Tag: apple II
From Fredrik Ramsberg: I have released a new version of 350p Adventure, AKA Colossal Cave Adventure, AKA Advent. It has another exploit removed, and it’s faster than before. Get it today at: https://microheaven.com/advent/ The Game download includes builds for a number of platforms including the following: Also, instructions on how to get it running on your flavour of CP/M.
Hideaki Seike has announce that he has a new graphics converstion website tool that allows users to create a variety of retro images for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other platforms. The tool takes the original image and converts it one of four different variants or the Apple II: HGR, DHGR, Lo-Res and Double Lo-Res graphics. The converter also allows users to select settings for dithering and scan lines. Our own tests of a photo from the AP converted…
The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator is now available. Applewin v1 31.0.3 includes a reworked configuration graphical interface and is the 2nd beta release with this new GUI.. Change in the Tom Charlesworth led Applewin project are as follows: You can download the latest release of Applewin including both he betas and the stable releases from the Applewin GitHub page at:https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin
Joshua Bell has released the latest alpha of the Apple II Desktop. Version 1.6 alpha 2 contains a host of improvements over the first alpha of the Apple II Desktop. These include the following items: General DeskTop Disk Copy Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop is a free download and is available from the Apple II Desktop GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d
The 80th release of the Ample Interface for macOS brings the emulation interface with MAME 0.287. This update includes one additional ROM for the Ample interface. Also, be sure to re-download all of your Apple II related ROMs as they were updated in 0.286. The Ample MAME Interface can be downloaded from the GitHub page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample
From Jawaid Bazyar: I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.7.2. GSSquared is an Apple II series computer emulator. Supported platforms are: Pre-built binaries available for: This is a maintenance release, focusing on user interface – menus and interactive widgets of various types. User Interface Features Bug Fixes Internals *1: On Linux, because Linux is a dumb wasteland of ego, there is no platform-native menu interface an application can use with SDL that will work on all distros,…
Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: The author wishes to express hi thanks to all those members of the Apple II community who have taken the time and effort to assist in getting new cards into the Card Cat database. The Card Cat 1.93 floppy disk image is a free download from https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/
William Winter has released a new Adventure creation studio which produces Apple II adventures in the form of ready disks and Applesoft BASIC programs as well as other formats: Here is the announcement posted by William: “Hi everyone, I’m a little nervous posting this because it’s the first larger project I’ve put out into the world, but I thought the community might appreciate it. I built a web tool called Apple 2 Adventure Studio that lets you create classic text adventure games for…
New Web-Based Utility Brings Classic Z-Machine Text Adventures to Authentic 5.25″ Floppy Images for Apple II Hardware and Emulators The A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) Users Group, is pleased to announce the immediate launch of the Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator (InfocomGen), a free online tool that instantly converts Z-machine story files into bootable 5.25″ Apple II disk images. Available immediately at https://www.callapple.org/zgen/, the drag-and-drop web application allows users to upload any .z3 or .z5 file and receive…
Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest update to the Ample Mac OS MAME Emulation Interface. Version 0.286 brings the following updates and changes to the Ample emulation interface: A2retroNET is a Super Serial Card that also supports 8 prodos/smartport disk images.It’s probably the easiest and simplest way to use a large number of disk images.You might want to back up your disk images just in case though. Note: Previous versions apple2gs and apple3 roms will need to be updated. You…
Henry Lowe has announced the latest version of his Card Cat application. Card Cat identifies cards in the slots of Apple II series machines and can accurately identify over 100 different Apple II series specific cards. The latest version of Card Cat includes the following changes and updates: Card Cat version 1.92 is a free download and is available in both DSK and PO format disk image from the Card Cat webpage at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/
Emmanuel Castello has announced the availability of a playable demo version of his Ultima style game, Andoria. According to his post, “Hello everyone from the A2SE group. After years of videos and pictures, I am happy to share the first Demo Version of my Ultima RPG Game, Andoria. https://andoria.neocities.org On this link you will find a quick introduction of the game, as well as basic instructions on the gameplay. I hope you enjoy that demo, even if it is a…
The Apple II Desktop or Mousedesk as it was known originally has been updated. The A2Desktop project, led by Joshua Bell, is now in its fourth full rendition since the initial release of the initial updated platform. The Apple II Desktop is a graphical user interface built upon ProDOS which gives the user a fully mouse controllable Macintosh like experience on the Apple II series computers. Changes in the Apple II Desktop App since the full version 1.5 release include…
Paul Wasson has announced an update for his Apple II game, Froggo. According to the announcement: “Thanks everybody for all the support for Froggo. I’ve been blown away with all the nice feedback. Seems like people like my silly game. I made a new release to address some of the issues raised. See the webpage for the complete release notes, but here are some highlights: Please let me know if you find any other issues. And thanks for playing.” The…
Jeremy Reichmänner has produced a fun little throwback to the 1980’s with his release of the Apple II text adventure game, Escape from Daracenstein. Filled with all of the fun bits of American Society of those days, anyone who loves thing from that era will enjoy this game. The game was written entirely in Applesoft BASIC and through a release of several versions of the game, Jeremy has worked it into a fun reminder of simpler times. Be sure and…
BurgerDisk is a Smartport hard drive for the Apple II. Its main unique feature is that it is daisy-chainable.
Paul Wasson has announced the immediate availability of his new Apple II game, Froggo. According to the press release: Announcing FROGGO a new fast retro action game for the Apple //e. Available today for download! See https://www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo for download link and more information. Features *Complete challenge mode for an additional bonus level!
For those Mac OS users who have downloaded the latest version of the Virtual II Emulator, you will need to download the latest update to it. The Virtual II version 13.1.1 release addresses an issue, introduced in version 13.1, that caused some Apple II programs to fail. This latest version is available from the Virtual II Emulator website at:https://virtualii.com/
Gerard Putter has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of the Virtual II Emulator, a full featured, shareware Apple II emulator for the Mac. This release addresses a number of issues reported by users of the emulator and included the following changes and updates: Further information about the Virtual II emulator, license information for the full Virtual II package and downloads of the latest update for the emulator can be found on the Virtual II website at:https://www.virtualii.com/
Dongsu Jang has released an Apple IIe Double Low Resolution graphics library. Including 12 APIs and 15 ampersand commands for Applesoft, the library gives the user a simple method of using low resolution graphics in their programs. According to his posting on Facebook, “I’d used Apple II+ 40 years ago. At that time, I was so jealous Apple //e and its double hi-res and lo-res graphics. After 40 years, I have Apple //e Platinum. This is small 6502 assembly and…
