For those of you following the Apple II Desktop project, you will be happy to know that there is a new pre-alpha. Release number 10 of the pre-alpha stage of the Apple II desktop project includes the following changes: DeskTop File > New Folder scrolls new folder into view. #16 DeskTop: Restrict double-click detection to content […]
The 2020 rendition of the BASIC 10-Liner programming contest has begun. An announcement from the contest organizers on twitter read as follows:
For fans of the original 1970’s Star Trek game, there is now a version of the game for iOS. Classic Trek-80, so named because the author, Richard Loxley, places the game in the 80’s instead of the 70’s, is a full version of the original BASIC based StarTrek Game. The program is based on the […]
By Dan HendersonReleased 02 February 2020 (AKA 02022020) About Planet Invasion 2020 Some people will be familiar with the classic ‘Defender’ game from the 1980’s, yet weirdly, I know the game as ‘Planet Invasion’ on the ‘Dragon 32’ computer. It has become apparent that the game was either copied or bought under licence. Anyway, I […]
Technology News and Views Since 1983 First Impressions of the Spy’s brand new MacBookPro sixteen inch machine from a strictly hardware point of view are mixed but generally positive as it stacks up very well in comparison to his older 2015 portable–the one he is now wary about taking into any airport in case the […]
David Schmenk has released another update to the PLASMA 2.0 Development Platform for the Apple II. PLASMA Version 2.0 Developer Release 4 includes several fixes and changes including: Improved editor auto-indenting Compiler fix for terneray operator precedence Machine check for HGR library About PLASMAPLASMA is a medium level programming language targeting the 8-bit 6502 processor. […]
The A2osX project has a new home on github. The A2osX team has created a new GitHub Team for Open Source organization and moved the A2osX repository to this new organization. This allows us to expand the number of contributors to the project. Developers with Apple II Assembly experience are welcome to join! In addition, […]
6502bench SourceGen v1.5 is now available. Key changes since v1.4: – NOTE: extension script interfaces have changed. Pre-v1.5 plugins will not work with this release.– Added visualization generation interface for converting embedded data to images. – Added extension scripts for C64 sprites, Atari 2600 graphics, and Apple II hi-res bitmaps, fonts, and shape tables. – […]
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated. Tom Charlesworth has released another update due to a couple of bugs in the previous release. The fixes in Applewin 1.29.9 include: [Bug #752] Fixed double-clicking a registered file-type issue (regression introduced at 1.29.8.0). [Bug #750] Fixed Ctrl+Alt+Break wasn’t emulating CTRL+OA+RESET (regression introduced at 1.29.8.0). For more […]
Apple II Disk image data conversion program, Applecommander, has been updated. Version 1.6.0 includes some nifty new features including. Ability to load a text file with conversion to Apple format with highbit off (see ac -ptx …). See #33. An ac build for Java 1.5 is available (AppleCommander-ac-1.6.0-java5.jar). See #29 for discussion. Applecommander is an aplication for multiple platforms which allows […]
