Tag: apple II

Denis Molony has announce the immediate availability of version 1.0.26 of his Apple II DiskBrowser program. DiskBrowser is a Java based browsing program which allows users to view the contents of their Apple II disk images in native formats. DiskBrowser supports all of the popular disk image formats including John Morris’s WOZ format disk images.  It also includes all of the main program and operating system formats. This update to DiskBrowser completes the move to Java 10 for the Application.  …

Gerard Putter, creator and curator of Virtual II the emulator, has announced a new version of the software.   Virtual II is the premier Apple II emulator for Mac OS X and has been consistently updated for more than 10 years now. Version 8.5 was released today with a host of patches and fixes including: Added Dark Mode support for macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Woz disk image files are now shown correctly (enabled) in the disk open panel. Reading an empty diskette…

Seattle, Washington — July 5, 2018 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.), Bruce Jones, and Lane Roathe are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book Tome of Copy Protection. Copy protection is designed to keep people from making copies of a disk. Because of the complexity and ‘hidden’ aspects of copy protection, most people have little or no idea how this protection works.  This 380 page book is designed to help you understand what is going on…

Seattle, Washington — July 5, 2018 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce the immediate availability of our book All About Applesoft: Enhanced Edition. As a comprehensive guide to Applesoft BASIC, “All About Applesoft” examines the construction and use of the BASIC programming language on a variety of levels.  This new “Enhanced Edition,” encompassing 280 fact-filled pages, features the improved readability of modern fonts and typesetting, memory maps, example programs, many programming references, how-to’s, and a…

Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has released a new manual for the Apple II programming language Blankenship BASIC by John Blankenship.  Beyond improved readability from modern typesetting, this 80 page manual makes using, understanding, and expanding the programming language easy.  John assisted us with this release, and he is eager to see how people expand their programs. Blankenship BASIC, last released 1987, expands the power of Applesoft BASIC by vastly expanding available commands and capabilities for Apple II programmers…

Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has released a manual for the Apple II copy protection program The Scrambler by Jerry Jongerius.   The software was originally published in 1983 by A.P.P.L.E., but no manual was released at that time. The Scrambler, which also includes Fast Disk Check and Password, is a suite of DOS 3.3-based utilities that enable users to copy protect 5.25″ disks and data, set a password for disks, and verify the integrity of disks.  If you…

The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated.  Verison 1.27.5.0 is now available to all users.  This update of Applewin includes a host of bug fixes including the following: [Bug #567] Fixed Mockingboard/6522: Reading the 6522’s IER now returns 0x80|IER. [Bug #556] Allow system key combinations to be read: Open Apple (left ALT) + ESC/SPACE/TAB. Also fixes #145, #198, #448. Support new command line switches: -no-hook-system-key, -alt-enter=<open-apple-enter|toggle-full-screen> Fix for save-state which wasn’t correctly saving last key. [Bug #555] Reverted 1.27.4’s…

For those of you who have been following the A2osX project, there is now a new version of the Source and Build floppies available for download from the A2osX Github repository. The brainchild of Rémy Gibert, A2osX aims to be a multitasking operating system for the Apple II much like Linux or other Unix type operating systems. If you are interested in helping with this project, developers who are familiar with this type of operating system development are welcome to…

DiskBrowser has been updated to version 1.0.25.  The latest version of Denis Molony’s Apple II disk image browsing software now supports the WOZ format.  DiskBrowser is a Java based application and includes the following features: Applesoft and Integer Basic Pascal disassembler 6502 disassembler Wizardry internals and maps Infocom text adventure internals Appleworks Visicalc HDV and 2mg Compressed disks – shrinkIt, gzip, zip Track and sector display Dual DOS disks CPM disks Comprehensive disk listing You will need the latest version…

The Applewin Emulator has been updated to Version 1.27.4.0. This version focuses on items related to the Super Serial Card and the recent interest in BBS and Modem related topics. The latest release of Applewin includes a host of improvements and fixes including: Fix for showing 559th DHGR vertical column. But now an HGR HCOLOR=2 vertical line at column 0 is only 1 DHGR pixel wide. Fix TEXT80 to be aligned with DHGR. Fix FLASH in TEXT80 (the inverse aux-memory…

The latest version of the Virtual II Emulator has been released.  Virtual II is a Shareware full featured Apple II emulator which offers users near real hardware experiences on Mac OS X.  The latest release, version 8.4 contains a host of changes including Improved “woz” disk image compatibility; the application now deals better with several copy-protection schemes. If a woz disk’s internal write protect property has been set, QuickLook now shows the disk without a write-protect notch, to indicate that…

Gerard Putter has released the latest update to his Virtual II emulator for Mac OS X.   Virtual II is an Apple II Emulator which is completely standardized GUI and allows the user to experience both the sights and the sounds in addition to the actual functionality of the original Apple II Computer. Virtual II version 8.3 contains a bevy of updates and fixes including: Support for the “woz” disk image format. The woz format and implementation guide was created by…

Seattle, Washington — May 14, 2018 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and John Blankenship are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book The Apple House: How to Computerize Your Home Using Your Apple II Computer. Originally published in 1984 by Pearson Education, Inc, the new 186 page book is completely remastered and re-typeset.  Additionally, all of John Blankenship’s custom home automation software featured in the book has been retyped and made available on a free disk…

Gerard Putter has released a new version of his Virtual II Emulator, an Apple II emulator with high quality interface and one of the most capable emulators for Mac OS X.  The latest version, according to Gerard does not yet support WOZ files but is being released due to his desire to keep it functioning at near perfection: I decided to issue a bug-fix release. The new version also has an improved way for installing the ROM files – I…

For many years, Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau has been running the Apple II Cassette  Repository, a site dedicated to gathering all of the Apple II software distributed on cassette tape.  With the additions to the site this week, the repository has reached a whopping 670 entries. The latest addition to the site includes Confrontation by GRT Corporation.  Antoine has also made a short how-to guide available which takes you through the steps required to recover the data from old Apple…

Over the past year or so, Remy Gibert has been working on a multi-tasking operating system for the Apple II.  The system, which appears to be much like Unix / Linux, is well into development with a good portion of the system completed.  The goal of A2osX as Remy has named his fledgling operating system is to create: a cooperative, event-driven multitasking kernel (meaning it is applications that are responsible to give back control to kernel) Its principal goal is…

The latest release of the Applewin emulator is now available.  Version 1.27.2.0 of Applewin includes a host of updates including: [Change #522] SSC: Support ACIA’s TX Empty interrupt for both COM and TCP modes. [Change #311] SSC: Support ACIA’s CTS/RTS. [Bug #308] Fixed TCP mode which was only generating an IRQ for first byte received. SSC: Fixed reading DIPSW registers. SSC: Support ACIA’s Program Reset (write to register 9). SSC: Improved logging for unsupported modes (Echo, Tx break signal). Changes…

Manila Gear released the new 0soniq, which gives you zero channels of sound for your Apple IIgs, instead of the usual one. Each of the 32 oscillators available in the Apple IIgs’ Ensoniq Digital Oscillator Chip (DOC) can be assigned to play on any one of 8 output channels. The 0soniq blocks all 8 of those channels. If you would like to hear those channels, check out our 2soniq stereo or 4soniq quadraphonic sound cards. To enjoy no sound with…

For those of you who have suffered long with the old version of Apple Commander, your cries have been answered. AppleCommander 1.4.0, which allows users to manipulate Apple II Disk images, has now been released.   According to the new GitHub page, changes in the new package include: We migrated from SourceForge to GitHub. This updates the boot code to point that out. AppleCommander would hang in an infinite loop if a directory wrapped in on itself. Thanks to @Lisias! Fixed…

Joshua Bell, creator of the online version of the Applesoft and Logo interpreters and curator of Calormen.com, has a new project.  The project, with full sources on GitHub, is a complete disassembly of the program known as Apple II Desktop or MouseDesk by Version Soft. According to the Apple II Desktop repository readme, The goal of this project is to disassemble/reverse-engineer the suite with an eye towards understanding how it functions, and eventually fixing bugs and adding functionality. While, Joshua…