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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
for those of us who lived through the 1990’s and the computing world, the Flying Toasters screensaver was a common sight on many a computer screen during off hours or when people were not at their desks. The idea of a toaster flying across the screen to clear it, keeping the screen in good condition […]
TenFourFox, the Internet browser for G3, G4 and G5 processors has been updated. The TenFourFox Browser requires users to be using 10.4.11 on the G3 and G4 CPUs and 10.5.8 on the G5. TenFourFox is available in at least a dozen languages and is a free download. The browser does not support Flash or Java […]
Francois Vander Linden has performed what he is specifying as one of the last updates for a while to his 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler or SpASM. His latest release, version 1.2.1 includes a host of new features including: now supports commented code lines added ADI/DCI added SDI added INV/FLS/BLK added “HEX bytes,n” support added “HEX one_byte,” […]
Zane Kaminski has updated the configuration tool GWRAM, the utility program that is used to configure the RAM size of the Garretts Workshop produced “RAM2E II” and “RAM2GS II” Apple IIe and IIgs RAM cards. Version 1.2 of the GWRAM utility program includes a fix for an issue with the compatibility of the RAM2GS and […]
Neu][ower is a port of the MS-DOS game Neut Tower, specifically for the Apple II series computer with 64kb of RAM. Running under ProDOS, the game puts you in the position of “Escaping” an office tower after an earthquake. “You are Jaye, a young programmer who has written Neut, a program made to explore the […]
The Lawless legends team has released a three disk demo version of the game, looking to get feedback on the game play and any bugs in the program. A nine-year project which was introduced at Kansasfest 2014 by Martin Haye, Lawless Legends is a full fledged Graphical RPG for the Apple II series computers as […]
For those of us who grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was a game that really took a lot of our quarters during the original arcade days. Centipede was a high speed game in which one had to kill all the bugs that came at them with bad intentions. The Centipede in particular […]
The SpASM 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler has been updated. SpASM version 1.2.0 includes a new Linker as part of the Assembler and also includes Error Checking. According the the A2SE posting by Francois Vander Linden , SpASM’s author, “ You can now use the worksheets as code modules. All the assemblies are then automatically linked, ready […]
Earlier this month, I went looking for the old Mac minix page. I wound up finding a Github page for it as well as a lot of broken links including the link for Brad Pliner’s Mac Minix page which was a major goto page for the Minix Operating system However, thanks to Brad, the news […]
Raphael Rezende has released a third game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts 2021 Programming Contest # 1. His new game is Laser Base, is a fast paced game in which: “You control a cannon (arrow keys=up and down) (space=fire) and must eliminate as much as you can, the enemy ships. But beware, […]
The latest version of the Total Replay game hard disk image is now available. For those who have been following the project on Archive.org or on Github, Build 2209 marks the official release of the Version 4 of the Total Replay 32mb hard disk image. Total Replay Version 4 will run on any Apple II […]
Ben Zotto, recently featured in the news for his disk recovery, now has one upped himself with a new Apple II DSK to WOZ 2.0 format disk image converter. dsk2woz2 is a program that not only converts the dsk format Apple II disk images to WOZ 2.0 format disks but also makes the resulting WOZ […]
