Category: Games
Daniel Henderson has given the Apple II community the latest Apple II game. Oubliette is a simple yet effective game for the Apple II which puts the user in the position of trying to work their way through seven levels of a dungeon, collecting the prize in each level. According to the author, “Ok… It basically a medieval themed puzzle game. The knight is trapped in a dungeon (or oubliette) you and has to work out how to get to…
The 6502 Workshop team is pleased to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for the boxed edition of Nox Archaist is now live! Click here to pledge! What’s better than a brand new, hand-coded 8-bit classic 80s era tile based RPG? Answer: One that comes in an awesome collector’s edition box with lots of cool physical goodies! What’s even better than that? When the game will also feature an NPC appearance by Lord British, the alter ego of Richard Garriott, the creator of the Ultima series of…
It’s official, Lord British will appear as an NPC in Nox Archaist! It is a dark time for the metaverse. Ripples of discord radiate out from Vali, the world of Nox Archaist. Lord British learns of the dangerous omens and seeks to return order to the chaos that threatens to consume creation! He has journeyed to the world of Vali to assist and guide adventurers as they unravel the mysteries and face the challenges of Nox Archaist. This is a big…
It’s official! Nox Archaist will have at least beta support for Mockingboard music when released. For more details check out the blog post here! https://www.6502workshop.com/2019/04/mockingboard-support-update.html
The Nox Archaist Kickstarter launch on May 2nd is right around the corner so we thought you might enjoy seeing a preview of what we have in store! We hope to earn your support!
The 6502 Workshop team is launching a Kickstarter campaign on May 2, 2019 to produce a collector’s edition of Nox Archaist! Nox Archaist is a brand new tile based 8-bit RPG inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale. It is written for the Apple II computer, but is easily playable on any modern Mac or PC via emulation. It’s been designed and hand-coded from scratch by a team of awesome programmers and artists, and even a few legends from the golden…
Option8 also known as Charles Mangin has released a new Apple II game, BlockChain. Fresh off his recent success of his new game DropBlock which came in two flavors, single and double player, he now has released a game which gives a new twist to the idea of placing falling blocks. One of the twists on BlockChain is the fact that combines blocks change color making it harder than DropBlock. According to the BlockChain blurb on the Option8 website, Match…
Earlier this month, Matthew Clark posted a long held mystery of Eamon #80 – Search For The Key by Eamon’s creator, Donald Brown. Apparently, Dr. William Trent had a unique way of winning the game, however, he never disclosed the secret. In follow up emails with Dr. Trent, he no longer seems to remember what that solution was and thus Matthew Clark has put our a call to the entire Eamon community looking for those who might have a clue…
For those of use who used Apple computers in the early 1980’s, there have been two constants in the gaming world. The first was Oregon Trail which every school age child of that generation still recognizes today. The other, while not as recognizable, was just as influential in the Text Based Interactive Fiction realm. That would be Eamon, the adventure system created in 1980 by Donald Brown. Over the years since his initial version of the Beginners Cave appeared in…
During the past week, I have been re-visiting a number of the original Apple II archives which we produced here at A.P.P.L.E. during my testing with John Morris’ Applesauce. In the bunches of floppies, I found one disk labeled mysteriously “March Special E-Base Program“. Initially, I thought it might be an old database program that never came to light, however, to my surprise, it was the original Eamon version 2.1 Base Program which was modified by John Nelson and Robert…
Daniele Liverani has released his latest rendition of the Genius arcade game. Genius 2 – Into the Toy Caves introduces another 80 levels of the graphical arcade / adventure game, take the player deeper and deeper into the toy caves. The game comes complete with Manual, Disk Image and Diskette Label for those who want to produce their own copy of the the original. You can download Genius 2 — Into The Toy Caves from A.P.P.L.E. at: http://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/genius/Genius-2.zip The original…
The Nox Archaist RPG Team has added two new members to their programming team. According to the note from their lead programmer, Mark Lemmert: The team at 6502 Workshop had a blast with the Nox Archaist Kickstarter! While it fell short of our goals, hundreds of people pledged a substantial amount, which proved to us that there is a real interest in a new Ultima-inspired Apple ][ RPG. As we forge the plan for our reboot campaign, we are continuing…
A new version of the Beagle Bros game, I.O. Silver for the iPhone and iPad has been released. The iOS game, developed by Evergreen Computer Services, LLC has been updated to version 1.3, includes updates to the package for iOS 11 as well as fixing a host of items including: – Fixed a problem when bugs are released and come back on the screen, sometimes they act as if they’re squashed by a non-moving chip and vanish — to be…
There is still time to join Richard Garriott and Rebecca Heineman in playing Nox Archaist and get your hands on all the awesome feelies! http://kickstarter.noxarchaist.com “I greatly look forward to exploring this realm!” –Lord British, Creator of Ultima “I can’t wait to play this game on my Apple IIgs!” –Rebecca Heineman, Creator of Bards Tale III Click here to back Nox Archaist today and help make this project a reality!
6502 Workshop, LLC announces the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for Nox Archaist on September 16, 2017! http://kickstarter.noxarchaist.com Nox Archaist is an Ultima inspired 8-bit fantasy role-playing game with a classic Apple II look and feel, set in a world ruled by sorcery and swords. Players will explore a robust storyline within a non-linear world containing numerous castles, towns, dungeons, and NPCs. Nox Archaist features skills-driven character development and strategic turn-based combat scenarios which integrate with the game’s storyline. Nox…
April 1, 2017 /RPNewswire/ — The 8-Bit Bunch announce an unexpected discovery for the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Apple II – an original game from 1977. You may have thought that Lemonade Stand and Little BrickOut were the titles to show off the capabilities of the Apple II. This, Light Cycles 3D, was the game that was supposed to ship with the computer but was pulled at the last minute for unknown reasons. We discovered the cassette…
Nintendo Super Mario Run released just days ago for iOS has been updated. Super Mario Run is the first Ninendo produced game to run under the iOS platform. It had been promised earlier this year and was released this month. A version 1.0.1 has been released to address an issue with Friend List linking within the game. You can download the game with the first 3 levels for free from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-mario-run/id1145275343?mt=8
Announcement from Brutal Deluxe Software: Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Zephyr), is happy to announce the release of the arcade game Pleins gaz for the Apple II. This color HGR arcade game was released by Froggy Software in late 1986. As the company shut its doors shortly after, the game was barely distributed. Version 1.2 presented here runs under ProDOS and is hard disk drive installable….
From Jeremy Rand via the Kansasfest List: Today, I received the new No Slot Clock from Ultimate Apple 2 as found here on their store: https://www.ultimateapple2.com/catalogzen154/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_16&products_id=70 This inspired me to do some coding to try to use my new toy. It turns out that cc65 will use a real time clock if one is present and supported by ProDOS. The No Slot Clock just needs a special .system program to launch first to enable support for the clock in ProDOS. …
The source code to Taxman, one of the more popular Apple II games in the early 1980’s has been announced as being released very soon. Hailed as the best Pac-Man clone available, Taxman plays nearly identical to the original Pac-Man. The original game was so accurate in detail, it drew the ire of the lawyers at Atari. The game was a complete remake of Pac-Man right down to the animations which run between every few levels. Brian Fitzgerald wrote the…
