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8-Bit-Shack is a software house for the Apple ][ family computers located in the Ore Mountain region in Germany.We produce new software as games, demos and tools for your favourite machine which can be obtained as physical floppy disk via our website.We also publish software from other authors on physical floppy disk on their behalf.If […]
Pierre Dandumont has created a monster. Putting Mac OS 9.2 on the Nintendo Wii. While we have covered some Wii related items in the past, this is the first time where it really comes into the actual Macintosh realm. This install is not exactly a perfect run but it certainly is a good start and […]
Thanks to the vivid support and feedback of the Apple II community ID2 V.2.11 is now officially released into the wild tonight. The new version contains bug fixes and enhancements: BugFix: Detection of SLOT AUX on Apple //e with a 6502 CPU had a bug showing the card physically in AUX SLOT to be listed in SLOT 7. With a 65C02 CPU the […]
Join our new group dedicated to all sorts of Apple II programming. Enjoy exclusive content and participate in experts’ discussions. Current content: Beta-releases of demos and tools (e.g. pre-releases of ID2 for early-bird testing) Behind the scenes of hardware autodetection: How ID2 works Exclusive HowTo-video tutorials and much more! Made by people and for people who still enjoy […]
David Kinder has announced the latest release of the Inform 6 Compiler for Interactive Fiction. Inform 6.36 includes a bunch of newly added features and bug fixes including the following: Features added The algorithm used to apply abbreviations for Z-code has been replaced with a more efficient dynamic programming algorithm, based on the paper by […]
NeoFinder 8 was recently released for the Mac and is a substantial upgrade to a program that has been developed over 25 years. If you have been looking for something to catalog and manage your drives, photos, videos, DVDs, and audio CDs, NeoFinder continues to be the best program available. Beyond great features, Norbert M. […]
For this folks who are fans of the Steve Chamberlain created ROM-inator, there is good news. Kay Koba, the owner of Kero’s Mac Mods store has contracted with BMOW to create and sell them again. The ROM-inator is a replacement boot ROM which allows the Mac 128K and 512K to have up to 1mb on […]
In 1977, I was playing a game on a teletype at Ansbach American High School which had been written several years before. The game was something called Oregon Trail and the objective was to get to Oregon without dying. Simple enough play, yet difficult to win, if there was any such thing with the game. […]
We are happy to present a Minesweeper port in Double LORES for the Apple //e and IIgs. The perfect port was done by Daniel Henderson using the Magic Pixels library by Roby Sherman and runs on real wood as also in most emulators. There are two versions available. The first version (DSK-image) is a compiled AppleSoft program that was done with […]
<TRUMPET_BLARE> Announcing the winners of the Spring 2021 Call-A.P.P.L.E. giveaway! First, second, and third place winners are displayed in the video below in order of spin! (Yes, you’ll have to watch to find out if you won! ) ** The First and second place winners will receive a copy of the WOZPAK Special Edition and […]
As many of our readers know, the one and only Dr. Macintosh, Bob Levitus, has retired from the active Mac World. Mac Users Group Network’s Chuck Joiner interviews Bob about his latest endeavors and the goings on now that he has discontinued his focus on the Macintosh. Check out the entire interview here:https://youtu.be/gv74NJeDJrA
For those of us who are Apple and Macintosh fans, we are partial to our machines no matter what age they are. We always hate to see people destroy perfectly good machines. I think Luke Miani knows this as a real Macintosh fan as he has managed to turn an old iMac into an M1 […]
If you think it is cold where you live, you might try living in Boston in the dead of winter. To top that, MacFixer (@macfixr or https://www.macfixer.com) is doing their annual Put the Macintosh out in the cold and see if it survives trick. Only, this is no ordinary trick. ColdMac 10 is a 2009 […]
Felix Rieseberg now has a Macintosh Javascript based Emulator App which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that puts a 1991 Apple Macintosh Quadra 900 on your desktop. Complete with all of the features of the original, you also can mount standard Apple disk images using the App. Felix and his team has […]
Our friends over at Inaudible Discussion came up with a way of getting Mac OS 9 and older Mac OS X (10.0-10.4) running on the Silicon based M1 Mac’s with QEMU. While this kind of hard core install is not for everyone, with QEMU as the main focus of the install, it just goes to […]
The Gryphon project also know as Mini vMac has apparently received a Chinese translation for the Mini vMac user interface. Paul Pratt, the curator of the site, says that until now, displaying Chinese in the Mini vMac was not really feasible and in spite of this, has made both the translation available as well as […]
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 […]
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 10.1, released today by author Gerard Putter, adds support for Apple Inc.’s latest machines based on the Silicon M1 Chip. Further changes in the emulator include: The application has native support for Intel and Apple Silicon. Clicking an empty disk drive now shows a popup […]
Seattle, Washington — 11 November, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of the immediate release of “ProZAP: A ProDOS Block Read/Write Utility” Version 1.1 written by Gary Charpentier, Val J. Golding, Greg Kielian, and David Sparks in 1984. The latest version 1.1 release of ProZAP includes bug […]