Category: Apple II

Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club January 2025 Meeting

Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club January 2025 Meeting

For those of our retro friends north of the border, the Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club has announced their first meeting of 2025. The announced meeting will be on the 16th of January from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the Chilliwack Cowork at 12-8465 Harvard Place, Chilliwack, BC, Canada, British Columbia. The Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club generally meets the 3rd Thursday of each month…

Crossrunner Apple II GS Emulator Updated

Crossrunner Apple II GS Emulator Updated

Ian Brumby has announced the release of the latest version of the Crossrunner Apple II GS Developer Environment for Windows. Cross Runner version 1.1 includes a host of fixes and changes including: Fixed: Accumulator in the History array not matching machine state Fixed: Case sensitivity issue with Add Title searches Fixed: Errors on download and subsequent infinite error messages Fixed:…

Star Fury version 1.2 for the Apple II Released

Star Fury version 1.2 for the Apple II Released

The latest version of the game Star Fury for the Apple II has been released. Star Fury version 1.2 includes some changes to the stages of the game and how it handles the ending of main stage challenges. Star Fury is a high speed arcade style game for the Apple II by Brazilian game author, Raphael Rezende. His latest game…

Ample 0.273 Released

Ample 0.273 Released

Kelvin Sherlock has announced the immediate release of the latest version of the Ample Graphical Interface for MAME on Mac OS. This latest version includes addition Mac support as well as some updates on the Apple II series side. IMPORTANT: Apple IIgs roms need to be updated. Apple //e, and //c roms should be updated.(//e and //c added international version,…

New DHGR RGB Conversion for Plasma

New DHGR RGB Conversion for Plasma

David Schmenk has released a new 32mb Disk image of DHGR RGB conversion samples within Plasma for the Apple II series computers and Emulators. According to his posting: For those wanting to play with DHGR RGB conversions at home, I’ve made a disk image (32 MB!) of PLASMA and sample images for you to convert. I’ve also documented the process…

Happy New Year 2025

Happy New Year 2025

Happy New Year to all of our members and readers. We wish you and yours the best of the new year and all that it will bring. A.P.P.L.E. Staff

Million Perfect Letters for the Apple II Updated

Million Perfect Letters for the Apple II Updated

A2_4am has updated his Apple II game, Million Perfect Letters. The latest version, Million Perfect Letters Version 1.2, has version 1.2, simplifies disk access and compresses some files on disk. Actual gameplay is unchanged from the previous version and according to the posting, this version matches the version included in A2_4am’s Total Replay Apple II compilation library. According to the game…

Card Cat version 1.7 for the Apple II

Card Cat version 1.7 for the Apple II

Henry Lowe has announced the release of the latest version of his Card Cat Apple II card identification program. Card Cat 1.7 includes a host of additional cards in the catalog including the following: Improves detection of RAM cards installed in Slot 0 or the Auxiliary Slot. Detects Garret’s Workshop RAM2E Card revisions in Auxiliary slot on Apple IIe. Detects…

Matrix comes to the Apple II

Matrix comes to the Apple II

Wayne Goldsmith has produced a new version of the proverbial Matrix screen for the Apple II computer. Using standard ascii text, this little Apple II program will produce an effect to that seen in the Matrix Movies. 10 REM MATRIX V1.01 20 REM WAYNE GOLDSMITH 2023 25 REM 80 COL MODE:PRINT CHR$(4)”PR#3″ 30 HOME 31 DIM CHAR(84) 32 FOR I…

VCF East Exhibitor Registration Opens

VCF East Exhibitor Registration Opens

VCF East 2025 Exhibitor Registration is open: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSedyn…/viewform… The show will be April 4-6 in Wall, NJ @ InfoAge Science and History Museums Check the web page for updates over the next few weeks https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/