Category: Emulators

Applewin, the Apple II emulator for Windows machines, now has support for John Morris’ WOZ Format. The Applewin emulator is curated by Tom Charlesworth and a host of other well known Apple II community programmers. Changed in the latest release, version 1.29.0.0 include: WOZ1 and WOZ2 formats supported. read-only: images forced to write-protected (so ‘Stickybear Town Builder’ doesn’t work). only 5.25″ (not 3.5″). known issues: ‘Wizardry III’ not booting. You can download the latest version of the Applewin emulator as…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated. Version 1.28.5.0 was released with a host of video related fixes and changes including the following: [Change #631] Improvements for the RGB AppleColor card: Relax the video-mode precondition to just ignore if VF_MIXED (previously required HIRES on) for Apple II Desktop. Changing from DHGR B&W mode to HGR remains in B&W (color burst is off). For ‘50% scan lines’, don’t blend in NTSC B&W mode, as this was inconsistent with…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated.  Version 1.28.4 was released as a bug fix with the following changes to the emulator: [Change #616] Improved accuracy for ‘RGB (Color Monitor)’ for hires. [Bug #611] Holding down F9 to cycle through the video modes results in occasional flicker with garbage. [Bug #627] Rainbow demo not working correctly when vertical blend is enabled. [Bug #628] Filename suffix check for .gz and .zip needs to be case-insensitive. Applewin is for Windows based…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.28.2 was released today with a few changes and fixes. According to the Github, these include the following: [Change #616] Support vertical blending for ‘RGB (Color Monitor)’ for hires. Support the old AppleWin 1.25 vertical blending for hires via a ‘Vertical Blend’ checkbox. [Change #621] Support RGB AppleColor card’s 160-color pixel mode by squashing 640 pixels into 560 pixels. Squashing is done by losing every 8th pixel. [PR #623] Do not…

The Apple-1 Emulator That Doesn’t Suck or ETSD has been updated. The project receivd a bit of an update this week with the v6502 getting a submodule bump and the Apple-1 Emulator Xcode project file getting a version update. The Apple-1 ETDS is an Apple-1 emulator by Daniel Loffgren and uses curses for output. The program is freely downloadable from the Apple-1 ETDS GitHub page at:https://github.com/RyuKojiro/apple1

Gerard Putter, author of the Virtual II Emulator, has announced another patch release. Version 9.1.2 is set to address a few issues according to the author: It appeared that ProDOS diskette access often failed. This was due to the rewrite I did of the disk head stepper motor (to implement quarter-track access). In the new code I mixed up two variables, and as a result the head position and the stepper phase were not always in sync. This especially affected…

The Virtual II Emulator has been updated. Version 9.1.1 of Virtual II is intended to address a couple of issues that came up in version 9.1. It is recommended that all users update their emulator with this patch version. Also, for those users who are having problems with the ROM not being found by the emulator on startup, you should be using the Application Support based ROM file for Virtual II to store the ROMs for the emulator. The directory…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.28.1 has been released and is primarily a bug fix release. Items changed in this release include : [Change #523] Support Extended 80-Column Text/AppleColor Card’s DHGR Mixed mode and 560×192 Mono mode. [PR #620] Corrected a few symbol names in APPLE2E.SYM for the 80STORE and 80COL I/O addresses. [Bug #617] Apple II,II+ keyboard: up/down arrow keys are now ignored. The Applewin project is currently being maintained by Tom Charlesworth and a…

The Virtual II emulator has been updated. The penultimate Apple II emulator for Mac OS X, Virtual II has a number of new features and changes including the following: Disk drives can be configured with a “read only” switch. While the virtual machine runs, just flip the switch to “on” to prevent the disk from being modified. The “Make All Drives Read-Only” entry in the Quick settings menu is a shortcut to protect all mounted disks in one go, essentially…

Daniel Loffgren has developed a new Apple-1 emulator that as he says “That Doesn’t Suck”. The Apple-1 emulator uses curses (Cursor Optimization) for output and can be transported cross platform. The Apple-1 TDS also comes with a built in machine debugger allowing users a larger insight into their programs and the machine. The Apple-1 TDS comes in two parts. The first is the main Apple-1 TDS system and the second is the 6502 virtual machine. Both sections will need to…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin is an Apple II emulator for Windows based systems and should run on just about any of the newer Windows operating systems. Version 1.28.0.0 was released as a major release and has the following changes in the program: [Change #357] Resurrected the AppleWin 1.25 “Color (Standard)” video mode as “Color (RGB Monitor)”. This is equivalent to emulating RGB video, ie. a video mode with sharp text and pixels. NB. Unlike AppleWin…

The Virtual II Apple II emulator has been updated. Version 9 is a major update to the Virtual II emulator . It includes the ability to convert Apple II floppy disks on the fly as well as the ability to index the disks. This update includes a bevy of updates including: Introduction of the “peripherals” side bar, combining the contents of the device and performance drawers. Due to Apple deprecating the drawers feature in macOS 10.14, these drawers have been removed….

The Epple II Emulator installer has been updated.   Epple II is an Apple II and II plus emulator written in C++ and is buildable to either Linux or Windows systems.  The Epple II emulator was created and is maintained by Christopher Mosher. Some of the features of Epple II are: Cycle-accurate: emulates all MOS 6502 CPU cycles including “phantom reads” Video display is synchronized with CPU NTSC video signal emulation: all video quirks emulated accurately Revision 0 motherboard (optional) Multiple…

The Apple IIix project, curated by Aaron Culliney of Deadcode.org, has been updated.   Apple IIix is an Apple II Emulator for POSIX devices.   Currently, the Android Release Candidate for version 2.0 is available on the Apple IIix website. For more infromation or to download the latest version of Apple IIix, go to the github page at: https://github.com/mauiaaron/apple2

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated.  Applewin version 1.27.12.0 includes a few changes to the program including: [Change #574] Add support for PAL/European or custom 8K video ROMs: Added new command line switch: -videorom <file> Replaces the video ROM for the Enhanced //e. Support video ROM sizes of 4K, 8K and 16K (top 8K only). NB. The rocker switch is set to the European video ROM position. F10 (for //e or Enhanced //e models) emulates the PAL //e’s…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated.  Version 1.27.10.0 has been released by Tom Charlesworth, curator of the Applewin project.   Included in this update are the following items: [Change #590] Apple II original: default to 48K (so no LC installed in slot-0). Added new command line switch: -s0 <languagecard|lc> (‘lc’ is an alias for ‘languagecard’) When LC is in slot-0, it now use the Apple II+’s F8 (auto-start) ROM [Change #408] Support Saturn 64K and 128K cards in slot-0….

The Gryphel Project has announced the immediate availability of Mini vMac version 36.04.  The latest version comes with a slew of changes, fixes and updates including interchange of data to and from the emulator via the Clipboard of the actual machine. For more information or to download the latest version of Mini vMac, check out the Mini vMac webpage at: https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html

The Virtual II Emulator has been updated.  Virtual II version 8.6 is a highly rated shareware Apple II emulator and has received a host of Bug fixes and enhancements including: Added a keyboard shortcut to enter and exit full screen. The Inspector’s instruction trail now also shows the processor cycle count at the start of each instruction. The instruction trail can now be saved as a tab-separated text file. Increased the maximum capacity of the instruction trail to 9999999 instructions…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated.  Version 1.27.7.0 has been posted by Applewin’s curator, Tom Charlesworth.   Included in this update are the following bug fixes: [Bug #564] Fixed ‘Save State on Exit’ not working correctly when there’s a Configuration change to the hardware. [Bug #556] Reverted default so that ALT+TAB is not hooked Support new command line switch: -hook-alt-tab to support hooking ALT+TAB. [Bug #558] Reverted default so that ALT GR’s fake LEFT CONTROL is not…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated.  Version 1.27.6.0 of Applewin, is primarily  a maintenance release which addresses a few bugs including [Bug #570] Fixed lag when repeat-stepping in debugger. [Bug #558] Fixed ClosedApple + <key> not working (when using right ALT key). Applewin is made for the Windows operating system and can be downloaded for free from the Applewin Github releases page at: https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases