Most of us who grew up in the age of the early video games and especially the Atari 2600 console likely played Adventure as one of the first games on the console. The game used rather simplistic graphics but was a challenge until one figured out the patterns of the game. Now, Peter Hirschberg has […]
Stefan Weasels has released an update to his Manic Miner re-work. Manic Miner was originally written for the ZX-81 in 1983 by Matthew Smith, this version maintains all of the original spirit of the ZX version and makes a very playable Apple II version. According to the author: The 1.1 Release was meant to be […]
For those of you who have been following Daniel Gordon’s Realm release, there is a new version of Realm: Rays of Nightmare available for both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. According to the release notes accompanying the release, “This release provides automatic combat resolution, some new potions, and support for the ProDOS RAM disk. It adds […]
Rand-Emonium Software has announced the release of the latest version of the Apple II gs game BuGS. According to the press release from Jeremy Rand, curator of Rand-Emonium Software in the Kansasfest list, This bug fix addresses a problem where a failure where the network interface cannot be brought up at all was treated as […]
A.P.P.L.E. Member, Dan Gordon, has released a new Apple II game. Recovered from old hard drives, REALM – Rays of Nightmare is an Ultima style RPG game, originally written more than 30 years ago and has been re-worked for the modern day emulators. From the Manual: “In your wanderings, you come upon a lone orc, […]
For those of you who follow the 8-Bit Guy, AKA David Murray, on YouTube, you will be pleased to know he has introduced a new game, this time for the Apple II computer. PETSCII Robots is a game in which it is up to you to save the universe from the invading robots. You can […]
Brainstorm Software and Brutal Deluxe Software have coordinated to bring Full Métal Planète for the Apple II gs to the masses. Originally released in 1988 by Ludodélire and developed by Hitech productions, the Full Métal Planète strategy game was limited to French until today. The English version of the Apple II gs game was blessed […]
Those crazy astronauts (Daniel Henderson and Roby Sherman) who brought you that terrestrialbrain stumper, Murder Manor, have returned with a game of space travel, exploration, and wormholes! In Orion Trail, players take on the role of intrepid space pioneers, to make the treacherous journey across the length of the Orion Belt to reach a planet known […]
Mario Patino, author of the TXTRIS text based Tetris clone, has released a new update to his game which is one of the entries for this years Apple II Software enthusiasts (A2SE) programming contest. The update includes a nifty little intro tune in the program. Play of the TXTRIS game is nearly true to the […]
If you have ever wanted to take part in a programming contest, the annual BASIC 10-Liners Programming Contest is a good one to start with. Each year, the best and brightest programmers in the retro computing community test their metal against the rest of the world. One of the first Apple II submissions this year […]
This years Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) text based programming contest is producing a myriad of great new games for the Apple II computer. Raphael Rezende has submitted another entry worth mentioning in the pages of Call-A.P.P.L.E.. His new game Escape pits you against a monster in a dungeon in which, “ You found in […]
Yesterday, we highlighted one of the entries for the Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) programming contest, TXTRIS by Mario Patino. Today’s entry into the fray comes to us from Eric Sperano. His entry, Spetris! or as he calls it, “Yet Another Tetris Clone”, is a multi-themed version of the traditional game of Tetris. Originally created […]
Over the past 30 years, there is one game which has appeared time and time again in many forms on almost every platform known to man. That game is TETRIS. Hours in the arcades led us all to seeing the blocks in our sleep due to the fact that we were still trying to get […]
Last week, we highlighted Brendan Bellina’s Script-Central 2020 Special Edition which featured a slew of hypercard stacks and scripts. Included as part of that package was a game inspired by the EAMON series, The Dungeons of Fangborne Keep. Fangborne is an RPG which was developed completely in Hypercard and includes a number of features normally […]
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate availability of the Tarot Version 1.0 English Release for the Apple II gs computer. Originally written in 1990 by Francois Uhrich with cards drawn by Jean-Francois Sauvage, Tarot was only available in French until today. Featuring absolutely brilliant hand drawn art work on the cards and real world […]
Neu][ower is a port of the MS-DOS game Neut Tower, specifically for the Apple II series computer with 64kb of RAM. Running under ProDOS, the game puts you in the position of “Escaping” an office tower after an earthquake. “You are Jaye, a young programmer who has written Neut, a program made to explore the […]
The Lawless legends team has released a three disk demo version of the game, looking to get feedback on the game play and any bugs in the program. A nine-year project which was introduced at Kansasfest 2014 by Martin Haye, Lawless Legends is a full fledged Graphical RPG for the Apple II series computers as […]
For those of us who grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was a game that really took a lot of our quarters during the original arcade days. Centipede was a high speed game in which one had to kill all the bugs that came at them with bad intentions. The Centipede in particular […]
Raphael Rezende has released a third game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts 2021 Programming Contest # 1. His new game is Laser Base, is a fast paced game in which: “You control a cannon (arrow keys=up and down) (space=fire) and must eliminate as much as you can, the enemy ships. But beware, […]
The latest version of the Total Replay game hard disk image is now available. For those who have been following the project on Archive.org or on Github, Build 2209 marks the official release of the Version 4 of the Total Replay 32mb hard disk image. Total Replay Version 4 will run on any Apple II […]
