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

Diskbrowser version 1.51 has been released. The Apple II Diskbrowser is an Apple II disk image viewer created by Denis Molony, which runs on Mac OS X, Windows X, as well as Linux. It allows users to view the contents of varying types of Apple II series disk images including the John Morris created .WOZ format as well as .HDV hard disk images. Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.51 includes a host of bug fixes as well as additional Applesoft BASIC…

In the last issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine, we wrote about Jean-Lois Gassee and his involvement in the cancellation of the Jonathan project by Apple Computer Inc.. Today in the Monday Note blog, there was a long memoir, written by Jean-Louis himself in which he talks about his time at Apple. “I joined Apple 40 years ago on the day of the company’s IPO, December 12, 1980. As I signed my employment agreement in Geneva I was elated, ready, and relieved.”…

A new film about Apple co-founder Ron Wayne has been released. The film by Paul Johnson films, is appropriately entitled “Co-Founder“. The film covers the entry and exit of Ron Wayne with commentary from Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne himself. According to the blurb, “Ever had regrets about a business opportunity you took a pass on? In the 70’s Ronald Wayne and two young computer enthusiasts in Silicon Valley and formed a company. The two men were Steve Jobs and…

David Schmidt has announced the immediate availability of the ADTPro floppy disk creation / bootstrapping software. ADTPro allows users to make physical copies of floppy disk images on all Apple II/III series platforms. Included in this release are the following changes: [Server] Switched out rxtx in favor of jssc for hardware serial port access [Server] Better “change working directory” behavior on Windows [Client] Special characters and too-long filenames confused the file picker – addresses GitHub issue #53 [SOS Client] Using…

Raphael Rezende has created a new Apple II game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts content sponsored by Roby Williams. Moskão Fighter is an action batle game in the tradition of the Centepede type arcade game arena in which you are Moskão, a warrior who tries to prevent an army of spiders from attacking his people. Game play is through the Apple II keyboard. You use the arrows keys to move the Moskão and the space bar to…

Daniel Henderson has released a new game for the Apple II computer. Sliding Puzzle is a 16 square puzzle game which uses double low resolution graphics for the game. He has included 5 different faces for the game including the faces below: You can download version 1.2 of the Sliding Puzzle game from the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/games/SlidingPuzzle.dsk

The 8-Bit Unity team has announced that their latest version of their C based cross platform programming SDK for 8-Bit systems will include scrollable tile maps. According to the posting ont heir website: Thanks to a “quiet week”, I was able to make rapid progress on the next version of 8bit-Unity (0.4).The major new feature is Scrollable Tilemaps. I have implemented a super convenient asset pipeline: design your tile-set and maps in the excellent CharPad just ONCE, then 8bit-Unity takes…

Eric Donadieu has released a new Apple II game, 2048. This is a new look at the popular number combining games which are popular on iOS and Android devices. 2048 uses the arrow keys to shift the blocks, left, right, up, and down with the shifting combining like numbers in that direction. non-combining numbers are simply moved in the direction of the shift if there are empty squares in that direction. The game is a unique take on these quite…

Seattle, Washington — 11 November, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of the immediate release of “ProZAP: A ProDOS Block Read/Write Utility” Version 1.1 written by Gary Charpentier, Val J. Golding, Greg Kielian, and David Sparks in 1984. The latest version 1.1 release of ProZAP includes bug fixes by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software, which were in the earlier release. These fixes include: The ProZAP program called a p8 close call…

Michael Packard has announced the final release version of his new Apple II game, Lunar Rescue. Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie…

Apple has announced an event for November 10th, 2020 to be broadcast from Apple Park. Although not officially released as part of the announcement on their website, this is the event which is widely expected to be their Silicon based machine introduction. Several publications including Bloomberg and others are running with the idea that Apple will introduce the A14 Silicon based Laptops at this event. First announced at the 2020 rendition of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, the A14…

Daniele Liverani has announced the immediate availability of his latest version of the Genius Series arcade games for the Apple II . Genius 3 – Into The Toy Planets is a major continuation of the theme Daniele began more than 5 years ago. Each game that Daniele produces comes with not only the Game Disk in Apple II emulator ready format .DSK, but also a PDF instruction manual, a 5.25 inch floppy disk label PDF as well as a tip…

The fall 2020 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine has been released and is available for download by all A.P.P.L.E. Members. You will need to log into your A.P.P.L.E. Members account in order to access the magazine. This months issue includes a feature on the Apple Jonathan as well as a full featured article and expose of Rob Perissi’s Darth Vader GS build. About Call-A.P.P.L.E. Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine is a quarterly magazine published by the staff of the A.P.P.L.E. Users Group, an Official…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. New items in version 1.29.15 of the Tom Charesworth maintained Applewin Emulator include: [Change #764] Fully support the RGB cards, and introduce a new ‘Color (RGB Card/Monitor)’ dedicated video mode. [PR #837] Support for ‘Le Chat Mauve’ Eve and Féline RGB cards. [PR #826] Support for Video7’s SL7 RGB card. New command line switch to select RGB card type: -rgb-card-type: apple (default), sl7, eve, feline New command line switches for SL7: -rgb-card-foreground…

This episode marks the end of the quest to play every single Infocom game by the EBAG hosts Kay Savetz and Carrington Vanston. In this 39th Episode of the EBAG podcast, Kay and Carrington take a bit of a victory lap after completing every single one of the Infocom text-only adventures. As they say, “Turn on verbose mode and light the brass lantern, it’s time to take a look back at what they liked best, and least, from these classic…

Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie packaging in 5.25″ DOS 3.3 floppy disk format with instruction sheet signed by the author. Compatible…

The 543rd episode of the RetroMacCast has been released. In this Episode, James and John discuss eBay finds: Macintosh Portable prototype, interesting serial Mac HD, and Apple/Braun calculator. They recap the Apple Event, and news Newton, found Jobs audio, curved monitor G4 iMac, and more great NanoRaptor designs. To see all of the show notes and or to join the RetrMacCast Facebook page Check out the main webpage at RetroMacCast.

KbooHK has released a new Firmware update for his wDrive. Firmware version 1.0b5 mainly fixes smartport images that cannot be booted under the wDrive’s boot menu! wDrive (connect as drive A) has limitations with how it works with the Apple IIc when booting smartport images. When hdv/2mg files are selected in the boot menu, they cannot be booted in drive A until the selection on the adaptor switch is changed to to drive B(SMARTPORT). Under this circumstance, wDrive will use…

Walland Vrbancic has just released his latest version of Apple II DOS, DOS 4.3 File Management System.  DOS 4.3 is based on his earlier release of DOS 4.1H in 2019.  DOS 4.3 boots directly into Language Card memory.  It retains all of the enhancements found in DOS 4.1 with many more additional features.   Most notable are commands to directly modify disk sector data, update file time stamps at any time, control disk tracking to a single phase, configure eight areas of DOS that manage…

Denis Molony has released an update to his Apple II Diskbrowser program. The Apple II Disk Browser is a JAVA based app which will run on all platforms and allows users to view the contents of an Apple II disk image. Version 1.48 has a number of fixes as well as new features for Text Files which allow certain items such as the Byte count of the file to be turned off. For more information or to download the Apple…