Brutal Deluxe Software has made the original source code for the French adventure game, Le Manoir de la Crapule, available for download. Originally written in 2017 by Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, the engine in the game is an 8-bit engine which upports 40/80-col modes, loads pics from 40-col to SHR, recognizes three words within a 100-char sentence, and can run in 48K. The engine may be used freely with appropriate attribution and retainment of the copyright messages in the…
Tom Harte has released an update for his ClockSignal multi-platform Emulator for Mac OS. The latest update resolves an issue which was preventing both the Apple IIe and the Enhanced Apple IIe emulations from detecting an attached floppy disk drive. Other platforms that the Clock Signal Emulator contains currently are: Acorn Electron;Amstrad CPC;Apple II/II+ and IIe;Atari 2600;Atari ST;ColecoVision;Commodore Amiga (not 100% accurate yet)Commodore Vic-20 (and Commodore 1540/1); Enterprise 64/128;Macintosh 512ke and Plus;MSX 1;Oric 1/Atmos;Sega Master System;Sinclair ZX80/81; andSinclair ZX Spectrum….
From the Kansasfest Committee: KansasFest 2022, the 34th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 19–24, both remote and in-person. Robert Woodhead, well-known as the co-creator of the Wizardry series of computer role-playing games, will join us as the keynote speaker. Registration opens April 17. Information about the COVID restrictions for in-person attendees is here. At an early age, Robert Woodhead, aka Trebor the Mad Overlord, was consumed by two passions: computer programming and not having to have a real job. He first achieved this…
Vince Weaver has released a “Proof of Consept” version of his Lemmings remake for the Apple II computer. Originally created in 1991, the game Lemmings was created for several platforms including the Apple IIgs. During his viewing of the 30th Anniversary video of the video about the game, Vince found himself contemplating this remake. He says, “a dangerous thing happened… I realized the colors weren’t that far off of the Apple II hires palette. So I took a break from…
Brendon Bellina has announced the release of the HyperCard IIgs Extras. Best known for his Scipt-Central SE packages, Brendon mentions that this “Extras” stack release will greatly enhance the capabilities of HyperCard IIgs. According to the HyperCard IIgs Extras webpage, “Apple included many stacks for the Macintosh version of HyperCard that were never released for HyperCard IIGS. Many of the stacks from HyperCard 1.2.5 and earlier were packaged into a single stack named “Stack Templates” that was released with later…
From Jeremy Rand: ListenerGS version 1.0 is available: https://www.rand-emonium.com/2022/04/10/listenergs-version-1-0-released/https://www.rand-emonium.com/listenergs/ This app lets you do speech dictation to an Apple IIgs. You must have a network interface on your GS and have Marinetti setup. You also need a modern iPhone, iPad or Mac. With that, you can do speech dictation in desktop application on your GS like Teach and Hermes. This was my KansasFest 2021 HackFest entry. In the months since KansasFest, I have cleaned up the code and gotten it…
From Claudio Parmigiani: Dear friends, Antonino Porcino and I have the pleasure to share with you our latest project: Apple-1 microSD Storage Card. Main features: Compatible with Originals/Replicas Command Line Interface MS-DOS/Linux style Fast loading/saving of INTEGER BASIC / ML / etc. programs Full support of APPLESOFT LITE BASIC with dedicated load/save/menu FAT32 filesystem, directories/subdirectories supported Compatible with CFFA1/PRODOS naming system (CiderPress not needed) Very large storage capacity Built-in full RAM expansion, with possibility to replace the on-board RAM Full implementation of…
The Fast Frame editor for the Apple //e enhanced (or better) let’s you create fast frame animations in double LORES. You can load double lores images from almost any source and edit them with the tools of the fast frame editor. Up to 10 frames are possible. The tool includes a built-in animation feature that let’s you playback your animations. It is planned to develop a &-library for using the double lores animations you created from any AppleSoft Basic program….
The Ample MAME Apple related interface for MAC OS has been updated. kelvin Sherlock released the latest version of Ample, Version 0.242 to align up with MAME 0.242 as well as to add a few new features to the program including: Software list search has improved of diacritics. Software list search skips over a leading “the” since it’s often inconsistent. Fixed some issues with the selected MIDI device being forgotten when devices change. ROM Manager now has a “Move to…
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…
