Category: Software
Vince Weaver (AKA Deater78) has released a new Apple II demo. The demonstration titled Island Adventure fits in a whopping 32K of memory and has been put forth as his entry into the Outline 2021 event. The demo finished in 2nd place which according to Vince, “was a shock as it is rare for Apple II demos to place very high in a combined demo entry, especially when competing against DOS or Amiga entries”. Outline 2021 is the longest running…
Denis Colony has released the latest rendition of his Apple II disk viewing utility, Diskbrowser. Version 1.58 includes updates to the system level items and bug fixes. You can download Diskbrowser 1.58 for free from the Diskbrowser Github page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser
Gary Graham has painstakingly created a new OpenType Font Collection for Apple II fans – Apple II Pro. The package includes eight typefaces: Apple II Pro, Display Pro, ALT Pro, Display ALT Pro, and their inverted “Neg” counterparts. Additionally, Gary has crafted an impressive guide that details every aspect of these fonts. According to his documentation, “Apple II Pro is a vastly expanded version of the original Apple IIc and Apple IIe internal character sets, including MouseText, all combined into…
Matt Walsh has put together a website running on Will Scullin’s Apple II JS emulator. The website is coded completely in 6502 Assembly Language. The website, MDW OS v0.1.1, is Matt’s personal website that contains his resume, research papers, links, and other items. The Seattle based Matt, talkes about his life as well as the things that interests him on the website, which uses a graphic of an Apple monitor, along with the green text, giving it a complete Apple…
For those of you who follow the 8-Bit Guy, AKA David Murray, on YouTube, you will be pleased to know he has introduced a new game, this time for the Apple II computer. PETSCII Robots is a game in which it is up to you to save the universe from the invading robots. You can accomplish this through the use of a variety of weapons which you accumulate within the game, as you attempt to take on the various levels…
The Apple II based Passport, a disk cracking package, has been updated — release dated 04-21-2021. The latest version of the Mark Pilgrim and Peter Ferrie produced software package has been released with the following changes: – NEW: patchers/harvey.a (Buzz Bang Harvey, Harvey by Primes) – NEW: patchers/jmp2012.a (BackAid) – NEW: patchers/pdi.a (Leadsheeter, Polywriter) – NEW: patchers/rps.a (Pac-Man Thunder Mountain release, Problem Solving in Algebra) – IMPROVED: patchers/ssprot.a (fixes Metric System Tutor) – IMPROVED: patchers/bb03.a (fixes Spanish for Mastery) -…
Kris Kennaway has released a video of the January 1984 Apple ad running in Full Motion Double Hi-Resolution Video complete with Playback on the Apple IIe computer. Now, before you say, the Apple IIe cannot do that, there are a few items you will need which were not available in 1984. First, you will need a 128k Enhanced Apple IIe running the software, also known as II-Vision version 0.2 by Kris Kennaway, allowing conversion or “transcoding” of the video files…
Brainstorm Software and Brutal Deluxe Software have coordinated to bring Full Métal Planète for the Apple II gs to the masses. Originally released in 1988 by Ludodélire and developed by Hitech productions, the Full Métal Planète strategy game was limited to French until today. The English version of the Apple II gs game was blessed by Brainstorm Software and with the programming talents of Brutal Deluxe Software, it is now available for all to play. The synopsis of the game…
The Fr3nch T0uch hack group just came out with an absolutely fantastic 256 byte intro titled Terra Nova for the Apple II. The demo was for the Revision 2021 event going on currently from April 2nd to April 5th 2021. Written on the Apple IIe, Terra Nova demos a purely text based scroller with full Mockingboard sound track. It will run on either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS with the source code also available in addition to the binary. Revision 2021…
Cameron Kaiser has announce the end of development on the Ten-Four-Fox application, which provided users of G4 machines with Firefox Browser capabilities. As he mentions in his writeup, the costs of the operation are a huge item with about $600 per month in accruing by providing the application. To read further, check out Cameron’s article at:https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html
Those crazy astronauts (Daniel Henderson and Roby Sherman) who brought you that terrestrialbrain stumper, Murder Manor, have returned with a game of space travel, exploration, and wormholes! In Orion Trail, players take on the role of intrepid space pioneers, to make the treacherous journey across the length of the Orion Belt to reach a planet known as Oregon IV — An unexplored world full of free space and the possibility of precious metals! Some of you earth creatures are familiar with…
Mario Patino, author of the TXTRIS text based Tetris clone, has released a new update to his game which is one of the entries for this years Apple II Software enthusiasts (A2SE) programming contest. The update includes a nifty little intro tune in the program. Play of the TXTRIS game is nearly true to the original, but this one is pure text and well worth the look. You can download the latest version of the TXTRIS disk image from:https://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/games/txtris.dsk
If you have ever wanted to take part in a programming contest, the annual BASIC 10-Liners Programming Contest is a good one to start with. Each year, the best and brightest programmers in the retro computing community test their metal against the rest of the world. One of the first Apple II submissions this year is a really great effort by Humberto Barbera. Humberto’s 10 line submission, Archer is a great little game that utilizes the Apple II’s high-resolution graphics…
This release is mainly cleanup of the current bug list. Please watch your step, lots of squashed bugs around here. Maybe a new feature or two as well. Added file system support for Lisa Monitor. Preliminary support for loading DiscFerret DFI images for single-sided 5.25 disks. Improved geometry calculations for disks that lie about sector numbers. Improved data repair by looking at more neighboring tracks. Fixed: Flux Imager saving could sometimes encounter errors when saving as illegal filenames, and then…
This years Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) text based programming contest is producing a myriad of great new games for the Apple II computer. Raphael Rezende has submitted another entry worth mentioning in the pages of Call-A.P.P.L.E.. His new game Escape pits you against a monster in a dungeon in which, “ You found in a mine, a precious stone, and when you were returning toward entrance, there was an earthquake, that released a monster which was keeping the treasure!…
Yesterday, we highlighted one of the entries for the Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) programming contest, TXTRIS by Mario Patino. Today’s entry into the fray comes to us from Eric Sperano. His entry, Spetris! or as he calls it, “Yet Another Tetris Clone”, is a multi-themed version of the traditional game of Tetris. Originally created by Eric as a 6809 game in a learning experience moment on the Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer 3 or COCO3 as it is known,…
Over the past 30 years, there is one game which has appeared time and time again in many forms on almost every platform known to man. That game is TETRIS. Hours in the arcades led us all to seeing the blocks in our sleep due to the fact that we were still trying to get the entire 4 lines completed over and over again in the game. Thankfully, there is another fix for this re-iteration syndrome that we face. …
Last week, we highlighted Brendan Bellina’s Script-Central 2020 Special Edition which featured a slew of hypercard stacks and scripts. Included as part of that package was a game inspired by the EAMON series, The Dungeons of Fangborne Keep. Fangborne is an RPG which was developed completely in Hypercard and includes a number of features normally reserved for the bigger game development houses. Originally abandoned in 1995, the game was revisited by Bellina in October 2020 and a completion of the…
The Apple II Desktop project has released another alpha update to the program. Alpha 26 includes a lot of changes to the Desktop package and the Desk Accessories. Localization for English, French Italian and Spanish has also been expanded in the program. Some of the other changes in the program include: DeskTop Fix bad rendering when unknown file types are present. Allow Esc to close OK-only dialogs. Fix scrollbar calcs when repopulating window. Erase before redrawing header when opening via…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate availability of the Tarot Version 1.0 English Release for the Apple II gs computer. Originally written in 1990 by Francois Uhrich with cards drawn by Jean-Francois Sauvage, Tarot was only available in French until today. Featuring absolutely brilliant hand drawn art work on the cards and real world sound effects, this game is not only entertaining but fun to play. Now, with the full blessing of Francois Uhrich, the English version of the…
