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Back in 1985, Transylvania was a popular adventure game written by Antonio Antiochia and published by Penguin Software.  Henning Stams, a fan of the game, wanted a version in his native German language and created one!   He dubbed the conversion “Transsylvanien: Ein Spannendes High-Resolution-Spiel” (a fascinating high-resolution game). Previously, I wrote about the Transsylvanien 5.25″ disk that I recovered in 2019, courtesy of Mark Pelczarski (Penguin Software president) who gave me a box of his disks to recover.  Some of that…

A.P.P.L.E. has introduced a new Apple II series computer related Games release page which lists games introduced over the past several years. While still in the works, the game page now contains 2022-203 games that have been released by some of the great programmers of the Apple II community. This collection is freely accessible to everyone. The goal of the page is to be a one stop shop for recent game releases announced on the A.P.P.L.E. website or in Call-A.P.P.L.E….

An announcement in the Apple II Software Enthusiasts group by Fabrizio Caruso heralds the 7th game created with the CrossLib library that allows games to be written quickly for more than 200 retro computing platforms. This library was highlighted last year in Call-A.P.P.P.L.E. magazine and has been in the works for a number of years now. According to the announcement: Hi everyone! I present Shuriken, the seventh game I have written in C with my Cross-Lib framework (https://github.com/Fabrizio-Caruso/CROSS-LIB), which provides…

Pitch Dark, the popular frontend for exploring and playing Infocom text adventures on the 8-bit Apple II, has just released Revision 5. Developed by famed Apple II hackers, 4am and qkumba, this latest update brings a host of new features and improvements, enhancing the gaming experience for Apple II enthusiasts. Pitch Dark serves as a user-friendly interface, specifically designed to navigate and play Infocom text adventures on the Apple II.  Some of the changes included in Pitch Dark Revision 5…

Snafaru, a retro computing enthusiast and developer, has announced the full release of Wizardry 3.0. This project is a faithful recreation of the classic game Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, released more than 40 years ago. The full release of Wizardry 3.0 is now ready for distribution and includes over 100 fixes and enhancements from the original game. With the included 140K 5.25″ diskette images, the game can be played using an Apple II emulator or copied onto…

41 years after the release of Wizardry Proving Grounds 2.1 comes a new release of one of the best known games for the Apple II series computer. Wizardry Proving Grounds Version 3.0 is available in both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS disk formats on the Apple II and includes some of the following updates and changes: No more passwords! Something had to go to make room on the disks for all these fixes. We figured that nobody password-protects their characters any more,…

Stefan Wessels has announced the initial release of his CC65 based Apple II version of the popular game, Gomoku. According to his anouncement,

Late last night, Lee Fastenau announced a little Christmas present for the Apple II world in the Call-151 group: the Game Boy version of Tetris for the Apple II, complete with all of the original screens and the source code for the game as well. This version of the game runs not only on original Apple II hardware with 48K of memory but will also run in Emulators as well. Game controls for the game: Downloading the game and the…

For those of you who are fans of the Wizardry Series, there is now a new restored version of the Wizardry Proving Grounds game for the Apple II. This update includes the following fixes: A number of people contributed to this release including Chris Torrence, John Brooks, and Eric Labelle. A complete list of the changes can be found here: https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-restored/files/Wizardry-Proving-Grounds-Restored-v2.2-Readme.txt The disk is available for free download along with further update information at : https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-restored/

Jeremy Rand of Rand-Emonium Software has created a Wordle puzzle solver program for the Apple II. Wordle Solver offers a word and then takes input via a series of x, ? or ^ characters from the user to facilitate the next guess in the puzzle. The program can guess a word in just a few moves and is actually quite usable on most Wordle puzzles. You can download the program for free from the Rand-Emonium Software website: Download a disk…

The Witch Trial adventure game from Dan Henderson has been updated. The latest version of the game, version 1.1, was released to address some game play issues as well as some technical issues on the Apple IIc computer. These issues were causing the initial release of the game to crash when played on real Apple IIc hardware due to the way the IIc handles the screen. Witch Trial was featured at the monthly A.P.P.L.E. meeting with both Dan Henderson and…

Sean Bugler has released an updated version of the Ultima IV Remastered program. The version 1.2.6 release is a bug regression issue which apparently was introduced into the program in June 2021. The gold amount actually awarded to the player now matches the actual amount. You can download the latest version of Ultima IV Remastered from the Github page at:https://github.com/sean-gugler/u4remasteredA2

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…

A couple of weeks back, I ran across a nifty little project that played right into my college years and the programs that made me crazy about the Apple II series computers. Ultima IV Remastered! Of course, I am sure there were some things at the time that drove people crazy about the game but for this RPG player, it was just part of the novelty of running such a huge scale program on a machine that had a total…

For those of you who follow the 8-Bit Guy, AKA David Murray, on YouTube, you will be pleased to know he has introduced a new game, this time for the Apple II computer. PETSCII Robots is a game in which it is up to you to save the universe from the invading robots. You can accomplish this through the use of a variety of weapons which you accumulate within the game, as you attempt to take on the various levels…

Mario Patino, author of the TXTRIS text based Tetris clone, has released a new update to his game which is one of the entries for this years Apple II Software enthusiasts (A2SE) programming contest. The update includes a nifty little intro tune in the program. Play of the TXTRIS game is nearly true to the original, but this one is pure text and well worth the look. You can download the latest version of the TXTRIS disk image from:https://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/games/txtris.dsk

If you have not played a Davide Bucci adventure yet, you re really missing something. Created in the old style of Interactive Fiction games, Davide has created a number of adventures including his multi platform title, The Queen’s Footsteps. Synopsis of the game: “ Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back in Genova,…

This years Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) text based programming contest is producing a myriad of great new games for the Apple II computer. Raphael Rezende has submitted another entry worth mentioning in the pages of Call-A.P.P.L.E.. His new game Escape pits you against a monster in a dungeon in which, “ You found in a mine, a precious stone, and when you were returning toward entrance, there was an earthquake, that released a monster which was keeping the treasure!…

Yesterday, we highlighted one of the entries for the Apple II Software Enthusiasts (A2SE) programming contest, TXTRIS by Mario Patino. Today’s entry into the fray comes to us from Eric Sperano. His entry, Spetris! or as he calls it, “Yet Another Tetris Clone”, is a multi-themed version of the traditional game of Tetris. Originally created by Eric as a 6809 game in a learning experience moment on the Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer 3 or COCO3 as it is known,…

Over the past 30 years, there is one game which has appeared time and time again in many forms on almost every platform known to man.  That game is TETRIS.  Hours in the arcades led us all to seeing the blocks in our sleep due to the fact that we were still trying to get the entire 4 lines completed over and over again in the game.    Thankfully, there is another fix for this re-iteration syndrome that we face. …