Tag: apple II

MacEffects has announced that that the BOOTi Hard Drive card for the Apple II computer is once again available through the MacEffects website. BOOTi is a Hard Drive emulator card which simulates a block device on the Apple II. MacEffects is best know in the Apple and Macintosh communities for their clear cases and special replacement keyboards. For more information or to purchase the BOOTi card, check out the MacEffects website at:https://maceffects.com/products/maceffects-booti-hard-drive-emulator-for-apple-ii-series

Ciderpress II, the command line based version of the Ciderpress App for Windows has been updated to version 1.02. Included in this release are the following changes: The full Installation instructions for the App can be found on the GitHub page at: https://github.com/fadden/CiderPress2/blob/main/Install.md The following Installation instructions are a brief version for those already familiar with the system: There are pre-built binaries for 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows, 64-bit Mac OS, and 64-bit Linux. Downloads with _fd are framework-dependent, meaning you…

Ralle Pa, creator of a number of Apple II products that are currently for sale, has announced that he has created a new Apple II Disk II controller card. According to Ralle: I finished a new project today. A2DISK2 – my version of the Apple2 DISK2 controller. Two versions actually. One with 2x 256-byte proms and another with 2x EPROMs. The former are really hard to come by and few people can program them. The latter should be easier to…

Joshua Bell has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of the Apple II Desktop project. Apple II Desktop is a graphical user interface platform for the Apple II series computers and includes an array of utilities and programming languages built into the platform. The first beta release in the version 1.4 chain comes with a slew of updates including the following items: DeskTop Disk Copy Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop can be downloaded from the Apple II Desktop…

Disk Jockey is an app for creating and analyzing disk images for retro computing platform emulators as well as actual hardware, including the Apple II, Amiga and Atari ST. The add will run on the following Mac OS platforms: It also runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon machines and will run offline. Changes in Disk Jockey version 3.4 include the following items: You can download the latest version of Disk Jockey as well as older versions at:https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/

From Jesse Blue: New features: Fixes: Download via Marketplace or from here https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dagenbrock.vscode-merlin-assembler 

Colin Leroy Mira has released STP, a new FTP client package for the Apple IIc. According to the release notes published by Colin: New release of my #AppleII things!STP, my FTP client, is now much more usable. It gets search, is ported to non-enhanced Apple II, and more importantly can now transfer floppy images (.po and .dsk) to a floppy, in the same way that ADTPro does.This means that if you make yourself an STP floppy (with ADTPro), you won’t…

From Emmanuel Castello Following Paul Letellier and Michael Mendelsohn bug call, just fixed the problem regarding the physical paddles inversed buttons. Remember that you can skip the bitmap slow scroll up by pressing the key.

The latest beta release of Apple II Desktop, version 1.4-alpha9 pre-release has been unveiled. Curated by programmer Joshua Bell, this alpha release introduces a plethora of enhancements and improvements, albeit with a cautionary note to use it with care due to its alpha status. Key Features of Apple II Desktop v1.4-alpha9: Compatibility: Users can now seamlessly integrate this release with Apple //jse or Apple2TS, ensuring a smooth experience across various Apple II environments. Downloadable Disk Images: Easily accessible through the…

Wozamp 2.4 has been released. The author, Colin Leroy-Mira, announced the release with a miriad of video improvements including the following:   * Better sound  * Perfect sync  * Better compression  * Implement pause, rewind, forward  * Implement volume normalization and control  * Implement clean text subtitles  * Leak fixes  * Implement full-screen mode  * Implement half-lines mode  * 80-columns

The 2024 rendition of the FAPPLE2 Fest was held yesterday with 11 people showing up for the annual event in Kawasaki, Japan. The FAPPLE2 Fest is the annual get together of the Japanese Apple II hobbyists, originating from the 1980’s and is held each year at the home of one of the members, Atsushi Ushiroda. This years event included 11 hobbyists and a ton of machines and Apple II series computer related items including those from A.P.P.L.E. With the space…

The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. Release notes from Applesauce FDC creator, John Morris stated: Client Release 1.88.5 – https://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/Applesauce_1885.zip

Colin Leroy-Mira has announced the availability of the latest version of his WOZAMP Video and Audio player for the Apple II series computer. “I’m happy to say I’ve released Wozamp version 2.3 at https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/wozamp-an-apple-ii-music-and-video-player/You may notice that the page’s title is now “a music and video player” Please find attached to this message’s replies a few examples!”

The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated.  Applewin 1.30.18, curated by Tom Charlesworth, was released with a number of changes  and bug fixes including the following: Applewin is a full fledged freely downloadable Apple II emulator that includes support for a number of features including Peripheral cards and add-on hardware supported: You can download the latest version of the Applewin Apple II emulator from the Applewin Github page at:https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin

For those of you following the Apple II Desktop project, the latest alpha release is now available.  The changes in the latest version of Apple II Desktop, version 1.4 alpha 8 includes a slew of changes including the following: Changes relative to previous v1.4 alpha: DeskTop Disk Copy Desk Accessories Misc Try it now with Apple //jse or Apple2TS Try if now The Apple II Desktop package is available in one of 9 languages: Downloads

Kelvin Sherlock, creator of the Ample GraphicalUser Interface for the MAME emulator, has released a new version of the interface.  Release 56 of Ample brings the interface in line with the 0.264 release of MAME and includes a host of fixes and changes including the following: Ample Changes MAME 0.264 Changes of note Ample-MAME changes of note The Apple IIgs driver now supports the host.fst wdm protocol. (A disk image of the driver and fst are located in the Ample.app/SharedSupport/…

This little two line program from Lee Fastenau is sure to give your Apple II computer a bit of a complex and as he said, an Identity Crisis.

From: Bob Giddings I think I have worked on this enough.  Here is my command line demo called CLEAR.  Included with a few commands.  It is mostly meant for 80-cols, some commands won’t display properly in 40-cols.  Although most of the commands will work on a II+.  The most powerful command is included.  The ALIAS command will let you make aliases of Basic, Binary and System files. There are a couple of commands that need some explanation. Type COMMANDS at…

From Henry Lowe: RAMWerks 2 is now available for testing. In addition to testing RAMWorks-compatible Apple II memory cards, this new version also tests RAMFactor, Apple Memory Expansion (‘Slinky’) and Saturn compatible RAM cards (with some limitations – see web page). RAMWerks now runs on all Apple II computers and supports 40 or 80 column displays. You can download a disk image of RAMWerks 2 from: https://henrylowe.net/ramwerks/

from Michel Pollet: MII Apple II Emulator version 1,8 has been released. The latest version of the MII emulator is available from the Github page at: https://github.com/buserror/mii_emu 1.8 Change Log: Poor quality gif, It is a LOT smoother at 60fps in the program! Super Serial Card config dialog libmui Internals