Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a manual designed by Brian Wiser for “Witch Trial” – an Apple II adventure game by Dan Henderson, Dr. Marc A. Golombeck, and Roby Sherman. The 45 page manual is printed in color on premium paper, and includes a complete […]
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a manual for “Ringoban” – a game written by Mike Beaumont in 2021. Ringoban is an Applesoft BASIC version of the game Sokoban for the Apple II. This version by Mike Beaumont contains 90 levels of brain-warping fun. Work through […]
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new manual for the game “Terminal Boredom” written by Karl Bunker in 1986 for the Apple II computer. Terminal Boredom is an illustrated game of the “adventure” type. However, rather than the usual slay-the-dragon / destroy-the-giant-robot / find-the-hidden-treasure stuff […]
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new manual for “Trik: Contract Bridge” written by Jim Hilger in 1980 for the Apple II computer. Trik is a full-featured single player Contact Bridge game. Features include playing a straight up game, building a hand, duplicating other games, […]
The Nox Archaist team announced has announced their new expansion pack for Now Archaist, Lord of Storms. According to their website, You have learned of Lord Estintar’s suspicions that the cult has something to do with the increase in storm activity. He charges you with investigating. The task will not be easy, but you accept […]
Brutal Deluxe Software has made the original source code for the French adventure game, Le Manoir de la Crapule, available for download. Originally written in 2017 by Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, the engine in the game is an 8-bit engine which upports 40/80-col modes, loads pics from 40-col to SHR, recognizes three words within […]
If you have not played a Davide Bucci adventure yet, you re really missing something. Created in the old style of Interactive Fiction games, Davide has created a number of adventures including his multi platform title, The Queen’s Footsteps. Synopsis of the game: “ Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, […]
Huw Williams has once again been at the computer and created a masterpiece map for an Eamon adventure. This week’s target is EAMON Adventure number 206, Curse of Hellsblade. Curse of Hellsblade is an adventure which was originally created for the Knight Quest system , a highly advanced version of EAMON style text adventure system, […]
Huw Williams of the EAMON Wiki website has released a new re-done map for the 93 adventure in the EAMON series, Flying Circus. With interest in the EAMON series once again rising in the retro computing world, Huw has been busily re-imagining many of the the maps for EAMON Adventures. For more of his wonderful […]
The 6502 Workshop team is thrilled to announce that Nox Archaist has been released! Journey with us back in time to the 1980s an experience an adventure inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale. Lord British himself has traveled to Vali, the world of Nox Archaist, to help thee on thy quest! We would […]
IT’S BEEN QUITE A RIDE From back in 1984 when our lead developer Mark Lemmert first had the idea to write a tile-based Apple II RPG, to the founding of 6502 Workshop in March of 2016, all the way through today, the journey has been amazing! But now, we’ve got another exciting date to add […]
Adventurer’s Log Game Day 13: Why did I listen to that ornery mage? Now we’re on a quest to find an uncharted ocean island. Wow, that sea serpent was huge! When it thrashed its tail and swamped the ship, I thought we were goners. Game Day 15: Made it back to the Captain’s Quarters pub. […]
Target Date All of us here at 6502 Workshop hope that you all had a great holiday season! We look forward to the new year and putting Nox Archaist in your hands. On that note, as we draw closer to release, we’ve gotten a much stronger idea of when we’ll be able to ship the […]
A fragment from the lost manual of the Order of Nox Archaist Ages ago a group of philosopher adventurers discovered a powerful energy emanating from deep underground. They learned to harness this energy with their minds and project it to kinetic and psychological effect, which we now call magic. They called themselves the Order of […]
Crow Cousins, the computing family who recently released a 6502, 65C02, and 65816 printable opcodes poster in true Beagle-esque fashion, announced the general availability of SpellWielder for the enhanced Apple //e, //c, and IIgs. The action / adventure game, which allows you to control the game’s protagonist as he sets out on a mission to […]
The 6502 Workshop team is pleased to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for the boxed edition of Nox Archaist is now live! Click here to pledge! What’s better than a brand new, hand-coded 8-bit classic 80s era tile based RPG? Answer: One that comes in an awesome collector’s edition box with lots of cool physical goodies! What’s […]
It’s official, Lord British will appear as an NPC in Nox Archaist! It is a dark time for the metaverse. Ripples of discord radiate out from Vali, the world of Nox Archaist. Lord British learns of the dangerous omens and seeks to return order to the chaos that threatens to consume creation! He has journeyed to […]
It’s official! Nox Archaist will have at least beta support for Mockingboard music when released. For more details check out the blog post here! https://www.6502workshop.com/2019/04/mockingboard-support-update.html
The Nox Archaist Kickstarter launch on May 2nd is right around the corner so we thought you might enjoy seeing a preview of what we have in store! We hope to earn your support!
The 6502 Workshop team is launching a Kickstarter campaign on May 2, 2019 to produce a collector’s edition of Nox Archaist! Nox Archaist is a brand new tile based 8-bit RPG inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale. It is written for the Apple II computer, but is easily playable on any modern Mac […]