Category: Apple II

Brutal Deluxe Software in coordination with Daniel Henderson has announced CD IIe – A CD-Audio player for the 8-bit Apple IIs. The program requires a SCSI High-Speed DMA card to be installed in the Apple II and a SCSI-2 type CD-ROM drive such as the Apple CD300. You can download the latest version of the player on a standard 5.25…

From David Schmenk: Development of the Double Color Graphics Toolkit for PLASMA is pretty much done. I didn’t complete in time for the Zoom meeting, but I hope to show it off at the next one! Time to start documenting the API and tools, but here it is in action:

Daniel Henderson of 8-Bit Shack fame has released his latest work for Halloween 2024 – The Shining – A double low resolution graphics demo disk for the Apple II computer. You can download the disk image here Halloween2024.poDownload

The Clock Signal Emulator (“CLK”) has been updated. The CLK emulator for Mac OS and curated by Thomas Harte includes clock accurate emulation for a number of retro computing platforms. The latest version of CLK includes the following changes: adds support for the Oric vsync hardware hack, and also corrects the Oric’s 60Hz frame length better to support software vsync;…

Have you ever wondered what went into the music for the Origin Systems produced, Richard Garriott designed game Ultima III? Well, wonder no more. Music YouTuber David Youd has produced the ultimate run-through of the Ultima III music in a format that not only shows the details of the voices but also the musical notation of the game songs themselves.

Version 12.0 of the Virtual II Apple II Emulator has been released. Included in the release are the following updates: Virtual ][ now requires macOS 12.0 (Monterey) or better. Virtual ][ 11.4 remains available for download to run on macOS 10.13 up to 11.0, but is no longer actively supported. Generating a movie of the Apple II screen did not work correctly in macOS 15…

There are Fifty ( yes 50 ! ) new archived Apple II cassettes, kindly on loan to the Apple II Cassette Collection from Ian B. This includes programs, textbooks, and photos, all of which are now available @ https://brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/. Aladdin Personal Program – Stix Aladdin Personal Program – Tic Tac Toe Apple Computer – A2T0004X – Applesoft II (OK) &…

Ian Bell, author of the popular BBC Computer game Elite published by Acornsoft, has announced the release of the source code for a myriad of computing platforms including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and the NES versions of the game. According to the release text on the Elite website, “Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40th anniversary of the day the…

Andy Mcfadden has released the latest version of the CiderPress II app. This is a command line version of the CiderPress app for managing Apple II series disk images and runs on most platforms. Included in this latest release of the software are the following changes and updates: Added Fontrix font converter (#14, by @markdavidlong). Updated “set-attr” CLI command to allow…

This is the RAMX128K RAM Card from JDMicro.com and designed by Dean Claxton and Jeff Mazur. These cards are being sold by ReativeMicro. The RAMX128K is a plug-in RAM card designed to provide an extra 128KB of RAM for Apple II and Apple II+ computers. It is fully compatible and can replace other 16K RAM cards in slot 0. Saturn…