The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Tom Charlesworth, the curator of the Applewin project has added additional configuration support to the latest release, version 1.30.4 as well as a host of other items: [Change #975] Extend Configuration’s Disk GUI to support a Disk II controller in slot 5. [Change #977] Add per-slot configuration to the Registry (and conf.ini). eg. “Last Disk Image 1” has moved from “Preferences” to “Configuration\Slot 6”. [Change #976] AppleWin’s help now documents Control-PrintScreen to copy the debugger’s…
The A2D project has released Apple II Desktop 1.2 Alpha 35. The latest version includes a slew of changes to the desktop as well as the launcher, selector and also updates and fixes to the Desk Accessories. Some of the changes include: DeskTop Fix list views showing as empty (regression in alpha34). Use more consistent alerts for all DeskTop warnings/errors. #207 Correctly restore all 14 devices in ProDOS DEVLST table on exit. #549 Make selection when opening items more consistent. #415, #544 Volume icons…
From Bobbi Manners on the CSA2 group on Usenet: I am pleased to announce the release of Emai//er v2.1.8. This is a bugfix release which fixes a little issue in the quoted-printable decoder. Emai//er is an email and Usenet news suite for the Apple //e or IIgs with Uthernet-II ethernet card. Download v2.1.8 here: https://github.com/bobbimanners/emailler (Naturally, I am posting this using Emai//er v2.1.8 on my //e.) All the best, Bobbi
Version 2.1 of the Burroughs 220 Simulator has been released. Michael J. Mahon, the author of the B220SIM App announced it in a posting on the Comp.sys.Apple2 group on usenet From Michael J. Mahon on the CSA2 Groups: it’s been a few years since I released version 1.2, which completed the simulation of the processor and rudimentary I/O of the Burroughs 220 computer. It correctly ran the machine diagnostics and had sufficient I/O capability to run an assembler and numerous sample programs. What…
Most of us who grew up in the age of the early video games and especially the Atari 2600 console likely played Adventure as one of the first games on the console. The game used rather simplistic graphics but was a challenge until one figured out the patterns of the game. Now, Peter Hirschberg has given Apple IIgs users something to cheer for. GS.Adventure. This game contains all of the elements of the original Atari 2600 version but is 100%…
Kent Dickey has announced the release of the latest version of Kent’s Emulated GS (KEGS). KEGS version 1.11 for Mac and Linux include a host of updates and new features including the following: KEGS should support many international keyboards, converting your local keys to the US equivalents: [,],|, etc. Italian works least well, sorry. KEGS can choose character ROMs out of a ROMX-compatible file. Use F4, “Character ROM Selection”, and then pick the file and font. If you pick an…
Denis Molony has released the latest version of his Java based application, Apple II Diskbrowser. This application allows users to view the files on a myriad of standard Apple II disk types as well as combination hybrid disks containing both DOS and PASCAL as well as DOS and CPM. Diskbrowser version 1.60 adds CPM BASIC support and fixes a bug related to the date function in ProDOS. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Diskbrowser from the…
From the CSA2 group and Andy McFadden: This was a relative minor release. I bumped the minor version because of the compatibility break. Changes since v4.0.5: * Added save and restore of main window placement (issue #41). * Added workaround for ProDOS sparse file issue (issues #15 and #49). * Updated to modern build tools (breaks WinXP support). This version runs on Windows 7 and later. See http://a2ciderpress.com/ for downloads for the latest version as well as older versions that run on WinXP/Vista and…
Gerard Putter has announced the release of the latest version of his Virtual II Apple II Emulator. The latest release, Virtual II version 10.4, includes a number of fixes and improvements including: Improved the appearance and behavior of the main window toolbar. Created an option to save screen snapshots with an 8-pixel black border. Previously, some keys repeated when held down and some didn’t. This has been solved: all keys now repeat. Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks….
Atsushi Ushiroda of Ninja.info, introduced a 68008 card for the Apple II series computers. The card is based on the Q-68 card from Stellation II and adds an additional 1mb of onboard RAM to the design. The card is a 7mhz MC68008 with 32kb and 1mb of RAM and runs runs on the entire desktop based Apple II series computers including the Apple II, IIe, and IIgs. The card is available from nanja.info for $200 including the shipping costs from…
In 1977, I was playing a game on a teletype at Ansbach American High School which had been written several years before. The game was something called Oregon Trail and the objective was to get to Oregon without dying. Simple enough play, yet difficult to win, if there was any such thing with the game. From where I stood, it was more like the survival of running through the meat grinder. Most my fellow students who played the game did…
A hot summer gasps to an end in numerous western wildfires that spew smoke across the continent, the degree of Arctic ice melt is unprecedented, high temperatures and drought set records–all visual evidence that the climate is indeed changing, and more rapidly than even the worst pessimists once predicted. Meanwhile billionaires engage in a space race for publicity and pleasure, elected officials and influencers dispute whether election results, COVID, and violent insurrections are real or fake, vaccine deniers threaten their…
If you have ever wanted to own some verifiable Steve Jobs Autographs and a real working Apple-1 computer, now is your chance. RR Auction is having an auction beginning August 12th which contains a host of memorabilia including the Apple-1 owned by Roger Wagner as well a total of 6 Steve Jobs Autographs. This particular Apple-1 came from the 2002 VCF Auction and was acquired by Roger, restored by Corey Cohen who took over the Apple-1 Database for Mike Wilegal….
Stefan Weasels has released an update to his Manic Miner re-work. Manic Miner was originally written for the ZX-81 in 1983 by Matthew Smith, this version maintains all of the original spirit of the ZX version and makes a very playable Apple II version. According to the author: The 1.1 Release was meant to be what’s in this release but I bungled it, so now a 1.1A release; The render loop has been unrolled and therefor the game does not…
Gerard Putter, Curator of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator app has released a new version with a number of small improvements and bug fixes requested by users of the App. Some of the fixes include: Added a pull down menu to save an Apple II screen as a PNG file. Previously, this function was only available through Applescript. If the “shift key modification” has been configured, the initial value of game controller button #2 was incorrect. This has been fixed….
At KansasFest in 2019, Mark Pelczarski (Penguin Software president) gave me a few boxes of disks for which he no longer had the equipment to read, but said that according to the labels, “There might be some interesting stuff on these,” wondering if the disks were still even readable and if anything could be extracted. There was indeed “interesting stuff” on the disks and here’s a small preview: draft images from an unreleased adventure game, and a fan’s German translation of the…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2021 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Jules H. Gilder are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book Apple Software Protection Digest. You will learn how to protect, unprotect and backup your Apple II software. Inside this collection are Jules H. Gilder’s six rare issues published between 1985 and 1986. Availability Apple Software Protection Digest is available through the A.P.P.L.E. bookstore with production and fulfillment by Lulu.com. A new disk image…
Seattle, Washington — July 23, 2021 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has released a new manual for “Applesoft Program Editor” by Richard Hackl. Applesoft Program Editor (APE) is a popular Applesoft BASIC editor for DOS 3.3 and ProDOS that helps you enter lines and correct mistakes. It works in Applesoft, in the Monitor, and can even be used within the programs you write. Availability The “Applesoft Program Editor (APE)” manual is available through the A.P.P.L.E. bookstore with production…
BBC Micro fans who are also Apple IIe users can now rejoice. Bobbi Manners has released her Applecorn emulator which is as she says, “It is basically my little program pretends to be the BBC Micro’s Machine O.S. (MOS) so the language ROMs can run. So far I have gotten BBC BASIC, COMAL, Forth and MicroProlog running.” The program does require the 128K Enhanced Apple IIe and uses the BBC BASIC v2 from the BBC Micro. It will leave 32K…
We are happy to present a Minesweeper port in Double LORES for the Apple //e and IIgs. The perfect port was done by Daniel Henderson using the Magic Pixels library by Roby Sherman and runs on real wood as also in most emulators. There are two versions available. The first version is a compiled AppleSoft program that was done with TASC and shows good performance under 1 MHz system speed. The second version is the original AppleSoft version which runs also nicely in native speed. There…
