From Nicholas Bernhard, @nantucketlit@mastodon.social For any #AppleII fans out there, I’ve been working on my very first game. It’s called Catching Snowflakes. https://codeberg.org/nantucketlit/snowflakes You play as Billy Bigfeet, and the goal is to catch as many falling snowflakes as you can. The game is playable using an Apple II emulator. I’m using a #freesoftware license.
Some highlights:PunyInform v6.0 is out! Some highlights: https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases
The Ample graphical interface for the MAME emulation platform has been updated. Ample is as the author, Kelvin Sherlock puts it, “A slightly more user-friendly front-end for using MAME as an emulator.” This update includes Includes the MAME 0.279 compatibility. Also this version now requires MacOS 10.14 or later. Ample now includes emulation for the Apple 1, II and III series computers as well as a number of clones. It also includes Retro Macintosh, Acorn, Atari ST, Commodore, Oric and…
This is Boulderdash 2025. It supports the 4play joypad and the keyboard, you can define your own keys.New key shortcuts: It runs under ProDOS and it even saves your best scores. Enjoy!Antoine & OlivierBrutal Deluxe Software
From Alex Lee: Ever wanted a convenient way to play all commercial IIGS games with little fuss? Like Total Replay but includes every genre of IIGS specific game as well as some demo examples pushing the G and the S in your sweet 16? Look no more! If you’ve got a storage device that supports 7 smart port devices, like the CFFA3000, Micro Drive Turbo, CFFA 1 & 2, BOOTi, SCSI drives (but not the Floppy Emu) and an Apple…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published new, expanded, color 2nd Edition of “The Apple’s Apprentice” by Roger Wagner. The 140 page book was first published July 18, 2018 and is a collection of the three computer magazines Roger published in 1984. In a world of computer magazines where the target audience leans toward the adult side of life, comes The Apple’s Apprentice – the first computer magazine produced for beginners and kids of…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy have published a new, color 2nd Edition of “Synergistic Software: The Early Games.” The book was first published June 19, 2017. Synergistic Software, founded by Robert C. Clardy, established itself as a computer game company in 1978 and produced more than 160 titles over the next 20 years, encompassing games, business, educational, and utility software. This new color edition focuses on Synergistic’s early games…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy have published a new, color 2nd Edition of his autobiography “Cyber Jack: The Adventures of Robert Clardy and Synergistic Software.” The book was first published June 19, 2017 and also features dozens of pictures of his creations and adventures. Cyber Jack chronicles Robert Clardy’s adventures throughout his self-made career as a computer programmer. In this new color edition, he shares business advice, humorous stories,…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new, expanded, color 2nd Edition of “Nibble Viewpoints: Business Insights From The Computing Revolution.” The book was first published June 26, 2016 with Mike Harvey’s enthusiasm. This new color edition adds 45 pieces of Mike’s art, over 80 magazine covers, plus an interview with Mike, a historic presentation, and stories of friendship and production details by producer Brian Wiser. It also includes over 60…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new, color 1st Edition of “Navigating the Business Maze.” It is a chronology of events, philosophy, and management models that guided the birth and growth of the Apple II magazine Nibble, created by Mike Harvey. Nearly 50 of his business advice editorials are featured. The book’s title came from Mike in 2016 after the release of his companion book Nibble Viewpoints, inspired by his…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published Nibble Disassembly Lines: Volume 2 – a compendium of all of the Apple II ProDOS “Disassembly Lines” articles that appeared in Mike Harvey’s Nibble magazine between 1984 and 1990. Written by Sandy Mossberg, a medical doctor, avid reader, science fiction fan, bird watcher, photographer and especially a self-taught programmer who had one of the longest-running columns in Nibble. If you are an Assembly Language programmer who…
Henry Lowe has announced the release of the version 1.9 update to his Card Cat card identification software for the Apple II series computers. This latest version of the software includes the following changes and updates: You can download the latest version of the Card Cat program from the Henry’s website for the program at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/
From Jawaid Bazyar, I’m very pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.4.0. GSSquared is a complete Apple II systems emulator. Version 0.4.0 offers significant enhancements (see below). Ready-to-run Binaries for MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel “fat” binary); Windows 64; and Linux Ubuntu 22.04 provided at the github release page: https://github.com/jawaidbazyar2/gssquared major updates to the current release:
The Ample graphical interface for MAME emulation has been updated. Ample version 0.278 also known as Ample Release 70 is a MacOS based interface which allows users to easily access and use a number of emulation platforms included in the MAME package. Ample includes a number of emulated computing platforms including an extensive focus on the Retro Apple II / III series computers and clones including the China Education Computer and the Franklin series computers, Retro Macintosh platforms and the…
Dagen Brock has announced the initial release of his homegrown MiniDisplayTester app for the Apple II. Version 1.0 of the program is available for download in both 5.25 inch floppy disk image as well as a 3.5 inch floppy disk image in .2mg format. According to the GitHub page: This is a program for Apple II computers to test various display modes. The tests are simple and are intended as an aid for people working on emulators or other hardware…
Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe software has announce that the Apple II cassette archive project has reached a total of 727 cassettes for the Apple II computer having been identified and archived. Started in 2011, the project has a stated goal of identifying and archiving all cassette based software for the Apple II computer. This project has progressed mostly in drips and drabs over the years but the current number is unbelievable. According to Antoine’s post announcing this milestone: In…
From Jawaid Bayzar:I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.3.5. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes code reorganization geared towards putting in place all the pieces needed to support launching multiple Apple II hardware types from one instance of GSSquared. But there are many user-facing new features too: Some bugs were fixed: The system is now in a solid place to start development of Apple IIe features. Packages: https://github.com/jawaidbazyar2/gssquared/releases/tag/v0.3.5
Back in 2005, Steve Jobs gave one of the most iconic commencement speeches ever and now we know what went into the speech. The Steve Jobs Archive has released the emails that Steve sent to himself in order to create the speech. 8 emails include an outline of the speech as well as the individual pieces of the speech. The emails include individual thoughts for each section of the outline and shows a lot of how Steve thought about life…
Ralle Pa has announced the availability of the new A2DVI v.4.4 card for the Apple II. This new version of the A2DVI card comes with 5 selectable firmwares pre-loaded: You can purchase the card on the A2DVI store at https://apple2.co.uk/Products
The PunyInform adventure game programming library has been updated to version 5.14. PunyInform is a library written in Inform 6 which allows authors to create text adventure games / interactive fiction using the Z-machine virtual machine, to be played on 8-bit computers as well as newer platforms. It provides a parser, implementations of common verbs, as well as a framework for writing text adventures. Changes in the PunyInform Library are as follows for this release: New/changed functionality Optimizations: Bugfixes: Important…
