Tag: apple II

The Clock Signal Emulator (CLK), a multi-platform emulator for Mac OS by Tom Harte has been updated. This update is primarily focused on the BBC Micro emulation and includes the following changes: CLK is a clock accurate emulator that supports a number retro computing platforms including the following: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles,…

The latest version of the Tom Charsworth managed Applewin Emulator for Windows has been updated. This is fairly extensive update with the following changes being made to the system: Applewin has been one of the longest actively developed Apple II emulators and supports the Apple II through Apple IIe platforms. The is no support in this emulator for the Apple IIc, IIc+, IIGS or the Laser 128 series. The latest version of the emulator can be downloaded from the GitHub…

8-Bit Shack is pleased to announce: The Kickstarter for our brand new game “Skull Island” has launched!Check it out: https://www.8bitshack.net/skull_island A true open world “role playing game” set in a completely self-contained world with fantastic game play with over 90 individual hand drawn screens and 48 hand drawn Islands complete with fantasy characters and interlinked back stories. We have incorporated true point and click control, for a more modern feel, with the authentic immersive experience you associate with an 8 bit…

I’ve reached a point where I feel confident to release – Mastodon, Wozamp, Quicktake, and assorted utilities all get DHGR support in this release! https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases/tag/v24.0.1This release also contain the multiple-weeks effort that lead to halving the JPEG decoding time for QT200 photos, and a bit more little things.

Philip Lord has introduced a version of Pac-Man in AppleSoft BASIC. The game is a text based version of the popular arcade game. While this may excite many Apple II fans, this game at the moment is only for emulators as it is absolutely too slow to run on a normal Apple II at 1 MHZ. However, the game does run and plays actually quite well for the Apple II fan running either Applewin or Virtual II. Notes from the…

From Nicholas Bernhard, @nantucketlit@mastodon.social For any #AppleII fans out there, I’ve been working on my very first game. It’s called Catching Snowflakes. https://codeberg.org/nantucketlit/snowflakes You play as Billy Bigfeet, and the goal is to catch as many falling snowflakes as you can.  The game is playable using an Apple II emulator. I’m using a #freesoftware license.

The Ample graphical interface for the MAME emulation platform has been updated. Ample is as the author, Kelvin Sherlock puts it, “A slightly more user-friendly front-end for using MAME as an emulator.” This update includes Includes the MAME 0.279 compatibility. Also this version now requires MacOS 10.14 or later. Ample now includes emulation for the Apple 1, II and III series computers as well as a number of clones. It also includes Retro Macintosh, Acorn, Atari ST, Commodore, Oric and…

This is Boulderdash 2025. It supports the 4play joypad and the keyboard, you can define your own keys.New key shortcuts: It runs under ProDOS and it even saves your best scores. Enjoy!Antoine & OlivierBrutal Deluxe Software

Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published new, expanded, color 2nd Edition of “The Apple’s Apprentice” by Roger Wagner. The 140 page book was first published July 18, 2018 and is a collection of the three computer magazines Roger published in 1984. In a world of computer magazines where the target audience leans toward the adult side of life, comes The Apple’s Apprentice – the first computer magazine produced for beginners and kids of…

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 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…

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

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…