Adventurer’s Log Game Day 13: Why did I listen to that ornery mage? Now we’re on a quest to find an uncharted ocean island. Wow, that sea serpent was huge! When it thrashed its tail and swamped the ship, I thought we were goners. Game Day 15: Made it back to the Captain’s Quarters pub. […]
Petar Puskarich has announced the immediate availability of the latest beta 4 build of hfs.fst for GSOS. This release FIXES many of the old corruption issues found over the years. Mount the .po file Drag the new hfs.fst to your System FSTS folder. INACTIVATE the old hfs.fst or remove it from the folder. Only one […]
Two new HTML tools for Babelfish on the Apple IIgs have been released. HTML+ and HTMLView by Chris Vavruska are now available from the Speccie website. According to the press release in the google groups, HTML+ is a translator for Babelfish, which allows you to import an HTML file directly into applications that support Babelfish, […]
MacEffects, LLC, creator of the clear Macintosh SE case, just released the kickstarter for an Apple IIe case, and it’s fantastic! From their project:Our custom case will make your Apple II stunningly unique, yet still recognizable by its classic shape. You will have the ability to peer inside the system at its beautifully engineered internal components. […]
Anti-M v1.6 is out: https://github.com/a2-4am/anti-m/releases/tag/v1.6 Anti-M can boot any 5.25-inch Apple II disk on any Apple II, including – 13-sector disks – SpiraDisc on //c or IIgs – games that require a ][+ or 6502 – booting from drive 2 Version 1.6 of the Anti-M program adds support for Personal Software 13-sector disks. Please follow […]
For nearly 20 years, Wordperfect 2.21a for the Apple II gs did not support the year 2000 and beyond. That is no longer the case. Thanks to some skillful hacking by Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau, Wordperfect now has full Y2K compliant date support. For nearly 20 years, Wordperfect 2.21a for the Apple II gs did […]
Chris Morrison has posted an interesting new item to his VintageGeek Blog this past couple of weeks. He takes the viewers on a ride through the ups and downs of building a MicroDrive Turbo card for the Apple IIgs using images from the Alex Lee curated WITA2GS website as well as the utility CiderPress running […]
Original Posting: 13 January 2017 Ryan Suenaga was a well known Apple II gs programmer and Ryan’s Apple Software curator, with a number of Apple IIgs tools and utilities to his name. He was an active Apple II community member until his unexpected death hiking the Alamona Trail in Hawaii in 2011. Sadly, when his […]
The Apple II floppy emulator options have been shrinking lately, with availability being limited to a few devices. From the CFFA 3000 last run to most other devices deprecated, there’s only two or three available right now. That’s why KbooHK coming into the Apple II community is quite welcome, and their product promises a great […]
Ewan Wannop has released an update for the Spectrum Platinum communications suite for the Apple IIgs. Version 2.5.5 includes a number of new features. Prior to Kansasfest, Ewan released his toolset, The Undo Manager, which according to Ewan was his pre-Kaansasfest offering to the community. The Undo Manager is a tool which according to Ewan, […]
