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The Apple’s Apprentice book that compiles Roger’s Wagner’s three rare magazine issues is now available in hardback on premium glossy paper. In a world of computer magazines where the target audience leans toward the adult side of life, comes The Apple’s Apprentice – the first computer magazine produced for beginners and kids of all ages, from 8 to 80. Put your feet up on a chair, relax, and learn about Apple II computers in an informative, fun way. All three…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin is an Apple II emulator for Windows based systems and should run on just about any of the newer Windows operating systems. Version 1.28.0.0 was released as a major release and has the following changes in the program: [Change #357] Resurrected the AppleWin 1.25 “Color (Standard)” video mode as “Color (RGB Monitor)”. This is equivalent to emulating RGB video, ie. a video mode with sharp text and pixels. NB. Unlike AppleWin…
Christopher Mosher has released a software package which allows a more precise recovery method of recovering Cassette tapes with data on them. Being as most of the tapes created for computers with cassette interfaces were created in the 1970’s the quality of the tapes and the data recovered from them can be quite problematic. But according to Chris’s Facebook posting, he says, “I’ve tested it on a limited number of images and it has successfully recovered some that wouldn’t load…
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 Antoine Vignau (from Brutal Deluxe Software) anyway. Some of the disks were damaged but I had enough backup copies that eventually both Teacher’s Wizard and…
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 select the best drive for performing disk imaging. These new diagnostic tools should also allow users to evaluate whether the drives need maintenance or if…
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 holidays, giving users a variety of screens which could be personalized as well. Originally written in Integer Basic, not only was it formatted for the…
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 on BlockChain is the fact that combines blocks change color making it harder than DropBlock. According to the BlockChain blurb on the Option8 website, Match…
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 CPU cycles including “phantom reads” Video display is synchronized with CPU NTSC video signal emulation: all video quirks emulated accurately Revision 0 motherboard (optional) Multiple…
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 at: https://github.com/mauiaaron/apple2
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 run by Jon. The newly-designed manual by Brian Wiser includes remastered art for the cover and interior. The cover even showcases more art than the original…
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 programs. Programmers familiar with structured languages such as Pascal and C will quickly see the similarities between a ProBASIC module and a procedure or function….
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. AppleCommander version 1.5.0 was released with a number of changes including: New images Updates to AppleSingle support. Also see the asu utility for direct manipulation…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin version 1.27.12.0 includes a few changes to the program including: [Change #574] Add support for PAL/European or custom 8K video ROMs: Added new command line switch: -videorom <file> Replaces the video ROM for the Enhanced //e. Support video ROM sizes of 4K, 8K and 16K (top 8K only). NB. The rocker switch is set to the European video ROM position. F10 (for //e or Enhanced //e models) emulates the PAL //e’s…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.27.10.0 has been released by Tom Charlesworth, curator of the Applewin project. Included in this update are the following items: [Change #590] Apple II original: default to 48K (so no LC installed in slot-0). Added new command line switch: -s0 <languagecard|lc> (‘lc’ is an alias for ‘languagecard’) When LC is in slot-0, it now use the Apple II+’s F8 (auto-start) ROM [Change #408] Support Saturn 64K and 128K cards in slot-0….
John Brooks, the co-creator of the VidHD 1080p Card for the Apple II computer, has released a video of the capabilities of the card. The VidHD card allows users to use modern HDMI monitors with their Apple II computers. The Video demonstrates the high quality look of the video by using the following games via the NTSC mode of the VidHD card: Airheart, Rescue Raiders, Captain Goognight, Drol, Hard Hat Mack, Mr. Do, The Bard’s Tale, Wizardry, Dazzle Draw DHGR…
The Apple II DiskBrowser has been updated. DiskBrowser, a creation of Denis Molony, is a utility which allows users to view the contents of Apple II disk images on their Macintosh computers. The java based utility has had additional graphics capabilities added to the program and offers rudimentary WOZ disk image support at the moment. DiskBrowser is a free utility and the latest versions of the utility are available for download from Github at: https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/releases/
The Virtual II Emulator has been updated. Virtual II version 8.6 is a highly rated shareware Apple II emulator and has received a host of Bug fixes and enhancements including: Added a keyboard shortcut to enter and exit full screen. The Inspector’s instruction trail now also shows the processor cycle count at the start of each instruction. The instruction trail can now be saved as a tab-separated text file. Increased the maximum capacity of the instruction trail to 9999999 instructions…
Denis Molony has released a new version of the Apple II Disk Browser. The latest update to the popular disk browsing utility includes updates to the graphics handling within the program. You can download Version 1.0.28 of the Apple II Disk Browser JAR from the Disk Browser github releases page at: https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser/releases
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has released a new manual for the Apple II word processor MicroWriter by William H. Starbuck. MicroWriter is a screen-oriented word processor for the Apple II computer that is easy to use and will satisfy the needs of most users. It shows as much text as possible so that you can see your words in context. It is more complex than the simplest word processors, and simpler than the most complex ones. Availability MicroWriter…
