Category: Apple II
Ralle Pa has announced the availability of the new A2DVI v.4.4 card for the Apple II. This new version of the A2DVI card comes with 5 selectable firmwares pre-loaded: A2DVI (default) Z80 emulator AppleMouse (PAL) AppleMouse (NTSC) 2xFDD emulator (Apple IIe) You can purchase the card on the A2DVI store at https://apple2.co.uk/Products
The PunyInform adventure game programming library has been updated to version 5.14. PunyInform is a library written in Inform 6 which allows authors to create text adventure games / interactive fiction using the Z-machine virtual machine, to be played on 8-bit computers as well as newer platforms. It provides a parser, implementations of common verbs, as well as a framework…
Stefan Wessels has announced the immediate availability of his new RetroMate frontend for the Apple II computer. According to the release on Slack: Here’s the first beta release of RetroMate. RetroMate is a front-end for the Free Internet Chess Server. It requires an IP65 network interface (Uthernet II in AppleWin works great). The source is not yet available, but will…
For those users who are using the latest version of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator, you will want to download the Virtual II version 13.0.1 update. This release is a single problem focused minor update. Last week a user reported that printing on the Imagewriter was broken in version 13.0. The update fixes this issue. You can download the…
35 years later, the great Shufflepuck Cafe game is, finally, available on the 8 bits Apple II line of computers. The splash screen Download: the Shufflepuck Cafe floppy image the game manual Requirements: An Apple ][+ or more recent, with 64kB of RAM or more. A mouse (and MouseCard on ][+ and IIe, in any slot but slot 3). Optionally,…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.30 release 21.0 includes a ton of changes, code refactoring and updates. Many of the updates included in this version are from Applewin contributors Audetto and Jamila’s. Updates items in this release of Applewin include: [Change #1363] Right-click Disk Drive buttons QoL features to manage new disk images. Support creation of new…
The latest version of the Virtual II Apple II emulator for Mac OS has been released. Virtual II version 13.0 includes a slew of changes and updates including the following items: The Super Serial Card can now send and receive data through a TCP connection. The serial TCP connection is fully compatible with the “tcpser” virtual modem. Added the option…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of BenchmarkeD for the Apple IIGS computer. BenchmarkeD is a benchmark utility for the Apple IIgs. It allows you to calculate an average throughput in reading and writing files and sequential disk blocks of your ProDOS volumes. BenchmarkeD version 1.1 does a condensed version of the benchmarks which…
Jawaid Bayzar, famous for the Apple IIgs Second Sight card, has been working on a new Apple IIgs Emulator for the past several months. He has just released the latest update of his work. GSSquared 0.3.0 is now available on Jawaid’s github page. According to the press release with the emulator: The video display now offers three modes: NTSC (default),…
Exploring Business BASIC contains all 23 articles on Apple III Business BASIC as written by Taylor Pohlman for Softalk magazine, including every program developed for use with those articles. They were written at the behest of Margot Comstock and exist because of her encouragement. Demonstrating a number of features and capabilities of the Apple III computer, this book will benefit…
