Category: Apple II
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…
DOSource 3.3 by Randy Hyde is a disassembled listing of DOS 3.3 for the Apple II computer with comments created by studying the disassembled code. While the code was first released in 1981 on disk by Lazer Micro Systems, and later by A.P.P.L.E. in 2002 on CD, this is the first time Randy’s commented disassembled listing is available as a…
From the author, David Schmenk: PLasma Enhanced InterActive Development EnvironmentS After a long gestation period, PLASMA has been reborn as PLEIADES with many new features, enhancements and bug fixes. TLDR; Check out the video: https://youtu.be/nrCwYxA_N_E From the GitHub project page: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA PLASMA has grown from a language compiler to a full featured interactive environment for developing and running applications. With…
The KEGS Apple II GS emulator has been updated to version 1.38. This release includes the binaries for Linux, Mac OS X 10.13 and newer as well as the Windows 10 binaries. Some of the changes in this latest release of KEGS include: Improve serial port handling so BBS’es like GBBS and Warp6 run. Fix a crash reported by Tom…
A new old game is coming to the Apple II soon: a port of the famous Shufflepuck Cafe. It has been challenging to program, so having some feedback before an official release would be reassuring! The details of the game requirements, indications about the kind of feedback I hope to get, and of course the floppy image, are available on…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced a fix for the Adventure game “Mystery of Kikekankoi”, in which one command within the game would not work. According to the post by the developer of the Apple II version, Antoine Vignau: One could not CUT ADHESIVE on the boat of “The Mystery of Kikekankoi”. Now, one can UNGLUE TAPE and get the key….
Over the past several weeks, Thomas Cherryhomes has been taking on a project of reverse engineering the FROB development platform for the Atari 2600. The FROB development platform allows Apple II users to develop software for the Atari 2600 through the use of the FROB card. As the owner of the only FROB known to exist currently, Thomas has spent…
