Category: Emulation
Oliver Schmidth posted a note about Contiki 2.5.rc1 being made available for download this morning. The suite allows complete connectivity for vintage computer platforms via ethernet to the Internet. The full release follows: Contiki 2.5.rc1 binary release for Retrocomputing’ has just been made available on http://contiki.cbm8bit.com/ and http://a2retrosystems.com/contiki.html It’s a straight compile of the unmodified Contiki 2.5.rc1 sources avialable on http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/contiki/Contiki/Contiki%202…. using cc65 2.13.2 The major changes are: – Support of the Atari 8-bit machines with the cart described on…
by A.P.P.L.E. Staff The Apple II software imaging software, ADTPro has once again been updated. The current version handles Apple II’s and Apple ///’s and works over either Cassette port audio cables, Ethernet or Serial connection. The new version includes the following features: New functionality: * [Client] Implemented native assembly ProDOS selector/ launcher eliminating the need for Applesoft; results in 30% faster booting and executing from floppy * [Client] Laser 128 machines can now use their native modem port at…
The Virtual Apple ][ website has been upgraded to allow emulation on all platforms for their Apple ][ section. The emulation site which is popular among educators for their games and ease of use in the classroom has long been criticized for their support of only Windows based platforms. That has all changed thanks to the efforts of Marc Ressl and Nick Westgate. Using a modified version of Marc’s AppleIIGo emulator, the new Virtual Apple ][ website now runs on…
The latest version of the popular Macintosh based Virtual ][ emulator has been released. Version 6.3.6 has a number of changes including: * The program now accepts “dsk” image files with 41 tracks (the maximum so far was 40). * A recent Snow Leopard upgrade broke the “Make Movie from Apple II Screen” feature. This has been fixed. * Cassette tape files now get file name extension “cass” instead of “aif”. As a result, the cassette tape icon appears correctly…
MountIt 1.3 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from 32KB to the maximum RAM available), only ProDOS based. Up to sixteen volumes can be added to the system. MountIt mounts volumes as read-only if the original disk image file is locked. Otherwise, the disk image file is mounted as read/write and the following operations can be performed: read, write and format. MountIt is not ProDOS 8…
Over the last several months, I have entertained several requests for information about Apple to PC transfers and vice-versa. Though several packages are available to perform this task, there is only one that we think is as seamless as it gets. Apple Disk Transfer (ADT) by Paul Guertin is one of the simplest packages to use. Although many Apple II web sites still have software in Shrinkit (.SHK) format, the .DSK format is catching on. There are currently 3 packages…
