Category: Graphics

The Fast Frame editor for the Apple //e enhanced (or better) let’s you create fast frame animations in double LORES. You can load double lores images from almost any source and edit them with the tools of the fast frame editor. Up to 10 frames are possible. The tool includes a built-in animation feature that let’s you playback your animations.  It is planned to develop a &-library for using the double lores animations you created from any AppleSoft Basic program….

Crow Cousins Software, a creation of Roby Sherman, has announced the release of Double-Paint 1.5. From the website: Welcome to the golden age of double lo-res drawing! Harnessing the awesomeness of Marc Golombeck’s Double LORES drawing command library for the Apple II, Double-Paint is a first-of-its-kind double lo-res drawing program allowing you to draw, paint, copy/paste images, and undo mistakes on multiple in memory double lo-res canvases using your mouse, koala pad, joystick, etc. and saving those images in fast-loading bitmap images. Double-Paint includes…

Paul Wasson, Winner of last winter’s Apple II Software Enthusiasts programming contest, has released his Double Hi-Res Graphics Toolbox to the general public. The program includes a number of features for Adventure Game Designers including: A tile-editor to create either 14×16 or 7×8 tiles using double hi-res A map-editor to place the tiles and see how they fit together. Full in program Help Screen Paul has released the source code for the toolbox as well. The Source and Disks can…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the latest version of the 1990’s Brainstorm Software package, Hierarchic. Version 1.6.2, which was apparently finished in 1994 and never released according to the posting on their website, has been updated to Merlin32 and is now available from the Brutal Deluxe Software website: https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/hierarchic/

Dagen Brock, the author of Flapple Bird and the GS PLUS emulator, has released an new multi-platform tool for producing icons. Buckshot is an image production utility which is based on the BMP2DHR conversion program. Buckshot is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows and is a free download. While still in the early phases of development, it is stable and allows users to convert their images immediately. Buckshot has support for a host of graphics sizes as well…

Buckshot is a free to use, open-source image conversion utility for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It is based on a command-line image conversion tool called “bmp2dhr”. It’s mostly a toy to play around with, as it doesn’t support all features available in bmp2dhr, but it works well and is fun for checking out possible conversions. Get Buckshot

Bill Buckels, curator of the Aztec C Museum has released a new image comverter for the Apple IIgs.  According to the announcment on CSA2, “BMP2SHR is a command line utility to convert BMP files to Apple IIgs SHR Files. Please see the User’s Manual and the Tutorial for information on using BMP2SHR. If you have BMP2SHR Version 1.0 upgrading to Version 2.0 is well worth the effort. If you want to learn more about the SHR (Super Hi-Res) display on…

Bill Buckels, the curator of the Aztec C Museum website has released his latest graphics tool for the Apple ][ computer.  BMP2RAG converts a 280 x 190 Windows BMP file to Apple ][ based HGR or High Resolution Graphics files.   The converter is a free tool and is available for download from: http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/bmp2rag.zip The manual for the program is also available in PDF format from the website at: http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/BMP2RAG.pdf Other graphics tools and compilers are available from the Aztec C…

For those of you who are enamored with St. Valentines Day and the whole scene around it, there is now an icon set just for you.  Cuberto has produced a free icon set specifically targeting the St. Valentines Day fans and is now distributing it on the Smashing Magazine website at: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/02/02/freebie-valentines-day-icon-set/

JotStudio is an application specifically made to the allow precision drawing using Jot by Adonit.  The application lets you take note and draw in the application, arranging photos and other media around the drawing.  While you can draw badly by hand, having a Jot or JotPro stylus is really your best bet. While initial reviews of the App have been less than stellar, it is still worth the look.  Adonit has some issues still to deal with in the App…

Mozilla has updated their popular Firefox Internet browser to Version 10.  Their email client Thunderbird has also been updated to compliment the Firefox package.  The primary focus of these updates are the inclusion of  developer toos, giving the developer easy access to the HTML and CSS code associated with the website being viewed.  The latest implementation of Firefox also makes it easy to build WebGL 3 dimensional graphics without additional software. The latest version includes the following fixes and updates:…

Adobe announced this morning that they are releasing their Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta and that it will be free for users to download.  This latest update to the Lightroom application includes some new features specifically targeting the latest DSLR capabilities as well as the ability to create better quality photo books. To download your own copy of the latest Lightroom 4 beta, go to: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/

The Forty Column site has added a number of newly produced graphics to the site.  The site features work by users using the T40 program by Brutal Deluxe (http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/t40.html).  The program allows you to create true old school forty column art.  The Forty Column site is the brainchild of Daniel Kruszyna who put the idea of such an editor to Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe.  Days later, the new T40 program was ready and is now available to all users. …

T40, the 40 column editor by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software has been updated once again.  The latest version 1.3.1 include some software fixes and a new help screen feature.  The entire list of items/fixes included in this version 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 of the program include: Control-key for program and screen routines Open Apple-key for text editing routines A display bug is corrected A help screen is added (Ctrl-?) Typing always remain in the same column/line, no carriage return…

T40, the 40 column text editor created by Antoine Vignau this week, now has a new art gallery to go with the program.   The gallery created by Daniel Kruszyna only has a couple of items as of yet but the gallery is in both picture format and slideshow format in the form of an Apple ][ Floppy image. To check out the latest additions to the gallery, go to the T40 Gallery website at: http://krue.net/fortycolumns/