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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. …

The Apple II Desktop project has released another alpha update to the program. Alpha 26 includes a lot of changes to the Desktop package and the Desk Accessories. Localization for English, French Italian and Spanish has also been expanded in the program. Some of the other changes in the program include: DeskTop Fix bad rendering when unknown file types are present. Allow Esc to close OK-only dialogs. Fix scrollbar calcs when repopulating window. Erase before redrawing header when opening via…

Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.55 has been released. The Apple II Diskbrowser is a disk image viewer produced by Denis Molony that allows users to view the contents of their Apple II disk images. Version 1.55 includes additional support for Applesoft Programs including better formatting and wrapping of Applesoft program listings. It also provides complete analysis of programs including variable and array listings. Appel II Disk browser handles many different Apple II series computer disk image formats including: DOS Prodos…

The Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been updated. This update, Virtual II Version 10.2.2 is a major bug fix that is recommended for all users. Some of the items it fixes are: With some Mac configurations the screen updates showed intermittent delays due to a core image filter (“sharpen”). To mitigate this, the filter has now been made optional. It can be disabled in the View section of the application preferences. The “insert a disk image” sheet worked poorly…

for those of us who lived through the 1990’s and the computing world, the Flying Toasters screensaver was a common sight on many a computer screen during off hours or when people were not at their desks. The idea of a toaster flying across the screen to clear it, keeping the screen in good condition and preventing burn in was one that was not farfetched when one stopped to actually think about it. While initially on Macintosh and Windows computers,…

John Morris, creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, announced the latest release of his Applesauce FDC software. Included in this release are a host of updates and fixes. John has released the following Press Release: I’m finally getting settled in some new digs and once again have some office space to get coding done. I’ve been able to carve out a bit of time to knock some tasks from my todo list for Applesauce. One of the bigger items…

Neu][ower is a port of the MS-DOS game Neut Tower, specifically for the Apple II series computer with 64kb of RAM. Running under ProDOS, the game puts you in the position of “Escaping” an office tower after an earthquake. “You are Jaye, a young programmer who has written Neut, a program made to explore the building’s labyrinthine security systems. Jaye and Neut must work together to find their way out, and help those in need that they meet along the…

The Lawless legends team has released a three disk demo version of the game, looking to get feedback on the game play and any bugs in the program. A nine-year project which was introduced at Kansasfest 2014 by Martin Haye, Lawless Legends is a full fledged Graphical RPG for the Apple II series computers as well as for the Commodore 64 and other platforms. Lawless Legends includes both two dimensional as well as three dimensional elements in the game depending…

The SpASM 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler has been updated. SpASM version 1.2.0 includes a new Linker as part of the Assembler and also includes Error Checking. According the the A2SE posting by Francois Vander Linden , SpASM’s author, “ You can now use the worksheets as code modules. All the assemblies are then automatically linked, ready to be copied/pasted into your favorite emulator.Sample code that displays Mario on screen, callable from Applesoft is included.” SpASM 1.20 will work in either Microsoft…

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 called HEARTS on the distribution disk. Blitterang is a program which allows the user to include high performance image drawing to their programs written in…

What better way to say to those around you that you not only love them, but are totally cool than to express your love Apple II Style. Rogerio Neves has shared a lovely little one-liner that does this with a high-resolution heart drawn on the Apple II Screen. If you want to try this yourself, then copy the program shown below and paste it into your favorite Apple II emulator or type it into a real Apple II computer and…

The latest version of the Total Replay game hard disk image is now available. For those who have been following the project on Archive.org or on Github, Build 2209 marks the official release of the Version 4 of the Total Replay 32mb hard disk image. Total Replay Version 4 will run on any Apple II with 64k of memory although some games on the disk image require 128K. To download the latest version of the game, go to the official…

Ben Zotto, recently featured in the news for his disk recovery, now has one upped himself with a new Apple II DSK to WOZ 2.0 format disk image converter. dsk2woz2 is a program that not only converts the dsk format Apple II disk images to WOZ 2.0 format disks but also makes the resulting WOZ format disk images writable. Written in c, the program compiles in the standard C compiler under Mac and then runs from the command line. This…

Have you been searching for that obscure Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 800 or IBM PC floppy for your favorite game or application. Well, IANIOD, the curator of the Joystick Jockey’s website has you covered. With hundreds of floppy disks from the golden era of the 8-bit computer, Joystick Jockeys not only offers you the games on the original floppy disks but also, they are available for a reasonable price not normally seen in some of the eBay auctions. Check…

Renee Harke has created an Apple II Breadboard Adapter Card that any Apple II electronics hacker will love. The Apple II Breadboard Adapter card design is complete with a 50 pin socket, all of the bus signals and the space to add a standard 830 point solder-less breadboard to the card. The card design files as well as the Gerber for the board are downloadable from Renee’s Github page at:https://github.com/rharke/apple-ii-breadboard-card

Steve Chamberlain has announced the addition of a number of new features to the latest version of the Big Mess O’ Wires BMOW Floppy Emu Disk Emulator. Included in the latest update is: Writeable WOZ and NIB disk image support Forgettable disk images Dual 5.25 inch floppy disk emulation These new additions to the firmware of the BMOW Floppy Emu mean that users will not only be able to use the BMOW Floppy Emu as a storage unit for programs…

Paul Wasson has announced the availability of his entry for the A2SE programming contest. Where’s Askey is a tile based TEXT character adventure that takes you through the kingdom, to find your dog. If you have been looking for a game for every age, this is the one for you. A completely G-Rated game that takes you on the journey of finding Askey. The game is not only complete with the typical maps you would find in a tile based…