Category: Software

Oliver Schmidt has announced a major update to the IP65 TCP/IP Stack for the Apple II Computer.   According to his press release in the CSA2, “It is likely that you think of IP65 as an asm written TCP/IP library for asm programmers. But IP65 has significantly changed recently in two directions: 1. C Interface The IP65 programming model has deliberately always favoured simplicity over flexibility. However, targeting only asm programmers there weren’t too many to appreciate that design. Since I…

The Apple II DiskBrowser has been updated.  DiskBrowser, a creation of Denis Molony, is a utility which allows users to view the contents of Apple II disk images on their Macintosh computers.   The java based utility has had additional graphics capabilities added to the program and offers rudimentary WOZ disk image support at the moment. DiskBrowser is a free utility and the latest versions of the utility are available for download from Github at: https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/releases/

DiskBrowser has been updated to version 1.0.25.  The latest version of Denis Molony’s Apple II disk image browsing software now supports the WOZ format.  DiskBrowser is a Java based application and includes the following features: Applesoft and Integer Basic Pascal disassembler 6502 disassembler Wizardry internals and maps Infocom text adventure internals Appleworks Visicalc HDV and 2mg Compressed disks – shrinkIt, gzip, zip Track and sector display Dual DOS disks CPM disks Comprehensive disk listing You will need the latest version…

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…

MacTracker, the Ian Page produced Apple product information tracking app has been updated.  The latest release, version 7.7.2, includes the following changes: HomePod added to the database The latest OS updates have been added Support status and obsolete status of Apple products added Other minor changes, fixes and additions. MacTracker is a Free app and is available from the Apple app store.  For more information, check out the MacTracker website at: http://mactracker.ca/

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…

Chris Vavruska has announced the immediate availability of his Apple II gs tool, Clip Copy Plus.   He made the program available this morning with an announcement on the Apple II gs group. After many years away from the GS I am proud to announce the release of Clip Copy Plus V1.0. Clip Copy Plus is a Finder extension that brings the convenient ability to cut, copy and paste files of modern operating systems to the Apple IIGS. Clip Copy Plus…

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Ricardo Macri’s Drum8 project.   The program which runs on an Apple II computer, is an 8 bit drum machine which allows real time graphics based editing using either single or quad channel DAC configurations. To use Drum8, you will need an Apple II S.A.M card or any Apple II sound/DAC card, which, if you dont have one, can be built using plans from the Drum8 website. The Drum8 software can be downloaded…

      ProDOS 2.4.2 is a minor release with bug fixes and updates. It replaces ProDOS 2.4 and ProDOS 2.4.1.   Bugs fixed:  1. If a directory with more than 255 files was used, and then a different disk was used, a Bad Dir Error $51 was reported.  2. Bitsy Bye was not compatible with the Appletalk Workstation card.  3. Bitsy Bye was not compatible with the  Mac LC Apple IIe card.   Updates:  1. Thunderclock driver is updated for years 2018 – 2023…

SoftRAID, the venerable RAID software solution, has been updated to 5.6.4 and is now fully compatible with macOS 10.13 High Sierra and also back to OS X 10.6.8.  While fully compatible with High Sierra, it does not support APFS volumes – that level of support is slated for the upcoming SoftRAID 6.0. Besides supporting RAID 0, 1, 4, 5 and 1+0, one of the best features is the Certify feature.  Certify can run multiple passes to verify that every sector…

Brutal Deluxe Software, known for its many contributions to the Apple II gs community has announced a proof of concept project.   DOS 4.4 and MUFFIN for DOS 3.3 to 4.4 has been released and is available for free download from their website. According to the posting, DOS 4.4 is A proof of concept project For a DOS upgrade And you can download DOS 3.4 below… DOS 3.4 is like the OS code of DOS 4.4 with the RWTS routines of…

Ken Winograd, a long time Apple programmer has announced the immediate release of his latest version of TinyBooks Pro.   The program which gives small businesses a full blown accounting package has been under development for many years and is available as a one time purchase complete with  upgrade. According to the press release: Merrimack, New Hampshire, January 1, 2018: Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today a major update of our ultra-simple Macintosh accounting and bookkeeping program called TinyBooks Pro….

The Fetch FTP client for Mac OS X has been updated.  Fetch is a popular FTP client which runs on most newer macs and requires Mac OS X version 10.5 or newer. It supports both standard FTP as well as SFTP protocols.  The package is available from Fetch Softworks for $29.95 for the full package. Some of the new features in Fetch include: View the overall progress and time remaining of multi-file transfers Sync shortcuts between Macs using Dropbox or…

The venerable Carbon Copy Cloner backup software has been updated to version 5.05.  The software has been maintained and regularly upgraded since 2002, with version 5.0 first appearing in August 2017 to more fully support macOS High Sierra and Apple’s APFS filesystem.  It has features like bootable backups, updating only files that have been added or modified, checksums, as well as scheduled and manual backups.  It can even backup Macs remotely and supports macOS 10.10 through 10.13. One of my…

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…

Andy McFadden has announced the official release of Ciderpress version 4.0.3.   According to the official Ciderpress release page, the update includes the following changes: This is a minor update. Bug fixes and features since v4.0.2: Changed the behavior of file extraction so that file extensions are never added unless “add file extension” is checked. Previously, files whose contents were converted for use in Windows always had the file extension added. Added support for MouseText and inverse text in AppleWorks 5…

  I came across documentation about the popular Apple II copy program EDD 4 that experts like Anthony Martino at UltimateApple2, the creator of the “EDD 4 Plus” clone card, were not familiar with and asked me to share.  That information is within three documents I scanned and linked here as PDFs.  Highlights from those documents: EDD 4 Program Information List #4-13, February 1993:  download PDF This may be one of the last EDD program lists created.  It also mentions…

Denis Molony has released a new version of his Java based Apple II Disk management utility, Apple II Disk Browser.  This disk image utility was covered in the Summer 2017 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine and is one of the hottest net utilities available for management of Apple II disk images, allowing users to see the real content of the files in a host of different programs and program types. Apple II Disk Browser Version 1.0.24 is the result of several…

Andy McFadden, curator of the CiderPress GitHub repository, has made his latest changes to the app available through the CiderPress releases page.  According to his posting, this latest version includes the following changes: Changed the behavior of file extraction so that file extensions are never added unless “add file extension” is checked. Previously, files whose contents were converted for use in Windows always had the file extension added. For more information about current releases or to download the latest version…