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

For those of you who are 6502 fans, this project will be right up your alley. Many of us attend the vintage computer festivals and related events around the country each year and with Frank Eggen’s little project, we can now attend in style. According to his introduction of the project on Facebook: I am excited to announce the release of the final version 2.6 of my open-source project: “The MOS 6502 – 50th Anniversary Computer Badge.” This is a minimalist,…

Fredrik Ramsberg has announced the immediate release of the latest version of the PunyInform library for retro adventure programming. PunyInform is a library written in Inform 6 which allows authors to create text adventure games / interactive fiction using the Z-machine virtual machine, to be played on 8-bit computers as well as newer platforms. It provides a parser, implementations of common verbs, as well as a framework for writing text adventures. According to the release notes, the following items are…

The Clock Signal Emulator (CLK) for Mac OS has been updated. The CLK emulator is a clock signal accurate emulator created and curated by Tom Harte that emulates over 30 different retro computing platforms includes a number of updated features including: Additional features and platforms are forthcoming. The CLK Emulator and source code are available on the CLK GitHub page at: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

From Jawaid Bazyar:I am pleased to announce the availability of GSSquared v0.6.0. GSSquared is a complete emulator for the Apple II series of computers. It is written in C++ and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. This release is something of a maintenance release. There are some interesting user-visible additions, and there has been significant work done under the hood, in preparation for Apple IIgs emulation. The most notable changes to this over v0.5.0 are: * 100% accurate “Apple IIgs…

The Ample emulator interface for MAME on MAC OS has been updated. Ample version 0.283 is the 75th release of the interface and brings it in line with MAME version 0.283. Some of the current features of the Ample emulator interface include: Kelvin Sherlock, the curator of the project has made the latest version of the App available along with all source code on the Ample GitHub Page at: https://github.com/ksherlock/ample

The famed hacker A2_4am has announced the release of the latest version of his Wizardry Replay front end for playing Wizardry Games. Version 2.0 includes a number of updates including all of the Wizimore games as well as fixes allowing the games to run smoothly on the Apple IIgs. Some of the features of this latest release include: According to the GitHub page, this will run on any Apple II series computer with at least 64K of memory and a…

The latest version of the Apple II Desktop graphical user interface for the Apple II series computers is now available for download. Version 1.5 includes well over 100 new changes and updates over version 1.4 and now comes in 10 languages. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Desktop from the project’s GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d

Microsoft has announce that the Zork Trilogy will be Open Source from now one. According to the posting on their website: Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so…

From Randall Frank Announcing the general release of DIAFLW, an ‘adventure’ game for the Apple II. This is a game we wrote in 1986 and had been talking with SoftDisk magazine about publishing. College intervened and it sat on 5.25 media until 2024 when I found the original source code. It was refactored to cross-build on Windows/Linux and all the source code pushed to github (more details can be found there). Anyway, one can download the latest .2mg build image…

The Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS has been updated. This update brings the latest release in line with the 0.282 release of the MAME emulator. A custom version of MAME is included in Ample. The custom MAME build focuses on Apple II/Macintosh emulators but also includes a handful of other 8/16-bit home computers (BBC, Tandy, etc). There are also a handful of UI tweaks (such as menu items) and, for the Apple II, Uthernet II support. A note for…

Two new movies have been added to the Take-1 Movie Library, an A.P.P.L.E. produced repository of Take-1 related programs, utilities and animated movies. The three new movies come to us courtesy of one of the creators of the Karateka III alternative movie, Andy Cooper. The three new movies, Karateka III: The Return of Her, Road Warriors of the Barren Wasteland and Space Bounty Hunter, are a fun trip back to the mid to late 1980’s when animated movies were all…

The first beta for Apple II Desktop version 1.5 has been released. This release officially moves the version 1.5 release from slphs to beta and includes well over 100 changes to the application. Made for the Apple IIe and Apple IIc, Apple II Desktop gives retro Apple users a fully qualified graphical interface for their machines. Originally created in 1986, Apple II Desktop, also known as Mousedesk is now in its fourth modern day version round of updates and now…

After a multi-year effort to remaster GS+ Magazine and make it available digitally, the remaining issues of GS+ are now available – completing the collection. All issues have been remastered and re-typeset, with enhanced graphics. The 37 issues of GS+ Magazine published from 1989 through 1995, along with all of the floppy disk images for the magazine, are officially available in the A.P.P.L.E. Store, along with official GS+ T-shirts, mousepads and other goodies! You can purchase the entire “Ultimate” collection…

The Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange users group is proud to announce, in coordination with copyright holder Kevin M. Smallwood, the immediate availability of the GBBS Pro Newsletters from the L&L Productions days. These newsletters were intended for the sysops and GBBS Pro owners around the world. Now, for the first time, they are freely downloadable by the general public. There were 11 known issues of the GBBS Pro Newsletter published by L&L Productions in April 1987 to May 1988….

Chris Vavruska has released a version of the tile game Sokoban for the Apple IIgs. The release, which according the author, came out of a need to explore the Generic Tile Engine on the Apple II GS. According to him, “I have been wanting to play around with Lucas’ GTE for a while so I ported a version of the puzzle game Sokoban to the GS.” Also, as a quick witted Antoine Vigau pointed out, there is no sound in the…

The Clock Signal Emulator (CLK), a multi-platform emulator for Mac OS by Tom Harte has been updated. This update is primarily focused on the BBC Micro emulation and includes the following changes: CLK is a clock accurate emulator that supports a number retro computing platforms including the following: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles,…

The latest version of the Ample Emulation Interface for the MAME multiplatform emulation package on Mac OS has been updated. Ample 0.281 includes the following updates: You can download the latest version of the Ample package from the Github page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample

Snow, the open source Classic Macintosh Emulator has been updated. The Latest release, Version 1.1.0 includes a myriad of updates including the following: “Snow emulates classic (Motorola 680×0-based) Macintosh computers. It features a graphical user interface to operate the emulated machine and provides extensive debugging capabilities. The aim of this project is to emulate the Macintosh on a hardware-level as much as possible, as opposed to emulators that patch the ROM or intercept system calls. It currently emulates the Macintosh…

The latest version of the Tom Charsworth managed Applewin Emulator for Windows has been updated. This is fairly extensive update with the following changes being made to the system: Applewin has been one of the longest actively developed Apple II emulators and supports the Apple II through Apple IIe platforms. The is no support in this emulator for the Apple IIc, IIc+, IIGS or the Laser 128 series. The latest version of the emulator can be downloaded from the GitHub…

Fredrik Ramsberg, curator of the PunyInform library, has announced the latest edition of the PunyComp programming contest for PunyInform library users. The PunyComp 2025 event requires all submissions be made by the 1 December 2025. Voting by the public on the best submissions will begin shortly thereafter and will end on 1 January 2026. The winners will be announced after that. This years theme requires players of your game to interact with an animal within the game in order to…