The Eamon Adventurers Guild Online, curated by Matthew Clark, is looking for writers who have a penchant for writing. Eamon has long been the standard for Apple ][ interactive fiction ever since Donald Brown created it in 1979. Published in 1980 in a number of magazines, complete with Software Developers Kit and a number of adventures, the system soon became very popular among Interactive Fiction writers of the 1980’s. Currently, the Eamon Adventures Guild Online library contains over 255 adventures,…
At 10:00 am EST, Apple made a move that will send shock waves through the world of computing forever. They opened their biggest and brightest store yet, right smack dab in the middle of Grand Central Station. Long, the center piece of the New York existence, Grand Central serves more than a million people every day. Even though MacWorld Expo 2002 in Tokyo boasted some of the highest numbers ever for an Apple based event, coming in at 198,000 attendees…
Jimmy Maher of The Digital Antiquarin has written a very thorough review of the 1980 Game Akalabeth. Akalabeth, also known as Ultima 0, was best known for integrating all of the features of the Apple II with the role playing world of Dungeons and Dragons, and for ultimately starting the Career of Richard Garriott(A.K.A. Lord British) as well as the empire of Ultima and Sierra On-Line. You can read the entire article at: http://www.filfre.net/2011/12/a-word-on-akalabeth-and-chronology/
Donut Games, the software vendor famous for its Rat on the Run series of games, has another of its popular games now available for the hard price of Free. Normally a 99 cent download, Cave Bowling uses a combination of a bowling ball and wacky physics to bowl over the pins. Each level is more challenging than the next and with more levels than you can shake a stick at, you will be busy with the challenge for a good…
MacUpdate is offering 12 major Mac applications for $49.00 for a limited time. The Applications in this bundle include: Tech Tool 6 Icon Box (only to the first 15,000 customers) Total Finder Postbox 3 Fontpack Pro Master Labels & Addresses Mac DVDRipper Pro 3 Back In Focus NeverWinter Nights 2 Hear iClip 5 FoldersSynchronizer The entire suite of apps would normally cost $741, however for the next 13 12 days, they are selling them for $49.00 for the entire suite. …
The only Apple ][ related podcast currently available is now in its 10 edition. The December version of the show has been posted to the Open Apple website according to this note from Mike Maginnis: This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken are joined by Rob Kenyon, a two-time KansasFest attendee as well as a professional programmer and 30-year veteran of the Apple II. We talk about how great it is to be a part of the…
The Apple ][ command shell, Davex is now available for download. The shell written by famed Apple programmer Dave Lyons, is a pure command line shell for ProDOS 8. According to David Schmidt’s post in CSA2, “The current (preliminary) version is 1.30p, and includes executables on disk images for both ProDOS and SOS computers and emulators. The ProDOS version currently lacks some of the external commands (but you can watch the Sourceforge project for more), and the SOS version is…
This morning, Google announced the availability of Currents, their Flipboard like application for the iPhone, iPad and Android. The App system itself produces very nice clean type and has a number of popular magazines already in the system, including out Call-A.P.P.L.E. News. You can download the Google Currents version of Call-A.P.P.L.E. News at: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowyI4W/call_apple_news You can download the Google Currents App from the following location: http://www.google.com/producer/currents?referrer=utm_source%3Dlinkshare%26utm_medium%3Dweb%26utm_campaign%3DCAow6LoV
This article is presented for those with Intel Macs (and PCs) who choose to have an alternative operating system available. It is possible to install it as a Dual-Boot system, Virtual Machine, or just run it from the live DVD. Late last month (November) Mint 12 was released to the public (free). Mint is a full multi-media distribution of Linux. There has been a lot of extremely positive press about this version. It’s almost as if someone hired the PR…
by Rick Sutcliffe Technology News and Views Since 1983 Something Old, Something New December 2011 The Spy recently acquired a few surplus G5s, and in the process of setting them up to be useful file servers and replacements for even older G4s at his home and church, (re)-discovered some interesting things about memory, disk drives, and both hardware and software compatibilities. First is that all disk drives are not manufactured equal, quite apart from the Thailand flooding that means many…
Michael Mahon and Seth Sternberger have released a new percussion sequencer software package for the Apple ][. They posted the following release information about the software package on CSA2: With inspiration and musical mentoring provided by Seth Sternberger of _8-Bit Weapon_, I’ve impemented a percussion sequencer/synthesizer for the Apple II. It allows a user to create sequences as long as 255 patterns, where each pattern is one of a set of 16 musical measures. Within each of these patterns, any…
Ghostery is an add-on to FireFox (and other web browsers) which stop sites from tracking users as they surf the web. Installing it depends on which web browser and which version is being used. A good place to start is either tools, extensions, or add-ons. Once installed and the browser is restarted, Ghostery will go through three or four configuration screens. The last screen lets the user select which tracking cookies/bugs to block. One of the options is to let…
Donut games has changed their free games of the week, now making Action Buggy available. Action Buggy is a very difficult high action game, similar in concept to Moon Patrol from the 1980’s. Normally the game is a .99 cent download but Donut games is making it available for a limited time for free. The game can be downloaded from the Donut Games App Store page at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=364025671&mt=8 Jungle Crash Land, another fun game and one of last weeks free…
The iCade started out as an April Fools joke, but was soon realized by the popular gadget company ThinkGeek. The iCade — Ipad Arcade Cabinet — harkens back to the old school type arcade style and enhances any game experience, especially those old 1980’s games. Many manufacaturers have looked for the iCade as a standard for their game play and while the price for the cabinet is normally $99.99, ThinkGeek is running a special for Black Friday sales with a…
Egan Ford has released a new update to his Codebreaker program for the Apple-1. The new program now includes three levels of play; Normal, Master, and Pro. Also changed in the program is the following items: Added “Master” level–same as “Pro” but with 60 second time limit. Added a score board on exit. Fixed a memory(stack) leak. Built for 8K Apple 1. To Load and Execute the Codebreaker program on an Apple-1 or Apple-1 Emulator, use the following commands: C100R…
Game: CrazyMoto HD Version: 1.0 Publisher: Hare URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/crazymoto-hd-special/id476870574?mt=8 When we went searching for a new game of the day, we were pleasantly surprised at what we found. CrazyMoto HD by Hare is a game that offers the best iPhone gamer a bit of a challenge in control. The game itself while simply a motorcycle game, offers features that are first class including Realistic physics. Destructible motor bike. Realistic shocks. Challenge mode. Practice mode. 80 levels, in FOUR distinct worlds….
Egan Ford has created a new game for the Apple-1 computer. The game, Codebreaker, is based upon the old game of Mastermind in which a user tries to break the code in the shortest time possible. The six digit color coded sequence must be solved in a minimum of moves and time. Codebreaker requires a 16K Apple-1 computer or an Apple-1 emulator such as Marc Ressl’s Open Emulator (http://www.openemulator.org) in order to play the game. Egan has provided a video…
Donut Games, the publisher of the popular Rat on a Skateboard app is currently offering two of their games for the iphone for free. Parachute, which is a serious game of control skills and Jungle Crash Land, one of our favorites, are both on tap for free download for “a limited time”. Donut games occasionally offers some of their games in a “Free Game of the Week” promotion. You can download Parachute at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313734044&mt=8 Jungle Crash Land is available at:…
Game: Tap Tap Muppets Version: 1.0 Publisher: Disney / Tapulous URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/tap-tap-muppets/id478167642?mt=8 For those of us who refuse to grow up or those who loved the Tap Tap series of games, there is now the ultimate laughing time Tap Tap game available from Disney and Tapulous. Tap Tap Muppets features all of those lovable characters from the popular TV and movie series. The game comes with two tracks initially another 4 tracks are available for download immediately. The game has…
Game: Rat on a Snowboard Version: 1.00 Publisher: Donut Games Platform: iPhone/iPad URL: http://donutgames.com/iphone_games.php The 29th game in Donut Games iPhone game series is one of absolute genious. Donut Games has taken their popular Rat series games a step further from the previous, Rat on the Run and Rat on a Skateboard to the world of extreme snowboarding. Rat on a Snowboard is a high paced, fun game with a ton of new obstacles and three different play modes…
