video about the game, Vince found himself contemplating this remake. He says, “a dangerous thing happened… I realized the colors weren’t that far off of the Apple II hires palette. So I took a break from…

Brendon Bellina has announced the release of the HyperCard IIgs Extras. Best known for his Scipt-Central SE packages, Brendon mentions that this “Extras” stack release will greatly enhance the capabilities of HyperCard IIgs. According to the HyperCard IIgs Extras webpage, “Apple included many stacks for the Macintosh version of HyperCard that were never released for HyperCard IIGS. Many of the stacks from HyperCard 1.2.5 and earlier were packaged into a single stack named “Stack Templates” that was released with later…

From Jeremy Rand: ListenerGS version 1.0 is available: https://www.rand-emonium.com/2022/04/10/listenergs-version-1-0-released/https://www.rand-emonium.com/listenergs/ This app lets you do speech dictation to an Apple IIgs.  You must have a network interface on your GS and have Marinetti setup.  You also need a modern iPhone, iPad or Mac.  With that, you can do speech dictation in desktop application on your GS like Teach and Hermes. This was my KansasFest 2021 HackFest entry.  In the months since KansasFest, I have cleaned up the code and gotten it…

From Claudio Parmigiani: Dear friends, Antonino Porcino and I have the pleasure to share with you our latest project: Apple-1 microSD Storage Card. Main features: Compatible with Originals/Replicas Command Line Interface MS-DOS/Linux style Fast loading/saving of INTEGER BASIC / ML / etc. programs Full support of APPLESOFT LITE BASIC with dedicated load/save/menu FAT32 filesystem, directories/subdirectories supported Compatible with CFFA1/PRODOS naming system (CiderPress not needed) Very large storage capacity Built-in full RAM expansion, with possibility to replace the on-board RAM Full implementation of…

The Ample MAME Apple related interface for MAC OS has been updated. kelvin Sherlock released the latest version of Ample, Version 0.242 to align up with MAME 0.242 as well as to add a few new features to the program including: Software list search has improved of diacritics. Software list search skips over a leading “the” since it’s often inconsistent. Fixed some issues with the selected MIDI device being forgotten when devices change. ROM Manager now has a “Move to…

From the Kansasfest Committee: We are excited to announce that KansasFest 2022 will take place both in-person and remote this summer, July 19-24. Registration will open April 17. For the in-person event, we will be requiring either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours before your arrival. We will have testing kits available at check in, although it is strongly recommended that you take the test in advance. At this time we anticipate that masks will not…

From Brutal Deluxe Software: Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our third gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. You, Dirk the Daring, are on a quest to rescue the Fair Princess Daphne who has been kidnapped and is being held captive by Singe the Evil dragon. Get it at https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair/