Category: Software

The Apple II Desktop project has announced the release of the latest pre-alpha of the new Apple II Desktop project. The Apple II Desktop or MouseDesk as it is also know is a graphical interface for the Apple II series computers. The Apple II Desktop Project. is led by Joshua Bell, a programmer know for his online interpreter sites and the project is, as he is fond of re-iterating, “not 100% ready for public consumption”. However, the project has come…

A bit of Apple II history from the royalty of the Apple II Realm, our friends love in France reared it’s head today with the posting of “Music Land for the Apple II by Warriors of Destiny and Thieves of Destiny.” The video of Musical Land is one of the demos which shows sound capabilities of the Apple II series computers. Musical Land for #AppleII by Warriors of Destiny and Thieves of Destiny (1990) 🔊 pic.twitter.com/Og2wBpHBqA — Apple II French…

Atsushi Ushiroda has released an update for the Apple II Flex OS for The Mill 1.1 card. The update includes a fix to the ASMB command in which there apparently was an error in the SOURCE BUFFER address of the command. He has also included the Santa Barbara Tiny BASIC to the disk and has released a movie of the BASIC in action: The Mill cards as well as 68K cards are available from Nanja.info on their Facebook page at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/nanja.info/

Raphael Rezende has released a new game for the Apple II. Brickbat as he has so named the program is a text based Brick Out or as he says, “Arcanoid” type game in which the user attempt to eliminate all of the “Bricks” using a paddle at the bottom of the screen. This 50 line or so program takes up just seven sectors on a DOS 3.3 floppy disk and not only is very playable but actually is just as…

Anthony Beaucamp, author of the multi-platform 8-Bit Slicks online racing game, has announced a preview version which will run on the Apple II Plus, IIe, and IIc with 64 or 128K. According to his posting, “As well as support for 64K and 128K (single vs double hires), the game runs faster, has 2 new maps, and tons of small improvements. Apple II Enthusiasts Group Posting by Anthony Beaucamp The preview version of the new 8bit-Slicks for Apple //+, //e, //c…

Paul Pratt has announced the the PCalc app, A popular scientific calculator is now available to run on the Mini vMac emulator. The app can now be downloaded from the Gryphel Project website, home of the Mini vMac application. To download the App, go to the PCalc page on the Gryphel Project site at:https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/math/pcalc/index.html

Denis Molony has once again updated his Apple II Diskbrowser program. Diskbrowser 1.53.0 includes addition options for AppleSoft and the way in which it is displayed. For more information about Diskbrowser, check out the Apple II Diskbrowser GitHub page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/

The Joshua Bell led Apple II Desktop project has released a new alpha version of the remake. Apple II Desktop 1.2 Alpha 23 includes a host of changes and fixes along with their bug numbers as reported in the A2Desktop project bug list: DeskTop Correct some problems with menus/windows after a failing to restore a window on launch (e.g. if disk is no longer present). #338, #339 Tweak list view column sizes. #321 Correct selection direction of left/right arrow keys in Format/Erase dialog. #328…

Diskbrowser version 1.51 has been released. The Apple II Diskbrowser is an Apple II disk image viewer created by Denis Molony, which runs on Mac OS X, Windows X, as well as Linux. It allows users to view the contents of varying types of Apple II series disk images including the John Morris created .WOZ format as well as .HDV hard disk images. Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.51 includes a host of bug fixes as well as additional Applesoft BASIC…

Long live WebberWebber is a powerful new web browser for the IIgs, that lets you surf the web and download files. Webber requires Marinetti to be installed. Webber is the successor to the now discontinued SIS. It uses the same interface as SIS, but there the similarity ends. Unlike SIS, Webber is a stand-alone application, compatible with System 6.0.1 through 6.0.4, and can download any web page that is accessible from an http:// connection. It does not handle https:// secure…

The 6502 Workshop team is thrilled to announce that Nox Archaist has been released! Journey with us back in time to the 1980s an experience an adventure inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale. Lord British himself has traveled to Vali, the world of Nox Archaist, to help thee on thy quest! We would love to put a collector’s edition box in your hands, featuring cover art by Denis Loubet, or set you up with the Digital Edition. Order…

In an effort to promote some needed holiday cheer, I’m releasing my snow display demo for your enjoyment. Use the space bar to advance through 9 different displays and let it snow on your Apple II for hours or days on end! You can download the demo from the Crow Cousins website at:https://err0r.tech/crowcousins/let_it_snow_2020.dsk I hope you will try my demo. If you do, I’d love to see a pic of it running on your setup! THANK YOU! Check out the…

Raphael Rezende has created a new Apple II game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts content sponsored by Roby Williams. Moskão Fighter is an action batle game in the tradition of the Centepede type arcade game arena in which you are Moskão, a warrior who tries to prevent an army of spiders from attacking his people. Game play is through the Apple II keyboard. You use the arrows keys to move the Moskão and the space bar to…

Daniel Henderson has released a new game for the Apple II computer. Sliding Puzzle is a 16 square puzzle game which uses double low resolution graphics for the game. He has included 5 different faces for the game including the faces below: You can download version 1.2 of the Sliding Puzzle game from the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/games/SlidingPuzzle.dsk

Eric Donadieu has released a new Apple II game, 2048. This is a new look at the popular number combining games which are popular on iOS and Android devices. 2048 uses the arrow keys to shift the blocks, left, right, up, and down with the shifting combining like numbers in that direction. non-combining numbers are simply moved in the direction of the shift if there are empty squares in that direction. The game is a unique take on these quite…

Michael Packard has announced the final release version of his new Apple II game, Lunar Rescue. Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie…

Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie packaging in 5.25″ DOS 3.3 floppy disk format with instruction sheet signed by the author. Compatible…

Denis Molony has released an update to his Apple II Diskbrowser program. The Apple II Disk Browser is a JAVA based app which will run on all platforms and allows users to view the contents of an Apple II disk image. Version 1.48 has a number of fixes as well as new features for Text Files which allow certain items such as the Byte count of the file to be turned off. For more information or to download the Apple…

From the notes of the renowned hacker, A2_4am comes the release of the latest version of his Anti-M Apple II Disk Booting Utility: “Anti-M v1.7 is out: https://github.com/a2-4am/anti-m/releases/tag/v1.7 Anti-M can boot any 5.25-inch Apple II disk on any Apple II, including – 13-sector disks – SpiraDisc on //c or IIgs – games that require a ][+ or 6502 – booting from drive 2 Version 1.7 adds support for “Odin” and fixes some bugs.”

Adventurer’s Log Game Day 13: Why did I listen to that ornery mage? Now we’re on a quest to find an uncharted ocean island. Wow, that sea serpent was huge! When it thrashed its tail and swamped the ship, I thought we were goners. Game Day 15: Made it back to the Captain’s Quarters pub. Best ale in Wynmar! We picked up some tips on navigation from a cranky sailer. Also picked up some new, um, vocabulary. Definitely not meant…