The new game Mad Max and the Revenge of the Killer Pumpkins has been released by game author Daniel Henderson. For the Apple II gamer, Mad Max offers users a high speed arcade game that is both fun and not just a walk in the park. According to the author, Mad Max is “A Halloween […]
The A2osX team have announced their first Release Candidate of the A2osX Operating System for the Apple II. Build 1643 is the latest build of the A2osX Operating System and is available as a 140K floppy, an 800K floppy, and a 32mb Hard Drive image. For more information about the A2osX project or to download […]
The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator has been released. Tom Charlesworth, curator of the Applewin project, released version 1.29.3 with a slew of fixes and changes to the emulator including: [Change #692] Added command line switch to unplug HDD controller card on exit: [Change #689] Added command line switches to set CPU […]
A new version of Apple II Diskbrowser is now available for download from the Diskbrowser Github page. Version 1.39.0 includes sorted ProDOS directories and includes several fixes and cleanup items. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser from:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/releases
A new alpha version of ProDOS for the Apple II has been released. ProDOS 2.5 Alpha 7 has a number of new features and fixes and include a new version of Copy II Plus on the disk. Included in the ProDOS 2.5 Alpha 7 Release are: ProDOS 2.5a7 kernel ProDOS BASIC.system 1.7a10 Copy II Plus […]
From the europlus zone blog: I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest, WOzFest 14.25045 MHz – Saturday 23 November 2019, starting around midday Sydney time (UTC+11:00). The theme for WOzFest 14.25045 MHz is the Apple ][ europlus, my favourite Apple ][! More generally, international Apple ][s (including the j-plus, which I have just […]
The French Touch, an Apple II programming group in France, has released their latest graphics demo foR the Apple II computer. The latest release demonstrates a new slideshow effect for a 128K Apple IIe with Mockingboard. Featuring music from CNGSOFT after TONAL CHAOS, the demo is a fast paced feature film that demonstrates the real […]
The Biggest Change to the society of the Fourth Civilization will not be pervasive computing technology per se. Certainly, the compound, sliding, dual bevel mitre saw we call the computing appliance, whether in big iron, small iron, desktop, laptop, pocket, or embedded form, is already ubiquitous. One assumes the embedded form will soon also be […]
The most noteworthy book I designed and edited this year was “Graphically Speaking: Enhanced Edition” by Mark Pelczarski, and there are some fun stories to share about its development. The book teaches graphics programming on the Apple II, compiling his “Graphically Speaking” tutorial columns that appeared in Softalk magazine. This new “Enhanced Edition” includes a […]
Much like my experience at KansasFest every year, the people who attend are one of the best reasons for going beyond the fun and informative sessions. Before I share some fun photos highlighting a few people in “KansasFest 2019: Special Moments,” I would be remiss if I didn’t mention all of the hard work and […]
