Tag: Antoine Vignau

Brutal Deluxe, the French software company known for bringing a host of super enhanced Apple IIgs products to market over the years, has been taking a page from Apple, Inc.’s playbook during their latest product release. Over the past week, Brutal Deluxe Software has released a series of clipped photos including the one from yesterday seen above.  Each photo has shown a bit more of the product cover image but yet no one apparently has figured out what the product…

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…

Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, founders of Brutal Deluxe Software, are proud to introduce their newest software to the Apple II community. “I’m fEDD up” is Brutal Deluxe’s second answer to nowadays preservation of 5.25″ diskettes on the Apple II. Its main features are: • Essential Data Duplicator compatible If Utilico Microware’s EDD or compatible card is installed in your system, it will use the card’s powerful features to read track data. • Nibble and timing preservation It saves raw…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced that their January 1996 version of the DeluxeWare CD-ROM is now available as a free download.  The DeluxeWare CD-ROM contains over 650mb of Apple IIgs related software and was the first French CD-ROM dedicated to the Apple IIgs. COntents of the DeluxeWare CD-ROm include: Apple programs Documentations Creative visual Hypermedia Games Music System Utilities The CD-Rom is available as a 311.5mb zipped file and includes all of the software on the original disks.  Also the…

Brutal Deluxe Software has added more cassettes to their Apple ][ Cassette archives.   The project, run by Antoine Vignau has set out to archive every cassette ever produced for the Apple ][ computer and as of this posting has a total of 566 tapes in its collection. The new additions to the archives include: The Micromint, Inc.: Applesoft Sweet Talker Program Softape: Saucer invasion / Rocket pilot, Solitaire poker According to a posting in the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup, there are 17…

Brutal Deluxe Software has released a new command line too for managing Apple ][ Disk image files in Windows.  According to the press release from Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software, ” Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce the release of CADIUS, a command-line tool for Windows to manage Apple II image disk files (.2mg, .po, .hdv). The first purpose of Cadius is to write the output of the 65c816 Assembler directly into an Apple IIgs disk image (usually…

The Apple ][ Cassette Library, started by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software now has several new apps added to the library.  Cassettes were produced for the Apple ][ from 1977 to 1982 by over 50 companies but they lost popularity as the floppy disk took over the Apple ][ software realm. The new Apple ][ apps added to the cassette library include: Apple: Color demos 4K Apple: Breakout 4K Programma International: Home accounting Programma InternationalStar voyager Softape: Screen machine…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the availability of their Fishhead Copier program which allows users to copy software in the GS/OS Environment. Fishhead includes a number of important advancements and features including: * Attribute preservaswtion when copying files * Batch Mode allowing removable devices and consecutive disk copying * Advanced error handling * A complete history log of all copies performed. Fished copies files in 256 byte chunks  and it’s primary function is to allow the user to archive a…

Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe has posted a new software package for the Apple IIgs.  According to the posting: Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to introduce Fishhead, the Caped Copier, to the Apple II community. Fishhead is a GS/OS desktop file copier application. It offers several features which make it a powerful software for diskette and file preservation purposes: Attributes preservation — All copied files keep their original date, time and other attributes (e.g. invisible or locked) information Batch mode…

Brutal Deluxe Software has published the first three videos in a their Apple II Cracking Senses series.  The video series is designed to teach the current generation of Apple ][ fans what it takes to crack old software from the 1980’s game by game.   While much of this software is long abandoned through either non-existence of the company that made it or through the loss of the original code by the author, it is an interesting insight into what these…

Brutal Deluxe has added two more new titles to their Apple ][ Software Cassette collection.  The collection which spans the years 1977 to 1982, contains 563 titles as of 3 January 2012.   The new titles included in this update are Powersoft’s Financial wizard 3 and Memory dump. They have also updated Ciderpress and and their disk archives in addition to the new titles.  To browse the collection, go to the Brutal Deluxe Apple Cassette page at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html

In the 1979-1981 time-frame, floppy disks were quite expensive, yet cassette tapes were a dime a dozen.   Dann McCreary had the idea of putting an entire disk on tape.  Thus Tape-O-Disk was born.  However, after the prices of floppy disks came down to a level where everyone could afford them, the program all but disappeared until re-discovered by Apple ][ collector Antoine Vignau.  When Antoine replied to an correspondence inquqiry by Dann, he received back one of the most insightful…

The Forty Column site has added a number of newly produced graphics to the site.  The site features work by users using the T40 program by Brutal Deluxe (http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/t40.html).  The program allows you to create true old school forty column art.  The Forty Column site is the brainchild of Daniel Kruszyna who put the idea of such an editor to Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe.  Days later, the new T40 program was ready and is now available to all users. …

T40, the 40 column editor by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software has been updated once again.  The latest version 1.3.1 include some software fixes and a new help screen feature.  The entire list of items/fixes included in this version 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 of the program include: Control-key for program and screen routines Open Apple-key for text editing routines A display bug is corrected A help screen is added (Ctrl-?) Typing always remain in the same column/line, no carriage return…

T40, the 40 column text editor created by Antoine Vignau this week, now has a new art gallery to go with the program.   The gallery created by Daniel Kruszyna only has a couple of items as of yet but the gallery is in both picture format and slideshow format in the form of an Apple ][ Floppy image. To check out the latest additions to the gallery, go to the T40 Gallery website at: http://krue.net/fortycolumns/

Brutal Deluxe Software has released an updated version of their Apple IIgs volume mounting software, MountIt.  This updated version contains a number of upgrades aimed at making mounting image volumes much easier on your Apple IIgs computer.  Antoine Vignau and Oliver Zardini’s posting follows: Mount your disk image files files directly under GS/OS, just like another volume. MountIt 1.4 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from…

MountIt 1.3 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from 32KB to the maximum RAM available), only ProDOS based. Up to sixteen volumes can be added to the system. MountIt mounts volumes as read-only if the original disk image file is locked. Otherwise, the disk image file is mounted as read/write and the following operations can be performed: read, write and format. MountIt is not ProDOS 8…