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The Kansasfest committee has release a teaser email containing the 2014 rendition of the Kansasfest Logo. Kansasfest is an Apple II centric enthusiast convention which happens each year in Kansas City, Missouri. The event draws hobbyists from around the globe and is usually inundated with advancements in the hardware and software on the Apple II series platforms. The 2014 Kansasfest will take place July 22nd to 27th. For more information, check the Kansasfest website at: http://www.kansasfest.org
Brian Picchi, the author of Lamb Chops, has announced the release of his latest Apple ][ Game. Retro Fever is the first release of 2014 for the Apple ][ series computer and is Brian’s second foray into the realm of Apple ][ action games. According to the release on Facebook, ” For this game I teamed up with programmer and friend Brandon Bogle of retroswitch.com (some of you may know him as the creator of the Flyer Internet Modem for…
The Applewin Apple2 Emulator has been updated to version 1.24.0. Applewin is currently being maintained by Tom Charlesworth. According to the posting on CSA2, this update is intended to address a number of issues with the emulator as shown below: 1.24.0 – 11 Jan 2014——————–Changes:. Support cursor keys (in addition to numpad) when using keyboard for joystick emulation. Support auto-fire for all 3 joystick buttons (via Config->Input). [Feature #5668] Added confirmation message box for reboot (F2). [Feature #5715] Added -no-printscreen-dlg…
The Silvern Castle RPG by Jeff Fink has been updated to version 9.5. Silvern Castle is the longest running RPG specifically for the Apple II series computers which still recieves regular updates. Bugs Fixed in v9.5: Thanks to Choi Youngjoo for reporting error #53-4035 (and subsequent #53-143 at title page) due to potential overflow of message time delay variable at Red Dragon Inn. Stuff Changed in v9.5: Added rarity byte to each monster. Low-level encounters more likely to be patrols…
Win32 etc. http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/extras/bmp2shr.pdf Apple II http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/extras/PicSave.pdf Download it here: http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/extras/B2S.zip This download contains programs, source code, documentation, and disk images for creating Super Hi-Res Pictures, and for viewing and saving Super Hi-Res pictures on an Apple II GS, or on an Apple //e with a Carte Blanche, or an Apple //e or Apple II GS equipped with an Apple II VOC (Video Overlay Card), or in an Apple II GS emulator (like Kegs32). 1. BMP2SHR – converts BMP Files to…
From CSA2 Announcment by David Schmidt: For your consideration this Christmas day:ADTPro 1.2.9 has been released. There are a few tweaks that came up under some heavy usage scenarios: Nibble sends now work in batch mode, and they are a little more tolerant of communications failures. This gets really handy when you have, for example, a pile of 13-sector disks to image. Linards Ticmanis’ 13- sector ADT13 was always an option, but due to the fact that DOS 3.2 and…
Brian Picchi has released a new Apple II game, Lamb Chops. The game which plays much like the old Atari games, is a multi-level fast action arcade game which speeds up as you progress through the stages. The object of the game is to protect sheep as they cross a pasture. Wolves and aliens of different species attack the sheep and the player, forcing him to keep on the alert at all times. The player can only shoot one bullet…
AppleCommander, the java based floppy viewing software has been updated. Dr. John B. Matthews has put forth version 1.3.5.14 which is intended to address a freezing issue which has been in many early versions. The issue addressed in the update affected SWT and has long forced users to to FORCE QUIT the application. The new version has been confirmed to work on all versions of Mac OS X from 10.5.x to 10.9.x. AppleCommander is a floppy disk image viewer which…
Brutal Deluxe has announced the addition of a number of new cassettes to the Apple ][ Cassette Collection. Their press release on CSA2 states that “Thanks to Ron Graff, former publisher of Magnemedia and Innovative Computer computers, please find new complete titles at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/ Ron kindly accepted to send his applications to me which I have digitized and scanned. Magnemedia now contains the five different eduware programs, probably among the first eduware titles for the Apple II. The Innovative Computer…
The Virtual ][ Emulator for Mac OS X has been updated. Version 7.3 was released with a host of new fixes and updates including: The “No Slot Clock” now reports Monday as weekday no. 1. Previously it reported Sunday as day no. 1, which was incorrect. Added Applescript properties for better control of the connected devices. The application preferences now offer two color schemes for high resolution rendering. The Inspector now retains its window positions when the virtual machine is…
The CFFA3000 compact flash drive card for the Apple II series computers is now on sale again. Rich Dreher, the creator of the CFFA3000 has made a total of 575 boards available for the third run of the card. The new CFFA3000 RevC board also now works in the Apple /// computer and comes with the David Schmidt produced driver. The CFFA3000 is available for $149.95 from the R&D Automation website at: http://shop.dreher.net/
By Hugh Hood (CSA2) AppleIIWorks Envoy is a ‘faceless’ application for Mac OS X (10.4.x Tiger through 10.8.x Mountain Lion) with a two-fold purpose. First, it provides for Mac OS X Finder recognition of Apple II AppleWorks Files, presenting both a custom Mac Finder icon as well as a custom ‘Kind’ description for AppleWorks Word Processor (AWP), Database (ADB) and Spreadsheet (ASP) files. Second, the application implements a Spotlight metadata importer for AppleWorks Word Processor (ProDOS type ‘AWP/$1A’) files that…
The Usenet newsgroup comp.binaries.apple2 contains about 2-3 thousand Apple II programs, but they’re tricky to download to an emulator or a real Apple II, owing to the fact that they’re all encoded with ASCII armor. Well thanks to Format Converter, technology that will decode all the Apple II and Macintosh file formats, these files from comp.binaries.apple2 can be easily downloaded to your computer as a ShrinkIt file. BinSCII files will be decoded (usually to ShrinkIt archives) and so will Executioner…
The curator of the Aztec C Museum, Bill Buckels, has announce the immediate availability of two new directory builders for Dos 3.3. The new Directory Builders Dir33 and LS33 are available from the Aztec C Museum as a free download. Complete source code and documentation is included as part of the download. According to the note on CSA2 posted by Bill, “ The Aztec C65 DIR33 Project for Apple II DOS 3.3 – RWTS revealed with structures and everything… Download…
A2Command, the Norton Commander style file manager for the Apple ][ series computer has been updated. Version 1.1 was releaved by author Peyton Byrd with the following updates and changes: This new release features several bugfixes and some improvements including: Added support for the new cc65 functions for listing devices. Fixed viewer to avoid crashing when many spaces are present in one line. Corrected the single file selection when copying. Lowercase and uppercase commands are now active. Date and time…
The website for the Apple II series based fantasy RPG, Silvern Castle, has moved. Jeff Fink, the owner and author of the game announced the relocation was due to changes with the Google Groups. He also mentioned server speed being a factor in the change. The new website for the Silvern Castle is now at: http://finkjsc.a2hq.com/silverncastle/
The collection of Apple ][ cassettes offered by Brutal Deluxe for download has surpassed the 600 tape milestone. The collection, owned and curated by Antoine Vignau has been steadily adding more tapes each month as they have been discovered. The latest updates to the Apple ][ Cassette collection includes items from Powersoft, Inc., Program Design, and Softtape. The tapes, cassette inlays and catalogs are downloadable from the site. For more information, check the Brutal Deluxe Casssette Collection website at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html
An early Apple ][ computer posted on EBay, sold for for an unheard of $23,099 US today. The computer with the markings of being serial number 047 of the A2S1 series is a first run case, which does not have the traditional ventilation slots found in later run machines. It also had a power supply hand marked as serial number 049. While most Apple ][ computers sold on the Internet normally go for up to a few hundred dollars, the…
A note from “Charlie” in the CSA2 Usenet group has announced the arrival of Super Hi-Res Graphics capability for the Carte Blanche card in Apple //e emulation mode. According to the posting, ” I have made a Carte Blanche bitstream that allows an Apple //e to have SHR graphics. Most of the JAT stuff has been removed so it is mostly a VGA video card for the //e. The SHR works pretty much as it does on an Apple IIgs,…
Brutal Deluxe, maintainers of the Apple II Cassette collection have announced a couple of new additions to the library. They include: The Software Factory’s Apple Beneath Manor by Don Worth, with a signed manual from the author Ritam Corporation’s Monty plays monopoly, that is a new publisher. There are currnetly 592 cassettes listed in the collection. More are being added as they come in. If you currently own Apple II cassettes which are not included in the library, you are…
