Category: Emulation
Aaron Culliney has updated the release notes and source for version 2.1.0 of the Apple2ix Emulator for Android based devices. The emulator was developed originally to run on Android 4.0+ based devices also now runs on x86 and ARM Android devices, x64 macOS 10.9+, and x64 GNU/Linux. Improvements made in the emulator are related to the Joystick button functionality in the emulator. You can download the latest version of the Apple2ix emulator from the Apple2ix Github page at: https://github.com/mauiaaron/apple2
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.29.4 was released with a variety of fixes including: [Change #702] Debugger: In soft-switch display (row-80), show a red ‘x’ when AltZP (and AltLC) is enabled. [Change #666] Debugger: When video-scanner position is off-screen then show v,h as yellow (was red). [PR #710] Debugger: Added BPMR and BPMW to break on a read or write (respectively) to a memory address or range. The Applewin Github Site You can download the Applewin…
The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator has been released. Tom Charlesworth, curator of the Applewin project, released version 1.29.3 with a slew of fixes and changes to the emulator including: [Change #692] Added command line switch to unplug HDD controller card on exit: [Change #689] Added command line switches to set CPU speed and machine type: [Change #666] Debugger: support showing video v,h and cycle count. [Bug #700] Fixed ProDOS8 2.5.0 alpha6: [Bug #695] Fixed WOZ ‘Taipan’…
The Applewin Apple II emulator has been updated. Applewin version 1.29.2.0 was released with a bevy of updates and fixes including: [Change #678] Hotkeys to change emulation speed: [Change #671] Register .woz extension with AppleWin. Updated AppleWin.chm & DELREG.INF. [Bug #685] Fixed support for French Touch’s “CHIP” demo (Mockingboard / multi-TIMER interrupt support). [Bug #677] Loading a save-state wasn’t restoring the pending IRQ. [Bug #672] For WOZ images: all even disk I/O read accesses will now read the data latch….
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator for Mac OS X has been updated. Gerard Putter, curator of the Virtual II emulator, has released version 9.2 of his shareware emulator application. Changed and updates included in the version 9.2 release include: The application is now compatible with (the public beta of) macOS 10.15 Catalina. Fixed an issue in the Mockingboard card that could cause the sound quality to degrade after a few minutes of play. Corrected a memory-related issue in the…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.29.1.0 was released with the following changes to the emulator: Fixed WOZ ‘Wizardry III’ not booting. Fixed WOZ ‘Space Quest I’ not booting reliably. Fixed PAGE2 not displaying correctly when in full-speed mode. Applewin is a Windows based Apple II emulator and should run on nearly every Windows platform. You can download the latest version of the Applewin emulator as well as all of the source code from the Github page…
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…
Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau has announced the release of the first batch of Applesauce disk images from his personal collection. The entire collection of disk images is available and freely downloadable from Archive.org’s repository at:https://archive.org/details/Antoine_Vignau_3.5_Floppies_Flux_May_2019_Batch
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…
Melody Ayers-Griffiths, co-publisher of the Paleotonic computer magazine, has converted the Peter Gunn theme to Chiptune. The conversion of the theme song was performed with a converter program inside of the Apple II emulator created by Paleotronic, the Microm8 Emulator. to listen to the conversion, click on the embedded sound player below or go to the Soundcloud website at:https://soundcloud.com/girlybits/peter-gunn
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….
