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…
For those of you who have been following Daniel Gordon’s Realm release, there is a new version of Realm: Rays of Nightmare available for both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. According to the release notes accompanying the release, “This release provides automatic combat resolution, some new potions, and support for the ProDOS RAM disk. It adds interface improvements, balancing, and a little different Iron Tower magic. The RAM disk works on emulators, but testing on real hardware is still pending.” In…
Rand-Emonium Software has announced the release of the latest version of the Apple II gs game BuGS. According to the press release from Jeremy Rand, curator of Rand-Emonium Software in the Kansasfest list, This bug fix addresses a problem where a failure where the network interface cannot be brought up at all was treated as a “soft error” that could be fixed with a retry. This lead to a situation where you could get repeated prompts due to a score…
Rand-emonium Software has announced the release of the Apple IIgs Build Pipeline for Xcode version 3.0. The Apple IIgs Pipeline is a package, which allows users to create their Apple IIgs software in Xcode and to build disk images that are end user ready. Some of the updated features included in Apple IIgs Build Pipeline version 3.0 include: Support for the mame emulator along side GSport and GSplus. The build now creates a separate distribution disk image from the boot…
And the not entirely so grimas, once again, Canada persists in celebrating the Spy’s birthday a couple of daysearly and the Excited States a day late. ‘Course, both have been at it a tad longerthan he, so he extends best wishes that both will outlast him, despite at least someindicatiors to the contrary. Truth and ConsequencesThere was a time in the increasingly distant past when the truth of one’sstatements was considered non negotiable, for it had to founded on actualrepeatable…
The latest alpha release of the Apple II Desktop has been released. Version 1.2 Alpha 31 is now available for download from the Apple II Github page at https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d. Changes in this latest release include the following: General Various string updates. DeskTop Don’t use “shift key mod” on Laser 128 (since mouse button is detected as BUTN2 as well) Clip long paths in dialogs. Fixes Adjust fixed list view line width to handle wide dates. Desk Accessories This Apple DA:…
A.P.P.L.E. Member, Dan Gordon, has released a new Apple II game. Recovered from old hard drives, REALM – Rays of Nightmare is an Ultima style RPG game, originally written more than 30 years ago and has been re-worked for the modern day emulators. From the Manual: “In your wanderings, you come upon a lone orc, apparently under some kindly enchantment. He presents you with a note from his lord: “I am Xavier Francis, eighteenth Baron Lemphocym. I faithfully serve the…
Tom Harte has updated the Clock Signal multi platform emulator. This release updates to the Apple II and Macintosh emulation sections of the program. Included in the update list are the following: adds support for Macintosh drive images, in addition to its existing support for volume images; substantially improves messaging and semantics around ROM loading, hopefully to ease application setup; accepts state snapshots by drag and drop, in addition to regular media images; adds a square-pixel option for Apple II…
Paul Wasson, Winner of last winter’s Apple II Software Enthusiasts programming contest, has released his Double Hi-Res Graphics Toolbox to the general public. The program includes a number of features for Adventure Game Designers including: A tile-editor to create either 14×16 or 7×8 tiles using double hi-res A map-editor to place the tiles and see how they fit together. Full in program Help Screen Paul has released the source code for the toolbox as well. The Source and Disks can…
Be sure and check out the ASCII 10 Liner 8-Bit Programming Contest, being sponsored this month by Roy Templeman AKA The Loud Scots Bloke (@loudscotsbloke). Thus far, 23 people have signed up for the contest, and 5 entries have been received.
<TRUMPET_BLARE> Announcing the winners of the Spring 2021 Call-A.P.P.L.E. giveaway! First, second, and third place winners are displayed in the video below in order of spin! (Yes, you’ll have to watch to find out if you won! ) ** The First and second place winners will receive a copy of the WOZPAK Special Edition and a 1 year membership to A.P.P.L.E! ** The Third place winner will receive a 1 year membership and a special mystery gift (it could be…
With apologies to “Our Anne” (with an “e”) the Spy this months takes note of some notable disappointments, failures, and wonders who or what is on the brink. We start with the technological realm itself of course, but this column has always been about much more than machinery. The industry giants have had their share of embarrassments over the years. The much-touted, but poorly assembled Apple /// from late 1980 gets an honourable mention, as does the Power Mac powered…
