James Joseph Shackel, an A.P.P.L.E. Member, Kansasfest attendee, long time Apple II user, Arizona Air National Guard Lt. Col. and Southwest Airlines pilot passed away January 19th, 2023 at the age of 58. Obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller Client Software has been updated. The latest update includes a number of important bug fixes including the following items: Client Release 1.82 – https://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/Applesauce_182.zip
Joshua Bell has released an update to the Apple II Desktop Version 1.3. The second alpha release of the App includes the following changes: General Launcher DeskTop Selector Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop is available in eight different languages including: English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish. and is available on either 140K or 800K Floppy disk images. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Desktop in your chosen language from the A@ple II Desktop…
Frank Rossi has updated the beta version of Castle Dain to version 0.7. It is a lite-RPG playable using a joystick or keyboard. This program is his first foray into 6502 assembly language programming. Features of the game include: The beta version of Castle Dain is a free download and is available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UUefBUPvRxFGFic_aBEPJaJYh414xWoh?usp=sharing A video playlist of the development process can be accessed at:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxmklt_dzHGK1JkIbQGRWdRlg8AHCfqni
Last month, the Spy said of the botched Ecoline window installation: “Yes, if one can believe the scheduling department, the installers shall return(!) on January 4 (that’s 2023 BTW) to fix their errors and damage, install a long list of items missing from the first delivery, and make everything honkey-dory. But given the history of this thing, if you believe all will be well at the end of that day, I know of a really busy bridge I can sell…
The annual BASIC 10Liner Programming Contest has begun. This is an annual event which brings together the best 10 line programs on 8-bit platforms from around the globe. The BASIC 10Liner Programming Contest allows users to participate in one of the following categories with their programs: Category “PUR-80”: Program a game in 10 lines (max 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed).Attention: In this category, only factory built-in BASIC variants are allowed Category “PUR-120”: Program a game…
The Plasma 2.0 Apha 2 Programming Environment has been released. From Dave Schmenk : “Let’s start 2023 off with some critical bug fixes.” 1. Improved entry/exit for 128K Apple IIe //c 2. Improved entry for Apple /// 3. Improved entry and function calls for 16 bit VM 4. Apple3 ReadyToRun compatible images PLASMA is a medium level programming language targeting the 8-bit 6502processor. Historically, there were simple languages developed in the earlyyears of computers that improved on the tedium of…
A.P.P.L.E in coordination with Kevin Smallwood and Paul Lee are pleased to announce the official release of ACOS GBBS Version 2.2 for the Apple II series computers. There are a host of changes to this latest release including the following: For users who have purchased the printed manual, there are a few other typos including the following: You can download the latest version of ACOS GBBS Pro for the Apple II series computers from Call-A.P.P.L.E.’s Github page at:https://github.com/callapple/GBBS Additional information…
Stefan Wessels has announced the initial release of his CC65 based Apple II version of the popular game, Gomoku. According to his anouncement,
Tom Charlesworth has announced the release of the latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator. Applewin is a windows based full featured Apple II Emulator. The latest version of Applewin, version 1.30.13.0 includes several changes and bug fixes including the following: You can download the latest version of Applewin from the Applewin Github page at:https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin Some of the features included in Applewin include support for a variety of Apple II series machines and clones, many of which are hard…
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been updated. Gerard Putter, the curator of the Virtual II emulator announced the update this morning and noted that he had added more features and quashed some bugs in the earlier version of the program. The latest release of Virtual II, version 11.2, includes additional support for the Apple //c and Apple //c+. A complete list of changes included in this release of Virtual II include the following: You can download an evaluation…
Enrico Rolfi has announced the immediate availability of The Music Studio for the Apple IIgs, the unofficial version. The Music Studio for the Apple IIgs Version 2.0.3 is available for download on Enrico’s website. According to the release notes on the site: The Music Studio is a music composition software for the Apple IIGS that was first released between the end of 1986 and the beginning of 1987. Armed with nothing more than the original program binary, I decided to…
A Note from Peter Forth, curator of the Forth2020 Programming language legacy Group on Facebook:
Ian Schmidt has released a new version of his Night Driver for the Apple IIgs. Night Driver GS 1.1 includes the following features and fixes: Night Driver GS 1.1 is a free download and is available at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/a2gs/games/nd11.po
To talk of many things but rather than ‘shoes and ships, and sealing-wax, Of cabbages and Kings, And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings,’ and also with apologies to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the Spy will instead speak of windows, wackiness, and the weather, Of controllers and cameras, Of furnaces and hernias, And what else is really hot, And whether digital assistants, new MacPros and EVs have wings. Windows, wackiness, and the weather The Spy has…
Sellam Abraham has released a little demo package for Apple II users for New Years Day 2023. The demo program was created using the Greasy Graphics package and is a free download and can be found here
For those of you who have been waiting for the AppleSqueezer accelerator for the Apple IIgs, Niek Van Suchtelen, the creator of the AppleSqueezer has announced that production is forthcoming. In the announcement on his wesbite, he says:
The final release of the Apple II Desktop Version 1.2 is available. That means that there are no more Alpha or Beta versions and that this will be the last update to that particular version. Apple II DeskTop is a graphical file and disk manager that also includes a host of graphical desk accessories for the Apple II series computers. Apple II desktop has also been known and sold as Mouse Desk. Some of the features of the Apple II…
Late last night, Lee Fastenau announced a little Christmas present for the Apple II world in the Call-151 group: the Game Boy version of Tetris for the Apple II, complete with all of the original screens and the source code for the game as well. This version of the game runs not only on original Apple II hardware with 48K of memory but will also run in Emulators as well. Game controls for the game: Downloading the game and the…
Recently, Apple II programmer Brian Picchi had a chance to catch up with Beagle Bros founder, Bert Kersey. According to Picchi, Bert was surprised that so many people still remembered and were fans of Beagle. Here is the recorded video message from Bert Kersey to the Apple II community: https://www.facebook.com/bpicchi/videos/533635638687240
