Category: Software

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The Ocelot Cemetery by Turk182! is now available for the Apple IIgs in both French and English versions. Deep within a forgotten valley lies an estate that travelers have avoided for generations. Elders call it the Cimetière des Ocelots (Ocelot Cemetery): a realm of headstones, ruined chapels, ravines, passageways, and shrines, guarded by feline symbols and ancient mechanisms. Your goal is clear: traverse the estate, reach the Ocelot Cemetery, and discover the treasure chamber hidden within. Download it at https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/lecimetieredesocelots/

From Colin Leroy-Mira: New release of Quicktake for Apple II! This one brings quite a few more cameras to the party: Sierra cameras (Epson PhotoPC PCDC001, Sanyo VPC-G1, Sanyo VPC-G200, Sierra Imaging SD640, and probably quite a few more), Canon PowerShot 350, Fujifilm DX-8, Konika Q-Mini, Panasonic NV-DCF1. Sadly none of those include support for thumbnails, as they are JPEG-encoded. The Sierra cameras and Fujifilm DX-8 have otherwise complete support, whereas the Powershot driver is minimal and only handles getting…

The latest version of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller software has been released. Those Macintosh users of the AppleSauce FDC will be interested in this one as it addresses a direct issue related to imaging Macintosh floppy disks in PC floppy drives. Enhancements and fixes for 2.09 You can download the latest version of the Applesauce FDC client software from the Applesauce FDC website at:https://applesaucefdc.com/software/

Dagen Brock has completed his version of Warren Robinett’s 1979 Atari 2600 classic game, Adventure, for the Apple II. The game includes all of the features of the original version including the famous Easter Egg. The game is available as a free download from Dagen’s Adventure page at: https://apple2.gs/underground/adventure

From Riad Megueddem: After a long period of development and testing, I’m very happy to announce the release of MontezumaGS, an Apple IIgs remaster of Montezuma’s Revenge. The original Apple II game logic has been preserved—including movement, physics, collisions, enemies, rooms, inventory, scoring and difficulty—while the presentation has been rebuilt for the Apple IIgs: • New 320×200 Super Hi-Res graphics• Redesigned and animated sprites• New title and in-game music• Ensoniq sound effects• Keyboard, joystick and gamepad support• Full support for…

New SCSI drivers for GS/OS for Processor and Communication devices @ https://github.com/antoinevignau/source/tree/main/scsi2 The Processor Devices driver was written to support the BlueSCSI device family. It allows one to connect to a WiFi access point, and it also supports the full set of TOOLBOX calls. The Communication Devices driver was written as it is more or less a clone of the other drive. How to write a Marinetti link layer, use the calls and a disk image are available on the…

The Xmas Display stack was developed by Script-Central staffer HangTime for Macintosh HyperCard and then converted to HCGS and released on what unexpectedly turned out to be the final issue of Script-Central (issue 22). It included 7 Christmas themed animations, 5 Christmas songs, and 7 instruments. The enhanced version “Xmas Display 23” which has many additional songs, instruments, and snow scenes to view was published on Script-Central Special Edition v8n1 and is also included on the Best of HCGS disk…

The latest version of the Apple II Desktop is now available for download from the Apple II Desktop GitHub. This release is an Alpha release for version 1.6 and includes a slew of changes and updated. They include the following: General DeskTop Selector Disk Copy Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop is now available in 10 languages and the latest version of the operating system can be downloaded from the Apple II Desktop GitHub at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d

What is Mini Replay? According to the hacker A2_4am’s posting, Mini Replay is a collection of 8 classic games for the Apple ][. It features documentation of game controls, a loading progress bar, and optional “infinite lives” hacks. There is also a screensaver mode that cycles through self-running demos of each game. The games are all together in a single 140K Apple II floppy disk and requires 48K to run. The disk has been tested on several Apple II and…

John morris has announced the release of the latest update to the Client Software for the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller. The latest version, 13 July 2026 – Release 2.08 includes the following updates and changes: You can download the latest version of the Applesauce FDC Client Software through the Applesauce app updater or by going to the Client Software webpage at https://applesaucefdc.com/software/

From Noncho Savov on facebook: “Hi, I want to share with you my new game: Apple GridLock. It is the classic sliding block traffic jam puzzle, designed for the Apple //e with CRT compatible graphics and mouse support. Comes with 100 levels packed on a disk and with an endless supply available online. You can easily download level packs from my server if you have an Uthernet II card. The game is playable straight in the browser via Apple//Web –…

The latest development release of the CiderPress II package has been released. According to the release notes, This is a development snapshot pre-release. It may be mildly unstable. Unless you need a feature or bug fix introduced here, we recommend downloading the latest stable release instead. Some of the changes included since v1.2.0 are as follows: CiderPress II is a software tool for working with disk images and file archives associated with vintage Apple computers, notably the Apple II line…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced that their version of The City of Alzan, originally a ZX-81 game, for the Apple II series computers. From the Website: What is The City of Alzan?The plot takes place in a fictitious city named Alzan, which is built on top of the sea cliffs, and is inhabited by thieves and cut-throats.Your quest is to find a way out of the city before they grab you, or before the plague takes hold of you.Unfortunately, the…

Card Cat 1.94 is now available at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/ New card detections Card Cat now detects a number of additional cards, including: System and firmware detection improvements Display and formatting improvements Reliability fixes Preliminary SmartPort support Card Cat 1.94 adds preliminary support for SmartPort device detection:

Hideaki Seike has announce that he has a new graphics converstion website tool that allows users to create a variety of retro images for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other platforms. The tool takes the original image and converts it one of four different variants or the Apple II: HGR, DHGR, Lo-Res and Double Lo-Res graphics. The converter also allows users to select settings for dithering and scan lines. Our own tests of a photo from the AP converted…

Joshua Bell has released the latest alpha of the Apple II Desktop. Version 1.6 alpha 2 contains a host of improvements over the first alpha of the Apple II Desktop. These include the following items: General DeskTop Disk Copy Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop is a free download and is available from the Apple II Desktop GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d

Ciderpress II, the command line version of the popular Apple II and retro Macintosh disk image utility by Andy McFadden has been updated. Version 1.2 of Ciderpress II includes a bevy of updates and changes including the following items:: CiderPress offers a wide range of tools for working with files stored in disk images and file archives. You can list, add, extract, import, export, copy, rename, move, delete, test, print, and modify file attributes. It also allows you to create…

Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: The author wishes to express hi thanks to all those members of the Apple II community who have taken the time and effort to assist in getting new cards into the Card Cat database. The Card Cat 1.93 floppy disk image is a free download from https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/

New Web-Based Utility Brings Classic Z-Machine Text Adventures to Authentic 5.25″ Floppy Images for Apple II Hardware and Emulators The A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) Users Group, is pleased to announce the immediate launch of the Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator (InfocomGen), a free online tool that instantly converts Z-machine story files into bootable 5.25″ Apple II disk images. Available immediately at https://www.callapple.org/zgen/, the drag-and-drop web application allows users to upload any .z3 or .z5 file and receive…