Category: Software

Jeremy Rand has released his 2015 Hackfest entry, Sudoku for the Apple II.  The posting, from the KFest mailing list includes all of the source code for the project as well as the Apple II emulator ready DSK disk image. A video of the program in action has been posted by the Kansasfest comittee to YouTube: Additional features have been added to the program post Kansasfest and the latest disk is available for download  now.  For more information about the…

The Mac Gui software repository has added over 700 new files to their library.  According to the site’s owner and curator, David Finnigan in CSA2, Of particular note are the files in the CP/M category; these came from a disk collection that I bought last year. If anyone is using Vista drives, I may have some useful files in there for you. Owners of Franklin Ace clones may also find some new disks there of use. This one is pretty…

What’s new for Apple IIgs System 6.0.2After 22 years, 2 months, 2 days and 2 hours since System 6.0.1 was released, this is a summary of the visible changes. There have been many bugs fixed and many features added that are not immediately visible–they will enable developers to create better future products.  Be sure to also read the Shortcuts file on the SystemTools3 disk for more information. Finder (see also Finder Help)The list is FSTs now includes the RDOS 3.3…

Our friends in Miami and France have come together to provide the Apple II Quark Catalyst scans and disk images.  When asked about the project to bring this back out of the realm of the lost software, Javier Rivera said, “This is one package that many users had for their Apple II’s, but no one seemed to have it at this point.  When we finally found a copy of it, we made sure to get it into digital format as…

Ninjaforce has released an update to their Bomberman clone, Kaboom.  Version 1.01 addresses a number of issues including: + Fixed a bug where the game crashes during play. + The game now stores settings and scores (oops). + Typos in credits fixed (plus some names we forgot). Kaboom is for the Apple IIgs and can be downloaded from the Ninja Force website at: http://www.ninjaforce.com/html/products_kaboom.html

Brutal Deluxe software has added a number of cassettes to their Apple II cassette collection.   The library, maintained by Antoine Vignau, has now grown to 633 cassettes over the life of the library.  New additions to the collection include the following programs: Creative computing software: Voodoo castle adventure Innovative computer programs (by Ron Graff): The patient professor Instant software: Oil tycoon Mad hatter software: Diet planning package MUSE: Maze game, Tank war, U-draw Program design: Preschool IQ builder (Same and…

The Ninjaforce programming group, the people who brought you Wolfenstein 3D for Apple IIgs, have released their latest action game: KABOOM! The game supports 4-players simultaneously– the first Apple IIgs game to do so! “Not only does KABOOM! play like a charm – its visuals and acoustics are of top quality to satisfy even the most demanding GS gamer!” Visit the official site for screenshots and downloads

Version 2.0.1 of ADTPro has been released.  This version has a fix that is important for users with native RS-232 serial ports (though they’re getting more and more rare all the time).  There’s also some help for  our friends that are trying to tune their audio settings, and a few  other bug fixes.  Initial text bootstrapping is faster due to some  screen trickery and denser packing of data. http://adtpro.sourceforge.net 2.0.1 – March 21, 2015 New functionality: * [Audio] Client sends…

      Mac users wanting to save a PDF of their TurboTax return or print to file, are forced to upload their data to Intuit via a silent connection.  The Mac TurboTax license says, “You may save your return as a PDF file and understand it may be processed on Intuit servers, not as part of the Software.” In a February 19 Wall Street Journal article, Intuit blames Apple:  According to Julie Miller, an Intuit spokeswoman, TurboTax made the…

First impressions of Apple’s up and coming Photos app for OS-X Yosemite were just announced by a number of publications with Apple lifting it’s  embargo for media outlets to publish first impressions and hands-on reviews. the final Photos product will be delivered to Mac users as part of a free software update this spring with the 10.10.3 release of Yosemite. Photos for OS X will be a significant  improvement for users in the Apple ecosystem and will be a familiar experience for most Mac users.  Power…

Paris, January 6th, 2015 – Brutal Deluxe Sofware releases Merlin 32 Merlin 32 is a multi-pass Cross Assembler running under Windows targeting 8-bit processors in the 6502 series (such as 6502 and 65c02) and the 16 bit 65c816 processor. It is compatible with Glen Bredon’s Merlin 16+ syntax, including support for Macros, Pre-processor, Logical Expressions, Conditional Operations, Variables, Loops, Local Labels… It can build fixed position object code or relocatable executables (OMF v2.1) as we can find on 16-bit APPLE…

Brian Picchi, the curator of the Tanru Nomad Computer Museum and author of the 2013 Apple II game Lamb Chops, has released his source code to the public.  According to his posting, “With the release of the new Assembly Lines book, I thought I’d share the source code to Lamb Chops which borrows almost entirely from concepts covered in that book. I wrote it in November of 2013 when I was first learning 6502 assembly language so it may be…

X-Plane 10 for the iPad has been released.   The latest version of the ultra-realistic flight simulation package for the iPad has a number of features which put it on a par with the desktop version of X-Plane.  These features include: 5 scenery regions A brand new combat system Multiplayer over the Internet Access to the brand new challenges & tutorials The Cessna 172 aircraft model. An additional 9 aircraft (including the Airbus A320, A-10 Warthog, and F-22 Raptor) are available as in-app purchases.  These…

David Schmenk, the creator of the PLASMA SDK for the Apple II has released a proof of concept game for the Apple II.  Rogue, an old school adventure game is intended to prove that PLASMA is capable of handling real algorithmic conceptual development.  David’s full release statement: To prove that PLASMA is capable of real algorithmic development, and looking forward to some Lawless Legends investigations, I built an intermediate project for your amusement. Harking back to the days of yore,…

A new Apple II game, Genius, has been released by Daniele Liverani.  The game was primarily written for performance with emulators but has been optimized to run on the original hardware as well. You can try the game out on the Virtual Apple II website at: http://www.virtualapple.org/geniusdisk.html Genius is currently available for free download from: For emulator or Original hardware — https://www.facebook.com/download/852863848091025/GENIUS_Apple_%5D%5B_Ver4B.dsk The source code for the game has also been released and is available in an RTF format document…

Jeremy Rand has released Apple2BuildPipeline to simplify and facilitate making Apple II software on OS X with Xcode. Based on a project by Quinn Dunki, Rand says, “The big change is that I have created an installer which adds a template in Xcode for Apple II projects…So, the next time you are thinking of starting some new project in Xcode, you can think ‘should I build something for iOS, Mac OS X or maybe the Apple II.’  When you select…

The logn awaited return of the Wasteland series has arrived.  Brian Fargo announced the release of the latest rendition of Wasteland, Wasteland 2, on twitter this evening.  The game will be IS available through Steam as well as GOG.com. Brian made the release video available through YouTube this evening as well:

The developer of one of the most popular platform games of the early 1980’s has passed away.  Lode Runner was an overnight success for Douglas E. Smith and had heavy competition from several publishers after he submitted the game for evaluation.   The game originally was developed on the Apple II and became so popular that it has appeared on many of the later gaming platforms. His latest incarnations of the Lode Runner game were being published through Tozai Games.

Mike Harvey has announced through his website, the immediate availability of all of the programs from the full run of Nibble Magazine.   Apple II hobbyist Stavros Karatsoidis has spent the better part of 3.5 years typing all of the programs from the magazines into an iPad.  The result is more than 1200 programs on a total of 69 floppy disks.  The complete disk collection is downloadable for free from the Nibble Magazine Disks page at: http://www.nibblemagazine.com/nibble_disks.htm A complete program index…

ADTPro, the vintage apple disk imaging software, has been updated to version 2.0.0.  ADTPro allows users to image floppies from Apple II and Apple III series computers and allows boot strapping of machines directly from a disk image over bare wire.  The software handles a number of emulator image formats and supports many of the newer hardware items produced for the Apple II and Apple II series computers. New features in 2.0.0 included as specified in posting by David Schmidt…