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David Schmenk has updated the PLASMA disk images. For those of you who have been running on the original version 1.0 floppy disk images, you will want to download the new disks. Included in this update are a number of Keyboard related updates for both the Apple II and the Apple III version of the programming environment. To download PLASMA, Check out the GitHub page at: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA
A gathering of Apple II hobbyists from around Japan this week put together one of the most interesting events this Apple guy has been to yet. While most events tend to put together schedules that are structured and adhered to religiously, the schedule for this event was pretty much out the window the minute people started unpacking. After paying our 2000 yen fee for the event and receiving our lanyards with photographic name tags, we started the event with a…
An enterprising Apple II fan on Facebook, “Kboo HK” has released a video of her latest creation, The Apple II+ Mini. This hand built Apple II+ actually is the size of an old school Gameboy or there about and while it’s size is diminutive, the things it can do are actually quite amazing. The main board can actually control the standard Apple 5.25 inch Floppy Disk interface card, and run a real floppy drive or more logical, the FloppyEmu. The…
Update: In the June 2002 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine we apparently fell asleep at the wheel and a program which I wrote for demonstration of a simple task of manipulating images between floppies. The original program in the magazine is wrong and will not work no matter how hard one tries. It helps, if we use the correct BASIC command. And thus here, in the spirit of our old magazine column’s name, we try to Write the Wrongs for our…
UPDATE: ALL COPIES HAVE SOLD John Blankenship, the author of Blankenship BASIC, RobotBASIC and a number of books has made a limited number of original copies (NEW) of his book, The Apple House, available. Originally published in 1984 by Prentice-Hall, this book explains how to make your house completely computerized with the Apple II computer. Imagine the convenience of having your “house” keep track of how many people are in each room and to turn off all the unnecessary lights….
David Schmenk has released his long awaited PLASMA programming language for the Apple II series computers. Under development since 2006, version 1.0 of PLASMA can be run both from floppy as well as from hard disk. It includes a bevy of improvements and enhancements with a number of people from the Apple II community taking part in improving this release. According to David’s website, PLASMA officially can support the 65802 as well as the 65816 16 bit features and can…
Gerard Putter has updated the Virtual II Apple II emulator for Mac OS X to version 8.1. The latest release of the Virtual II emulator addresses a host of items addressed by A.P.P.L.E.’s Brian Wiser and others, as well as some items that were causing the app to crash. According to the Virtual II website, changes include: Added a preference to use the H.264 codec for making a screen movie, even if the HEVC codec is available. Added a preference…
Brutal Deluxe Software, known for its many contributions to the Apple II gs community has announced a proof of concept project. DOS 4.4 and MUFFIN for DOS 3.3 to 4.4 has been released and is available for free download from their website. According to the posting, DOS 4.4 is A proof of concept project For a DOS upgrade And you can download DOS 3.4 below… DOS 3.4 is like the OS code of DOS 4.4 with the RWTS routines of…
Ever wish you could cool off your Apple II without all of the fan noise from the Kensington System Saver? Watch as we tear apart the System Saver and replace the fan with an ultra-quiet version: https://youtu.be/KnliZMbmGQA See more Assembly Lines podcast videos at: http://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTorrence1
I came across documentation about the popular Apple II copy program EDD 4 that experts like Anthony Martino at UltimateApple2, the creator of the “EDD 4 Plus” clone card, were not familiar with and asked me to share. That information is within three documents I scanned and linked here as PDFs. Highlights from those documents: EDD 4 Program Information List #4-13, February 1993: download PDF This may be one of the last EDD program lists created. It also mentions…
Denis Molony has released a new version of his Java based Apple II Disk management utility, Apple II Disk Browser. This disk image utility was covered in the Summer 2017 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine and is one of the hottest net utilities available for management of Apple II disk images, allowing users to see the real content of the files in a host of different programs and program types. Apple II Disk Browser Version 1.0.24 is the result of several…
Andy McFadden, curator of the CiderPress GitHub repository, has made his latest changes to the app available through the CiderPress releases page. According to his posting, this latest version includes the following changes: Changed the behavior of file extraction so that file extensions are never added unless “add file extension” is checked. Previously, files whose contents were converted for use in Windows always had the file extension added. For more information about current releases or to download the latest version…
Gil Megidish, known for his Apple II binary file emulator, has captured and released the Apple IIe Hebrew Character ROM. This ROM allows the Apple II to display the Hebrew alphabet. According to Antoine Vignau’s Apple II Documentation Project RTF file included with the files, “This is the Apple IIe Hebrew ROM kindly provided by Gil Megidish. It comes from an Apple IIe motherboard 820-188-A. You might need that when renaming the video ROM. The associated files are: 1. 8KB…
The PLASMA (PLASMA: Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple)programming language, developed and curated by David Schmenk has gotten an overhaul and update. For those who have never used PLASMA, ” PLASMA is a medium level programming language targeting the 8-bit 6502 processor. Historically, there were simple languages developed in the early years of computers that improved on the tedium of assembly language programming while still being low level enough for system coding. Languages like B, FORTH, and PLASMA fall into this…
The Apple II hacker, 4am (@a2_4am) has announced that the Apple II Disk Image cracking utility Passport has been updated. Passport is a utility for the Apple II computer which automatically removes the disk protection schemes from the original disk, leaving the program completely unprotected. Passport v20171114 includes a host of new features and fixes including: Supports ProDOS RAM disks to read an entire disk at once (IIgs RAM disk, RAMFactor, RAMWorks, modern clones) NEW: DOS 3.2 support (MUSE, Edu-Ware,…
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Brutal Deluxe Software have announced that Bitsy Rip, a new low-level copy program for the Apple II is now available. According to the announcement by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software: Bitsy Rip is a low level disk imaging software using an Apple IIgs and a standard 5.25″ disk drive, no extra hardware is required! This 0.4 version is pre-alpha and really more proof-of-concept than a usable product. It requires 4 MB of ram and stores the disk nibble data…
Seattle, Washington — July 21, 2017 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Kevin M. Smallwood are proud to announce the immediate availability of the book GBBS Pro Bulletin Board System: Version 2.2 and the software update that accompanies it. GBBS Pro is a user-friendly, highly-modifiable Bulletin Board System (BBS) for communications and entertainment. It has advanced features that can be configured by a novice, yet challenge advanced programmers. Originally released between 1980 and 1993 for Apple II computers,…
April 1, 2017 /RPNewswire/ — The 8-Bit Bunch announce an unexpected discovery for the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Apple II – an original game from 1977. You may have thought that Lemonade Stand and Little BrickOut were the titles to show off the capabilities of the Apple II. This, Light Cycles 3D, was the game that was supposed to ship with the computer but was pulled at the last minute for unknown reasons. We discovered the cassette…
Gerard Putter has released a new version of the Virtual II Emulator. The latest version, 7.6 is specifically updated to run on Mac OS X 10.11 and newer. Version 7.6 includes the following fixes and updates: This upgrade requires OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or better. Rewrote the full-screen feature; it now works for individual windows, using the familiar green button in the window title. The main window can now be resized freely, and is not limited anymore to the…
