Category: Emulation

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…

From the Glyphel Project: 7 May 2017 Today’s Mini vMac 3.5.5 beta has three bug fixes. After emulating an ADD instruction, if the value of the X flag was needed later, but in between there was another instruction that set the other flags not including the X flag, the lazy evaluation of the X flag was incorrect. This broke signing with MacPGP. While fixing this, I put in some debugging code to allow disabling lazy flag evaluation, so one can…

Gerard Putter has released a new version of the Virtual II Emulator.  The latest version, 7.6 is specifically updated to run on Mac OS X 10.11 and newer. Version 7.6 includes the following fixes and updates: This upgrade requires OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or better. Rewrote the full-screen feature; it now works for individual windows, using the familiar green button in the window title. The main window can now be resized freely, and is not limited anymore to the…

Gerard Putter has announced the release of the latest version of his Virtual II emulator.  Virtual II is a Mac OS X based Apple II emulator which features a bevy of features not found on other emulators including realistic sounds, multiple speed, print to PDF among others. Version 7.5.4 includes a number of changes and fixes including: A new option allows forwarding all Command-key combinations to the virtual machine as “Open Apple” key combinations, instead of being handled by the…

The Lisa Emulator website announced a version of the LisaEm for the Rasberry Pi.  The emulator, based on version 1.2.6 of the LisaEm product has been built to run on a number of plaforms over the years, however, this is the first update of the product in about 7 years or so.  You can download LisaEm as well as get instuctions on setup on the LisaEm website at:http://lisa.sunder.net/

Parallels has released an update to their Parallels Desktop for the Mac.  Version 11.0.2 addresses a host of issues and program stability.  Fixes to the program include the following: Resolves an issue with mouse cursor positioning in Windows 10 when using all displays in Full Screen Resolves an issue with dragging and dropping from a virtual machine to OS X in Coherence Resolves an issue with installing an OS X El Capitan virtual machine from the .app image Resolves an…

While we normally do not talk about devices that are not Apple produced, this story of emulation caught our eye.  Corbin Davenport has managed to get the Open Mini VMac III emulator to run on his Android Wear.  While the sight of the old school Mac OS System 6.0.3 booting on an android device might be almost sacrilegious to the true Apple Fan, it is still pretty cool.  However, at the same time, Corbin seems to be a bit finger…

Gerard Putter has updated the Virtual II emulator.  The latest update to version 7.5.2 includes the following fixes: Fixed an issue that could cause the virtual procesor to get stuck in an endless loop. The right arrow key did not work correctly when used for game control. This has been fixed. Virtual II is an Apple II emulator for Mac OS X and is $49.95 for the full version.  You can download the shareware version or the update from the…

Gerard Putter has updated the Virtual II emulator for the Mac.  Version 7.5 has been released with Version 7.5.1 hot on its heels to fix an issue in the 7.5 release. Included in the two releases are the following updates and fixes: 7.5 Support for two Mockingboard cards in one machine, in order to listen to max. 12 channels. Corrected an issue with double low resolution colors. Added an experimental feature: the super serial card emulation can now work with…

Nishida Radio, makers of the disk emulator, UNISDisk, have announce that all units have sold out for 2014.  No new orders will be taken for some time.  According to Koichi Nishida’s posting on his website, he needs some time off to deal with some health issues that have arisen. For more information about the UNISDisk or orther Nishida Radio products, check out their website at: http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/english.html

The Virtual Apple II website database version 1.27 is now available.  Those users who are using emulator apps which rely upon the Virtual Apple II database for their apps and data can download the latest version.  This latest update includes new data for over 200 apps as well as a number of new games that were not in the previous version. Virtual Apple is an online disk repository for the Apple II computer which features disks, manuals, as well as…

AppleIIGo version 1.0.9 has been fully implemented.  AppleIIGo is the emulator which currently runs the Java based version of the Virtual Apple II pages. Updates to the emulator include: – fixed disk speed-up bug (Sherwood Forest reads with the drive motor off) – added check for 2IMG header ID – fixed processor status bugs in BRK, PLP, RTI, NMI, IRQ The source code for the emulator will be available once we confirm that there are no issues with this release. …