Paul Wasson, Winner of last winter’s Apple II Software Enthusiasts programming contest, has released his Double Hi-Res Graphics Toolbox to the general public. The program includes a number of features for Adventure Game Designers including: A tile-editor to create either 14×16 or 7×8 tiles using double hi-res A map-editor to place the tiles and see […]
For those who are into the whole Valentine’s Day bit, here is a program from a little while back that will fit right into the theme of the day. If you are per chance a fan of Roby Sherman’s Crow Cousins Micro Software, you will find that his Blitterang graphics package includes a demo program […]
I am currently working on AMPER-SPRITE, an Ampersand utility to DRAW and XDRAW sprites created with BITMAP ANIMATOR (an evolution of the BITMAP CREATOR spreadsheet). No release date yet 6502 code was created using the 6502 Assembler-In-A-Spreadsheet which is an integral part of the BITMAP ANIMATOR.This video shows a first speed test.For now the syntax […]
Modern Apple ][ software development involves using modern tools like emulators, modern IDE, 6502 assemblers, etc. One thing I haven’t found yet is a way to create sprites for the Apple ][ on a modern computer. I’d like to share a tool I wrote that allows you to create hires sprites/bitmaps for Apple ][ using […]
Sellam Abraham has announced the official release of GReasy Graphics System 1.0, a complete low-resolution graphics sprite and background animation tool with integrated editing suite and programming library for the Apple ][ line of computers.Features: Up to 31 sprites of any dimension- Up to 32 background frames- Small memory footprint (<5K with fully initialized sprite […]
The CrowCousins have released a new version of Magic-Pixels, their double lo-res painting program for enhanced Apple //e, //c, and IIgs models and it’s a big one. Version 2. 6 includes a number of notable features including: – An all-assembly, major UI overall that is wicked fast at 1 Mhz – You can now import […]
The Crow Cousins have released version 2.0b9 of their double lo-res drawing program Magic-Pixels. The 2.0 version introduces a “Blazing Paddles” menu and this version in particular fixes a number of compatibility issues with IIgs and //c computers using mice. As with prior versions, Magic-Pixels will allow you to save your creations in either a […]
After a lot of bug fixing the new V11 of the DOLORES library is released into the wild tonight. Included are new features and an improved memory layout as well as faster operation. The library resides now higher in RAM (from $8000 on( resulting in 8kB more free space for AppleSoft. The memory area at […]
Crow Cousins have released Magic-Pixels, a double lo res painting program, based on Marc Golombeck’s awesome Double LORES graphics library! The paint program can create “drawing format” files (similar to those Graphics Magician images used in hi-res adventures back in the day) plus a bitmap image format. Both image formats can be loaded and displayed […]
Update: In the June 2002 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine we apparently fell asleep at the wheel and a program which I wrote for demonstration of a simple task of manipulating images between floppies. The original program in the magazine is wrong and will not work no matter how hard one tries. It helps, if we […]
The French Touch has released a new graphics demo for the Apple IIe computer. The demo, entitled “A Question of Frames”, was produced on an Apple IIe with 128K of RAM. It will run on original hardware, the Apple IIgs, as well as the Applewin, Jace 2.0 and ActiveGS emulators. The program disk is […]
A graphical scene artist, Myles Stonecutter, is undertaking the publishing of a 90 page fairy tale book using graphics on the Apple II computer. The book has taken Stonecutter more than a year to work out and according to his Kickstarter page, is nearing completion. All of the graphics were produced on an Apple II […]
Loading and Saving Graphics Screens on the Apple II Series Part 2 While last months article covered some nifty graphics manipulation techniques, I missed making a few points about some extremely important items which must be made in order to make our program work well. Every Apple II has some calls built in the rom […]
This is a new column which we are introducing this month to supplement our Apple II coverage. Each month, you will find hand tips and tricks in this column which are specifically for the Apple II series computers. While primarily focused on the beginning programmer, even the more advanced programmers may find a nify trick […]