Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2021 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Jules H. Gilder are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book Apple Software Protection Digest. You will learn how to protect, unprotect and backup your Apple II software. Inside this collection are Jules H. Gilder’s six rare issues published […]
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2021 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has released a new manual for “Applesoft Program Editor” by Richard Hackl. Applesoft Program Editor (APE) is a popular Applesoft BASIC editor for DOS 3.3 and ProDOS that helps you enter lines and correct mistakes. It works in Applesoft, in the Monitor, […]
BBC Micro fans who are also Apple IIe users can now rejoice. Bobbi Manners has released her Applecorn emulator which is as she says, “It is basically my little program pretends to be the BBC Micro’s Machine O.S. (MOS) so the language ROMs can run. So far I have gotten BBC BASIC, COMAL, Forth and […]
We are happy to present a Minesweeper port in Double LORES for the Apple //e and IIgs. The perfect port was done by Daniel Henderson using the Magic Pixels library by Roby Sherman and runs on real wood as also in most emulators. There are two versions available. The first version (DSK-image) is a compiled AppleSoft program that was done with […]
For those of you who have been following Daniel Gordon’s Realm release, there is a new version of Realm: Rays of Nightmare available for both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. According to the release notes accompanying the release, “This release provides automatic combat resolution, some new potions, and support for the ProDOS RAM disk. It adds […]
Rand-Emonium Software has announced the release of the latest version of the Apple II gs game BuGS. According to the press release from Jeremy Rand, curator of Rand-Emonium Software in the Kansasfest list, This bug fix addresses a problem where a failure where the network interface cannot be brought up at all was treated as […]
Rand-emonium Software has announced the release of the Apple IIgs Build Pipeline for Xcode version 3.0. The Apple IIgs Pipeline is a package, which allows users to create their Apple IIgs software in Xcode and to build disk images that are end user ready. Some of the updated features included in Apple IIgs Build Pipeline […]
And the not entirely so grimas, once again, Canada persists in celebrating the Spy’s birthday a couple of daysearly and the Excited States a day late. ‘Course, both have been at it a tad longerthan he, so he extends best wishes that both will outlast him, despite at least someindicatiors to the contrary. Truth and […]
The latest alpha release of the Apple II Desktop has been released. Version 1.2 Alpha 31 is now available for download from the Apple II Github page at https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d. Changes in this latest release include the following: General Various string updates. DeskTop Don’t use “shift key mod” on Laser 128 (since mouse button is detected […]
A.P.P.L.E. Member, Dan Gordon, has released a new Apple II game. Recovered from old hard drives, REALM – Rays of Nightmare is an Ultima style RPG game, originally written more than 30 years ago and has been re-worked for the modern day emulators. From the Manual: “In your wanderings, you come upon a lone orc, […]
Tom Harte has updated the Clock Signal multi platform emulator. This release updates to the Apple II and Macintosh emulation sections of the program. Included in the update list are the following: adds support for Macintosh drive images, in addition to its existing support for volume images; substantially improves messaging and semantics around ROM loading, […]
Paul Wasson, Winner of last winter’s Apple II Software Enthusiasts programming contest, has released his Double Hi-Res Graphics Toolbox to the general public. The program includes a number of features for Adventure Game Designers including: A tile-editor to create either 14×16 or 7×8 tiles using double hi-res A map-editor to place the tiles and see […]
Be sure and check out the ASCII 10 Liner 8-Bit Programming Contest, being sponsored this month by Roy Templeman AKA The Loud Scots Bloke (@loudscotsbloke). Thus far, 23 people have signed up for the contest, and 5 entries have been received.
<TRUMPET_BLARE> Announcing the winners of the Spring 2021 Call-A.P.P.L.E. giveaway! First, second, and third place winners are displayed in the video below in order of spin! (Yes, you’ll have to watch to find out if you won! ) ** The First and second place winners will receive a copy of the WOZPAK Special Edition and […]
With apologies to “Our Anne” (with an “e”) the Spy this months takes note of some notable disappointments, failures, and wonders who or what is on the brink. We start with the technological realm itself of course, but this column has always been about much more than machinery. The industry giants have had their share […]
The French Touch hackers group has released a new demo, OldSkool Fort et Vert, which is an 8K Apple II intro demo. The demonstration program was released as part of the demoscene event, Shadow Party 2021 which took place from 21 to 23 May 2021.
Apple has announced their 2021 rendition of their World Wide Developers Conference or WWDC for June 7 to June 11 beginning at 10am PDT on the 7th. For more information, check out the Apple Developers website at: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/
We are proud to announce the 2021 Apple II Software Enthusiasts Pinball Construction Set contest. Show off your creativity, and at KansasFest 2021, we will announce the winners. You can win a few cool prizes along the way! Updated contest announcement! We’re now big time! Let’s get cracking people! Thanks Bill Martens for helping to […]
Denis Molony has released the latest rendition of his Apple II disk viewing utility, Diskbrowser. Version 1.59 includes updates to the system level items including Saving individual files. You will need to have the Java SDK installed in order to use Apple II Diskbrowser, however, the program will function on Windows, Macintosh and Linux based […]
Lexington Infosystems, owned and operated by Renee Harke, has introduced a piggyback card for the Apple II Ramworks cards that allow users to utilize the modern Apple II memory cards with the piggyback and RGB cards. This card allows users to not only use the cards but also to reduce the amount of heat produced […]
