Category: Emulation

The Applewin Apple2 Emulator has been updated to version 1.24.0.  Applewin is currently being maintained by Tom Charlesworth.  According to the posting on CSA2, this update is intended to address a number of issues with the emulator as shown below: 1.24.0 – 11 Jan 2014——————–Changes:. Support cursor keys (in addition to numpad) when using keyboard for joystick emulation. Support auto-fire for all 3 joystick buttons (via Config->Input). [Feature #5668] Added confirmation message box for reboot (F2). [Feature #5715] Added -no-printscreen-dlg…

Quite a lot has happened since last time. Let’s take a look at what’s new in the world of Apple II! David Schmenk has made an Apple II card that will interface with the Raspberry Pi. It is called Apple II Pi. A new utility called Spyglass is an online disk image browser that will show disassemblies, hi-res graphics, and BASIC listings. It is in beta and will be improved in the coming weeks. Option8 is selling Apple IIe card…

The world of Apple II is never dull; there are new projects and things happening each month! Let’s take a look at what’s going on this week:

The Virtual ][ Emulator for  Mac OS X has been updated.  Version 7.3 was released with a host of new fixes and updates including: The “No Slot Clock” now reports Monday as weekday no. 1. Previously it reported Sunday as day no. 1, which was incorrect. Added Applescript properties for better control of the connected devices. The application preferences now offer two color schemes for high resolution rendering. The Inspector now retains its window positions when the virtual machine is…

The Usenet newsgroup comp.binaries.apple2 contains about 2-3 thousand Apple II programs, but they’re tricky to download to an emulator or a real Apple II, owing to the fact that they’re all encoded with ASCII armor. Well thanks to Format Converter, technology that will decode all the Apple II and Macintosh file formats, these files from comp.binaries.apple2 can be easily downloaded to your computer as a ShrinkIt file. BinSCII files will be decoded (usually to ShrinkIt archives) and so will Executioner…

What is this file? That’s a good question when it comes to these Apple II files which often have pretty cryptic names, such as “Mmgrdosinst.” Earlier this month, file catalogs were added to show the contents of ShrinkIt archives and disk images, but that only helps a little. Having a screenshot of what the program looks like is a much more valuable asset. To that end, exactly 10,657 screenshots are now available for 4,668 8-bit Apple II programs in Mac…

Today’s Mac GUI Vault update brings enhanced file catalogs to over 70% of the 27,000 files currently in the Vault archive; that’s almost 19,000 files. These file catalogs are in the search database too, so you can use them to find the programs that you’re looking for. Some files, such as BinHex and BinSCII, will often have a description of the program in them; this description has also been copied out and is searchable. The following file formats are cataloged:…

Virtual Apple ][ has published a new Apple ][ game.  SHELL*SHOCK is a high paced action tank battle game for the Apple ][ computer.   Originally written in 1985 by Peter Blum, Alan Burkle, and Jonathan Dunaisky, the game has been largely unseen until this month when it was resurrected by the original authors and sent to Virtual Apple ][. SHELL*SHOCK is unique in the Apple ][ gaming realm as it allows users to battle each other in two player mode…

The first is more of an update than a review. Ubuntu 13.4 is out. For those into running Linux this has been a fairly successful update. Although I haven’t tried it there does not appear to be many complaints. Mint 15 (derived from this version of Ubuntu) should be out toward the end of May. The second is a program called Simutrans found at http://freecode.com. Alternatively it is available in the repositories if there is access to a Debian based…

Gerard Puter, developer of the Virtual ][ Emulator has released a maintenance update to the Apple ][ emulator.  Version 7.2.1 addresses an issue with sound compatibility in the emulator with Mac OS X 10.7. Virtual ][ is a Mac based Apple ][ Emulator which contains many advanced features including Print to PDF as well as interface card control.   The program is shareware and costs $49.95 for the full version of the program. You can download the latest version of the…

Gerard Puter, the developer of the Virtual ][ Emulator has released an update to the emulator.  Virtual ][ Version 7.1 is primarily a bug fix release witht he following items changed: Fixed an issue that could cause Apple II screen pixels to be randomly shown or hidden. Improved implementation of the “mounted OS X folder” feature to fix an incompatibility with EDASM. Some of the Applescript demos didn’t work in version 7.0; this has been fixed. Virtual ][ is a…

The Latest version of Brendan Robert’s Apple // Game Server  is now available from the Apple // Game Server Sourceforge website.  Of particular note with version 3.1 of Apple // Game Server is the requirement of Java 6 on machines using the Apple // Game Server progam. The Apple // Game Server allows the user to send floppies directly to the Apple II computer over a serial connection, eliminating the need for floppies to play games on an original Apple II series…

Brendan Robert has announced a minor bug fix update to the JAVA Apple Computer Emulator or JACE as it is known. The JACE 12-30-12 update includes the following fixes: + Leaving fullscreen mode caused a blue border to appear at the top, shifting the whole display area down.  This has been corrected.+ Mouse pointer was not properly positioned when in fullscreen mode, especially when proportional mode (F8) is active.  This is now fixed, with an optional fix to fix the…

The latest version of the Applewin Apple ][ emulator, version 1.22, have been posted in the Applewin SVN repository.  Changes in version 1.22 include: . [Feature #005557] Support DOSMaster image created by Apple Oasis. . [Feature #003272 and #005335] Support 2x windowed mode: – Toggle between 1x and 2x by using Resize button (or F6). – Full screen now enabled by CTRL+Resize button (or CTRL+F6). Fixes: . [Feature #004346] Don’t show mousetext for original Apple //e. . Fixed HDD firmware…

Brendan Robert has released a new version of his JACE or Java Apple Computer Emulator.  The latest update includes a number of fixes and enhancements as per his posting in CSA2: for more information about JACE or to download the program, check out Brendan’s JACE project page at:

Brendan Robert has released a new and improved version of his Java Apple II emulator.   ] 65c02 CPU emulation is now 100%, tested and verified thanks to Klaus Dormann’s test suite: https://github.com/redline6561/cl-6502/blob/b008…nctional_test.a65 ] Overall CPU usage is way down thanks to recent changes: Video generation rolled into main thread and this made things a lot more efficient Switched to older timer model, newer lock-based timers were considerably slower Memory listener model streamlined to be more efficient ] Skyfox now detects…

This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with David Schmidt, the programmer responsible for ADTPro. Beyond his own program, David has also contributed to the development of Davex, GSport, AppleCommander, CiderPress, OpenEmulator, DiscFerret, CFFA3000 — and much, much more. Collectively, the show’s hosts marvel at the deluge of Apple II games that are being ported to iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system … though we question the direction Jordan Mechner is taking the classic Karateka. Apple-1 computers continue to fetch…

The popular Apple II emulator for the Windows PC is now better than before with this latest version that incorporates the following improvements: Changes:  [Feature #4399] Allow Z80 SoftCard to be inserted into slot 4 or 5. (Allows CP/M v3 to work) Reworked Configuration (property sheets) to allow multiple hardware changes. Updated Help .chm with info on No-Slot clock. Fixes: Floating bus not returned for empty slot $Cnxx addresses. Fixes: – A2VGA.DSK: Apple][VGA card detection. – [Bug #018643] Mabel’s Mansion….

The Java Apple Computer Emulator also known as JACE has been updated.  According to Brendon Robert, the creator of the JACE Emulator, “This new version adds a new MetaCheat (free cheat) feature.  140kb 2MG floppy support has been improved to support prodos/dos ordering detection as well as volume numbers.” You can download the new MetaCheat feature as well see it documented in full  on the JACE homepage at: https://sites.google.com/site/brendanrobert/projects/jace

The latest version of Apple Disk Transfer (ADTPro) has been released.  According to the press release from David Schmidt, “This release understands ShrinkIt-shrunk disk images, and treats them  like any other disk image.  To be clear, ADTPro won’t create new SDKs – but it’ll unpack existing ones and write them to a real disk of  appropriate size.  Going the other way – from real disk to image – ADTPro will always create normal DOS-ordered (for 5.25″ disks) or ProDOS  ordered…