Category: Software
Hideaki Seike has announce that he has a new graphics converstion website tool that allows users to create a variety of retro images for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other platforms. The tool takes the original image and converts it one of four different variants or the Apple II: HGR, DHGR, Lo-Res and Double Lo-Res graphics. The converter also allows users to select settings for dithering and scan lines. Our own tests of a photo from the AP converted…
Joshua Bell has released the latest alpha of the Apple II Desktop. Version 1.6 alpha 2 contains a host of improvements over the first alpha of the Apple II Desktop. These include the following items: General DeskTop Disk Copy Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop is a free download and is available from the Apple II Desktop GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d
Ciderpress II, the command line version of the popular Apple II and retro Macintosh disk image utility by Andy McFadden has been updated. Version 1.2 of Ciderpress II includes a bevy of updates and changes including the following items:: CiderPress offers a wide range of tools for working with files stored in disk images and file archives. You can list, add, extract, import, export, copy, rename, move, delete, test, print, and modify file attributes. It also allows you to create…
Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: The author wishes to express hi thanks to all those members of the Apple II community who have taken the time and effort to assist in getting new cards into the Card Cat database. The Card Cat 1.93 floppy disk image is a free download from https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/
New Web-Based Utility Brings Classic Z-Machine Text Adventures to Authentic 5.25″ Floppy Images for Apple II Hardware and Emulators The A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) Users Group, is pleased to announce the immediate launch of the Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator (InfocomGen), a free online tool that instantly converts Z-machine story files into bootable 5.25″ Apple II disk images. Available immediately at https://www.callapple.org/zgen/, the drag-and-drop web application allows users to upload any .z3 or .z5 file and receive…
The A2kit version 4.1 is released. A2kit is an open source, script-able command line interface for disk image and language manipulations, and the engine behind a number of editor extensions for Apple II languages. This update adds a “smart copy” command that allows you to shuttle files between disk images and normal storage with less typing and less thinking. It works much like the cp command familiar to linux users, but it will analyze the disk images and the files…
Henry Lowe has announced the latest version of his Card Cat application. Card Cat identifies cards in the slots of Apple II series machines and can accurately identify over 100 different Apple II series specific cards. The latest version of Card Cat includes the following changes and updates: Card Cat version 1.92 is a free download and is available in both DSK and PO format disk image from the Card Cat webpage at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/
Emmanuel Castello has announced the availability of a playable demo version of his Ultima style game, Andoria. According to his post, “Hello everyone from the A2SE group. After years of videos and pictures, I am happy to share the first Demo Version of my Ultima RPG Game, Andoria. https://andoria.neocities.org On this link you will find a quick introduction of the game, as well as basic instructions on the gameplay. I hope you enjoy that demo, even if it is a…
The Apple II Desktop or Mousedesk as it was known originally has been updated. The A2Desktop project, led by Joshua Bell, is now in its fourth full rendition since the initial release of the initial updated platform. The Apple II Desktop is a graphical user interface built upon ProDOS which gives the user a fully mouse controllable Macintosh like experience on the Apple II series computers. Changes in the Apple II Desktop App since the full version 1.5 release include…
Paul Wasson has announced an update for his Apple II game, Froggo. According to the announcement: “Thanks everybody for all the support for Froggo. I’ve been blown away with all the nice feedback. Seems like people like my silly game. I made a new release to address some of the issues raised. See the webpage for the complete release notes, but here are some highlights: Please let me know if you find any other issues. And thanks for playing.” The…
Jeremy Reichmänner has produced a fun little throwback to the 1980’s with his release of the Apple II text adventure game, Escape from Daracenstein. Filled with all of the fun bits of American Society of those days, anyone who loves thing from that era will enjoy this game. The game was written entirely in Applesoft BASIC and through a release of several versions of the game, Jeremy has worked it into a fun reminder of simpler times. Be sure and…
Paul Wasson has announced the immediate availability of his new Apple II game, Froggo. According to the press release: Announcing FROGGO a new fast retro action game for the Apple //e. Available today for download! See https://www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo for download link and more information. Features *Complete challenge mode for an additional bonus level!
From David SchmenkThat time of year again for yet another New Year fireworks demo loop. Written in PLEAIDES FORTH, feel free to edit the code and make it do something new. Self running boot disk here: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/master/images/apple/PLFORTH.po
From Henry Lowe: Card Cat Version 1.91 in now available at https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/ This update adds additional cards and preliminary support for detection of a No-Slot-Clock (NSC) on a card or under system ROM. Thanks to the Apple II community members who have helped add new cards and assisted with testing.
The famed hacker A2_4am has announced the release of the latest version of his Wizardry Replay front end for playing Wizardry Games. Version 2.0 includes a number of updates including all of the Wizimore games as well as fixes allowing the games to run smoothly on the Apple IIgs. Some of the features of this latest release include: According to the GitHub page, this will run on any Apple II series computer with at least 64K of memory and a…
The latest version of the Apple II Desktop graphical user interface for the Apple II series computers is now available for download. Version 1.5 includes well over 100 new changes and updates over version 1.4 and now comes in 10 languages. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Desktop from the project’s GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d
The first beta for Apple II Desktop version 1.5 has been released. This release officially moves the version 1.5 release from slphs to beta and includes well over 100 changes to the application. Made for the Apple IIe and Apple IIc, Apple II Desktop gives retro Apple users a fully qualified graphical interface for their machines. Originally created in 1986, Apple II Desktop, also known as Mousedesk is now in its fourth modern day version round of updates and now…
Over the past several months, work has been going on behind the scenes in a big way with a complete update of the GBBS Pro Website. Spearheding this effort has been none other than Paul H. Lee. Yes, that Paul Lee, the programmer who brought you GBBS Pro version 2.4 as well as the latest updates and efforts in the Warp6 BBS realm. After many dozens of man hours, that new home for GBBS Pro has been realized and the…
Chris Vavruska has released a version of the tile game Sokoban for the Apple IIgs. The release, which according the author, came out of a need to explore the Generic Tile Engine on the Apple II GS. According to him, “I have been wanting to play around with Lucas’ GTE for a while so I ported a version of the puzzle game Sokoban to the GS.” Also, as a quick witted Antoine Vigau pointed out, there is no sound in the…
The A2kit version 4 has been released. A2kit is an open source, script-able command line interface for disk image and language manipulations, and the engine behind a number of editor extensions for Apple II languages. A2Kit version 4 features the ability to define, create, and manipulate your own track formats and nibble tables (but bring your own DOS when it comes time to boot!). This feature can also be used to unlock and manipulate files on existing disks with special…
