Script-Central SE v7n2 has been released by Brendan Bellina. Details of this release of the Script-Central SE package release are as follows: Script-Central is a HyperCard IIGS stack collection presented as a disk magazine. Originally published on floppy disks in the 1990’s, v7n2 is the fourth issue published by Brendan Bellina released as 16 MB hard drive images. Stacks include hard-to-find content, stacks converted from Macintosh HyperCard, and original stacks. Along with the stacks themselves is a great deal of…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. John Morris released Applesauce FDC Software version 1.74 with the following changes: New bulk processor named Catalog Disks that will generate directory listings for image files and save them into individual txt files. Writing MFM disks now have improved write precompensation handling. It is automatically handled from the Disk Writer. From within the Mastering system of the Disk Analyzer, you can now specify custom write precompensation settings. The Flux Imager…
The Webb Bang No, that is not a spelling error, but a reference to the James Webb telescope, successor to the Hubble platform, and capable of producing images of long ago and far away. Initial results are disconcerting, as they seem to blow up long accepted models for the “early” universe, by revealing spiral galaxies much like our own, but at distances of sufficient light years that should in theory have revealed early post Big-Bang chaos from before such galaxies…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate release of the 9th software release as part of their 30th Anniversary celebration. The latest release is Froggy Software’s Canal Meurtre. According to the release notes on the Brutal Deluxe website, Attached to your TV like an infant to its pacifier, you enjoy cozy evenings in the calm of your apartment. However, tonight, the incredible has just happened: your favorite journalist has been murdered! Your investigative skills overcoming your acute flemmingitis, you decide…
Chris Vavruska has announced the release of the Homer finder extension for the Apple IIGS. Home is an extension of the Extras Menu “Make Alias” function in Apple IIGS System 6.0. Home proves an easy to use means to give you a quick route to finding the location of the alias as well as to examine the structure of the EasyMount alias files. It also opens the original folder where the alias points to. You can download the latest version…
The Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS has been updated. Ample is a user interface which focuses on the Apple II series computers and the Retro Macintosh platforms using the MAME emulation platform. Ample Version 0.248 includes the following changes and updates: Includes MAME 0.248. Updated Sparkle to version 2.2.0 Includes experimental Uthernet II / WIZnet W5100 emulation. Marinetti, IP65, and A2osX have been tested and should work. (This should make its way into MAME when the code is cleaned up a…
The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator for Microsoft Windows has been released. Tom Charlesworth announced the released of Applewin Version 1.30.12 with the following changes to the emulator: [Bug #1128] Increase paddle maximum offset – fixes ‘Learning with Leepers’. [Bug #1127] Debugger – fix memory search command. [Bug #1126] Fix rare crash bug (when unprotected WOZ in drive). [Bug #1125] Improve WOZ support – fixes ‘Accolade Comics’. [Bug #1121] Fix for aspect ratio in full-screen – Now…
The Virtual Apple II Emulator curated by Gerard Putter has been updated. The latest version of the Emulator, version 11.1 includes support for the Apple //c Plus. In order to use this feature, you will need to download an Apple //c Plus ROM and install it in the ROMs directory of the application. You can download the latest version of the Virtual II emulator from the Virtual II website at:https://www.virtualii.com
The latest update to the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been released. Version 1.72 and 1.72.1 of the Applesauce FDC Client includes the following changes: Improvements and Fixes in 1.72.0 The Fast Imager gets a big power up this release with support for imaging disks that have mixed track formats (like an FM-encoded track 0 with the rest being MFM). It also now supports disk whose tracks change geometry, like using different sized sectors between tracks. Also some…
Emai//er, the email and Usenet news software package for the Apple //e Enhanced or Apple IIgs, has been updated. Emai//er version 2.1.14 is a major update, coming after a nearly two year hiatus, and updates the suite to the latest version of IP65. Changes in the program according to the author, Bobbi Manner, are as follows Addresses tickets #75 and #76 in the ticket database.. The IP65 release Emai//er has been using was a couple of years out of date, and various improvements…
The Apple II Software Enthusiasts Challenges have produced a slew of new games over the past few years and now comes the latest Apple II game from Raphael Rezende: Oribita. Orbita is a high resolution arcade style game completely written in Applesoft with everything in less than 4k! This includes the instructions, the sprites, the controls, the scoring and other game elements. The game itself uses the keyboard for control of the shooters in the game and game play itself…
VOCinit, a Temporary Initialization File (TIF) for the Apple IIgs computer and the Video Overlay Card has been updated. This update comes 29 years after the initial release of VOCinit and the original author, Richard Wifall has put it out as freeware. Version 1.0 of VOCinit allows users for force the Video Overlay Card settings to either be complete Apple IIgs graphics or full input video on boot up. The program uses the Caps Lock on the keyboard to control…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller software suite has been updated. Version 1.70 was released by John Morris with the following changes: The most anticipated feature of this release is a powerful new disk writing system that works from the Disk Analyzer. Almost anything that can be loaded into the analyzer can also be written to disk, including copy protected software! But, using this feature effectively does require that you have at least a basic understanding of how disks are structured…
The Spy’s Reader who’s been lurking around here a while will be familiar with his many discourses on the mutual effects of society and technology upon each other (including the entire currently-being-revised textbook on that theme referenced below among his web sites). In order of technological sophistication, the three (kinds of) civilization to date are/were the Hunter-Gatherer, the Agrarian or Agricultural, and the Industrial. Hunter-Gatherer societies are usually nomadic, and transition to Agricultural mode with the invention of the plough–which…
The Apple II Desktop has been updated. Version 1.2 Alpha 48 includes a ton of updates. The program is now available in eight languages. Updated features include: General Added Sample.Media folder with some samples of various file types. Improved appearance of keyboard shortcuts in buttons. Improve appearance of ()^ glyphs in system font. DeskTop Improve error message for full volume directories. Show prompt when double-clicking a binary file, instead of just ignoring. Disk Copy Show disks as “DOS 3.3” rather…
A new version of the Ample Interface for MAME has been released. With the release of MAME 0.247, Kelvin Sherlock has updated his Apple centric Ample Interface to 0.247. The Ample MAME Interface is a MAC OS based, easy to use configuration panel and selector for the Apple based emulators in MAME. Ample includes an abbreviated custom version of the MAME emulator which only includes Apple-1 Emulation, Apple II series computer Emulation, Apple II Clone Emulation and Macintosh emulation from…
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest will be held September 10-11, 2000 at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, Illinois. The show will open at 9am with Sellam Ismail giving the keynote at 10:00am. As this is the 25th anniversary of the Vintage Computer Festival, his keynote will highlight some of the history of the VCF events. Also highlighting the event will be David Greelish (The Apple Lisa Documentary), Ron McAdams (Collecting Classic Macintosh Computers Is for EVERYONE!), Frank Palazzolo (Demon Debugger), Bill Degnan…
The Don Bluth fans in the audience will be super excited about this one: Space Ace II for the Apple IIGS courtesy of the good folks over at Brutal Deluxe Software. Ace looked at Kimberly, the baby Borf cradled in her arms and he thought back to all that had happened. It began when the evil adult Borf constructed his ultimate weapon – the Infanto Ray. It could transform anyone into a harmless infact with a single blast and with…
Core v5 for the AppleSqueezer GS was released recently. It fixes an issue that a few users were having with sound on early IIGS motherboard revisions (at least, for 2 out of 4 people who reported this to me), and I’ve also received some limited feedback that it improves VidHD compatibility. VidHD was working for many already, but this should improve things further, and means that if you were still using v3, you should be able to now use v5….
Tom Harte has released an update to the ClockSignal Emulator for MacOS. The emulator is a multi-platform emulation system which allows clock signal accurate emulation of retro computing platforms. The updated release of the ClockSignal Emulator includes the following changes: partially enables a properly-serialised blitter for the Amiga, mostly replacing the tentative instant blitter of previous releases; adds 1mb and 4mb RAM size options for the Atari ST; improves support for .ST disk images of non-default geometry; resolves a crash…
