What better way to say to those around you that you not only love them, but are totally cool than to express your love Apple II Style. Rogerio Neves has shared a lovely little one-liner that does this with a high-resolution heart drawn on the Apple II Screen. If you want to try this yourself, then copy the program shown below and paste it into your favorite Apple II emulator or type it into a real Apple II computer and…
Felix Rieseberg now has a Macintosh Javascript based Emulator App which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that puts a 1991 Apple Macintosh Quadra 900 on your desktop. Complete with all of the features of the original, you also can mount standard Apple disk images using the App. Felix and his team has provided 32 bit, 64 bit and ARM 64 versions of the App for both Windows and Linux as well as both Intel and M1 based…
Raphael Rezende has released a third game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts 2021 Programming Contest # 1. His new game is Laser Base, is a fast paced game in which: “You control a cannon (arrow keys=up and down) (space=fire) and must eliminate as much as you can, the enemy ships. But beware, every time you fire, your fuel decreases, and if you get! The game ends when: -> your 20 shots run out -> you miss 8…
The latest version of the Total Replay game hard disk image is now available. For those who have been following the project on Archive.org or on Github, Build 2209 marks the official release of the Version 4 of the Total Replay 32mb hard disk image. Total Replay Version 4 will run on any Apple II with 64k of memory although some games on the disk image require 128K. To download the latest version of the game, go to the official…
Ben Zotto, recently featured in the news for his disk recovery, now has one upped himself with a new Apple II DSK to WOZ 2.0 format disk image converter. dsk2woz2 is a program that not only converts the dsk format Apple II disk images to WOZ 2.0 format disks but also makes the resulting WOZ format disk images writable. Written in c, the program compiles in the standard C compiler under Mac and then runs from the command line. This…
Have you been searching for that obscure Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 800 or IBM PC floppy for your favorite game or application. Well, IANIOD, the curator of the Joystick Jockey’s website has you covered. With hundreds of floppy disks from the golden era of the 8-bit computer, Joystick Jockeys not only offers you the games on the original floppy disks but also, they are available for a reasonable price not normally seen in some of the eBay auctions. Check…
James Savage and John Leake, curators of the RetroMacCast, have released three episodes of their podcast simultaneously. In these three episodes, they cover : A number of eBay finds including Power Computing 100, SuperMac C600, and Power Computing Field Vest, Power Mac G4 Cube prototype shell, Mac Classic II, and classic Mac lot, Macintosh TV, Color Classic, and Macintosh 128k. In Episode 555, they look back at MacAddict from January 2001, and news includes Apple car rumors, G5 Minecraft server, and more NanoRaptor creations. In Episode 556, they turn on James’s…
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Renee Harke has created an Apple II Breadboard Adapter Card that any Apple II electronics hacker will love. The Apple II Breadboard Adapter card design is complete with a 50 pin socket, all of the bus signals and the space to add a standard 830 point solder-less breadboard to the card. The card design files as well as the Gerber for the board are downloadable from Renee’s Github page at:https://github.com/rharke/apple-ii-breadboard-card
Francois Vander Linden has updated his SpASM 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler to version 1.1.2. Included updates from versions 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 of the SpASM 6502 Assembler include: fixed more bytes count for some opcodes rewrote the byte count detection in order to avoid possible circular references column D is now colored as comments, it’s meant to be used as full-line comments fixed instructions because columns were shifted with latest release added syntax highlighting for SUBs deleted Excel external link SpASM 6502…
Steve Chamberlain has announced the addition of a number of new features to the latest version of the Big Mess O’ Wires BMOW Floppy Emu Disk Emulator. Included in the latest update is: Writeable WOZ and NIB disk image support Forgettable disk images Dual 5.25 inch floppy disk emulation These new additions to the firmware of the BMOW Floppy Emu mean that users will not only be able to use the BMOW Floppy Emu as a storage unit for programs…
MacEffects, LLC. has announced a new Kickstarter which will be launched February 14, 2021. For those hobbyists who wanted the Mechanical Transparent Keyboards, The Clear Apple II Case, or the new Midnight Black case and Keyboard, this will be your chance! According to MacEffects owner, Mark Jozaitis, this kickstarter will be 60 days in length in order to give people the time to sign up for it. This will be one you will not want to miss with several cool…
Paul Wasson has announced the availability of his entry for the A2SE programming contest. Where’s Askey is a tile based TEXT character adventure that takes you through the kingdom, to find your dog. If you have been looking for a game for every age, this is the one for you. A completely G-Rated game that takes you on the journey of finding Askey. The game is not only complete with the typical maps you would find in a tile based…
The 6502 Spreadsheet ASseMbler has been updated to v1.1.0.In this version: the ability to use ORG anywhere in your code so you can start a new code section in another address support for #label, #<label and #>label with HEX opcode so you can reference addresses, MSB and LSB (of course this was already possible with real 6502 instructions like LDA, STA, etc.) display of the cycle count for each line of code a few bugfixes You can Download 6502 SpASM…
I am currently working on AMPER-SPRITE, an Ampersand utility to DRAW and XDRAW sprites created with BITMAP ANIMATOR (an evolution of the BITMAP CREATOR spreadsheet). No release date yet 6502 code was created using the 6502 Assembler-In-A-Spreadsheet which is an integral part of the BITMAP ANIMATOR.This video shows a first speed test.For now the syntax is the following: &DRAW N AT X,Y will direct-draw a sprite on the hires screen. &XDRAW N AT X,Y will XOR-draw a sprite on the…
The Steve Jobs archives, created by Art Matsak, has a new location. The archives, which runs through all the different topical videos related to Steve Jobs and his life, can now be found at:https://www.stevesarchive.com
Raphael Rezende has released a new game for the Apple II computer as part of the latest A2SE programming contest. The game, Hell in the Tower, pits you as the fire brigade, attempting to catch the people jumping from the top of the burning building. Each game consists of 12 jumpers and you must do your best to catch all 12. The game uses the left and right arrow keys to control the catcher and from this players perspective, is…
The Clock Signal Emulator, a multi platform emulation system for Mac OS with Apple II Series support, has been updated. The latest update to the Clock Signal program includes support for the Apple Game Controller API as well as fixes for some of the non-Apple platforms. Clock Signal also has support for a number of other systems including: Acorn Electron; Amstrad CPC; Apple II/II+ and IIe; Atari 2600; Atari ST; ColecoVision; Commodore Vic-20 (and Commodore 1540/1); Macintosh 512ke and Plus;…
Several people lately have been looking at the replica realm with great interest and I found myself looking back through the files at what people had done already. One of the mainstays in the Apple II replica real was Mike Willegal, the former curator of the the Apple-1 Registry. One of the wonderful pages he had done was the “Information on Building your own Rev 0 Replica”, a page dedicated to the idea that the first Apple II available on…
Matthew Sparby, vintage computer enthusiast and the sysop of the Atrium BBS, has created a new 3D Printed bracket for the Apple II Super Serial card connector. The brackets allow users to connect their cable connectors in a solid fashion without damaging the Apple II while at the same time providing a stable base to connect the cables to. According to Matthew, he also has plans to do up a DB-9 compatible bracket as well as a DB-19 compatible version…
