Category: Software
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…
Posted on the Skype blog is the announcement that group video chats are now free. The blog goes on to say, “For the last few years, we’ve offered group video calling to Premium users on Windows desktop and Mac and more recently Xbox One. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re making group video calling free – for all users on these platforms. And, in the future, we’ll be enabling group video calling for all our users across more platforms…
Potion Factory, Publishers of software Mac based hits such as The Hit List and Tangerine has been acquired by the company which make Sandvox, the web production software for the Mac.
Bill Buckels, curator of the Aztec C Museum has released a new image comverter for the Apple IIgs. According to the announcment on CSA2, “BMP2SHR is a command line utility to convert BMP files to Apple IIgs SHR Files. Please see the User’s Manual and the Tutorial for information on using BMP2SHR. If you have BMP2SHR Version 1.0 upgrading to Version 2.0 is well worth the effort. If you want to learn more about the SHR (Super Hi-Res) display on…
Brian Picchi, the author of Lamb Chops, has announced the release of his latest Apple ][ Game. Retro Fever is the first release of 2014 for the Apple ][ series computer and is Brian’s second foray into the realm of Apple ][ action games. According to the release on Facebook, ” For this game I teamed up with programmer and friend Brandon Bogle of retroswitch.com (some of you may know him as the creator of the Flyer Internet Modem for…
The Silvern Castle RPG by Jeff Fink has been updated to version 9.5. Silvern Castle is the longest running RPG specifically for the Apple II series computers which still recieves regular updates. Bugs Fixed in v9.5: Thanks to Choi Youngjoo for reporting error #53-4035 (and subsequent #53-143 at title page) due to potential overflow of message time delay variable at Red Dragon Inn. Stuff Changed in v9.5: Added rarity byte to each monster. Low-level encounters more likely to be patrols…
OMF Analyzer is a command-line tool for Windows to analyze OMF Files we can find on 16 bits Apple IIgs operating systems like Prodos 16 or GS/OS. Because OMF files are the core of any executable code on the Apple IIgs system (S16, Exe, CDA, NDA, FST, PIF, Library, Tool…), OMF Analyzer will be helpful for anyone wanting to write an Assembler, a Compiler, a Linker or a Disasembler… Find more @ http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/omfanalyzer/ OMF Analyzer is part of the Brutal…
From CSA2 Announcment by David Schmidt: For your consideration this Christmas day:ADTPro 1.2.9 has been released. There are a few tweaks that came up under some heavy usage scenarios: Nibble sends now work in batch mode, and they are a little more tolerant of communications failures. This gets really handy when you have, for example, a pile of 13-sector disks to image. Linards Ticmanis’ 13- sector ADT13 was always an option, but due to the fact that DOS 3.2 and…
Brian Picchi has released a new Apple II game, Lamb Chops. The game which plays much like the old Atari games, is a multi-level fast action arcade game which speeds up as you progress through the stages. The object of the game is to protect sheep as they cross a pasture. Wolves and aliens of different species attack the sheep and the player, forcing him to keep on the alert at all times. The player can only shoot one bullet…
Dont Run With A Plasma Sword, the runner game by XperimentalZ Games has been updated. DRWAPS includes 5 levels of difficulty in both a challenge mode as well as an endless arcade style mode. Each level of the challenge mode concludes with a Boss fight which allows the user to continue to the next level upon completion. The Endless mode includes a variety of objectives, some of which upon completion, unlock the next level of the Endless Mode. The lastest…
The What is the Apple IIgs Website (WITA2GS) has added a host of new educational titles to their website. The new titles, archived by the website’s curator, Alex Lee, while on a trip to California offer an ever expanding glimpse into the world of Apple II education. There are over 20 new titles on the website in Alex’s push in completing his collection of Apple IIgs software and Apple II 8-bit software which was issued on 3.5 inch floppy disks….
Ewen Wannop has released two software updates this week. The first is to his Apple IIgs Byte Editor, Chewbagger. The second update is to his NNTP client, SNAP. According to the press release in CSA2, “ Version 1.1.5 of ChewBagger and 1.1.5 of SNAP are now available from my website: http://www.wannop.info/speccie———————— This is an update of ChewBagger, and amongst many small bug fixes and cosmetic changes, has two new features: Please read the Manual and ‘Changes’ files for more details…
