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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
The 8-Bit Unity team has announced that their latest version of their C based cross platform programming SDK for 8-Bit systems will include scrollable tile maps. According to the posting ont heir website: Thanks to a “quiet week”, I was able to make rapid progress on the next version of 8bit-Unity (0.4).The major new feature is Scrollable Tilemaps. I have implemented a super convenient asset pipeline: design your tile-set and maps in the excellent CharPad just ONCE, then 8bit-Unity takes…
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…
Michael Packard has announced the final release version of his new Apple II game, Lunar Rescue. Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie…
Studying the pseudo random number generation with a particle simulation of the binomial distribution using a Galton’s board in Double LORES. More information: https://8bitshack.org/post/marcdemo/ The simulator uses 96 single “particles” that are kept in constant movement following a pseudo-gravitational force which makes them move through the board. This simulation also demonstrates some of the capabilities of the DoLORES-library project.When a simulation run is finished “Gravitation” can be reversed forcing the particles to move back upwards allowing a restart of the…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. New items in version 1.29.15 of the Tom Charesworth maintained Applewin Emulator include: [Change #764] Fully support the RGB cards, and introduce a new ‘Color (RGB Card/Monitor)’ dedicated video mode. [PR #837] Support for ‘Le Chat Mauve’ Eve and Féline RGB cards. [PR #826] Support for Video7’s SL7 RGB card. New command line switch to select RGB card type: -rgb-card-type: apple (default), sl7, eve, feline New command line switches for SL7: -rgb-card-foreground…
Seattle, Washington — October 23, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of a new manual for the “Beyond Quest“ game written by Bill Martens in 1985 and completed in 2020. Beyond Quest is an all-text RPG game that’s the most old school fun you will have with your Apple II computer. Adapted from the Quest 1 engine by Brian Reynolds, it builds on the original with a new backstory, objective, improved menus,…
Disaster! On a routine lunar scouting mission, United Earth expedition 1 was attacked by Moon Bats, stranding 60 crew members across the lunar surface. It’s up to you to successfully pilot a Lunar Rescue Vehicle safely down to the surface and recover the stranded crew one by one before their air runs out! PRE-ORDER NOW! for $20 + $3 shipping, in old-school ziplock baggie packaging in 5.25″ DOS 3.3 floppy disk format with instruction sheet signed by the author. Compatible…
John Snape has remastered the Apple II programming classics “Beneath Apple DOS” and “Beneath Apple ProDOS” and put them in one 450 page volume titled “Beneath Apple DOS and ProDOS 2020.” Remastering a book is no small effort, as I well know, and John has done a fine job of preserving and upgrading the work of authors Don Worth and Pieter Lechnner. Besides re-typesetting everything, he has redrawn the figures and tables. John also put his own special touch on…
KbooHK has released a new Firmware update for his wDrive. Firmware version 1.0b5 mainly fixes smartport images that cannot be booted under the wDrive’s boot menu! wDrive (connect as drive A) has limitations with how it works with the Apple IIc when booting smartport images. When hdv/2mg files are selected in the boot menu, they cannot be booted in drive A until the selection on the adaptor switch is changed to to drive B(SMARTPORT). Under this circumstance, wDrive will use…
Walland Vrbancic has just released his latest version of Apple II DOS, DOS 4.3 File Management System. DOS 4.3 is based on his earlier release of DOS 4.1H in 2019. DOS 4.3 boots directly into Language Card memory. It retains all of the enhancements found in DOS 4.1 with many more additional features. Most notable are commands to directly modify disk sector data, update file time stamps at any time, control disk tracking to a single phase, configure eight areas of DOS that manage…
Denis Molony has released an update to his Apple II Diskbrowser program. The Apple II Disk Browser is a JAVA based app which will run on all platforms and allows users to view the contents of an Apple II disk image. Version 1.48 has a number of fixes as well as new features for Text Files which allow certain items such as the Byte count of the file to be turned off. For more information or to download the Apple…
Apple II Email Suite Bobbi Manners has announced the release of the email//er Apple II Suite version 1.0. The AppleII Email Suite consists of the following six ProDOS programs: POP65.SYSTEM is a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) client for the Apple II with Uthernet-II card. EMAIL.SYSTEM is a simple user interface for reading and managing email. It works together with POP65 and SMTP65. EDIT.SYSTEM is a simple screen editor, integrated with EMAIL.SYSTEM. ATTACHER.SYSTEM is used for creating multi-part MIME…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin is a windows based Apple II emulator and many of the fixes in this latest version 1.29.14 are related to issues with Windows 10 and networking. Tom Charlesworth and his team, winners of the 2020 Apple II Forever Award, have announced more than a dozen fixes in their latest release of Applewin. [Change #822] Updated Uthernet card support to use Npcap for Win10. [Change #806] Added support for ‘Base 64A’ –…
From the notes of the renowned hacker, A2_4am comes the release of the latest version of his Anti-M Apple II Disk Booting Utility: “Anti-M v1.7 is out: https://github.com/a2-4am/anti-m/releases/tag/v1.7 Anti-M can boot any 5.25-inch Apple II disk on any Apple II, including – 13-sector disks – SpiraDisc on //c or IIgs – games that require a ][+ or 6502 – booting from drive 2 Version 1.7 adds support for “Odin” and fixes some bugs.”
By A.P.P.L.E. Staff A never before seen Take 1 movie comes to us by way of its creator, Eric Iwasaki. Star Voyagers is a high action Take 1 movie which spans an entire 10 Apple II disk package! According to Star Voyagers Creator, “When I stumbled upon Bill Martens’ Take 1 Movie Site, the timing couldn’t have been more amusing. I had just celebrated 30 years working as a game developer in the interactive entertainment industry…a career that my Take…
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 system) Documented and easy to use Applesoft BASIC interface- Includes drawing program, sprite editor, and &-command extensions for quick & easy development Download GReasy Graphics…
An unexpected highlight at KansasFest 2020 was the introduction of a speedy, new Apple II emulator by Tamas Rudnai, dubbed “Steve ][.” Written for macOS Mojave and later, Steve ][ has a modern interface with many options and works with the popular WOZ format. According to Tamas, “Steve ][ tributes the two co-founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Wozniak was the evil genius hardware designer and inventor, while Jobs was the brilliant marketing and visionary person behind the…
For those of you who use Facebook, the Apple II Software Enthusiasts group (known for its ongoing two-liner and other programming challenges plus software and programming discussions) is starting a new bi-weekly challenge: “Starting tomorrow, we’re launching a new feature in the group where we’ll be posting a special challenge every couple of weeks to encourage our beloved Apple II community to turn on their machines and have some quick distractions and fun! Some of these challenges may focus on…
Just in time for the Summer Kansasfest crowd, Andy Mcfadden has announced an update to his Apple II file transfer utility, Ciderpress. Version 4.0.4 includes a host of changes including the following: [app] Fixed limitation that prevented files larger than 16MB from being added to HFS volumes. [app] Fixed range check on volume number in 2IMG properties editor. [diskimg] Fixed a bug that caused assertion failures on ProDOS disks with short volume directories. [reformat] Fixed an incorrect Apple /// BASIC…
