A couple of months ago I returned to my parents home in Madrid, Spain and was able to find some of the early code I wrote for the Apple II. I wasn’t very confident my 5 1/4” floppy disks could have survived 30 years in storage but I decided to send them to my friends […]
John Morris just announced that the new Applesauce 1.1 software will have a further enhanced disk drive analysis allowing users to not only see the rotation speed but also factors such as: Power Levels Reading Writing Head Tracking Sync Sensor status The Write Protect switch As John says, it will make it much easier to […]
The Apple II DiskBrowser, a java based disk image utility for Mac OS X, has been updated. Created by Denis Molony, DiskBrowser Version 1.0.30 was released with features to support A.P.P.L.E.’s hybrid Pascal/DOS and CPM/DOS type floppy disks. You can download the latest version of DiskBrowser from Github at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/
In 1979, Jeff Finn submitted a program to the A.P.P.L.E. users group for inclusion in its Diskpak 2. It was the Holiday Greeting Pak, a program which utilized the low resolution graphics capabilities of the Apple II computer. Included in the Holiday Greeting Pak were 9 different screens covering both the Christian and the Jewish […]
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 […]
The Epple II Emulator installer has been updated. Epple II is an Apple II and II plus emulator written in C++ and is buildable to either Linux or Windows systems. The Epple II emulator was created and is maintained by Christopher Mosher. Some of the features of Epple II are: Cycle-accurate: emulates all MOS 6502 […]
The Apple IIix project, curated by Aaron Culliney of Deadcode.org, has been updated. Apple IIix is an Apple II Emulator for POSIX devices. Currently, the Android Release Candidate for version 2.0 is available on the Apple IIix website. For more infromation or to download the latest version of Apple IIix, go to the github page […]
Seattle, Washington — November 26, 2018 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Jon F. Baxley are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book for his classic game Lordlings of Yore: The Game of Knights, Knaves and Necromancers. Lordlings of Yore was originally published in 1983 by Softlore Corporation, a company […]
Seattle, Washington — November 24, 2018 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Alan Bird are proud to announce the immediate availability of the new manual ProBASIC: Professional Modular BASIC Programming. ProBASIC enhances the Applesoft BASIC that is built-in to your Apple II computer. New commands and functions can be added to your […]
The AppleCommander Apple II data conversion software has been updated.AppleCommander has long been a go to tool for many users converting data from Apple II disk images to standard files on the Mac and Windows. The program includes support for all standard disk sizes and formats as well as 32mb HDV type hard disk images. […]
