Category: Software

Sean Gugler has released an update to his Apple II version of the Ultima IV Remastered program. The Ultima IV Remastered A2 program is Seans remaster of the program from the 1985 binary code for the Apple II computer. This latest release includes a few bug fixes: Ghost and Zorn would not move onto swamp (regression since 1.2.0). Dungeon monster AI mistakenly rejects moving south as if trying to return north (regression since 1.2.0). Not always noticeable since it has…

Denis Molony, the author of Apple II Disk Browser, has come up with a nifty tool for Apple II users who want to get to the guts of their floppy disk images in a hurry.  Apple II Disk Browser is a tool which allows you to flip through several of your disk images at a time and see the actual contents of those images right down to the sector level. It also includes a very nice disassembler which makes viewing…

Brutal Deluxe has announced the immediate availability of the Don Bluth game Space Ace. in a posting from Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe, he announces the game: Don Bluth’s Space Ace for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 7th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Dexter, better known as “Ace”, is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander Borf, who is seeking to attack Earth with his “Infanto Ray” to render Earthlings helpless…

Jeremy Rand of Rand-Emonium Software has created a Wordle puzzle solver program for the Apple II. Wordle Solver offers a word and then takes input via a series of x, ? or ^ characters from the user to facilitate the next guess in the puzzle. The program can guess a word in just a few moves and is actually quite usable on most Wordle puzzles. You can download the program for free from the Rand-Emonium Software website: Download a disk…

Micah Cowan has released an update to his Kansasfest 2022 Hackfest project, a2vimode. a2vimode provide unix based vi like editing command to the Apple II prompt which are accessible during editing. a2vimode Version 0.3 pre-release implements some workarounds to unpleasant abuses that ProDOS attempts to employ against the prompt routine, and a ProDOS disk is now included with the release assets. You can download a2vimode for free from the a2vimode Github page at:https://github.com/micahcowan/a2vimode

Brutal Deluxe’s own Antoine Vignau announced the release of the third rendition of Dragon’s Lair for the Apple IIgs. According to the release notes on the Brutal Deluxe website, A year has passed since Mordroc’s demise at the hands of Dirk the Daring. Having pursued the evil wizard through the depths of time, Dirk confronted Mordroc in the chamber where Daphne lay in a deep, magical slumber. Using the wizard’s own magic against him, Dirk managed to get the Ring…

Script-Central SE v7n1 has been released. This is the third issue of Script-Central Special Edition. Script-Central is a HyperCard IIGS stack collection presented as a disk magazine. Originally published on floppy disks in the 1990’s, v7n1 is the third issue published by Brendan Bellina released as 16 MB hard drive images. Stacks include hard-to-find content, stacks converted from Macintosh HyperCard, and original stacks. Along with the stacks themselves is a great deal of information as well as updated instructions on…

Thx to your support and feedback ID2 V.2.11 is now officially released into the wild tonight. The new version contains bug fixes and enhancements: BugFix: Detection of SLOT AUX on Apple //e with a 6502 CPU had a bug showing the card physically in AUX SLOT to be listed in SLOT 7. With a 65C02 CPU the detection worked correctly. This has been fixed in this version. BugFix: Slot scans for SATURN RAM cards now also take place in slots 5, 6 and 7 withou… See more For more…

From Antoine Vignau at Brutal Deluxe Software: Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 5th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Get it at : https://brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair2/

Brutal Deluxe has released another Don Bluth software package, Dragon’s Lair : Escape from Singe’s Castle . The game is for the Apple IIgs and comes on either a single 6mb disk image or on eight 800k 3.5 inch floppy disk images. The source code for the game is also being released. To download the game or the source code, check out the Brutal Deluxe Dragon’s Lair : Escape from Singe’s Castle  webpage at:https://brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair1/

Vince Weaver has released a “Proof of Consept” version of his Lemmings remake for the Apple II computer. Originally created in 1991, the game Lemmings was created for several platforms including the Apple IIgs. During his viewing of the 30th Anniversary video of the video about the game, Vince found himself contemplating this remake. He says, “a dangerous thing happened… I realized the colors weren’t that far off of the Apple II hires palette. So I took a break from…

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….

From Brutal Deluxe Software: Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our third gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. You, Dirk the Daring, are on a quest to rescue the Fair Princess Daphne who has been kidnapped and is being held captive by Singe the Evil dragon. Get it at https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair/

The Witch Trial adventure game from Dan Henderson has been updated. The latest version of the game, version 1.1, was released to address some game play issues as well as some technical issues on the Apple IIc computer. These issues were causing the initial release of the game to crash when played on real Apple IIc hardware due to the way the IIc handles the screen. Witch Trial was featured at the monthly A.P.P.L.E. meeting with both Dan Henderson and…

Denis Molony has released a new version of the Apple II Diskbrowser App for the Macintosh. The latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser, version 1.62, includes the ability to view Pascal based WOZ format disks. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser app from the Github page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/

Joshua Bell has released the latest build of the Apple II Desktop graphical interface application. Apple II Desktop 1.2 alpha 43 includes the following changes: General New folder structure. App modules are in MODULES/, configuration files in LOCAL/, optional components now in EXTRAS/. IIgs: Enable monochrome composite display Menu bar clock is right-aligned. Text input fields: Mouse cursor obscured when typing. Appearance and movement of insertion point is improved. Control+X (or Clear key on IIgs) clears text. File pickers: Ignore non-pathname characters typed in pathname fields….

Oliver Schmidt has released the initial version of his Apple II Based audio streaming app, A2Stream. Version 1.0 of the the Apple II disk image allows the Apple II to receive an .a2stream file from any HTTP server, playing it on the Apple II’s built in speaker. A2Stream requires that the Apple II be either an Enhanced Apple IIe or an Apple IIgs. Users will also need to have an Uthernet II card installed in any slot of the Apple…

A trip back to 1641 In the realm of the Apple II, there have been many different types of adventures produced but rarely has one delved into the ideas of witches and witch trials.  Dan Henderson, Roby Sherman, and Dr. Mark A. Golombeck have resolved this oversight in a rather spectacular way.    About the game The Witch Trial adventure game places the adventurer squarely back in the year of our lord, 1641 A.D.  You play a character that stands…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the sequel to the game Passengers in the Wind. This second rendition, Passengers in the Wind II, is an Apple IIgs release of the never before released game originally by Infogrames. According to the release information on the Brutal Deluxe Software website, Passengers in the wind II puts you in control as “You are both the director and the actors of fate: you organize the progression of the adventure as a master,…

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…