Category: Apple II

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…

From Fenarinarsa: It’s a 10 years anniversary megademo/demopack with 30+ minutes of our previous demos patched to run on both IIe and IIc. The requirements are high though: PAL IIe/IIc with 128kB of RAM, Mockingboard, 800kB Unidisk drive or smartport block device emulator (like the Floppy Emu). It works perfectly under AppleWin or Emu6502, through their hard drive emulation. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4apr_G3Tbw…

Lebanon, NH – Thomas Eugene Kurtz, whose pioneering work in computer science made programming accessible to the masses through the development of the BASIC programming language, died on November 12, 2024, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was 96 years old. Along side the venerable John Kemeney, Kurtz worked tirelessly at Dartmouth College to bring programming to the masses, even working…

The new Crucible v2.0 beta app for newer MacOS has been released and is available to download for free from the Infinity Products store page. Additional features include: -ROM file creation can be done in 4 splits, 2 splits and single files. -In split mode, you can choose between 4 splits and 2 splits. This is for dividing into Lo…

In a Twitter (X) announcement this week, Corey Cohen, curator of the current Apple-1 Registry announced the addition of another Apple-1 Computer. According to the posting by @Apple1Registry : https://apple1registry.com/en/105.html#Apple1 The Apple-1 Registry was originally created by Mike Willegal as a way of keeping track of where the original Apple-1 computers were or of their existence.   At the time…