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Joshua Bell has released the latest rendition of his ProDOS Drivers disk. The ProDOS Drivers version 1.3 includes a host of drivers for various cards in the Apple II series computers. Some of the drivers included in this version are: Real-time Clock drivers No-Slot Clock Cricket! Applied Engineering DClock RAM Disk drivers RAMWorks Driver by Glen E. Bredon Quit dispatcher/selector (BYE routines) 40-column Selector (from ProDOS) 80-column menu-driven Selector (from ProDOS 1.9 and 2.x) Bird’s Better Bye (a 40-column menu-driven selector)…

Bobbi Webber-Manners has released an update to her Applecorn emulator. Applecorn is an Apple II ProDOS based BBC Micro emulator that has multiple language capability within the emulator. The emulator features 32KB of program space and has been confirmed to work with the following BBC Based languages. BBC BASIC Acornsoft COMAL Acornsoft FORTH Acornsoft Lisp Acornsoft MicroProlog Acornsoft BCPL In addition the emulator should work with any single BBC ROM based language. The latest release of Applecorn adds the ACCESS…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Tom Charlesworth, the curator of the Applewin project has added additional configuration support to the latest release, version 1.30.4 as well as a host of other items: [Change #975] Extend Configuration’s Disk GUI to support a Disk II controller in slot 5. [Change #977] Add per-slot configuration to the Registry (and conf.ini). eg. “Last Disk Image 1” has moved from “Preferences” to “Configuration\Slot 6”. [Change #976] AppleWin’s help now documents Control-PrintScreen to copy the debugger’s…

The A2D project has released Apple II Desktop 1.2 Alpha 35. The latest version includes a slew of changes to the desktop as well as the launcher, selector and also updates and fixes to the Desk Accessories. Some of the changes include: DeskTop Fix list views showing as empty (regression in alpha34). Use more consistent alerts for all DeskTop warnings/errors. #207 Correctly restore all 14 devices in ProDOS DEVLST table on exit. #549 Make selection when opening items more consistent. #415, #544 Volume icons…

From Bobbi Manners on the CSA2 group on Usenet: I am pleased to announce the release of Emai//er v2.1.8. This is a bugfix release which fixes a little issue in the quoted-printable decoder.  Emai//er is an email and Usenet news suite for the Apple //e or IIgs with Uthernet-II ethernet card.  Download v2.1.8 here: https://github.com/bobbimanners/emailler (Naturally, I am posting this using Emai//er v2.1.8 on my //e.)  All the best, Bobbi 

Version 2.1 of the Burroughs 220 Simulator has been released. Michael J. Mahon, the author of the B220SIM App announced it in a posting on the Comp.sys.Apple2 group on usenet From Michael J. Mahon on the CSA2 Groups: it’s been a few years since I released version 1.2, which completed the simulation of the processor and rudimentary I/O of the Burroughs 220 computer. It correctly ran the machine diagnostics and had sufficient I/O capability to run an assembler and numerous sample programs.  What…

Most of us who grew up in the age of the early video games and especially the Atari 2600 console likely played Adventure as one of the first games on the console. The game used rather simplistic graphics but was a challenge until one figured out the patterns of the game. Now, Peter Hirschberg has given Apple IIgs users something to cheer for. GS.Adventure. This game contains all of the elements of the original Atari 2600 version but is 100%…

Kent Dickey has announced the release of the latest version of Kent’s Emulated GS (KEGS). KEGS version 1.11 for Mac and Linux include a host of updates and new features including the following: KEGS should support many international keyboards, converting your local keys to the US equivalents: [,],|, etc. Italian works least well, sorry. KEGS can choose character ROMs out of a ROMX-compatible file. Use F4, “Character ROM Selection”, and then pick the file and font. If you pick an…

Denis Molony has released the latest version of his Java based application, Apple II Diskbrowser. This application allows users to view the files on a myriad of standard Apple II disk types as well as combination hybrid disks containing both DOS and PASCAL as well as DOS and CPM. Diskbrowser version 1.60 adds CPM BASIC support and fixes a bug related to the date function in ProDOS. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser from the…

From the CSA2 group and Andy McFadden: This was a relative minor release. I bumped the minor version because of the compatibility break. Changes since v4.0.5:  * 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).  This version runs on Windows 7 and later. See http://a2ciderpress.com/ for downloads for the latest version as well as older versions that run on WinXP/Vista and…

Gerard Putter has announced the release of the latest version of his Virtual II Apple II Emulator. The latest release, Virtual II version 10.4, includes a number of fixes and improvements including: Improved the appearance and behavior of the main window toolbar. Created an option to save screen snapshots with an 8-pixel black border. Previously, some keys repeated when held down and some didn’t. This has been solved: all keys now repeat. Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks….

Atsushi Ushiroda of Ninja.info, introduced a 68008 card for the Apple II series computers. The card is based on the Q-68 card from Stellation II and adds an additional 1mb of onboard RAM to the design. The card is a 7mhz MC68008 with 32kb and 1mb of RAM and runs runs on the entire desktop based Apple II series computers including the Apple II, IIe, and IIgs. The card is available from nanja.info for $200 including the shipping costs from…

If you have ever wanted to own some verifiable Steve Jobs Autographs and a real working Apple-1 computer, now is your chance. RR Auction is having an auction beginning August 12th which contains a host of memorabilia including the Apple-1 owned by Roger Wagner as well a total of 6 Steve Jobs Autographs. This particular Apple-1 came from the 2002 VCF Auction and was acquired by Roger, restored by Corey Cohen who took over the Apple-1 Database for Mike Wilegal….

Stefan Weasels has released an update to his Manic Miner re-work. Manic Miner was originally written for the ZX-81 in 1983 by Matthew Smith, this version maintains all of the original spirit of the ZX version and makes a very playable Apple II version. According to the author: The 1.1 Release was meant to be what’s in this release but I bungled it, so now a 1.1A release; The render loop has been unrolled and therefor the game does not…

Gerard Putter, Curator of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator app has released a new version with a number of small improvements and bug fixes requested by users of the App. Some of the fixes include: Added a pull down menu to save an Apple II screen as a PNG file. Previously, this function was only available through Applescript. If the “shift key modification” has been configured, the initial value of game controller button #2 was incorrect. This has been fixed….

BBC Micro fans who are also Apple IIe users can now rejoice. Bobbi Manners has released her Applecorn emulator which is as she says, “It is basically my little program pretends to be the BBC Micro’s Machine O.S. (MOS) so the language ROMs can run.  So far I have gotten BBC BASIC, COMAL, Forth and MicroProlog running.” The program does require the 128K Enhanced Apple IIe and uses the BBC BASIC v2 from the BBC Micro. It will leave 32K…

For those of you who have been following Daniel Gordon’s Realm release, there is a new version of Realm: Rays of Nightmare available for both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. According to the release notes accompanying the release, “This release provides automatic combat resolution, some new potions, and support for the ProDOS RAM disk. It adds interface improvements, balancing, and a little different Iron Tower magic. The RAM disk works on emulators, but testing on real hardware is still pending.” In…

Rand-Emonium Software has announced the release of the latest version of the Apple II gs game BuGS. According to the press release from Jeremy Rand, curator of Rand-Emonium Software in the Kansasfest list, This bug fix addresses a problem where a failure where the network interface cannot be brought up at all was treated as a “soft error” that could be fixed with a retry.  This lead to a situation where you could get repeated prompts due to a score…

Rand-emonium Software has announced the release of the Apple IIgs Build Pipeline for Xcode version 3.0. The Apple IIgs Pipeline is a package, which allows users to create their Apple IIgs software in Xcode and to build disk images that are end user ready. Some of the updated features included in Apple IIgs Build Pipeline version 3.0 include: Support for the mame emulator along side GSport and GSplus. The build now creates a separate distribution disk image from the boot…

The latest alpha release of the Apple II Desktop has been released. Version 1.2 Alpha 31 is now available for download from the Apple II Github page at https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d. Changes in this latest release include the following: General Various string updates. DeskTop Don’t use “shift key mod” on Laser 128 (since mouse button is detected as BUTN2 as well) Clip long paths in dialogs. Fixes Adjust fixed list view line width to handle wide dates. Desk Accessories This Apple DA:…