Brutal Deluxe has announced the immediate availability of the Don Bluth game Space Ace. in a posting from Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe, he announces the game: Don Bluth’s Space Ace for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 7th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Dexter, better known as “Ace”, is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander Borf, who is seeking to attack Earth with his “Infanto Ray” to render Earthlings helpless…
Jeremy Rand of Rand-Emonium Software has created a Wordle puzzle solver program for the Apple II. Wordle Solver offers a word and then takes input via a series of x, ? or ^ characters from the user to facilitate the next guess in the puzzle. The program can guess a word in just a few moves and is actually quite usable on most Wordle puzzles. You can download the program for free from the Rand-Emonium Software website: Download a disk…
The major feature of this release is the inclusion of a system to allow users to create their own disk format definitions to be used by Applesauce. There is now an Applesauce folder in your user’s Documents folder where files will be stored that can expand the features of the client program. Within the Formats folder, you will find two files: hardsector_config.json and ibmsector_config.json. You can use these files to create new hard sector disk formats as well as formats…
Micah Cowan has released an update to his Kansasfest 2022 Hackfest project, a2vimode. a2vimode provide unix based vi like editing command to the Apple II prompt which are accessible during editing. a2vimode Version 0.3 pre-release implements some workarounds to unpleasant abuses that ProDOS attempts to employ against the prompt routine, and a ProDOS disk is now included with the release assets. You can download a2vimode for free from the a2vimode Github page at:https://github.com/micahcowan/a2vimode
Lucas Scharenbroich, author and creator of the Generic Tile Engine for the Apple IIgs, has released a first beta of the engine on the GTE Github page. This release comes post Kansasfest where Lucas released a number of new demos of the GTE Engine. The Generic Tile Engine (GTE) project is a tile engine built to exploit the unique hardware capabilities of the Apple IIgs personal computer. It supports the Apple IIgs super hires graphics mode (320×200, 16/256 colors) and…
From Nick Baggarly: Hi everyone, After 37 years, the Safehouse BBS has switched back on using its original telephone number! Mention The Safehouse to an Apple II devotee from the 1980’s and don’t be surprised if they enthusiastically recite the telephone number from memory: (612) 724-7066! This was an iconic bulletin board that lives in infamy and one that my 14-year old self called very often. It was created and managed by John Pechacek, aka the “Apple Bandit” who ran…
Thomas Harte has announced the latest update of his Clock Signal multi-platform emulator. The 23 July 2022 release includes the following changes and updates: corrects an error in Amiga HAM output that transposed red and blue channel modifications; improves Amiga sprite display: for programs that use both DMA and direct sprite accesses, and with regard to playfield interactions; and rejigs the macOS binding to try to reduce CPU load and avoid a potential audio-ending race condition. Though it is now…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published “Big Computer Games: Enhanced Edition” – a new edition of the classic games programming book from 1984. Originally edited by David H. Ahl of Creative Computing, this “Enhanced Edition” has a new preface from David written in 2022. The cover has been redesigned and the book contains over 120 pages of enhanced scans. Third in the Creative Computing series of best-selling computer games books, Big…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a manual designed by Brian Wiser for “Witch Trial” – an Apple II adventure game by Dan Henderson, Dr. Marc A. Golombeck, and Roby Sherman. The 45 page manual is printed in color on premium paper, and includes a complete walkthrough with pictures, a redesigned color map, and an art gallery featuring all game screens and Easter eggs. Step back in time to 1600s England!…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published “A Graphics Toolkit” – an Apple II programming tutorial book written by Randi J. Rost. A Graphics Toolkit teaches you the art of creating graphical libraries for use in games and other programs. Tutorial articles guide you through machine language and BASIC programs that can be used in your own games. Availability A Graphics Toolkit is available through the A.P.P.L.E. bookstore with production and fulfillment…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new manual for “Double High” written by Robert C. Clardy and Alan B. Clark for the Apple II computer. Generate text in different typefaces, sizes, colors, and angles from your Apple II programs on the Double Hi-Resolution screen. Originally published by Synergistic Software in 1987, it features an easy-to-use editor for creation of your own unique character sets, with 46 fonts included. Assumes a…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a manual for “Ringoban” – a game written by Mike Beaumont in 2021. Ringoban is an Applesoft BASIC version of the game Sokoban for the Apple II. This version by Mike Beaumont contains 90 levels of brain-warping fun. Work through the levels one-by-one and become the master of the Ringoban. It provides a great challenge for even the best puzzlers as well as the information…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new manual for the game “Terminal Boredom” written by Karl Bunker in 1986 for the Apple II computer. Terminal Boredom is an illustrated game of the “adventure” type. However, rather than the usual slay-the-dragon / destroy-the-giant-robot / find-the-hidden-treasure stuff typically found in such games, the primary object is simply to keep your on-screen alter ego from falling asleep. In addition to giving it something…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new manual for “Trik: Contract Bridge” written by Jim Hilger in 1980 for the Apple II computer. Trik is a full-featured single player Contact Bridge game. Features include playing a straight up game, building a hand, duplicating other games, sample hands for learning the game, and many others. Trik is written in Apple II Integer BASIC. The game uses standard codes during play, allowing…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2022 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new manual for “Directory Title Writer” written by Val J. Golding in 1981 for the Apple II computer. Directory Title Writer is a DOS 3.3 utility that lets you create elaborate and fancy file names on your Apple II disk catalog. Type inverse, flash, and lower case directly from the keyboard. Availability Directory Title Writer is available through the A.P.P.L.E. bookstore with production and…
The latest update for the ORCA/C Compiler for the Apple IIgs package from Byteworks Inc. has been released. This release includes a bevy of enhancements and bug fixes including: Support for new language features from C99 and C11: Compound literals Hexadecimal floating-point constants Unicode strings and characters in code Type qualifiers or static in the declarations of array parameters Support for new library features, mainly from C99 and C11: Unicode conversion functions Many new <math.h> functions from C99 strftime function for formatting date/time strings va_copy macro…
The Nox Archaist team announced has announced their new expansion pack for Now Archaist, Lord of Storms. According to their website, You have learned of Lord Estintar’s suspicions that the cult has something to do with the increase in storm activity. He charges you with investigating. The task will not be easy, but you accept this duty. Your quest will take you to uncharted reaches of the Isles of Wynmar. Traps, puzzles, and powerful magic items await, which may or…
Ralle Pa has announced the release of an updated version of the 512 KB NVRAM Drive Card for the Apple II computer. According to the posting on FaceBook, the newer version uses one less chip than the older version. This card is a ProDOS based card and uses a special protocol to write to the card via a newly released driver for the card. Ralle has released all of the schematics and related files to the public through his Github…
If you are an old school ASCII art fan like we are, then you will like the website Adelfaure.net. The website, created by one Adel Faure, features a slew of ASCII art , tools and games from over the past several years and even goes so far as to use ASCII Art for their menu selectors. The site itself allows users to view the art in JGS5, 7 and 9 font modes, single, double or triple size modes as well…
