Long live WebberWebber is a powerful new web browser for the IIgs, that lets you surf the web and download files. Webber requires Marinetti to be installed. Webber is the successor to the now discontinued SIS. It uses the same interface as SIS, but there the similarity ends. Unlike SIS, Webber is a stand-alone application, compatible with System 6.0.1 through 6.0.4, and can download any web page that is accessible from an http:// connection. It does not handle https:// secure…
The 6502 Workshop team is thrilled to announce that Nox Archaist has been released! Journey with us back in time to the 1980s an experience an adventure inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale. Lord British himself has traveled to Vali, the world of Nox Archaist, to help thee on thy quest! We would love to put a collector’s edition box in your hands, featuring cover art by Denis Loubet, or set you up with the Digital Edition. Order…
A new film about Apple co-founder Ron Wayne has been released. The film by Paul Johnson films, is appropriately entitled “Co-Founder“. The film covers the entry and exit of Ron Wayne with commentary from Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne himself. According to the blurb, “Ever had regrets about a business opportunity you took a pass on? In the 70’s Ronald Wayne and two young computer enthusiasts in Silicon Valley and formed a company. The two men were Steve Jobs and…
The global villagewas much touted back in the 60s and 70s. Better knowledge of our neighbours, countrypersons and those of other nations was supposed eventually to bring about unity, prosperity and a great love-in. The Spy has noted before in this space that his own prediction back in the day was quite the opposite, that the better we knew each other in an information age, the larger the divisions and even hatreds would likely become. He might today revise this…
David Schmidt has announced the immediate availability of the ADTPro floppy disk creation / bootstrapping software. ADTPro allows users to make physical copies of floppy disk images on all Apple II/III series platforms. Included in this release are the following changes: [Server] Switched out rxtx in favor of jssc for hardware serial port access [Server] Better “change working directory” behavior on Windows [Client] Special characters and too-long filenames confused the file picker – addresses GitHub issue #53 [SOS Client] Using…
IT’S BEEN QUITE A RIDE From back in 1984 when our lead developer Mark Lemmert first had the idea to write a tile-based Apple II RPG, to the founding of 6502 Workshop in March of 2016, all the way through today, the journey has been amazing! But now, we’ve got another exciting date to add to that list… WHAT DATE, YOU ASK? None other than the official release date of Nox Archaist! On December 12, 2020, all backers will receive…
Kboo HK let us know this morning that there was a new update to the wDrive firmware as well as the DIY version of softSP. This update comes less than 48 hours after the previous update due to an unfortunate bug which had crept into the firmware. In his email, KBoo says”We have released a new wDrive firmware version 1.0b8. There is a bug in previous version that can cause dsk files to be unable to be written! This update…
In an effort to promote some needed holiday cheer, I’m releasing my snow display demo for your enjoyment. Use the space bar to advance through 9 different displays and let it snow on your Apple II for hours or days on end! You can download the demo from the Crow Cousins website at:https://err0r.tech/crowcousins/let_it_snow_2020.dsk I hope you will try my demo. If you do, I’d love to see a pic of it running on your setup! THANK YOU! Check out the…
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 10.1, released today by author Gerard Putter, adds support for Apple Inc.’s latest machines based on the Silicon M1 Chip. Further changes in the emulator include: The application has native support for Intel and Apple Silicon. Clicking an empty disk drive now shows a popup menu to insert or search for disk images. When creating a blank diskette image the default format is now .woz version 2. You can select…
Raphael Rezende has created a new Apple II game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts content sponsored by Roby Williams. Moskão Fighter is an action batle game in the tradition of the Centepede type arcade game arena in which you are Moskão, a warrior who tries to prevent an army of spiders from attacking his people. Game play is through the Apple II keyboard. You use the arrows keys to move the Moskão and the space bar to…
Daniel Henderson has released a new game for the Apple II computer. Sliding Puzzle is a 16 square puzzle game which uses double low resolution graphics for the game. He has included 5 different faces for the game including the faces below: You can download version 1.2 of the Sliding Puzzle game from the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/games/SlidingPuzzle.dsk
The 8-Bit Unity team has announced that their latest version of their C based cross platform programming SDK for 8-Bit systems will include scrollable tile maps. According to the posting ont heir website: Thanks to a “quiet week”, I was able to make rapid progress on the next version of 8bit-Unity (0.4).The major new feature is Scrollable Tilemaps. I have implemented a super convenient asset pipeline: design your tile-set and maps in the excellent CharPad just ONCE, then 8bit-Unity takes…
Brutal Deluxe Software has released an update to Genesys, the #AppleIIgs resource editor. This release includes a number of bugs fixes as well as all features of #AppleII System 6.0/6.0.1 controls being added. Also a new editor for rUpdateInfo by Ewen Wannop is included. Developing for the #AppleIIgs is fun! You can download Genesys from the Github page of Antoine Vignau at: https://github.com/antoinevignau/
Eric Donadieu has released a new Apple II game, 2048. This is a new look at the popular number combining games which are popular on iOS and Android devices. 2048 uses the arrow keys to shift the blocks, left, right, up, and down with the shifting combining like numbers in that direction. non-combining numbers are simply moved in the direction of the shift if there are empty squares in that direction. The game is a unique take on these quite…
Seattle, Washington — 11 November, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of the immediate release of “ProZAP: A ProDOS Block Read/Write Utility” Version 1.1 written by Gary Charpentier, Val J. Golding, Greg Kielian, and David Sparks in 1984. The latest version 1.1 release of ProZAP includes bug fixes by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software, which were in the earlier release. These fixes include: The ProZAP program called a p8 close call…
Michael Packard has announced the final release version of his new Apple II game, Lunar Rescue. Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie…
Apple has announced an event for November 10th, 2020 to be broadcast from Apple Park. Although not officially released as part of the announcement on their website, this is the event which is widely expected to be their Silicon based machine introduction. Several publications including Bloomberg and others are running with the idea that Apple will introduce the A14 Silicon based Laptops at this event. First announced at the 2020 rendition of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, the A14…
Daniele Liverani has announced the immediate availability of his latest version of the Genius Series arcade games for the Apple II . Genius 3 – Into The Toy Planets is a major continuation of the theme Daniele began more than 5 years ago. Each game that Daniele produces comes with not only the Game Disk in Apple II emulator ready format .DSK, but also a PDF instruction manual, a 5.25 inch floppy disk label PDF as well as a tip…
COVIDhas dramatically changed university teaching, and not in the Spy’s humble opinion, for the better. Oh, yes, students can still take university courses when, but for a few requiring personal skills performance, they are entirely online. But the Spy has four major concerns: 1. the lack of face-to-face interaction. Not only does the professor not have access to body language, many students keep their cameras off throughout the class time or merely display an avatar, leaving one to wonder if…
The fall 2020 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine has been released and is available for download by all A.P.P.L.E. Members. You will need to log into your A.P.P.L.E. Members account in order to access the magazine. This months issue includes a feature on the Apple Jonathan as well as a full featured article and expose of Rob Perissi’s Darth Vader GS build. About Call-A.P.P.L.E. Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine is a quarterly magazine published by the staff of the A.P.P.L.E. Users Group, an Official…
