Category: Games
The latest rendition of the SDL /MAME for MAC OS X has been updated. Version 0.144u6 was updated earlier this morning and as of yet, the change log has not been listed. The current version requires at least Mac OS X 10.6 or newer. You can find the update on the SDL/MAME website at: http://sdlmame.parodius.com/
Game: Pigeon Palooza Publisher: Blast Applications / BoonDoogle Cost: $0.99 cents Website: http://www.pigeonpalooza.com/ URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pigeon-palooza/id492151739?mt=8 This week, Pigeon Palooza came to the iPhone and iPad. While much has been made of this program being the next Angry Birds, we found that the game was anything but that exciting. And after plunking down out $0.99 cents for the game, we were left with a game that really isnt all that much real fun. The concept of Pigeon Palooza is that you…
Egan Ford has been busy with finding new ways to utilize the cassette port on the Apple ][ computer. His Apple ][ Game Server is now at version 0.5 and has a number of improvements in speed and methodologies of loading the programs onto real and emulated Apple ][ computers. Version 0.5 includes the following updates: Boosted audio volume from 50% to 75%. Added MON download option (Apple Monitor text for pasting into emulators). Right-click to save it. You can…
Thirty years have passed yet we get constant reminders of what the Apple computing world was like. One such reminder is the saga of the Data East published game Burgertime. Over the years since it’s release in 1982, there have been several renditions of the game on many different platforms and even numerous more cracks of the game, particularly on the Apple ][ computer. Recently, Rich Martin (A.K.A. Datawiz) wrote of his exploration of the winding trail of the cracks…
Egan Ford has once again updated the Apple ][ Game Server in what he describes as “hopefully the last update”. This particular updates adds a 3rd download option to the server -TRACK. The TRACK files are CD compatible WAV files (44.1kHz/16bit) with a modified loader for 11025Hz/7350Hz zeros and ones (8820 bps). Egan also has posted a video of usage of the Track files during the loading of a game utilizing an inexpensive CD player. To view the video, check…
The free game of the week from Donut Games this week is the hilarious but fun Icy Escort for the iPhone. Icy Escort is a game in which you play the mother penguin, working your way through a series of mazes, jumping from platform to platform, trying to get all your kids. When the mother penguin reaches a kid, it latches onto the mother and follows along to the next destination. At the end of the puzzle, you will have…
Egan Ford and Michael Mahon did a good bit of collaboration this week to effect the upgrading of the Apple ][ Game Server. The Apple ][ Game Server allows users to load games straight from the Internet onto their real Apple ][ computers via the cassette port and the audio port of their PC. The HIFI files have been sped up from 12kHz/6kHz 8000 bps to 12kHz/8kHz 9600 bps. LOFI continues to operate at the cassette interface default of 2kHz/1kHz…
More than 10 million Apple IIs were sold during the computer’s lifetime, but even with such a large user base spread around the world, some Apple II software fell off the radar after its heyday and has yet to be rediscovered in our archive-minded 21st century. Many users’ floppy disk collections were forgotten, given away, left in the attic or thrown in the garbage. Amongst the disappeared software until very recently was Dragon Fire, a 1981 dungeon maze RPG by…
These are the daily specials from the Electronic Arts website as specified by them at press time. Hot Deal of the Day: Spy Mouse – iPhone — Snack your way through the more than 70 levels and 6 different worlds, outwitting the cats as you move along munching on the snacks. Other Free Items: Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition — iPad / iPhone — Puts the user in charge of a gourmet restaurant and gives 30 gourmet dishes to serve. Pogo…
Donut Games has just released their free iPhone game of the week and this week’s game is the a very “just in time for Christmas” type game, Ruberth’s Kick n’ Fly. The game puts the player as Santa in the position of being kicked into the air by a reindeer. Using various platforms to bounce higher or bounce mushrooms to really get a kick, Santa much collect as many of the ornaments on the particular stage as possible. Each stage…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal — Mirror’s Edge – iPad Free Games: Flight Control – iPhone Pogo — iPhone (Upgrade to Premium for $.99 or 70% off) Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
This morning, Egan Ford posted a note to CSA2 announcing his online Apple ][ Game Server. According to the announcement, “I’ve completed my cassette port research and achieved gains of 6x (12x with compression). I did have an application in mind. Inspired by the Apple Game Server, I created a web-based version. There is a video tutorial if you just want to see it in action (single take, be kind).“ The game server allows you to connect your PC or…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal —Flight Control for the iPhone Free Games: Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone Mirror’s Edge – iPad The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
The Eamon Adventurers Guild Online, curated by Matthew Clark, is looking for writers who have a penchant for writing. Eamon has long been the standard for Apple ][ interactive fiction ever since Donald Brown created it in 1979. Published in 1980 in a number of magazines, complete with Software Developers Kit and a number of adventures, the system soon became very popular among Interactive Fiction writers of the 1980’s. Currently, the Eamon Adventures Guild Online library contains over 255 adventures,…
Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarin has written a very thorough review of the 1980 Game Akalabeth. Akalabeth, also known as Ultima 0, was best known for integrating all of the features of the Apple II with the role playing world of Dungeons and Dragons, and for ultimately starting the Career of Richard Garriott(A.K.A. Lord British) as well as the empire of Ultima and Sierra On-Line. You can read the entire article at: http://www.filfre.net/2011/12/a-word-on-akalabeth-and-chronology/
Donut Games, the software vendor famous for its Rat on the Run series of games, has another of its popular games now available for the hard price of Free. Normally a 99 cent download, Cave Bowling uses a combination of a bowling ball and wacky physics to bowl over the pins. Each level is more challenging than the next and with more levels than you can shake a stick at, you will be busy with the challenge for a good…
Donut games has changed their free games of the week, now making Action Buggy available. Action Buggy is a very difficult high action game, similar in concept to Moon Patrol from the 1980’s. Normally the game is a .99 cent download but Donut games is making it available for a limited time for free. The game can be downloaded from the Donut Games App Store page at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=364025671&mt=8 Jungle Crash Land, another fun game and one of last weeks free…
Egan Ford has released a new update to his Codebreaker program for the Apple-1. The new program now includes three levels of play; Normal, Master, and Pro. Also changed in the program is the following items: Added “Master” level–same as “Pro” but with 60 second time limit. Added a score board on exit. Fixed a memory(stack) leak. Built for 8K Apple 1. To Load and Execute the Codebreaker program on an Apple-1 or Apple-1 Emulator, use the following commands: C100R…
Game: CrazyMoto HD Version: 1.0 Publisher: Hare URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/crazymoto-hd-special/id476870574?mt=8 When we went searching for a new game of the day, we were pleasantly surprised at what we found. CrazyMoto HD by Hare is a game that offers the best iPhone gamer a bit of a challenge in control. The game itself while simply a motorcycle game, offers features that are first class including Realistic physics. Destructible motor bike. Realistic shocks. Challenge mode. Practice mode. 80 levels, in FOUR distinct worlds….
Egan Ford has created a new game for the Apple-1 computer. The game, Codebreaker, is based upon the old game of Mastermind in which a user tries to break the code in the shortest time possible. The six digit color coded sequence must be solved in a minimum of moves and time. Codebreaker requires a 16K Apple-1 computer or an Apple-1 emulator such as Marc Ressl’s Open Emulator (http://www.openemulator.org) in order to play the game. Egan has provided a video…
