Category: Apple II
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…
The A2kit version 4.1 is released. A2kit is an open source, script-able command line interface for disk image and language manipulations, and the engine behind a number of editor extensions for Apple II languages. This update adds a “smart copy” command that allows you to shuttle files between disk images and normal storage with less typing and less thinking. It…
Henry Lowe has announced the latest version of his Card Cat application. Card Cat identifies cards in the slots of Apple II series machines and can accurately identify over 100 different Apple II series specific cards. The latest version of Card Cat includes the following changes and updates: Several new cards added to database ESP32 SoftCard detection Improved detection of…
Henry Lowe has announced the latest version of his Card Cat application. Card Cat identifies cards in the slots of Apple II series machines and can accurately identify over 100 different Apple II series specific cards. The latest version of Card Cat includes the following changes and updates: Several new cards added to database ESP32 SoftCard detection Improved detection of…
Emmanuel Castello has announced the availability of a playable demo version of his Ultima style game, Andoria. According to his post, “Hello everyone from the A2SE group. After years of videos and pictures, I am happy to share the first Demo Version of my Ultima RPG Game, Andoria. https://andoria.neocities.org On this link you will find a quick introduction of the…
