Category: Apple II

Dagen Brock has announced the initial release of his homegrown MiniDisplayTester app for the Apple II. Version 1.0 of the program is available for download in both 5.25 inch floppy disk image as well as a 3.5 inch floppy disk image in .2mg format. According to the GitHub page: This is a program for Apple II computers to test various…

Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe software has announce that the Apple II cassette archive project has reached a total of 727 cassettes for the Apple II computer having been identified and archived. Started in 2011, the project has a stated goal of identifying and archiving all cassette based software for the Apple II computer. This project has progressed mostly in…

From Jawaid Bayzar:I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.3.5. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes code reorganization geared towards putting in place all the pieces needed to support launching multiple Apple II hardware types from one instance of GSSquared. Development of a flexible MMU (memory management unit) concept to handle memory mapping duties When starting, there is…

Back in 2005, Steve Jobs gave one of the most iconic commencement speeches ever and now we know what went into the speech. The Steve Jobs Archive has released the emails that Steve sent to himself in order to create the speech. 8 emails include an outline of the speech as well as the individual pieces of the speech. The…

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…