Tag: Apple IIgs

Enrico Rolfi has announced the immediate availability of The Music Studio for the Apple IIgs, the unofficial version. The Music Studio for the Apple IIgs Version 2.0.3 is available for download on Enrico’s website. According to the release notes on the site: The Music Studio is a music composition software for the Apple IIGS that was first released between the end of 1986 and the beginning of 1987. Armed with nothing more than the original program binary, I decided to…

Ian Schmidt has released a new version of his Night Driver for the Apple IIgs. Night Driver GS 1.1 includes the following features and fixes: Night Driver GS 1.1 is a free download and is available at:https://www.callapple.org/soft/a2gs/games/nd11.po

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of AppleIIgs Karate from . The game runs on an Apple IIgs with either floppy or Hard drive. To gain your way into the upper sect of the holy order, something your father always wanted of you, you must beat many opponents. Your journey will be a difficult one with the finest fighters in the land trying to stop you. From time to time, you may be required to perform tests to prove…

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate release of the 9th software release as part of their 30th Anniversary celebration. The latest release is Froggy Software’s Canal Meurtre. According to the release notes on the Brutal Deluxe website, Attached to your TV like an infant to its pacifier, you enjoy cozy evenings in the calm of your apartment. However, tonight, the incredible has just happened: your favorite journalist has been murdered! Your investigative skills overcoming your acute flemmingitis, you decide…

Chris Vavruska has announced the release of the Homer finder extension for the Apple IIGS. Home is an extension of the Extras Menu “Make Alias” function in Apple IIGS System 6.0. Home proves an easy to use means to give you a quick route to finding the location of the alias as well as to examine the structure of the EasyMount alias files. It also opens the original folder where the alias points to. You can download the latest version…

Emai//er, the email and Usenet news software package for the Apple //e Enhanced or Apple IIgs, has been updated. Emai//er version 2.1.14 is a major update, coming after a nearly two year hiatus, and updates the suite to the latest version of IP65. Changes in the program according to the author, Bobbi Manner, are as follows Addresses tickets #75 and #76 in the ticket database.. The IP65 release Emai//er has been using was a couple of years out of date, and various improvements…

VOCinit, a Temporary Initialization File (TIF) for the Apple IIgs computer and the Video Overlay Card has been updated. This update comes 29 years after the initial release of VOCinit and the original author, Richard Wifall has put it out as freeware. Version 1.0 of VOCinit allows users for force the Video Overlay Card settings to either be complete Apple IIgs graphics or full input video on boot up. The program uses the Caps Lock on the keyboard to control…

The Don Bluth fans in the audience will be super excited about this one: Space Ace II for the Apple IIGS courtesy of the good folks over at Brutal Deluxe Software. Ace looked at Kimberly, the baby Borf cradled in her arms and he thought back to all that had happened. It began when the evil adult Borf constructed his ultimate weapon – the Infanto Ray. It could transform anyone into a harmless infact with a single blast and with…

Core v5 for the AppleSqueezer GS was released recently. It fixes an issue that a few users were having with sound on early IIGS motherboard revisions (at least, for 2 out of 4 people who reported this to me), and I’ve also received some limited feedback that it improves VidHD compatibility. VidHD was working for many already, but this should improve things further, and means that if you were still using v3, you should be able to now use v5….

Our friends over at Brutal Deluxe software have released a new update for Hypercard IIgs. The update is primarily oriented around the Y2k issues that the long date in the program had. You can download the latest version of the Hypercard IIgs application from the Brutal Deluxe website at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr

Brutal Deluxe has announced the immediate availability of the Don Bluth game Space Ace. in a posting from Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe, he announces the game: Don Bluth’s Space Ace for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 7th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Dexter, better known as “Ace”, is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander Borf, who is seeking to attack Earth with his “Infanto Ray” to render Earthlings helpless…

Lucas Scharenbroich, author and creator of the Generic Tile Engine for the Apple IIgs, has released a first beta of the engine on the GTE Github page. This release comes post Kansasfest where Lucas released a number of new demos of the GTE Engine. The Generic Tile Engine (GTE) project is a tile engine built to exploit the unique hardware capabilities of the Apple IIgs personal computer. It supports the Apple IIgs super hires graphics mode (320×200, 16/256 colors) and…

Brutal Deluxe’s own Antoine Vignau announced the release of the third rendition of Dragon’s Lair for the Apple IIgs. According to the release notes on the Brutal Deluxe website, A year has passed since Mordroc’s demise at the hands of Dirk the Daring. Having pursued the evil wizard through the depths of time, Dirk confronted Mordroc in the chamber where Daphne lay in a deep, magical slumber. Using the wizard’s own magic against him, Dirk managed to get the Ring…

Script-Central SE v7n1 has been released. This is the third issue of Script-Central Special Edition. Script-Central is a HyperCard IIGS stack collection presented as a disk magazine. Originally published on floppy disks in the 1990’s, v7n1 is the third issue published by Brendan Bellina released as 16 MB hard drive images. Stacks include hard-to-find content, stacks converted from Macintosh HyperCard, and original stacks. Along with the stacks themselves is a great deal of information as well as updated instructions on…

From Antoine Vignau at Brutal Deluxe Software: Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp for the Apple IIgs is released today. This is our 5th gift for the 30th anniversary of Brutal Deluxe Software. Get it at : https://brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair2/

Chris Vavruska has released the GS Speaker App on the Microsoft Store which allows a WindowsPC to communicate with your TCP networked Apple IIGS running the Listener application by Jeremy Rand. For more information or to download Listener, check out the Listener Github page at: https://github.com/jeremysrand/Listener The App is a free download from the Microsoft App Store at:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/gs-speaker/9n8qzmc31969?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Brutal Deluxe has released another Don Bluth software package, Dragon’s Lair : Escape from Singe’s Castle . The game is for the Apple IIgs and comes on either a single 6mb disk image or on eight 800k 3.5 inch floppy disk images. The source code for the game is also being released. To download the game or the source code, check out the Brutal Deluxe Dragon’s Lair : Escape from Singe’s Castle  webpage at:https://brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/dragonslair1/

Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the source code and the graphics data for the Apple IIgs version of the arcade game Dragon’s Lair. After releasing the game earlier this month, this most recent release is for the developer crowd. Both releases are provided on 3.5 inch floppy disk image and can be downloaded from the Brutal Deluxe website at:http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/sourcecode/dragonslair.html

Brendon Bellina has announced the release of the HyperCard IIgs Extras. Best known for his Scipt-Central SE packages, Brendon mentions that this “Extras” stack release will greatly enhance the capabilities of HyperCard IIgs. According to the HyperCard IIgs Extras webpage, “Apple included many stacks for the Macintosh version of HyperCard that were never released for HyperCard IIGS. Many of the stacks from HyperCard 1.2.5 and earlier were packaged into a single stack named “Stack Templates” that was released with later…

From Jeremy Rand: ListenerGS version 1.0 is available: https://www.rand-emonium.com/2022/04/10/listenergs-version-1-0-released/https://www.rand-emonium.com/listenergs/ This app lets you do speech dictation to an Apple IIgs.  You must have a network interface on your GS and have Marinetti setup.  You also need a modern iPhone, iPad or Mac.  With that, you can do speech dictation in desktop application on your GS like Teach and Hermes. This was my KansasFest 2021 HackFest entry.  In the months since KansasFest, I have cleaned up the code and gotten it…