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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…
Seattle, Washington — July 24, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of a beautiful new 127 page manual for “Twilight II: The Ultimate Screensaver for Your Apple IIGS.” Twilight II was programmed by Jim R. Maricondo in 1993 and went through several revisions, eventually reaching a 2.0 beta. The new release 2.0 is the culmination of many efforts, with Antoine Vignau fixing bugs and compiling this final version in 2020. Bill Martens…
Seattle, Washington — July 24, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of a new manual for “Higher Text Plus” written by Ron Aldrich and Darrell Aldrich in 1980. Generate upper and lower case text in a variety of typefaces, sizes, and colors from your programs for display on the Apple II hi-resolution screen. Features an easy-to-use editor for creation of your own unique character sets, with over 90 fonts included. Several additional…
Seattle, Washington — July 24, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of a new manual for “Ampermanager: Amper Soft & DOS Manager” written by Rick Sutcliffe in 1983. Ampermanager enhances the BASIC programming language on the Apple II by interfacing machine language routines directly to Applesoft with the ampersand (&) command. Three additional utilities will help you write EXEC files, launch commands from menus, and read or write disk blocks in…
Seattle, Washington — July 24, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of a new manual for “ProCMD: The Commander” written by Glen Bredon in 1987. From the author who gave us Big Mac comes ProCMD: The Commander – a set of ProDOS utilities and 25 new ProDOS commands that greatly increase the power and flexibility of ProDOS in your Apple II. And you can create your own modules! Additional commands are included…
Seattle, Washington — July 24, 2020 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the availability of a new manual for “ProZAP: A ProDOS Block Read/Write Utility” written by Gary Charpentier, Val J. Golding, Greg Kielian, and David Sparks in 1984. ProZAP is a ProDOS block read/write utility that is your key to unlocking many of the mysteries of Apple II disk directories, files and programs. It uses intrinsic ProDOS routines to read, edit and write any…
The Crow Cousins have released a new update to Hunt the Gulon, the double lo-res kin to decades old Hunt the Wumpus game, fixing a few minor display bugs and switching to an ultra-fast assembly-based painting routine, soon to be available in an upcoming release of Magic-Pixels. The update is available on the Crow Cousins website in .dsk and .woz disk image formats for Enhanced Apple //e, //c, IIc+, and IIgs models and various emulators.
Gerard Putter has released a new version of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator for Mac OS X. Version 10.0.1 has restored High Sierra Mac OS 10.13 support. You can download the latest release of the Virtual II Emulator from:https://virtualii.com/
Apple II Disk Browser has been updated. The Denis Molony produced Apple II disk image viewing application has a number of bug fixes included in this version of the program. Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.47 is downloadable for free from the Diskbrowser Github page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser
Virtual Apple II Emulator for the Mac has been updated. Gerard Putter has announced that this version 10.0 of Virtual II includes some of the most requested features that people have been asking for as well the following: Virtual machine snapshots can now be saved and restored at any time, without the need to close the virtual machine. This feature is available in the full-licensed version only. Improved woz disk reading. Some diskette images could not be opened, but now…
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 using the included source code, which can be freely incorporated into your own Applesoft BASIC creations. Magic-Pixels works on an Enhanced Apple //e, //c, or…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin version 1.29.13 includes a host of changes and fixes including the following: [Bug #790] Fixed regression for -d1,-d2 & -s7-empty-on-exit (introduced at 1.29.7.0). [Change #787] Debugger: Extended ‘cycles part’ command to do timings relative to a user-specified base. [Change #783] Debugger: Extended ‘tf’ command to include cycle count. [Change #720] Debugger: Added more symbols to APPLE2E.SYM. NB. LC ($C08n) symbols are now correct for the LC, so ‘LDA $C08C,X’ will disassemble as ‘LDA LCRAMIN1_,X’ instead…
Tom Porter of Naspite Labs has ported the Game Boy version of Pyramid of Ra to the Apple II. This version of the game includes the first 13 levels of the game thus far and features a number of tunes alongside the game play keeping in spirit with the original. Game Play Controls *APPLE II+A/S (LEFT + RIGHT)W/Z (UP AND DOWN)NOTE:*You can change line 3001 for ASCII key codes if you prefer better controls. *APPLE IIeARROW KEYS*unchangable OBJECT OF GAME…
The Virtual II Emulator, an Apple II Emulator for Mac OS X, has been updated. Version 9.3.1 is an effort by the author of Virtual II to correct an issue that was introduced in the previous release, version 9.3. The bug could cause double high resolution screens to be rendered incorrectly during emulation. If you have Virtual II Version 9.3 or older installed, it is highly recommended that you install this latest update. You can download the latest update from…
