Tag: A2SE
A.P.P.L.E. and The Apple II Software Enthusiasts Group on Facebook are proud to announce the 2023 Take-1 Animated Movie Contest. Inspired by the recent release of Eric Iwasaki’s Space Voyagers 3000 movie, we have decided to have a contest and a film festival. For information about this contest and details of the rules and rewards, check out https://take1.applearchives.com/contest/
Sean Gugler is the talented programmer and game designer behind the highly-acclaimed Apple II puzzle game Candy Weaver as well as the much appreciated Ultima IV Remastered project to rid the world of troublesome crashes and bugs! Sean’s Candy Weaver rose to the top of the competition during Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) fall programming exhibition on Facebook, showcasing his skills and Applesoft BASIC ingenuity. Candy Weaver has received much praise for its engaging gameplay, story mode, and challenging puzzles,…
The Apple II Software Enthusiasts Challenges have produced a slew of new games over the past few years and now comes the latest Apple II game from Raphael Rezende: Oribita. Orbita is a high resolution arcade style game completely written in Applesoft with everything in less than 4k! This includes the instructions, the sprites, the controls, the scoring and other game elements. The game itself uses the keyboard for control of the shooters in the game and game play itself…
*trumpet sounds* Howdy folks! Our first programming challenge in a long while is to create a game in Applesoft that allows the player to perform “strange jobs/tasks”. What do I mean by strange? How about a banana peel stacker? Or catching parrots with a net and a jetpack? Hopefully you get the idea! Your game can be any size you wish. The only rules are: It must be your own original creation, written primarily in Applesoft (binary files used for…
Marc Golembeck has released his entry for the Apple II Software Enthusiasts Challenge 2021 programming contest. The program, The Pudding Strikes Back, is a double low resolution graphical shooter game, is appropriately themed for the Christmas 2021. Pudding runs on an enhances Apple IIe, IIc and the IIgs as well as a variety of Apple II Emulators including Applewin and Virtual II. This is an unusual First Person Shooter game as it features a number of effects not normally seen…
We are proud to announce the 2021 Apple II Software Enthusiasts Pinball Construction Set contest. Show off your creativity, and at KansasFest 2021, we will announce the winners. You can win a few cool prizes along the way! Updated contest announcement! We’re now big time! Let’s get cracking people! Thanks Bill Martens for helping to bring this together! Entries must be posted in the A2SE Group on Facebook by 15 July 2021. For those users who have never used Budgeco’s…
