From the Kansasfest Committee: We are excited to announce that KansasFest 2022 will take place both in-person and remote this summer, July 19-24. Registration will open April 17. For the in-person event, we will be requiring either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours before your arrival. We will have testing kits available at check in, although it is strongly recommended that you take the test in advance. At this time we anticipate that masks will not…
The Spy has it on good authority that on Monday next week after the markets close, Apple will announce the takeover of one-time rival IBM for a cash and stock package valued at $162B, just under a 25% premium over where the latter’s stock was trading this week. Given that Apple’s own market cap at nearly $3T is some 23 times that of the company that once dominated the tech world, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO brushes the purchase off in…
From Brutal Deluxe Software: Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our third gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. You, Dirk the Daring, are on a quest to rescue the Fair Princess Daphne who has been kidnapped and is being held captive by Singe the Evil dragon. Get it at https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair/
The Witch Trial adventure game from Dan Henderson has been updated. The latest version of the game, version 1.1, was released to address some game play issues as well as some technical issues on the Apple IIc computer. These issues were causing the initial release of the game to crash when played on real Apple IIc hardware due to the way the IIc handles the screen. Witch Trial was featured at the monthly A.P.P.L.E. meeting with both Dan Henderson and…
Denis Molony has released a new version of the Apple II Diskbrowser App for the Macintosh. The latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser, version 1.62, includes the ability to view Pascal based WOZ format disks. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser app from the Github page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/
The March Meeting for the A.P.P.L.E. User Group Meeting was held online with the meeting being brought to order by Bill Martens. The initial items on the agenda were the releases of the February and March issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. It was announced that both of these issues would be posted the first week of April due to the size of the files, and the problems working from a laptop creates. Announcements: The new peeking at Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine prints for 1978…
Joshua Bell has released the latest build of the Apple II Desktop graphical interface application. Apple II Desktop 1.2 alpha 43 includes the following changes: General New folder structure. App modules are in MODULES/, configuration files in LOCAL/, optional components now in EXTRAS/. IIgs: Enable monochrome composite display Menu bar clock is right-aligned. Text input fields: Mouse cursor obscured when typing. Appearance and movement of insertion point is improved. Control+X (or Clear key on IIgs) clears text. File pickers: Ignore non-pathname characters typed in pathname fields….
Oliver Schmidt has released the initial version of his Apple II Based audio streaming app, A2Stream. Version 1.0 of the the Apple II disk image allows the Apple II to receive an .a2stream file from any HTTP server, playing it on the Apple II’s built in speaker. A2Stream requires that the Apple II be either an Enhanced Apple IIe or an Apple IIgs. Users will also need to have an Uthernet II card installed in any slot of the Apple…
From Jermy Rand: “I have updated the Listener beta builds. Both the iOS/macOS and the GS side software have had updates. For information about how to join the beta, links to the GS software and some video demos of the app, check out this page: https://www.rand-emonium.com/listenergs/ Among the fixes: The NDA now actively closes the connection when its window is closed The iOS app now notices if the NDA closes the connection The NDA will try to send its window to…
A trip back to 1641 In the realm of the Apple II, there have been many different types of adventures produced but rarely has one delved into the ideas of witches and witch trials. Dan Henderson, Roby Sherman, and Dr. Mark A. Golombeck have resolved this oversight in a rather spectacular way. About the game The Witch Trial adventure game places the adventurer squarely back in the year of our lord, 1641 A.D. You play a character that stands…
Kelvin Sherlock has released an intermediate bug fix release for the Ample MAME interface. Ample is an Apple centric graphical interface for MAME running under MAC OS which allows users to quickly configure and run a variety of Apple 1, II, III, IIgs, Apple II clones, and retro macintosh computing platforms. The bug fix, released as Ample version 0.241-1 resolves the following issues: The previous build had problems with the Preferences window. When running MAME, a software list entry is…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the sequel to the game Passengers in the Wind. This second rendition, Passengers in the Wind II, is an Apple IIgs release of the never before released game originally by Infogrames. According to the release information on the Brutal Deluxe Software website, Passengers in the wind II puts you in control as “You are both the director and the actors of fate: you organize the progression of the adventure as a master,…
Last Month’s chat ended with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are no doubt laughing at the North Americans who must seem to them bent on destroying the very democracy we once touted as superior to their brutal and genocidal dictatorships. Surely they can now go to war, annex their neighbours (and eventually us) into a totalitarianism that brooks not a whisper of dissent from the glorious leader’s agenda, and expect the west to remain supine as it is swallowed whole….
Brendan Belina has released his most recent collection of Apple IIgs Hypercard Stacks. Script-Central Special Edition 2021 is a collection of Hypercard stacks . Script-Central SE 2021 Stacks This year’s release of Script-Central includes the following stacks: HyperTuneMaker Haiku Stack Xmas.Display.21 Itsy Bitsy Spider TuneBuilder (an updated version of Apple’s stack) Birthday Warp Speed IIGS File Cabinet GS PinDrop Apple 1987 HyperCard Supplement MenuMaster Stack Report A total of over 14mb of Hypercard GS stacks are on the disk as…
The Apple related MAME emulator frontend for Mac OS, Ample, has been updated. Ample version 0.241 matches the latest release of the MAME Emulator and includes all Apple related retro computer systems in a single, easy to use and configure interface. The Ample frontend is the creation of Kelvin Sherlock and is generally updated with each release of MAME. According to notes about the latest version of the interface program, “Bookmarks and Recent Disk Images were switched over to use…
Crow Cousins Software, a creation of Roby Sherman, has announced the release of Double-Paint 1.5. From the website: Welcome to the golden age of double lo-res drawing! Harnessing the awesomeness of Marc Golombeck’s Double LORES drawing command library for the Apple II, Double-Paint is a first-of-its-kind double lo-res drawing program allowing you to draw, paint, copy/paste images, and undo mistakes on multiple in memory double lo-res canvases using your mouse, koala pad, joystick, etc. and saving those images in fast-loading bitmap images. Double-Paint includes…
The Apple II Desktop version 1.2 Alpha 42 has been released. The Joshua Bell managed project has implemented a slew of changes to the project including the following: Changes and Fixes General Laser 128: Fix default double click speed. One more attempt at clearing text screen before showing. #639 Performance improvements by changing MGTK configuration. File Picker: Clear to right of IP when changing drive. File Picker: Verify paths are not volumes. #656 Fit & Finish: Improve text box appearance and file…
A new documentary movie about the game Lemmings is now available on Youtube. It has been a full 30 years since the game Lemmings was introduced to the world and now the movie titled, “Lemmings: Can You Dig It?” takes us back. “Lemmings: Can You Dig It?” is a full two-hour documentary about the true story of the origins of Lemmings and what went into the game. Featuring commentary and memories from a slew of people including: Adrian Powell (original…
For those of you who are fans of the New York Times owned game, Wordle, you can now use your Apple IIgs to play the game. Wordle GS v.0.4 follows the true constraints of the game but now allows users to share game codes to allow shared play of a set of words. Wordle GS is coded by Dan Malec using Xcode on the Mac with the following Apple II GS libraries and utilities: Apple2GSBuildPipeline build system by Jeremy Rand Golden…
Tom Charlesworth has released a new edition of the Applewin Apple II Emulator for windows. Version 1.30.8 is the latest version and includes a lot of new debugger features and bug fixes. Changes [Bug #1023] WOZ support: Tweak to track sync support. [Bug #1020] WOZ support: Significant bit-cells after a gap between latch access upped from 50 to 100. Fixes: What’s My Logic, Forbidden Quest, The Isle of Mem. [Bug #1018] Support AN3 for //e models. [Bug #1015] Registry: fix support for legacy ‘Harddisk…
