Author: A.P.P.L.E.
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/
The Witch Trial adventure game from Dan Henderson has been updated. The latest version of the game, version 1.1, was released to address some game play issues as well as some technical issues on the Apple IIc computer. These issues were causing the initial release of the game to crash when played on real Apple IIc hardware due to the way the IIc handles the screen. Witch Trial was featured at the monthly A.P.P.L.E. meeting with both Dan Henderson and…
Denis Molony has released a new version of the Apple II Diskbrowser App for the Macintosh. The latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser, version 1.62, includes the ability to view Pascal based WOZ format disks. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser app from the Github page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/
The March Meeting for the A.P.P.L.E. User Group Meeting was held online with the meeting being brought to order by Bill Martens. The initial items on the agenda were the releases of the February and March issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. It was announced that both of these issues would be posted the first week of April due to the size of the files, and the problems working from a laptop creates. Announcements: The new peeking at Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine prints for 1978…
Joshua Bell has released the latest build of the Apple II Desktop graphical interface application. Apple II Desktop 1.2 alpha 43 includes the following changes: General New folder structure. App modules are in MODULES/, configuration files in LOCAL/, optional components now in EXTRAS/. IIgs: Enable monochrome composite display Menu bar clock is right-aligned. Text input fields: Mouse cursor obscured when typing. Appearance and movement of insertion point is improved. Control+X (or Clear key on IIgs) clears text. File pickers: Ignore non-pathname characters typed in pathname fields….
