Allen Greene made his ProDOS based Renumber.Pro source code available to the Apple II Community today. In the release, he says: By request, my source code for the basic renumber utility converted to run under ProDOS. The section with the labels starting with L were my initial disassembly of DOS 3.3 RENUMBER (the binary section […]
THE FIRST A2SE PROGRAMMING EXHIBITION OF 2021 is here and it’s all about doing more with less! As a kid I played a lot of text based games, notably Texttrain (by Beagle Bros), various Star Trek games, Nethack (on an old MicroVAX II running Ultrix), various BBS games, etc. These games pushed the limits of […]
Modern Apple ][ software development involves using modern tools like emulators, modern IDE, 6502 assemblers, etc. One thing I haven’t found yet is a way to create sprites for the Apple ][ on a modern computer. I’d like to share a tool I wrote that allows you to create hires sprites/bitmaps for Apple ][ using […]
The 8-Bit Unity team has announced that their latest version of their C based cross platform programming SDK for 8-Bit systems will include scrollable tile maps. According to the posting ont heir website: Thanks to a “quiet week”, I was able to make rapid progress on the next version of 8bit-Unity (0.4).The major new feature […]
Sellam Abraham has announced the official release of GReasy Graphics System 1.0, a complete low-resolution graphics sprite and background animation tool with integrated editing suite and programming library for the Apple ][ line of computers.Features: Up to 31 sprites of any dimension- Up to 32 background frames- Small memory footprint (<5K with fully initialized sprite […]
David Schmenk has announced the release of the latest version of the PLASMA programming environment for the Apple II series computers. PLASMA 2.0 Alpha 1 includes the following improvements: Improved entry/exit for 128K Apple IIe //c Improved entry for Apple /// Improved entry and function calls for 16 bit VM Apple3 ReadyToRun compatible images You […]
Microsoft released the source code to GW-BASIC this past week and then promptly made it un-modifiable announcing that the source code was for historical purposes only. No build scripts were included with the release and thus there is no way to create any binaries without a great heap of work. If you are still interested […]
A.P.P.L.E. member Dr. Marc A. Golombeck has developed a Double Low Resolution graphics amper-library for the Apple IIe Enhanced, IIc, and the IIgs. This library allows users to perform many advanced graphics functions in Double Lo-Res mode (80 x 48 pixels in 16 color mode) with simple to use amper routines all based in Applesoft […]
We’re rapidly approaching the midway point for the first two-liners programming exhibition of 2020! We currently have 9 shining, stellar examples of the “80’s Arcade” theme and have enjoyed playing them all over the past several weeks! If you’re still interested in participating, there’s plenty of time left! Write and submit your most impressive and […]
The 2020 rendition of the BASIC 10-Liner programming contest has begun. An announcement from the contest organizers on twitter read as follows:
David Schmenk has released another update to the PLASMA 2.0 Development Platform for the Apple II. PLASMA Version 2.0 Developer Release 4 includes several fixes and changes including: Improved editor auto-indenting Compiler fix for terneray operator precedence Machine check for HGR library About PLASMAPLASMA is a medium level programming language targeting the 8-bit 6502 processor. […]
David Schmenk, creator of the PLASMA development system for the Apple II and III series computers, has released the latest version of the PLASMA Environment. PLASMA 2.0 Developer Preview 3 is the latest pre-release version of the environment and includes the following changes: File manipulation utilities fixed for Apple /// SOS vs ProDOS differences More […]
Happy 2020! It’s time for another friendly two-liners progamming exhibition and this time we’re going to try out a theme: “80’s Arcade”! Write and submit your most impressive and inspired code that showcases the Apple II and your abilites as it relates to the theme above (and your own personal interpretation of course) and submit […]
Hugh Hood, Longtime Apple II fan and programmer has announced a new TimeOut series product, TimeOut Edit BASIC 5.4 for Appleworks 5.1 Users TimeOut series products have long been the defacto go-to products for users of Appleworks with its series of timely and useful plugin utilities, designed to make the Appleworks a more complete package. […]
Homeputerium, sponsors of the 10 liner contest, have announced the 2019 rendition of the contest. The 10 Liner Contest is for 8 bit systems and is focused on 8-Bit systems. The object of the contest is for programmers to develop a complete playable arcade game within 10 lines. Three categories exist in the contest with […]
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) released a new, expanded paperback manual for the popular Apple II machine language programming tool Big Mac: Macro Assembler. Originally published in 1981 by A.P.P.L.E. from author Glen E. Bredon, the new 128 page manual combines for the first time Big Mac, along with Big Mac.LC, Symbol Cross-Reference, and […]
David Schmenk has released a new Trival File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server for the Apple II. The release is part of his PLASMA Programming Language for the Apple II release. To use the TFTP Server, boot the PLASMA System Floppy which you can download from the PLASMA Archive. Simply boot the floppy in your Apple […]
David Schmenck has released version 1.1 of PLASMA. The programming environment which allows users to use a modern programming language on all of the vintage Apple computers, is the first new programming language for the Apple II in more than 30 years. According to the release notes for PLASMA 1.1, changes in this version include: […]
Joshua Bell, creator of the online version of the Applesoft and Logo interpreters and curator of Calormen.com, has a new project. The project, with full sources on GitHub, is a complete disassembly of the program known as Apple II Desktop or MouseDesk by Version Soft. According to the Apple II Desktop repository readme, The goal […]
David Schmenk has updated the PLASMA disk images. For those of you who have been running on the original version 1.0 floppy disk images, you will want to download the new disks. Included in this update are a number of Keyboard related updates for both the Apple II and the Apple III version of the […]