The Apple II Desktop Project has been updated. Version 1.2 alpha 41 has been released with a complete separation of individual language version floppy sets. These languages include English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Some of the changes and fixes included in this update are:
| General Consistently clear text screen when exiting apps. #621 File Pickers:Enable Apple+letter selection for lowercase filenames. #615 Allow type-down selection when holding Apple key. #610 Don’t require exact match for Apple+letter selection. #609 Allow Shift to reverse device order, when detectable. #605 Make scrollbar position correctly proportional. #607 MouseKeys mode activation/deactivation changed. #185Enter mode by holding down OA and SA, then press Space. A sound will play. Use arrow keys to move, and SA as the mouse button. Exit mode by pressing Escape. A sound will play. Y-clamping fixed while in MouseKeys mode. |
| DeskTop Show correct path when editing a volume shortcut. #614 Make check for moving/copying a folder into itself case sensitive. #619 Fix truncating new volume name at IP when formatting/erasing a disk. #616 Don’t dismiss File > Duplicate dialog on unchanged name. #617 Fix clearing DHR screen to black on launch. Show better error when copying a file onto itself. #630 Show better error when failing to copy or delete a non-ProDOS 8 file (e.g. GS/OS forked). #631 Add OA+SA+O as shortcut for open-then-close-parent. #625 Add OA+SA+W as shortcut for close all. #626 Show error when trying to replace an item with itself or an item it contains. #634, #635, #636. Show error during enumeration if an invalid target is found. #629 |
| Selector Clear DHR screen to black before showing to avoid garbage. |
| Desk Accessories Control Panel: Fix cursor flash when changing tracking speed. #612 Control Panel: Allow clicking on text labels for radio/checkboxes. #620 |
About Apple II DeskTop
(from the A2Desktop Readme.MD file)
A2DeskTop-1.2-…_800k.2mg and .hdv files are 800k floppy disk images containing the full Apple II Desktop application and related accessories. The .2mg file can be transferred to a 3.5″ floppy using ADTPro. The .hdv file has the same contents, just a slightly different file format which other tools/emulators/solid state drives prefer.
A2DeskTop-1.2-…_140k_disk1.po and A2DeskTop-1.2-…_140k_disk2.po are 140k images containing different parts of the application, and can be transferred to 5.25″ floppies using ADTPro.
Installation
This is a ProDOS 8 application. It works best on a mass storage device, or at least an 800k floppy. Running from a 140k floppy is possible (without desk accessories) but is not recommended.
An Apple II DeskTop installation has the following structure on a mass storage device:
A2.DESKTOP/– any name is allowed, can be in any subdirectoryDESKTOP.SYSTEM– run this to launch DeskTopDESKTOP2– application fileDESK.ACC/– contains Desk Accessories (DAs)PREVIEW/– contains file preview handlers (special type of DAs)
A simplified program selector can be launched instead by moving the SELECTOR file from the OPTIONAL/ directory into the same directory as DESKTOP.SYSTEM.
Downloads and Documentation
All of the documentation is available from the Apple II Desktop website at: https://a2desktop.com
Source code for the entire project can be found at: https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d
You can download the latest version of the project for your preferred language at: https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d/releases
