Brainstorm Software and Brutal Deluxe Software have coordinated to bring Full Métal Planète for the Apple II gs to the masses. Originally released in 1988 by Ludodélire and developed by Hitech productions, the Full Métal Planète strategy game was limited to French until today. The English version of the Apple II gs game was blessed […]
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate availability of the Tarot Version 1.0 English Release for the Apple II gs computer. Originally written in 1990 by Francois Uhrich with cards drawn by Jean-Francois Sauvage, Tarot was only available in French until today. Featuring absolutely brilliant hand drawn art work on the cards and real world […]
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the release of the latest version of the 1990’s Brainstorm Software package, Hierarchic. Version 1.6.2, which was apparently finished in 1994 and never released according to the posting on their website, has been updated to Merlin32 and is now available from the Brutal Deluxe Software website: https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/hierarchic/
Thanks to the efforts of Antoine Vignau and John Morris, the Merlin 32 App is now available as a 64-bit app for both the x86 based and the M1 based Mac computers. The Merlin 32 App is available as a free download from the Brutal Deluxe software website at:http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/merlin/
Brutal Deluxe has announced the addition of over 150mb of new Cortland documents. The documents, from 1985 through 1987 include a hose of items covering topics from Apple Talk to SANE Tools to the addition of the APDAlog France. You can download the documents in a series of individual files or in zipped batches from […]
Brutal deluxe software announced the immediate release of the entirety of their Applesauce Disk image collection. The Brutal deluxe collection created by Antoine Vignau is a 1680+ program collection containing more than 3000 disk sides. The entire collection is now available for download via Bit Torrent through the Archive.org website at:https://archive.org/details/Antoine_Applesauce_Vignau
For many years, Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau has been running the Apple II Cassette Repository, a site dedicated to gathering all of the Apple II software distributed on cassette tape. With the additions to the site this week, the repository has reached a whopping 670 entries. The latest addition to the site includes Confrontation by […]
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 […]
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! […]
From the realm of Antoine Vignau: i’m fEDD up goes v2.3 and now supports RamWorks 8M from a2heaven.com: – You can load your 5.25″ floppies in a single pass, that may help create images of sync’ed titles, – We have added more messages for Brian Wiser 😉 Get your copy @ http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/imfEDDup/ Next step is […]
It has been announced that the team of Olivier Zardini and Antoine Vignau, better known to those in the Apple community as Brutal Deluxe Software, will give the 2017 Kansasfest Keynote. According to the announcement on the Kansasfest Website: KansasFest 2017, the 29th annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 18 – 23 in […]
Brutal Deluxe Software announces the maintenance release of i’m fEDD up, their copy/preservation utility program. Now at version 2.2, the program can export 5.25″ disk bitstreams in a .FDI file. If you own an Apple IIgs, the copy process runs in a single pass. A faster copy means more chance to reliably preserve track sync’ed […]
Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the addition of four new software titles to the Apple II Cassette Collection. The collection now contains a total of 653 titles that were produced on Tape for the Apple II computer during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. You can download the tapes at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/
Announcement from Brutal Deluxe Software: Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Zephyr), is happy to announce the release of the arcade game Pleins gaz for the Apple II. This color HGR arcade game was released by Froggy Software in late 1986. As […]
Brutal Deluxe Software has added four new cassette tapes to the Apple II Cassette collection. The new tapes include titles from Creative Computing, ITT, Heuristics Inc, and SoftTape. There are now a total of 638 tapes in the collection. For more information, check out the Brutal Deluxe Apple II Cassettes Collection at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/
Brutal Deluxe software has updated the Apple II cassette tape collection with a new addition. Curator and Apple II aficionado, Antoine Vignau announced this week that Creative Computing’s Mission Impossible has been added to the collection bringing the total number of tapes to 634. To view or download the collection, check out the Apple II […]
Antoine Vignau has announced an update of the Apple II Cassette Collection on Brutal Deluxe. The update includes the following new items: Apple’s High-resolution graphics (002-0002-01) Apple’s Checkbook-1 (002-0005-01) Hayden’s Songs in the key of Apple The new additions brings the total number of offerings in the collection to 623 tapes. For more information or […]
OMF Analyzer is a command-line tool for Windows to analyze OMF Files we can find on 16 bits Apple IIgs operating systems like Prodos 16 or GS/OS. Because OMF files are the core of any executable code on the Apple IIgs system (S16, Exe, CDA, NDA, FST, PIF, Library, Tool…), OMF Analyzer will be helpful […]
This technical article discusses the recent LZ4 data compression algorithm and its ability to become a good multi-purpose lossless compression format for the Apple IIGS computer. Mostly for game programming area, where we have to handle multi-types of data (Graphic, Sound, Music, Code, Misc data…), the availability of one generic compression / decompression algorithm will […]
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 […]
