Category: Software

Mind Console Productions released a new screen saver this week which is a faithful rendition of the original Berkeley Systems After Dark screen saver module, Starry Night.  While similar in look and feel, the Mind Console version of the module was created completely from scratch.  This version of the program requires a minimum of Mac OS X 10.5. For more on the program check out the MacUpdate page for the program at: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41536/starry-night

Push Panic!, the game that brings new meaning to the columns theme is available as a free download.  The program which drops multi-colored boxes as you do your best to explode them, is not just a challenge, it is also addicting.    Your objective is to explode as many boxes as you can, keeping the boxes below a red line.  The more boxes you “link” together in the explosions, the higher the score. Push Panic! works on both the iPhone and…

Frank Kunze has posted about a dozen new screen shots on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog.  The screenshots show a great deal of progress on the latest rendition of the Eamon franchise and gives both beta testers and users an idea of what to expect of the new version. Eamon Deluxe 5.0 will be the first truly cross platform version of the interactive fiction system.   This has heightened users anticipation of the product along with the occasional shots of…

The Donut Games free game of the week this week is Monkey Flight, a delightfully entertaining game which will keep you going for hours. The game now has 60 levels in the challenge section of the game, making for even more fun.  This game is one you must get! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311768443&mt=8

Adobe announced this morning that they are releasing their Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta and that it will be free for users to download.  This latest update to the Lightroom application includes some new features specifically targeting the latest DSLR capabilities as well as the ability to create better quality photo books. To download your own copy of the latest Lightroom 4 beta, go to: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/

The latest rendition of the SDL /MAME for MAC OS X has been updated.  Version 0.144u6 was updated earlier this morning and as of yet, the change log has not been listed. The current version requires at least Mac OS X 10.6 or newer. You can find the update on the SDL/MAME website at: http://sdlmame.parodius.com/

David Schmidt has released the latest version of the ADTPro disk imaging software.  Apple Disk Transfer Prodos (ADTPro) is a vintage Apple computer series specific disk imaging software package and will work on APple ][‘s and Apple ///’s. The latest version of  ADTPro 1.2.0 was released to address a host of issues with the previous version and is not a “revolutionary” update as would normally be suggested by the version number.  The issues addressed in this release include the following…

OnLive Desktop App for the iPad is now in the Apple App Store.  The App which allows you to use Microsoft Office on your iPad features 2gb of Free cloud storage as well as the full capabilities of the Desktop version of Office, right on your iPad. For more information, check out the OnLive Desktop Website To Download the iPad App, go to the App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onlive-desktop/id490292278?mt=8

Laminar research has released an update for their X-Plane Application for the iPad.  Version 9.770 is a maintenance update which addresses several issues including: Autopilot response improved… the plane should lock onto your current pitch and roll when autopilot power is dfirst applied. THEN you should be able to enter heading or altitude mode at your liesure. If you are in a fighter, then the other plane should be a fighter as well. RAM footprint is now lowered a bit,…

Egan Ford has updated his new Apple ][ Disk Server once again.  The Apple ][ Disks Server allows the user to connect their audio port to the Apple ][‘s cassette i/o port and load complete disk images to the floppy drive.  This process now takes less than three minutes according to a note from Egan. Improvements between version 3 and version 6 include: To use the Apple ][ Disk Server, go to the Disk Server website at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/

Thanks to Arnaud Brossard, the original 1990 version of the Generous Efforts of Many (GEM) CD is now available for download from his website.  The collection which included all of the major Apple ][ shareware and freeware up to that point, included some 200mb of software, fonts, utilities and other items related to the Apple ][. The CD is divided into 6 sections, 32mb each, and are ProDOS volumes.  They include: GEM.CD.A – (Bootable) Features, Shrinkit GEM.CD.B – Sounds, Games…

Game: Pigeon Palooza Publisher: Blast Applications / BoonDoogle Cost: $0.99 cents Website: http://www.pigeonpalooza.com/ URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pigeon-palooza/id492151739?mt=8 This week, Pigeon Palooza came to the iPhone and iPad.   While much has been made of this program being the next Angry Birds, we found that the game was anything but that exciting.  And after plunking down out $0.99 cents for the game, we were left with a game that really isnt all that much real fun. The concept of Pigeon Palooza is that you…

Frank Kunze has put out a call for beta testers of his latest version of Eamon Deluxe.   Eamon is an adventure system originally created by Donald Brown in 1979.  The system has gone through several renditions and currently has over 255 adventures created by various authors globally. The Eamon Deluxe system was created by Frank Kunze to enhance the capabilities of the Eamon Adventure system and is now available for users of Windows Vista, Windows 7 in 32 Bit mode,…

An announcement on the Apple II Scans website brought word that Dave Ottlani, creator of the Washington Apple PI Apple /// DVD, has made the entire collection public domain.   He released this collection “so that the information there can be freely accessed.” You can read the announcement in its entirety at: http://apple2scans.net/apple-iii/washington-apple-pi-apple-dvd/ You can download the .iso of the DVD from here: http://apple2scans.net/files/apple3/WAP_DVD/A3DVD.iso The news release also included the corrected version of the corrupted file A3 and can be downloaded…

Egan Ford has been busy with finding new ways to utilize the cassette port on the Apple ][ computer.  His Apple ][ Game Server is now at version 0.5 and has a number of improvements in speed and methodologies of loading the programs onto real and emulated Apple ][ computers. Version 0.5 includes the following updates: Boosted audio volume from 50% to 75%. Added MON download option (Apple Monitor text for pasting into emulators). Right-click to save it. You can…

Brutal Deluxe Software has published the first three videos in a their Apple II Cracking Senses series.  The video series is designed to teach the current generation of Apple ][ fans what it takes to crack old software from the 1980’s game by game.   While much of this software is long abandoned through either non-existence of the company that made it or through the loss of the original code by the author, it is an interesting insight into what these…

State Shirt, a musician also know as Ethan Tufts has released a full length video featuring the recently released Digital Music Synthesizer for the Apple //c.  The song, aptly named IIc Video Song, is available to watch on the State Shirt website or on YouTube.  The IIc Video Song is a high paced multiple layer percussion, piano and vocal mesh which is deftly assembled into a glossy, high quality video that is very modern, appealing to those with a taste…

Brutal Deluxe has added two more new titles to their Apple ][ Software Cassette collection.  The collection which spans the years 1977 to 1982, contains 563 titles as of 3 January 2012.   The new titles included in this update are Powersoft’s Financial wizard 3 and Memory dump. They have also updated Ciderpress and and their disk archives in addition to the new titles.  To browse the collection, go to the Brutal Deluxe Apple Cassette page at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html

Egan Ford has now taken his Apple ][ Game Server a step further and created an Apple ][ Disk Server.   The concept of the server is that it allows you to reconstitute an entire floppy disk through the cassette input/output port of the Apple ][ computer.   This is accomplished using old 1970’s style data sound playing through the cassette Port directly to the computer.  The Apple ][ then writes the data to the disk one the disk writer is initiated…

Thirty years have passed yet we get constant reminders of what the Apple computing world was like.  One such reminder is the saga of the Data East published game Burgertime.   Over the years since it’s release in 1982, there have been several renditions of the game on many different platforms and even numerous more cracks of the game, particularly on the Apple ][ computer. Recently, Rich Martin (A.K.A. Datawiz) wrote of his exploration of the winding trail of the cracks…