Category: Apple II
Silverwand Software has released the ninth and final issue of Script-Central Special Edition. This issue includes many new stacks, many updated stacks, fonts, many utilities and tools, and even Macintosh versions of several stacks. SCSE v9n4 floor plan Highlights of this issue include: HyperMover GS v1.2 – a new version of HyperMover by Brendan Bellina that includes the improvements from…
Seattle, Washington — November 27, 2024 — Thanks to the tireless workings of Paul H. Lee, Henry Pedro, Brian Wiser, and Bill Martens, the popular Bulletin Board System, GBBS Pro, has received a significant update to version 2.4 – both the software and the expanded physical manual that accompanies it with an additional 30 pages, totaling over 410 pages. GBBS…
Adventure is often considered to be the very first text adventure. It was written in 1975-76 by Will Crowther. Don Woods found it at his university, asked Will Crowter for the source code, expanded it greatly, and released his own version, which we now know as 350p Adventure. Adventure was sometimes called Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes it was just called…
User Group Membership Joining our User Group has many benefits, such as our new full-color Call-A.P.P.LE. magazine that is usually around 50 pages with lots of photos, technical articles, reviews, and interviews with legends of the industry. You also have access to all previous issues published back to 1978. Additionally, the Apple User Group Bulletin we share has discounts on…
Gerard Putter, the curator of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator project has announced the release of a bug fix release of the Emulator. This release fixes two items that were at hand: The program “MouseWord” failed to load; this has been fixed. Corrected a mistake that caused cassette tape files not being recognized anymore in version 12.1. This release…
In this episode of the RetroMacCast, James and John discuss their latest eBay finds including the following items: 1984 Apple Macintosh Picasso poster Macinosh SE motherboard Apple “The Personal Computer” wooden box John also takes a few minutes to show off his MacRecorder. Some of the News Items in this episode include the Mac IIvx, Apple Twiggy Macintosh auction, and…
The PunyInform Library has been updated. Puny Inform 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 for writing text adventures. Maintained…
Over the past 15 years, Daniele Liverani has been working on a series of Apple II based arcade games titled GENIUS. The games, now numbering three (GENIUS 1-3) are on their 20th and most likely according to the author, the final release of the games. Originally taken on as a challenge to learn a bit of 8-bit programming, Liverani who…
Brutal deluxe Software has announce the release of MountIt version 1,6 for the Apple II GS. MountIt allows users of the Apple II to mount disk image files directly under GS/OS, just like another volume. MountIt 1.6 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from 32KB to the…
Joshua Bell has released the first alpha version of Apple II Desktop Version 1.5. Apple II Desktop, previously known as MouseDesk includes a number of new features and is available in 9 langauages. This release includes a number of new features and fixes including the following: General Correctly exit 80-column firmware when exiting. Option “Copy to RAMCard” now defaults to…
