Category: Apple II
Rebecca Heineman, a brilliant and accomplished programmer and video game creator, passed away today after an unexpected battle with cancer. She shared her battle on Bluesky, where she highlighted some of her many achievements, “First video game champion (1980 Atari 2600 Space Invaders National Champion). Created Bard’s Tale III: The Thief Of Fate & Dragon Wars.” I’d like to share…
Release 5 fixes multiple bugs, and brings the game closer to the original. There are now five dwarves, as in the original, and you can’t just teleport out of tight spots. Of course, the game still rocks on 8-bit hardware.
From Randall Frank Announcing the general release of DIAFLW, an ‘adventure’ game for the Apple II. This is a game we wrote in 1986 and had been talking with SoftDisk magazine about publishing. College intervened and it sat on 5.25 media until 2024 when I found the original source code. It was refactored to cross-build on Windows/Linux and all the…
Client Release 2.06 – https://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/Applesauce_206.zip Added support for Hewlett-Packard 9885/9895 disk format, HP file system, as well as the HPI image format., More support for Amstrad CPC disks., Additional CP/M definitions for NEC PC-8001, DEC Rainbow, and Amstrad., Improvements to detecting clocked data in unusual formats., More tweaks to the NorthStar DOS support., Fix the loading of IMD files that…
The Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS has been updated. This update brings the latest release in line with the 0.282 release of the MAME emulator. A custom version of MAME is included in Ample. The custom MAME build focuses on Apple II/Macintosh emulators but also includes a handful of other 8/16-bit home computers (BBC, Tandy, etc). There are also…
Two new movies have been added to the Take-1 Movie Library, an A.P.P.L.E. produced repository of Take-1 related programs, utilities and animated movies. The two new movies come to us courtesy of one of the creators of the Karateka III movie, Andy Cooper. The two new movies, Road Warriors of the Barren Wasteland and Space Bounty Hunter, are a fun…
The first beta for Apple II Desktop version 1.5 has been released. This release officially moves the version 1.5 release from slphs to beta and includes well over 100 changes to the application. Made for the Apple IIe and Apple IIc, Apple II Desktop gives retro Apple users a fully qualified graphical interface for their machines. Originally created in 1986,…
Over the past several months, work has been going on behind the scenes in a big way with a complete update of the GBBS Pro Website. Spearheding this effort has been none other than Paul H. Lee. Yes, that Paul Lee, the programmer who brought you GBBS Pro version 2.4 as well as the latest updates and efforts in the…
After two months of announcing at Kansasfest and then having to reset and edit some more good stuff in the GS+ Magazine issues, we can now say, they are all available. Every one of the issues have been restored, re-typeset and graphics enhanced. The 37 issues of the GS+ Magazine collection, along with all of the floppy disk images for…
The Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange users group is proud to announce, in coordination with copyright holder Kevin M. Smallwood, the immediate availability of the GBBS Pro Newsletters from the L&L Productions days. These newsletters were intended for the sysops and GBBS Pro owners around the world. Now, for the first time, they are freely downloadable by the general public….
