This is a huge new release mainly focused at support for the revision 2 Applesauce hardware, but with lots of new stuff for owners of current hardware. The new hardware adds support for working with drives using the standard 34-pin interface (most PC drives). The A2R format used by Applesauce has also been updated to version 3.0 in this release. Lots of new features in the updated format like support for hard sectored disks. But please note that the new…
Gerard Putter has released a minor update to the Virtual II Emulator for Mac OS X. Virtual II version 10.4.1 deals with the dark mode issue that arose in 10.4 and was subsequently disabled in the release. This has been corrected and turned back on. To download the latest version of the virtual II Emulator, check out the website at:https://www.virtualii.com
Marc A. Golembeck has released the first version of his automatic hardware detection software, Identify II. The program, available in a 5.25 inch floppy disk image for the Apple II series computers will run on both emulated and actual hardware systems and identify all cards and memory in the particular machine as well as the machine specs. Some of the additional features of the program include: Machine detection CPU detection RAM detection (supports: RamWorks and Saturn memory expansion boards as…
The latest version of GS.Pacman has been released. Version 1.2 of GS.Pacman includes several game fixes as well as a new cheat mode with the 8 key on the keyboard. Peter Hirschberg has been quite busy with the updates but the game is coming along nicely. The changelog for version 1.2 shows the following changes: Ghosts now go to “Fright” mode when in the monster pen Ghost point value now resets after eating a power pellet (Hopefully) fixed numpad support…
The latest alpha release of the Apple II Desktop has been released. Apple II Desktop 1.2 Alpha 37 Contains a number of fixes for the desktop and features a new Desk Accessory, Electric Duet Player. The Apple II desktop is now available in five languages and comes on a single 3.5 inch floppy disk image or on two 5.25 inch floppy disk images in your chosen language. Some of the changes and fixes included are as follows: DeskTop Ensure copies…
Tom Charlesworth has released a new version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows. Applewin Version 1.30.5 includes a host of new features and bug fixes including: [Change #972] Add SNES MAX card (in slots 3, 4 or 5) to support up to 2 SNES (or 12-button) controllers. [Change #946] Add 4Play card (in slots 3, 4 or 5) to support up to 4 Atari controllers. [Change #420] Uthernet card’s state persisted to save-state. NB. it’s best to get your DHCP server…
A newer version of the Apple IIgs Pacman port by Peter Hirschberg is now available. GS.Pacman Version 1.1 has a change in the way that the Maze for the game is being allocated. Peter originally put the Maze buffer in high memory, however, this is no longer the case. GS.Pacman requires that you have more than 1mb of RAM installed in your Apple IIgs. Controls for the game are as follows: W/A/S/D – Player movement Numpad – Player movement (untested) 1 – Start game…
To the thieves who stole jewelry from my Bradner home on September 16–two questions: 1. How much did your fence give you for 52 priceless years of memories? Enough for a couple of fixes each of your favourite narcotic? 2. Why didn’t you also take the flowers in the living room? You could have made a “big spender” impression on your significant other. They were, after all, still fresh from my wife’s funeral. And a comment: I do not pray…
Daniel Gordon has released the latest rendition of his RPG game, Realm for the Apple II. Realm Version 1.4.0 includes the addition of weapons proficiencies by class, a foe status display, arrow selection, performance improvements, better input handlers and display formatting, and additional magic items and weapons. Realm works under both DOS 3.3 as well as ProDOS on the Apple II series computer and comes on four floppy disk images or on a single 3.5 inch floppy disk image. The…
A new version of the Ample Interface for MAME has been released. With the release of MAME 0.236 two days ago, Kelvin Sherlock has updated his Apple centric Ample Interface to 0.236. The Ample MAME Interface gives users an 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…
The latest version of Kent Dickey’s KEGS Apple IIgs Emulator is now available for download. KEGS Version 1.13 includes better support for Joysticks on the Macintosh computer. KEGS version 1.13 is available for download along with all sources and executables for Mac OS X, Linux and Unix/X11 at:http://kegs.sourceforge.net
A couple of weeks back, I ran across a nifty little project that played right into my college years and the programs that made me crazy about the Apple II series computers. Ultima IV Remastered! Of course, I am sure there were some things at the time that drove people crazy about the game but for this RPG player, it was just part of the novelty of running such a huge scale program on a machine that had a total…
Over the past several weeks, Peter Hirschberg has been working on a port of Pacman for the Apple IIGS. We are happy to say, it appears that he has been successful and this latest release runs nicely. Controls for the game are through the NumPad or through the Joystick. The Joystick can be enabled using the “J” key and disabled using the “K” key. The “1” key starts the game. You can also use the “9” key to advance to…
Ewen Wannop has released an updated version of the Webber Internet Browser for the Apple IIGS. Webber version 1.1 includes the following updates: many bug fixes to improve stability, to both Webber and the HTML Tool added some new features to the HTML Tool as well now optionally supports the receiving and sending of Cookies. A simple editor, lets you can view and delete Cookies you may not wish to keep. The Webber browser requires that Marinetti be installed on…
The FORTH 2020 group is holding a Zoom based Chat with Chuck Moore, the inventor of the Forth language. You can also chat with other great computer and FORTH language geniuses around the world in the Zoom meeting. This is one meeting you won’t want to miss!https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=170644201881192&id=100123365599943
From the europlus zone blog: [A]lthough it’s not far away, I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest: WOzFest RC 21/10 will be held on Saturday 2 October 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+10:00). And, to top off the year, I can also announce that WOzFest 22 will be held on Saturday 30 October 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+11:00). Why two WOzFests in one month? Well the name for ’21 should give the clue – I’m entering RetroChallenge 21/10, and it seemed a good way to…
From Olivier Goguel: For Apple 2GS die-hard fans, Nucleus is finally available as a PRODOS 8 system application to be able to be run from a HDD : joie dans les chaumières! It was quite challenging to dive into 65C18 code after all those years… to struggle against a 30-year-younger-me that had the funny idea to protect his code against this kind of hack! LDA $03f4EOR #$a5CMP $03f3 // Check that RESET has not been alteredInfiniteLoop1:BEQ InfiniteLoop1 REP #$30LDA $e10048CMP #$6b18…
Joshua Bell has released the latest rendition of his ProDOS Drivers disk. The ProDOS Drivers version 1.3 includes a host of drivers for various cards in the Apple II series computers. Some of the drivers included in this version are: Real-time Clock drivers No-Slot Clock Cricket! Applied Engineering DClock RAM Disk drivers RAMWorks Driver by Glen E. Bredon Quit dispatcher/selector (BYE routines) 40-column Selector (from ProDOS) 80-column menu-driven Selector (from ProDOS 1.9 and 2.x) Bird’s Better Bye (a 40-column menu-driven selector)…
Joyce Sutcliffe March 5 1947 – August 27, 2021 Joyce Arlene Sutcliffe (nee Madland) was born at home in Surrey, B.C. on March 5, 1947 to Philip and Grace (Halls) Madland and lived her early life near Whalley’s corner. Her parents were in fellowship at Westminster Gospel Chapel, where at a young age she accepted God’s grace and received his gift of eternal life. She in turn has been a faithful and practical witness to Christ and his loving grace…
Bobbi Webber-Manners has released an update to her Applecorn emulator. Applecorn is an Apple II ProDOS based BBC Micro emulator that has multiple language capability within the emulator. The emulator features 32KB of program space and has been confirmed to work with the following BBC Based languages. BBC BASIC Acornsoft COMAL Acornsoft FORTH Acornsoft Lisp Acornsoft MicroProlog Acornsoft BCPL In addition the emulator should work with any single BBC ROM based language. The latest release of Applecorn adds the ACCESS…
