Category: Apple II

350p Adventure Release 8 Now Available

350p Adventure Release 8 Now Available

From Fredrik Ramsberg: I have released a new version of 350p Adventure, AKA Colossal Cave Adventure, AKA Advent. It has another exploit removed, and it’s faster than before. Get it today at: https://microheaven.com/advent/ The Game download includes builds for a number of platforms including the following: Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, C128, Plus/4, Amiga MEGA65 Commander X16 Spectrum +3, 128K, Next…

New Retro Graphics Tool

New Retro Graphics Tool

Hideaki Seike has announce that he has a new graphics converstion website tool that allows users to create a variety of retro images for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other platforms. The tool takes the original image and converts it one of four different variants or the Apple II: HGR, DHGR, Lo-Res and Double Lo-Res graphics. The converter also…

Applewin v1 31.0.3 beta released

Applewin v1 31.0.3 beta released

The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator is now available. Applewin v1 31.0.3 includes a reworked configuration graphical interface and is the 2nd beta release with this new GUI.. Change in the Tom Charlesworth led Applewin project are as follows: [Change #853] Improve the Configuration GUI: Rename Disk II, RamWorks III, Hard Disk Controller & Z80 SoftCard. Disk…

Apple II Desktop V.1.6 alpha 2 Released

Apple II Desktop V.1.6 alpha 2 Released

Joshua Bell has released the latest alpha of the Apple II Desktop. Version 1.6 alpha 2 contains a host of improvements over the first alpha of the Apple II Desktop. These include the following items: General Fix checkbox label padding. Fix file picker behavior with more than 127 files. DeskTop Adjust order of startup operations to make icons appear faster….

Ample MAME Interface 0.287 Released

Ample MAME Interface 0.287 Released

The 80th release of the Ample Interface for macOS brings the emulation interface with MAME 0.287. This update includes one additional ROM for the Ample interface. Also, be sure to re-download all of your Apple II related ROMs as they were updated in 0.286. The Ample MAME Interface can be downloaded from the GitHub page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample

Plaid Vest Software Announces NewPrint Multi 2.0

Plaid Vest Software Announces NewPrint Multi 2.0

Plaid Vest Software has announced the latest version of their NewPrint emulation card for the Apple II, TRS-80 and standard Centronics. The NewPrint/Multi allows users to emulation true MX-80 printing on their retro computer platform, allowing the user to print to any device that supports a web browser. The Apple II compatibility supports all of the Apple II series and…

Apple Inc. at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different

Apple Inc. at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different

A Monumental Celebration of the Garage-Born Vision That Transformed Humanity’s Relationship with Technology, Creativity, and Connection   Tomorrow, April 1, 2026, marks the exact 50th anniversary of Apple Inc.’s founding. On that historic day in 1976, in a modest Los Altos garage, three unlikely partners—Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne—inked a simple partnership agreement that would ignite one of…

CiderPress II version 1.2 Released

CiderPress II version 1.2 Released

CiderPress II, the command line version of the popular Apple II and retro Macintosh disk image utility by Andy McFadden has been updated. Version 1.2 of CiderPress II includes a bevy of updates and changes including the following items:: Fixed handling of mildly malformed ProDOS volumes (#70). Added support for MOOF disk images (#71). Added BinSCII decoder to command-line tool….

GSSquared v.0.72 released

GSSquared v.0.72 released

From Jawaid Bazyar: I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.7.2. GSSquared is an Apple II series computer emulator. Supported platforms are: Apple ][ Apple ][ Plus Apple //e Apple //e Enhanced Apple //e Enhanced with 65816 CPU and Super Hires Video Apple IIgs ROM 01 Pre-built binaries available for: MacOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) Windows 10+ Linux…

Card Cat Version 1.93 for the Apple II Released

Card Cat Version 1.93 for the Apple II Released

Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: New faster database model Faster ROM Viewing Several new cards added to the database Recognizes Laser Clones Available in .dsk and .po formats The author wishes to express hi thanks to all those…