Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy have published a new, color 2nd Edition of his autobiography “Cyber Jack: The Adventures of Robert Clardy and Synergistic Software.” The book was first published June 19, 2017 and also features dozens of pictures of his creations and adventures. Cyber Jack chronicles Robert Clardy’s adventures throughout his self-made career as a computer programmer. In this new color edition, he shares business advice, humorous stories,…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new, expanded, color 2nd Edition of “Nibble Viewpoints: Business Insights From The Computing Revolution.” The book was first published June 26, 2016 with Mike Harvey’s enthusiasm. This new color edition adds 45 pieces of Mike’s art, over 80 magazine covers, plus an interview with Mike, a historic presentation, and stories of friendship and production details by producer Brian Wiser. It also includes over 60…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new, color 1st Edition of “Navigating the Business Maze.” It is a chronology of events, philosophy, and management models that guided the birth and growth of the Apple II magazine Nibble, created by Mike Harvey. Nearly 50 of his business advice editorials are featured. The book’s title came from Mike in 2016 after the release of his companion book Nibble Viewpoints, inspired by his…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published Nibble Disassembly Lines: Volume 2 – a compendium of all of the Apple II ProDOS “Disassembly Lines” articles that appeared in Mike Harvey’s Nibble magazine between 1984 and 1990. Written by Sandy Mossberg, a medical doctor, avid reader, science fiction fan, bird watcher, photographer and especially a self-taught programmer who had one of the longest-running columns in Nibble. If you are an Assembly Language programmer who…
Henry Lowe has announced the release of the version 1.9 update to his Card Cat card identification software for the Apple II series computers. This latest version of the software includes the following changes and updates: You can download the latest version of the Card Cat program from the Henry’s website for the program at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/
From Jawaid Bazyar, I’m very pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.4.0. GSSquared is a complete Apple II systems emulator. Version 0.4.0 offers significant enhancements (see below). Ready-to-run Binaries for MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel “fat” binary); Windows 64; and Linux Ubuntu 22.04 provided at the github release page: https://github.com/jawaidbazyar2/gssquared major updates to the current release:
The Ample graphical interface for MAME emulation has been updated. Ample version 0.278 also known as Ample Release 70 is a MacOS based interface which allows users to easily access and use a number of emulation platforms included in the MAME package. Ample includes a number of emulated computing platforms including an extensive focus on the Retro Apple II / III series computers and clones including the China Education Computer and the Franklin series computers, Retro Macintosh platforms and the…
Dagen Brock has announced the initial release of his homegrown MiniDisplayTester app for the Apple II. Version 1.0 of the program is available for download in both 5.25 inch floppy disk image as well as a 3.5 inch floppy disk image in .2mg format. According to the GitHub page: This is a program for Apple II computers to test various display modes. The tests are simple and are intended as an aid for people working on emulators or other hardware…
Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe software has announce that the Apple II cassette archive project has reached a total of 727 cassettes for the Apple II computer having been identified and archived. Started in 2011, the project has a stated goal of identifying and archiving all cassette based software for the Apple II computer. This project has progressed mostly in drips and drabs over the years but the current number is unbelievable. According to Antoine’s post announcing this milestone: In…
From Jawaid Bayzar:I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.3.5. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes code reorganization geared towards putting in place all the pieces needed to support launching multiple Apple II hardware types from one instance of GSSquared. But there are many user-facing new features too: Some bugs were fixed: The system is now in a solid place to start development of Apple IIe features. Packages: https://github.com/jawaidbazyar2/gssquared/releases/tag/v0.3.5
Back in 2005, Steve Jobs gave one of the most iconic commencement speeches ever and now we know what went into the speech. The Steve Jobs Archive has released the emails that Steve sent to himself in order to create the speech. 8 emails include an outline of the speech as well as the individual pieces of the speech. The emails include individual thoughts for each section of the outline and shows a lot of how Steve thought about life…
Ralle Pa has announced the availability of the new A2DVI v.4.4 card for the Apple II. This new version of the A2DVI card comes with 5 selectable firmwares pre-loaded: You can purchase the card on the A2DVI store at https://apple2.co.uk/Products
The PunyInform adventure game programming library has been updated to version 5.14. PunyInform is a library written in Inform 6 which allows authors to create text adventure games / interactive fiction using the Z-machine virtual machine, to be played on 8-bit computers as well as newer platforms. It provides a parser, implementations of common verbs, as well as a framework for writing text adventures. Changes in the PunyInform Library are as follows for this release: New/changed functionality Optimizations: Bugfixes: Important…
The organizers of INIT HELLO, a new Apple II conference, posted a press release about their event: “On July 26-27, 2025, the inaugural meeting of INIT HELLO will take place, at the System Source Computer Museum, in Hunt Valley, MD (just north of Baltimore). INIT HELLO is a two-day gathering of Apple II enthusiasts, working on (and showing off) their projects, giving presentations, participating in workshops and contests, touring the museum, and just hanging out with fellow enthusiasts. The keynote presentation…
Stefan Wessels has announced the immediate availability of his new RetroMate frontend for the Apple II computer. According to the release on Slack: Here’s the first beta release of RetroMate. RetroMate is a front-end for the Free Internet Chess Server. It requires an IP65 network interface (Uthernet II in AppleWin works great). The source is not yet available, but will be soon (some issues to iron out – for example logout will throw a few errors, slowly, before it goes…
For those users who are using the latest version of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator, you will want to download the Virtual II version 13.0.1 update. This release is a single problem focused minor update. Last week a user reported that printing on the Imagewriter was broken in version 13.0. The update fixes this issue. You can download the latest version of the Virtual II Emulator from the Virtual II website at:https://www.virtualii.com/
Following the first release of an 8-bits Apple II implementation of Shufflepuck in late April, a second release is now available with a few bugfixes, and more importantly, a two-players mode. This release is available from the project’s homepage. Got a null-modem serial cable and two Apple II computers? Lucky you: you will be able to play against your friends and family. Just plug in your cable and click on the phone next to DC3, the robot bartender. The two-players…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.30 release 21.0 includes a ton of changes, code refactoring and updates. Many of the updates included in this version are from Applewin contributors Audetto and Jamila’s. Updates items in this release of Applewin include: You can download the latest version of Applewin from the Github page at:https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin NOTE: This is the last update of Applewin that will support Windows XP.
The latest version of the Virtual II Apple II emulator for Mac OS has been released. Virtual II version 13.0 includes a slew of changes and updates including the following items: Virtual II is a full featured mature Apple II emulator which includes emulation for the Apple II, II+, IIe and IIc machines. It also includes the capability of handling large capacity disk images. To download the latest version of the Virtual II emulator, go to the Virtual II website…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of BenchmarkeD for the Apple IIGS computer. BenchmarkeD is a benchmark utility for the Apple IIgs. It allows you to calculate an average throughput in reading and writing files and sequential disk blocks of your ProDOS volumes. BenchmarkeD version 1.1 does a condensed version of the benchmarks which will appear in a single page. BenchmarkeD uses standard GS/OS routines to perform its tests. You can download the ZIP…
