Category: Software

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…

The Apple II hacker, 4am (@a2_4am) has announced that the Apple II Disk Image cracking utility Passport has been updated.  Passport is a utility for the Apple II computer which automatically removes the disk protection schemes from the original disk, leaving the program completely unprotected. Passport v20171114 includes a host of new features and fixes including: Supports ProDOS RAM disks to read an entire disk at once (IIgs RAM disk, RAMFactor, RAMWorks, modern clones) NEW: DOS 3.2 support (MUSE, Edu-Ware,…

The Nox Archaist RPG Team has added two new members to their programming team.  According to the note from their lead programmer, Mark Lemmert: The team at 6502 Workshop had a blast with the Nox Archaist Kickstarter!  While it fell short of our goals, hundreds of people pledged a substantial amount, which proved to us that there is a real interest in a new Ultima-inspired Apple ][ RPG.  As we forge the plan for our reboot campaign, we are continuing…

Ciderpress 4.0.3 a2 is now available from the Ciderpress releases page.   Ciderpress allows users to manipulate disk images and hard drive images on a windows machine. This update to the program in this minor alpha release ncludes the following changes: Added support for MouseText and inverse text in AppleWorks 5 WP docs. MouseText can be converted to similar Unicode symbols or ASCII. You can download the release from the Ciderpress website at: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/releases/

A new version of the Beagle Bros game, I.O. Silver for the iPhone and iPad has been released.   The iOS game, developed by Evergreen Computer Services, LLC has been updated to version 1.3, includes updates to the package for iOS 11 as well as fixing a host of items including: – Fixed a problem when bugs are released and come back on the screen, sometimes they act as if they’re squashed by a non-moving chip and vanish — to be…

A new release of Ciderpress is now on the GitHub repository for the application.   Version 4.0.3 alpha 1 contains fixes for a 64-bit math issue which was causing problems with disk partitions over 4gb in size. This version and other previous releases are available for download from the GitHub Ciderpress site. For more information or to download Ciderpress, go to the releases page at: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/releases/

There is still time to join Richard Garriott and Rebecca Heineman in playing Nox Archaist and get your hands on all the awesome feelies! http://kickstarter.noxarchaist.com   “I greatly look forward to exploring this realm!” –Lord British, Creator of Ultima “I can’t wait to play this game on my Apple IIgs!” –Rebecca Heineman, Creator of Bards Tale III   Click here to back Nox Archaist today and help make this project a reality!

6502 Workshop, LLC announces the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for Nox Archaist on September 16, 2017! http://kickstarter.noxarchaist.com Nox Archaist is an Ultima inspired 8-bit fantasy role-playing game with a classic Apple II look and feel, set in a world ruled by sorcery and swords. Players will explore a robust storyline within a non-linear world containing numerous castles, towns, dungeons, and NPCs. Nox Archaist features skills-driven character development and strategic turn-based combat scenarios which integrate with the game’s storyline. Nox…

Brutal Deluxe Software have announced that Bitsy Rip, a new low-level copy program for the Apple II is now available.   According to the announcement by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software: Bitsy Rip is a low level disk imaging software using an Apple IIgs and a standard 5.25″ disk drive, no extra hardware is required! This 0.4 version is pre-alpha and really more proof-of-concept than a usable product. It requires 4 MB of ram and stores the disk nibble data…

– One of the simplest cards I’ve ever used, just connect and run! For a long time, the Apple II has enjoyed a plethora of hardware that extends, connects, and enhances it. Among them, speed accelerators have been sought and venerated. The Apple IIe had a few of them: the TransWarp, Titan, Speed Demon, Zip Chip, and Rocket Chip. These products have not been manufactured for 30+ years and hence they are sometimes expensive and hard to obtain, leaving some…

Marco Verpelli has created a volume of the MECC titles on a single hard disk image.  The volume which is the complete collection (Well, 158 titles is a mostly complete collection anyways), contains the available Apple II titles from 1980 to 1999 and is on two digital format .2mg floppy disks. For more on this and the process which allowed this volume to be created, check out the What is the Apple II gs website.  The image volume is also…

From the realm of Antoine Vignau: i’m fEDD up goes v2.3 and now supports RamWorks 8M from a2heaven.com: – You can load your 5.25″ floppies in a single pass, that may help create images of sync’ed titles, – We have added more messages for Brian Wiser 😉 Get your copy @ http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/imfEDDup/ Next step is sync support for AppleSauce!