Category: Emulators

Gerard Putter, creator and curator of Virtual II the emulator, has announced a new version of the software.   Virtual II is the premier Apple II emulator for Mac OS X and has been consistently updated for more than 10 years now. Version 8.5 was released today with a host of patches and fixes including: Added Dark Mode support for macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Woz disk image files are now shown correctly (enabled) in the disk open panel. Reading an empty diskette…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated.  Verison 1.27.5.0 is now available to all users.  This update of Applewin includes a host of bug fixes including the following: [Bug #567] Fixed Mockingboard/6522: Reading the 6522’s IER now returns 0x80|IER. [Bug #556] Allow system key combinations to be read: Open Apple (left ALT) + ESC/SPACE/TAB. Also fixes #145, #198, #448. Support new command line switches: -no-hook-system-key, -alt-enter=<open-apple-enter|toggle-full-screen> Fix for save-state which wasn’t correctly saving last key. [Bug #555] Reverted 1.27.4’s…

The Applewin Emulator has been updated to Version 1.27.4.0. This version focuses on items related to the Super Serial Card and the recent interest in BBS and Modem related topics. The latest release of Applewin includes a host of improvements and fixes including: Fix for showing 559th DHGR vertical column. But now an HGR HCOLOR=2 vertical line at column 0 is only 1 DHGR pixel wide. Fix TEXT80 to be aligned with DHGR. Fix FLASH in TEXT80 (the inverse aux-memory…

The latest version of the Virtual II Emulator has been released.  Virtual II is a Shareware full featured Apple II emulator which offers users near real hardware experiences on Mac OS X.  The latest release, version 8.4 contains a host of changes including Improved “woz” disk image compatibility; the application now deals better with several copy-protection schemes. If a woz disk’s internal write protect property has been set, QuickLook now shows the disk without a write-protect notch, to indicate that…

Gerard Putter has released the latest update to his Virtual II emulator for Mac OS X.   Virtual II is an Apple II Emulator which is completely standardized GUI and allows the user to experience both the sights and the sounds in addition to the actual functionality of the original Apple II Computer. Virtual II version 8.3 contains a bevy of updates and fixes including: Support for the “woz” disk image format. The woz format and implementation guide was created by…

Gerard Putter has released a new version of his Virtual II Emulator, an Apple II emulator with high quality interface and one of the most capable emulators for Mac OS X.  The latest version, according to Gerard does not yet support WOZ files but is being released due to his desire to keep it functioning at near perfection: I decided to issue a bug-fix release. The new version also has an improved way for installing the ROM files – I…

The latest release of the Applewin emulator is now available.  Version 1.27.2.0 of Applewin includes a host of updates including: [Change #522] SSC: Support ACIA’s TX Empty interrupt for both COM and TCP modes. [Change #311] SSC: Support ACIA’s CTS/RTS. [Bug #308] Fixed TCP mode which was only generating an IRQ for first byte received. SSC: Fixed reading DIPSW registers. SSC: Support ACIA’s Program Reset (write to register 9). SSC: Improved logging for unsupported modes (Echo, Tx break signal). Changes…

The source code for Mini vMac emulator version 3.6 Alpha is available for download from the Gryphel project website.  This version is only an alpha and is not yet an official release but is available for those who want to build it and test out new features and bug fixes in the app. Mini vMac emulates a Mac Plus on multiple platforms and can run up to Mac OS 7.5.5 and runs on Mac OS X.  The Gryphel project, run…

Alan Garfield has managed to put together another Apple-1 implementation, this one completely in Verilog.   The project sucessfully runs both the Woz Monitor and Integer BASIC.  Font and Color support has also been added to the project. Thus far, there have been two boards which have been tested and successfully work with this implementation of Apple-1 Emulator.  You can see the implementation of one of them in the photo below: If you would like to try this out for yourself,…

Tom Charelsworth has updated the Applewin Apple II Emulator.  Version 1.27.0.0 includes a host of changes and fixes including: Full release that rolls-up all the changes and fixes from the 1.26.2 & 1.26.3 experiment builds. Changes to the system include: [Change #428] Added Config Input option to use PC Joystick 1 Thumbstick 2 for emulated Joystick 2 play Nick Westgate’s updated Robotron using gamepads with two analog thumbsticks, eg. Logitech F310, PS4 DualShock 4, Xbox controller [Change #528] Improved logging…

The Mini vMac emulator version 3.5.8, although not officially announced, is available for download from the Gryphel project website. Mini vMac emulates a Mac Plus on multiple platforms and can run up to Mac OS 7.5.5.  The Gryphel project, run by Paul Pratt, also now has a variations service which will compile the latest version of Mini vMac for your machine. For more information about the Gryphel Project, check out their website at: http://www.gryphel.com To download the latest version of…

espple is a new Apple-1 Emulator which runs on the ESP8266 NodeMCU LUA CP2102 ESP-12E Wi-Fi module from HiLetgo.  The creation of Hrvoje Cavrak, espple is perhaps the cheapest physical hardware which emulates the Apple-1 computer to date and the only one to run completely wirelessly. The chip which costs less than 10$ per unit can be used to transmit the display signal via a short length of wire as a 60MHz  signal to either a PAL or NTSC analog…

Gerard Putter has updated the Virtual II Apple II emulator for Mac OS X to version 8.1.  The latest release of the Virtual II emulator addresses a host of items addressed by A.P.P.L.E.’s Brian Wiser and others, as well as some items that were causing the app to crash.  According to the Virtual II website, changes include: Added a preference to use the H.264 codec for making a screen movie, even if the HEVC codec is available. Added a preference…

While not a new release, Mini vMAC for iOS 2.2.4 was released in October and is available as an XCode project.  The port of vMAC, the Mac Plus emulator, was released to the wild by its author, Jesús A. Álvarez, complete with source code and XCode Project build files due to the fact that Apple does not really allow emulation on iOS. Recent adjustments to the project include the correcting of the scaling of the screen just over a month…

A minor update to the Virtual II emulator for Mac OS X has been released.   Version 8.0.1 was released by Gerard Putter just two days after the previous release with a fix for an issue which was causing problems with certain platforms.   According to the author, there was a blooper in 8.0 that caused the Apple ][ and ][+ to hardly work anymore. This was dues to an “improvement” in the 6502 emulation, namely the introduction of a “false…

Virtual II, the Apple //e emulator for Mac OS X created by Gerard Putter, has been updated.   Version 8.0 includes a bevy of updated features including: A disk image file can now be double-clicked in the Finder to start a virtual machine with that disk inserted. Added the feature to speak the text on the Apple II screen, using the Mac voice synthesizer. Fixed an issue that could cause a new virtual machine window to appear with a very small…

Tom Charlesworth, the curator and programmer of  the Applewin Apple IIe emulator, has released a new experimental version of the application.   Applewin 1.26.3.6 has a number of changes and fixes included in it including: Changes: [Bug #504] Full-screen: hide mouse pointer after 2 seconds of inactivity (and show again if mouse is moved) [Bug #469] New -no-printscreen-key switch to prevent the PrintScreen key from being registered. [Bug #488] New -fs-height=<best|nnnn> switch to select a better resolution for full-screen mode. best:…

Tom Charlesworth has released a new experimental version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator.  Applewin Version 1.26.3.5 is available on the Applewin website and includes the following changes: [Bug #504] Full-screen: hide mouse pointer after 2 seconds of inactivity (and show again if mouse is moved) [Bug #469] New -no-printscreen-key switch to prevent the PrintScreen key from being registered. [Bug #488] New -fs-height=<best|nnnn> switch to select a better resolution for full-screen mode. best: picks the highest resolution where the height…

The Applewin Apple II emulator has been one of the longest surviving of the Apple II Emulators and this year has seen a particularly large amount of work on the program.   Driven by Tom Charlesworth, there have been a number of experimental releases including the latest 1.26.3.4 which contains a myriad of bug fixes and changes including Fixes to the UI Changes to the device features so that detached HDD’s give appropriate error message Status Indicator fixes Fixes to the…

The Gryphel Project has announced the availability of a new version of Mini vMac, macintosh emulator.  Mini vMac 3.5.7 allows users to emulate a Macintosh Plus on a variety of platforms including Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.  A number of ports to other platforms are also available via the Grypel Project links page. According to the posting on the Grypel Proroject website by Curator, Paul Pratt, “Mini vMac 3.5.7 is now officially released. That is, it is now declared…