Category: Apple II
A Monumental Celebration of the Garage-Born Vision That Transformed Humanity’s Relationship with Technology, Creativity, and Connection Tomorrow, April 1, 2026, marks the exact 50th anniversary of Apple Inc.’s founding. On that historic day in 1976, in a modest Los Altos garage, three unlikely partners—Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne—inked a simple partnership agreement that would ignite one of…
CiderPress II, the command line version of the popular Apple II and retro Macintosh disk image utility by Andy McFadden has been updated. Version 1.2 of CiderPress II includes a bevy of updates and changes including the following items:: Fixed handling of mildly malformed ProDOS volumes (#70). Added support for MOOF disk images (#71). Added BinSCII decoder to command-line tool….
From Jawaid Bazyar: I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.7.2. GSSquared is an Apple II series computer emulator. Supported platforms are: Apple ][ Apple ][ Plus Apple //e Apple //e Enhanced Apple //e Enhanced with 65816 CPU and Super Hires Video Apple IIgs ROM 01 Pre-built binaries available for: MacOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) Windows 10+ Linux…
Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: New faster database model Faster ROM Viewing Several new cards added to the database Recognizes Laser Clones Available in .dsk and .po formats The author wishes to express hi thanks to all those…
William Winter has released a new Adventure creation studio which produces Apple II adventures in the form of ready disks and Applesoft BASIC programs as well as other formats: Here is the announcement posted by William: “Hi everyone, I’m a little nervous posting this because it’s the first larger project I’ve put out into the world, but I thought the…
The PunyInform Library for writing 8-bit adventures has been updated. This is a major bug fix version with a number of fixes and changes including the following items: Bugfixes: Statusline code couldn’t compile with certain combinations of constants defined. If an input word wasn’t recognized, _ParseNounPhrase would still check if it had the noun flag, i.e. it would look at…
New Web-Based Utility Brings Classic Z-Machine Text Adventures to Authentic 5.25″ Floppy Images for Apple II Hardware and Emulators The A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) Users Group, is pleased to announce the immediate launch of the Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator (InfocomGen), a free online tool that instantly converts Z-machine story files into bootable 5.25″ Apple II disk…
Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest update to the Ample Mac OS MAME Emulation Interface. Version 0.286 brings the following updates and changes to the Ample emulation interface: include MAME 0.286 MAME (and I) switched from SDL2 to SDL3. Added some missing roms to the rom list. Added experimental A2retroNET support. A2retroNET is a Super Serial Card that also supports 8 prodos/smartport disk…
Dale Eugene LaFrenz (September 21, 1937 – February 25, 2026) was a visionary mathematics educator, early adopter of computers in the classroom, and the driving force behind the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). As a teacher-turned-executive, he transformed MECC from a state-funded consortium into a powerhouse that delivered computer access to nearly every Minnesota schoolchild and popularized landmark educational software…
Finally, there is a daisy-chainable smartport MicroSD hard drive that lets Apple II users have their cake (and Floppies) too. In the Apple retro computing realm, few frustrations run deeper than the eternal trade-off on an Apple IIc: massive storage or your trusty floppy drives? You always had to pick one, that is until now. Entering into the fray is…
