Two new Eamon reviews from Thomas Ferguson are now available on the Eamon Adventurers Guild website. The Reviews of Adventure # 253, The Prisim of Shadows and # 254, Dawn of the Warlock, both of which were written by Wade Clarke and James Anderson give the new offerings high praise and marks. Eamon is an Adventure design system developed by Don Brown in 1979 and has over 255 adventures currently written for the system. Recently, the system has made its…
The ActiveGS Plugin, a combination browser and standalone Apple II gs emulator has been updated. Version 3.6.1307 was released yesterday in coordination with a server move and upgrade by the Free Tools Association. You can download the new plugin from the ActiveGS support website at http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ or through the Virtual Apple ][ website at http://www.virtualapple.org
Apple Inc. has released another update to the iOS Operating System. Version 6.1.3 is meant to fix a number of bugs and increase security on users iOS devices. The update included the following specifications: Fixes a bug that could allow someone to bypass the passcode and access the Phone app Improvements to Maps in Japan The update is available through the General Information panel on your iOS device. Should you require more information about how to update your iOS device,…
Chiu Keung, a Hong Kong based Apple fan has debuted his Lego Apple ][. The machine, created totally from Lego bricks, details the entire machine, internals, the lid, the dual floppy drives, and the monitor. From the outside, it looks nearly as if it would start right up and run the latest in Apple ][ software. Sadly, the machine does not actually run and is truly for appearances only, yet was cool enough for a note here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiukeung/8565233993/in/photostream
While many folks have been clamouring to see the new iJobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher, people now have something to actually cheer for. April 15th, the comedy website Funny or Die will release their own biopic of Steve Jobs life. Where iJobs was much more serious and is now expected to be pushed back to later this year for actual release, the iSteve movie will be released April 15th. The movie stars John Long of the PC vs Mac commercials…
Stockholm, Sweden – Coding Turtle today is pleased to announce Scrambler 1.2, a major update to their simple encryption app for the Mac. Scrambler makes it convenient to encrypt files before sending them along unsafe places, such as to other Macs over untrusted email, instant messaging or cloud-based services. Scrambler resides in the menu bar – providing a small icon in the upper-right area of the screen. To encrypt a file with Scrambler, users drag the file on Scrambler’s menu…
Apple has released an update for the Safari Browser. Version 6.0.3. includes a number of fixes and improvements accrding to the release notes: Safari 6.0.3 contains improvements to stability, usability, and security, including changes that: Fix an issue that could cause Safari to mistakenly display an alert that bookmarks can’t be changed Fix an issue that could cause duplicate bookmarks to appear on an iOS device For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 You…
The 25th edition of the Open Apple Podcast is now up and available for immediate enjoyment. This month’s issue of the podcast features Egan Ford talking about the Apple Game Server Online and the state of Abandonware. Open Apple #25 (Mar 2013): Egan Ford, 8088, Voyager, and abandonware
Lord British, A.K.A. Richard Garriott, has returned to the gaming scene with a new RPG entry. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is a combination online / offline game which looks to change the way that RPG games are looked at and played. Lord British is known in the realms of the Ultima world among others. Starting with his first game on the Apple ][ computer, Akalabeth, he soon became an overnight sensation with more than 30,000 copies of…
Have an old Parallel interfaced Connectix Quickcam sitting around collecting dust? David Schmenk may well have just found a purpose for it. Using a standard Apple //e and Low Resolution graphics on the //e for display, David has managed to get real time data into the machine and displaying fairly respectably. While this setup does require a massive wired connector as was so stated by David in his video, it is a setup which works and proved that there is…
Darren Crawford has managed to do what no one ever considered possible: Post a Facebook posting from an Apple //e computer. In what is a first ever event, Darren posted his message using a combination of Lynx and the mobile version of the Facebook website. It wasn’t just an instant success, but instead was a work of some trial and error. In discussions in the A2C.Chat channel of A2Central’s IRC, much of the discussion was about issues with character loss…
The Original Angry Birds has been marked to Free by Rovio Entertainment Ltd. Normally, Angry Birds is a $0.99 cent download. The company has also updated the app with 15 new levels, marking the first update in the app in a long while. Upon updating it, they also released the game to the public for free download, although no timeframe has been specified for this giveaway. You can download the original Angry Birds game from the Apple iTunes store at:…
Java once again is at the firestorm of vulnerabilities with Apple. The latest release of Java 6 has been exploited again and Apple is pushing out an update, Java for Mac OS X 2013-002. According to the information provided in the update panel, “Java for OS X 2013-002 delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_43. On systems that have not already installed Java for OS X 2012-006, this update disables the Java SE 6…
Paris, March 3rd, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce Mr Sprite, a command-line tool to manage sprites and to simplify the integration of sprites into Apple IIgs games. Programmers spend a lot of time to prepare Sprites sheets : – You have to ensure the Sprite width is a multiple of 4 pixels (16 bit), – You have to prepare both Even and Odd aligned version of the Sprite, – You have to organize your Sprites into 320×200 pictures to…
WITA2GS has added a bevy of home brew courses for the Apple IIgs Golf Game from Accolade, Mean 18. According to the posting on the website, “Sorting through many miscelleous archives forwarded on from Antoine as he comes into contact with random collections and images each disk from them, I came across 8 disks worth of golf courses for Mean 18, the excellent golfing sim from Accolade.” For more information check out the WITA2GS website posting at: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/homebrew-helpings-lots-of-courses-for-mean-1/
The Apple ][ specific Cassette Tape collection maintained by Brutal Deluxe has reached 589 tapes and is continuing to grow nearly daily. Antoine Vignau, curator of the site has added a number of items in the past few days including items from the following vendors: A.P.P.L.E. (Library pak 1C/2B), Hayden (Applesoft utility programs, Engineering mathematics-1, Revive, Slow list/stop list) MUSE (Maze game) Programma (Ampersoft, Jumpout/Shooting stars, Saucer war, Time clock) Systems design lab (Funpak I by Chuck Sommerville) Tsukumo (Apple…
Gerard Puter, the developer of the Virtual ][ Emulator has released an update to the emulator. Virtual ][ Version 7.1 is primarily a bug fix release witht he following items changed: Fixed an issue that could cause Apple II screen pixels to be randomly shown or hidden. Improved implementation of the “mounted OS X folder” feature to fix an incompatibility with EDASM. Some of the Applescript demos didn’t work in version 7.0; this has been fixed. Virtual ][ is a…
A security breach with Evernote’s servers has exposed more than 50 million users passwords, causing the Evernote Corporation to issue a complete password reset. The announcement by the Evernote Corporation states that there was no data exposure but to be safe, the company is forcing all users of the popular note taking service to reset their passwords. The full announcement is at: http://evernote.com/corp/news/password_reset.php
Apple’s stock continues to behave strangely, but with more explanation in recent weeks. Seems a couple of large hedge funds sold billions in Apple shares over a short period, driving the price down. More recently, another fund manager speculated on a stock split, which caused a short rally in the shares. Yet another wants to extract cash from Apple’s hoard into his own pocket. All these moves are both short-sighted and self-serving. Indeed, it seems to the Spy that any…
New York, New York – MacMate, the Mac cloud storage and hosting service, which launched to replace Apple’s MobileMe service in 2012, has added its sixth key feature into the growing MacMate cloud service: FileSharing, the ability to easily send any file, any size, to anyone. With a few clicks, users can drag or select a file to share, add a message and send securely. With a few clicks, users can drag or select a file to share, add a…
