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Brutal Deluxe has added two more new titles to their Apple ][ Software Cassette collection. The collection which spans the years 1977 to 1982, contains 563 titles as of 3 January 2012. The new titles included in this update are Powersoft’s Financial wizard 3 and Memory dump. They have also updated Ciderpress and and their disk archives in addition to the new titles. To browse the collection, go to the Brutal Deluxe Apple Cassette page at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/index.html
Egan Ford has now taken his Apple ][ Game Server a step further and created an Apple ][ Disk Server. The concept of the server is that it allows you to reconstitute an entire floppy disk through the cassette input/output port of the Apple ][ computer. This is accomplished using old 1970’s style data sound playing through the cassette Port directly to the computer. The Apple ][ then writes the data to the disk one the disk writer is initiated…
Thirty years have passed yet we get constant reminders of what the Apple computing world was like. One such reminder is the saga of the Data East published game Burgertime. Over the years since it’s release in 1982, there have been several renditions of the game on many different platforms and even numerous more cracks of the game, particularly on the Apple ][ computer. Recently, Rich Martin (A.K.A. Datawiz) wrote of his exploration of the winding trail of the cracks…
The Open Emulator is an Apple emulator for multiple platforms, written by Marc Ressl. He announced yesterday in the CSA2 that his version 1.0.2 of the emulator was available for immediate download from the Open Emulator Website. Included in this latest version is the emulation of the True 1977 Apple ][ computer as well as the Apple-1 platform. He has included the following features in the emulator: Emulates the 1977 Apple II Joystick/mouse support with programmable axis and button mapping,…
Egan Ford has once again updated the Apple ][ Game Server in what he describes as “hopefully the last update”. This particular updates adds a 3rd download option to the server -TRACK. The TRACK files are CD compatible WAV files (44.1kHz/16bit) with a modified loader for 11025Hz/7350Hz zeros and ones (8820 bps). Egan also has posted a video of usage of the Track files during the loading of a game utilizing an inexpensive CD player. To view the video, check…
Brutal Deluxe has posted 27 more Apple ][ cassettes to their server, bringing the entire collection to 590 total. These cassettes were recovered from a donated collection and are now available for download from the Brutal Deluxe server at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/other/
Egan Ford and Michael Mahon did a good bit of collaboration this week to effect the upgrading of the Apple ][ Game Server. The Apple ][ Game Server allows users to load games straight from the Internet onto their real Apple ][ computers via the cassette port and the audio port of their PC. The HIFI files have been sped up from 12kHz/6kHz 8000 bps to 12kHz/8kHz 9600 bps. LOFI continues to operate at the cassette interface default of 2kHz/1kHz…
More than 10 million Apple IIs were sold during the computer’s lifetime, but even with such a large user base spread around the world, some Apple II software fell off the radar after its heyday and has yet to be rediscovered in our archive-minded 21st century. Many users’ floppy disk collections were forgotten, given away, left in the attic or thrown in the garbage. Amongst the disappeared software until very recently was Dragon Fire, a 1981 dungeon maze RPG by…
In the waning days of the Apple ][, cassettes were used quite prevalently. This continued into the realm of the Apple ][ plus for a short time. Now thanks to purchases made of some of these collections by Apple ][ fans, many of the cassettes are being archived. One such fan who has archived materials from a good number of vintage computers is a New Zealand man living in Tokyo, Philip Lord. His tape collection ha reached levels unrivaled by…
Brutal Deluxe software has added four more cassettes to the Apple ][ Cassette website. The new cassettes, scanned and added by Antoine Vignau, brings the number of cassettes in the collection to 563 tapes. The Cassette was the main storage type for the initial Apple ][ Computers from the advent of the Apple ][ in 1977 until the first floppy disk drives were commercially available to consumers in 1979. They also continued to be used well beyond that time due…
WIlli Kuche has documented the Merlin Macro Assembler IDE Source code and made it available for download. Merlin, which was written by Glen Bredon at Southwestern Data Systems, was available for download for the past two years, however, the version that was available was without documentation and without instructions for building the IDE. Now after a long effort by Willi, the IDE is documented, and according to Willi’s note left on CSA2, “it contains all the source files needed to…
This morning, Egan Ford posted a note to CSA2 announcing his online Apple ][ Game Server. According to the announcement, “I’ve completed my cassette port research and achieved gains of 6x (12x with compression). I did have an application in mind. Inspired by the Apple Game Server, I created a web-based version. There is a video tutorial if you just want to see it in action (single take, be kind).“ The game server allows you to connect your PC or…
In 1988, Berkeley Softworks came out with what was then one of the premier operating systems for the Apple ][ series computers. The Graphic Environment Operating System, or GEOS for short was to put it mildly, a revolution in the way that the Apple //e handled its programs. Using capabilities only available on the Apple IIgs and other personal computers on the higher end of the spectrum of the time, Berkeley Softworks gave the lowly Apple //e, //c, and the…
The Apple ][ command shell, Davex is now available for download. The shell written by famed Apple programmer Dave Lyons, is a pure command line shell for ProDOS 8. According to David Schmidt’s post in CSA2, “The current (preliminary) version is 1.30p, and includes executables on disk images for both ProDOS and SOS computers and emulators. The ProDOS version currently lacks some of the external commands (but you can watch the Sourceforge project for more), and the SOS version is…
Michael Mahon and Seth Sternberger have released a new percussion sequencer software package for the Apple ][. They posted the following release information about the software package on CSA2: With inspiration and musical mentoring provided by Seth Sternberger of _8-Bit Weapon_, I’ve impemented a percussion sequencer/synthesizer for the Apple II. It allows a user to create sequences as long as 255 patterns, where each pattern is one of a set of 16 musical measures. Within each of these patterns, any…
Garnet Ulrich has released an update to his popular Apple ][ Emulator for Android mobile units. The program allows users with Version 2.1 or higher to run a true Apple ][ emulator on their phone. Changes included in version 1.63 are as follows: Bluetooth game controller support, including Wiimote, through Bluez-IME. Touchscreen joystick controls. Monochrome amber, green and white emulation options. ‘No button’ mode available in landscape. Number Munchers for download. According to Garnet Ulrich, the programs creator, “Version 1.62…
After a request by Willi Kuche, the Apple ][ community came together and managed to come up with two versions of the source code for Glen Bredon’s Mr. Fixit for Prosel 8. Being as no original source code was available, two people in particular disassembled the program and have posted their respective versions to the internet. Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software posted his Merlin based version of the source code at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/public/mrfixit/ Willi Kuche also decided to create a…
Dr. John B. Matthews has posted the latest version of the Apple Commander program on his website. According to his posting on CSA2, ” Apple Commander v1.3.5.9 is now available. This version features an update by David Schmidt to allow writing Pascal TEXT files on DOS ordered disk images.” Apple Commander allows users to view and manipulate the contents of an Apple ][ disk image as well as to export the contents of the disks to text files on the…
NuInput, the replacement package for Applesoft’s INPUT and GET commands has been updated. Ivan Drucker, the author of NuInput and Slammer has made the latest version 2.0, available for immediate download from the NuInput website. NuInput was initially introduced by Ivan at the 2010 rendition of Kansasfest (http://www.kfest.org) as part of a demonstration he did with both NuInput and Slammer. The latest version of NuInput includes a number of new features including: YZ$ (ST$ template) is no longer needed DELETE…
The entire collection of the French version of the Apple ][ Developers, a documentation package for Apple developers is now available online. The entire package is from about 1985 and has been made available in digital format on the Brutal Deluxe website. Here is the table of contents: Sommaire (PDF, 25 KB) Les outils souris texte de l’Apple II (Apple II mousetext tools) (PDF, 4.1 MB) Les règles de l’interface souris (mouse interface rules) (PDF, 5.7MB) Utilitaires de programmation (programming…
