Category: Games
France, March 22nd 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Pleins gaz), is happy to announce the relase of the arcade game Zéphyr for the Apple II. This monochrome DHGR arcade game had to be released by Froggy Software in 1987. As the company shut its doors, the game has never been released nor distributed by its author. Together, in 2013, we have decided to release…
The Eamon Adventures have long been one of the favorite adventure systems available for the Apple ][. With over 255 adventures written for Eamon, it is also likely the most prolific adventuring system as well. Eamon was designed in 1980 by Donald Brown and released in Recreational Computing Magazine as a public domain system. While the first dozen or so adventures were written by Donald Brown himself, most of the following 200 plus adventures have been written by over 50…
Two new Eamon reviews from Thomas Ferguson are now available on the Eamon Adventurers Guild website. The Reviews of Adventure # 253, The Prisim of Shadows and # 254, Dawn of the Warlock, both of which were written by Wade Clarke and James Anderson give the new offerings high praise and marks. Eamon is an Adventure design system developed by Don Brown in 1979 and has over 255 adventures currently written for the system. Recently, the system has made its…
Lord British, A.K.A. Richard Garriott, has returned to the gaming scene with a new RPG entry. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is a combination online / offline game which looks to change the way that RPG games are looked at and played. Lord British is known in the realms of the Ultima world among others. Starting with his first game on the Apple ][ computer, Akalabeth, he soon became an overnight sensation with more than 30,000 copies of…
The Original Angry Birds has been marked to Free by Rovio Entertainment Ltd. Normally, Angry Birds is a $0.99 cent download. The company has also updated the app with 15 new levels, marking the first update in the app in a long while. Upon updating it, they also released the game to the public for free download, although no timeframe has been specified for this giveaway. You can download the original Angry Birds game from the Apple iTunes store at:…
Thom Robertson, the guru behind the popular multi-player game Artemis and owner of Incandescent Workshop, has released an update to the iOS version of Artemis to match his PC version of the game. Incandescent Workshop released version 1.701 includes a number of fixes, new features, and changes including: All references to USFP have been changed to TSN. Engineering damcon systems have been adjusted, so they (hopefully) don’t fall out of sync with the server. Collisions have changed, from a soft…
A posting in the Apple II enthusiast group on Facebook this evening from Antoine Vignau shows a video of the game play from the long fabled SimCity for the Apple IIgs. Although originally written in 1994, the game never saw the light of day due to the fact that the Apple IIgs had been discontinued by that time and EA’s reluctance to release it as freeware. To this day it remains unreleased. If you want to check out the Apple…
The Artemis Starship Bridge Simulator for iOS was released by Tomas Robertson this month. Incandescent Workshop LLC was the programmer of the port of Artemis, a Starship simulation which requires more human interaction than it requires actual computer. Run by teams of 4-6 players, the game presents one starship control per player with 6 players being the optimal number. Just as a starship cannot be run by one man, neither can Artemis. Artemis gives you have the Helm Control, Weapons…
New York, New York – Developer Dr Robert Belluso’s first game, Little Bird combines current technology, exotic landscapes, objects, and contraptions, allowing the player to interact with the game in ways they’ve never seen before! Unlike games that rely on tapping, sliding or swiping, Little Bird 1.0 takes advantage of the latest iPhone technology. The user tilts the device to the right or left, using gravity and speed to build momentum to get through each level. Before long you will…
Rovio has been releasing new versions of Angry Birds every few months and once again, they have a new hit on their hands. After releasing Angry Birds in Space, topping an astronaut on the Internation Space Station performing an angry birds experiment was going to be hard to top. What better way to top it than licensing the name Star Wars. Angry Birds Star Wars is a wonderful mix of the previous Angry Birds games and thos items we have…
Minecraft is an on-line game where the players run around mining for certain minerals, build structures, combat monsters as well as each other. and generally explore an expanding world. It is divided into two components. Namely on-line servers as well as clients to access the servers. Both components are free however to make full use of the capabilities of the client, a non-free (premium) account must be used. The game components are available for the “big three” operating systems (Linux,…
Interplay has long been the one focus of many a user in the gaming world. Their games, including the classics Battlechess, Fallout, and Conquest of the New World led the way in the Apple gaming world of the 1980’s. Now, Good Old Games is offering a “Pay What You Want” type bundle where you can pay as much as you want and based on that payment collect an appropriate number of games. The initial level is set at 8 games…
Xperimentalz Games has announce that the popular runner game, Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword for iOS devices is now a free download. The game, which features five level of story and boss levels as well as five levels of endless play, allows the user to gain points through the play and upgrade the runner’s abilities, outward appearance and revivability. This game has been featured on Call-A.P.P.L.E. a number of times and is one of our favorite games for the…
New screen shots of the impending Macintosh version of Eamon Deluxe version 5.0 have been posted on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online Blog. The screen shots show that the new software is nearly complete and seems to be operating nominally. Although the site does not discuss any time frame for the actual release, the screen shots do make it appear that the release date will be very soon. You can check out the new screen shots at the Eamon Adventurers…
XperimentalZ Games has released a second update this week on the iOS game Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword. This latest update was released to address an issue with resolution being a bit fuzzy on the New iPad and also a bug we discovered here at A.P.P.L.E., freezing of the game if you exited during screen loading. You can download version 1.1.4 of DRWAPS from the Apple iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dont-run-with-a-plasma-sword/id479907900?mt=8
Dont Run With A Plasma Sword, the runner game from XperimentalZ Games has been updated to Version 1.1.3. This version of the software was released to address a number of bugs, several of which were discovered by A.P.P.L.E. Staff in our testing of the game, including a bug which caused objectives to be auto completed in one particular level of the game. DRWAPS is a high speed runner game that pits the user against a number of levels of play…
XperimentalZ Games has released an update to their popular iPad and iPhone runner game, Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword or DRWAPS. Version 1.1.2 adds a number of new features to the game and includes: – Revamped the objectives system in endless to add much more variations– Added an indicator in story mode, to let the player know when the section will finish– Added new leaderboards– Fixed several minor bugs The game is a high paced runner game with high…
Brian Picchi has posted a new video review of the Will Harvey produced Apple ][ Game, The Immortal. The Immortal was a glossy graphical adventure that was produced in 1990 by Electronic Arts. Brian takes you through an entire level of play in the 12.5 minute video and talks about some of the nifty tricks within the game including resurrecting a dead player. See the video below or on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELSlynnKrk You can also play the game online at…
Rovio, in coordination with NASA, has made an announcement about the availability of Angry Birds Space, the latest in the Angry Birds franchise. They have posted a video of the announcement and a bit of the gameplay on they website at: http://space.angrybirds.com/announcement/ The anouncement starts with NASA Astronaut Don Petitit, and current International Space Station Resident, in a old school style announcement clip with cutesy graphics being added to his announcement. His demonstrates some of the physics involved in the…
Brian Fargo has posted some ideas about what he thinks the Kick Starter rewards will look like when he posts the project later this week. The re-start of the famed Apple ][ based franchise came earlier last month when Bran decided to try and make the project completely funded by a Kick Starter project. Ideas include statues within the game dedicated to the upper level donors as well as a private party hosted by Brian and Alan Pavlish in honer…
