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Raphael Rezende has released a third game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts 2021 Programming Contest # 1. His new game is Laser Base, is a fast paced game in which: “You control a cannon (arrow keys=up and down) (space=fire) and must eliminate as much as you can, the enemy ships. But beware, every time you fire, your fuel decreases, and if you get! The game ends when: -> your 20 shots run out -> you miss 8…

Raphael Rezende has released a new game for the Apple II computer as part of the latest A2SE programming contest. The game, Hell in the Tower, pits you as the fire brigade, attempting to catch the people jumping from the top of the burning building. Each game consists of 12 jumpers and you must do your best to catch all 12. The game uses the left and right arrow keys to control the catcher and from this players perspective, is…

Vince Weaver has given us a bit more of his “Talbot Fantasy 7” game, which is as he says, “a sort of RPG” for the Apple II series computer as well as under the Linux operating system. If you haven’t checked it out already, this one is a bit of a fun watch. Be forewarned, this is not the glossy Playstation 5 kind of videos you might be used to in this day and age. It is pure, Retro goodness…

Raphael Rezende has released a new game for the Apple II. Brickbat as he has so named the program is a text based Brick Out or as he says, “Arcanoid” type game in which the user attempt to eliminate all of the “Bricks” using a paddle at the bottom of the screen. This 50 line or so program takes up just seven sectors on a DOS 3.3 floppy disk and not only is very playable but actually is just as…

Raphael Rezende has created a new Apple II game as part of the Apple II Software Enthusiasts content sponsored by Roby Williams. Moskão Fighter is an action batle game in the tradition of the Centepede type arcade game arena in which you are Moskão, a warrior who tries to prevent an army of spiders from attacking his people. Game play is through the Apple II keyboard. You use the arrows keys to move the Moskão and the space bar to…

Daniel Henderson has released a new game for the Apple II computer. Sliding Puzzle is a 16 square puzzle game which uses double low resolution graphics for the game. He has included 5 different faces for the game including the faces below: You can download version 1.2 of the Sliding Puzzle game from the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/ap2/games/SlidingPuzzle.dsk

Eric Donadieu has released a new Apple II game, 2048. This is a new look at the popular number combining games which are popular on iOS and Android devices. 2048 uses the arrow keys to shift the blocks, left, right, up, and down with the shifting combining like numbers in that direction. non-combining numbers are simply moved in the direction of the shift if there are empty squares in that direction. The game is a unique take on these quite…

The Crow Cousins have released a new update to Hunt the Gulon, the double lo-res kin to decades old Hunt the Wumpus game, fixing a few minor display bugs and switching to an ultra-fast assembly-based painting routine, soon to be available in an upcoming release of Magic-Pixels. The update is available on the Crow Cousins website in .dsk and .woz disk image formats for Enhanced Apple //e, //c, IIc+, and IIgs models and various emulators.

What happens when you take the classic cave exploration / hunting game, evict the wumpi, add earthquakes, found arrows, and double lo-res graphics (thanks to power of Magic-Pixels)? You get Hunt the Gulon, a satisfying remake crafted by Crow Cousins for the Enhanced Apple //e, //c, and IIgs. The game is freely available for download on the Crow Cousins website.

Tom Porter of Naspite Labs has ported the Game Boy version of Pyramid of Ra to the Apple II. This version of the game includes the first 13 levels of the game thus far and features a number of tunes alongside the game play keeping in spirit with the original. Game Play Controls *APPLE II+A/S (LEFT + RIGHT)W/Z (UP AND DOWN)NOTE:*You can change line 3001 for ASCII key codes if you prefer better controls. *APPLE IIeARROW KEYS*unchangable OBJECT OF GAME…

The missing side B of the Apple II package FrakTured FaebLes has finally been located. In a posting in the Apple II Slack Channel, a copy of the game posted by Dan Chisarick contained the full and complete second side. Long known to be a game that was incomplete due to the oversight by American Eagle Software, Inc., this is finally available in full form. When the game was written to the disk, only Side A was written in most…

A version of the ZX Spectrum game, Manic Miner has been released by StewBC. This initial version incorporates all of the features of the original Manic Miner but on the Apple II, uses a screen scrolling feature in order to get the entire game board on the screen. You can download the release of the game from the Manic Miner releases page on Github at: https://github.com/StewBC/mminer-apple2/releases

Vince Weaver has created a new version of the game Myst. This one runs on the Apple II computer. For those who have seen the game on other platforms, this version will not disappoint. Using pure 6502 Assembly language, Vince has created a very playable demo version of the game. However incomplete the current version is, it does show great potential for a completed product. For more information or to download the Myst demo, check out The Apple II Myst…

Raphael Rezende has released a new Apple II game, Bagatelle. According to his posting in the Apple II Software Enthusiasts group: This is a simplified arcade machine, in which you and the apple take turns, throwing balls into a box containing colored poles. Your score increases each time you hit a post, on your way down the box, and the ball changes direction when it hits a post, which increases your chances of hitting more obstacles. You use stick 0…

By Dan HendersonReleased 02 February 2020 (AKA 02022020) About Planet Invasion 2020 Some people will be familiar with the classic ‘Defender’ game from the 1980’s, yet weirdly, I know the game as ‘Planet Invasion’ on the ‘Dragon 32’ computer.  It has become apparent that the game was either copied or bought under licence. Anyway, I always thought it would be interesting to do a Low Resolution version of the game on the Apple II.  That being said, my not being…

Crow Cousins, the computing family who recently released a 6502, 65C02, and 65816 printable opcodes poster in true Beagle-esque fashion, announced the general availability of SpellWielder for the enhanced Apple //e, //c, and IIgs. The action / adventure game, which allows you to control the game’s protagonist as he sets out on a mission to rid the land of evil, brings the classic NES / Zelda type of look and feel to the Apple II for the first time. Explore…

The new game Mad Max and the Revenge of the Killer Pumpkins has been released by game author Daniel Henderson. For the Apple II gamer, Mad Max offers users a high speed arcade game that is both fun and not just a walk in the park. According to the author, Mad Max is “A Halloween themed dog game featuring Evil Pumpkins and written in compiled Basic. I used a sprite drawing program rather than shape tables written by Sellam Abraham…

Packard has announced the immediate availability of his new game for the Apple II computer, Darkstar Unhinged. According to the press release, You’re Deuce Darkstar, and you’ve saved the universe time and time again from alien invaders set to wipe out all the cute alien races who have pleaded for your help. They cheered you to victory, and stiffed you on your bill. Again and again. No more. You’re done. Let them burn…better yet, MAKE THEM BURN. You are Deuce…

Daniel Henderson has given the Apple II community the latest Apple II game. Oubliette is a simple yet effective game for the Apple II which puts the user in the position of trying to work their way through seven levels of a dungeon, collecting the prize in each level. According to the author, “Ok… It basically a medieval themed puzzle game. The knight is trapped in a dungeon (or oubliette) you and has to work out how to get to…

Option8 also known as Charles Mangin has released a new Apple II game, BlockChain.  Fresh off his recent success of his new game DropBlock which came in two flavors, single and double player, he now has released a game which gives a new twist to the idea of placing falling blocks. One of the twists on BlockChain is the fact that combines blocks change color making it harder than DropBlock.   According to the BlockChain blurb on the Option8 website, Match…