Category: Demo Programs

Vince Weaver has released his entry from DemoSplash 2019 entitled “Lo-Res Escape”. The demo tells the story of a woman whose goal is to herself to read books but is being thwarted a a civilization of space traveling beings. The Demo garnered a 3rd place finish in the 2019 rendition of DemoSplash, a demo contest which is held annually at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. You can download the Lo-Res Escape Demo in 140K Disk image format from…

If you are a fan of the game “Another World”, the Éric Chahi produced game, on the Amiga or Atari ST or “Out of this World” as it is known in the U.S., then you will want to check out the demo of the game for the Apple II that Vince Weaver has created. While he has only mocked up the first two screens of the game, the game demo is still playable. According to Vince, “so far it is…

In 1979, Jeff Finn submitted a program to the A.P.P.L.E. users group for inclusion in its Diskpak 2.  It was the Holiday Greeting Pak, a program which utilized the low resolution graphics capabilities of the Apple II computer. Included in the Holiday Greeting Pak were 9 different screens covering both the Christian and the Jewish holidays, giving users a variety of screens which could be personalized as well. Originally written in Integer Basic, not only was it formatted for the…