Category: Apple II
The 2024 rendition of the FAPPLE2 Fest was held yesterday with 11 people showing up for the annual event in Kawasaki, Japan. The FAPPLE2 Fest is the annual get together of the Japanese Apple II hobbyists, originating from the 1980’s and is held each year at the home of one of the members, Atsushi Ushiroda. This years event included 11…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. Release notes from Applesauce FDC creator, John Morris stated: Client Release 1.88.5 – https://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/Applesauce_1885.zip Fix to CP/M support for disks that need a masked extent number for record count calculations. Improved disk layout when loading IBM-sectored disks that contain a lot of sectors on each track. macOS 14.2 and higher was incompatible…
Big Mess O Wires (BMOW) has announced the availability of the Mac Sync-inator, a sync signal converter dongle for the Apple IIgs and Macintosh. According to the website, “The Mac Sync-inator supports all classic Macintosh computers and video cards with a standard DB-15 monitor connector, and is also compatible with the Apple IIgs (a 15 kHz monitor is also needed for the…
Colin Leroy-Mira has announced the availability of the latest version of his WOZAMP Video and Audio player for the Apple II series computer. “I’m happy to say I’ve released Wozamp version 2.3 at https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/wozamp-an-apple-ii-music-and-video-player/You may notice that the page’s title is now “a music and video player” Please find attached to this message’s replies a few examples!”
From our friend of the program, curator of the Free Tools Association (FTA) and creator of the ActiveGS Plugin and iOS app emulator – Back in 2011, I published my first iPhone app as a tribute to my Apple 2GS/FTA days. It was both a challenging journey to develop for iPhone 3GS/4 and iOS 3.2 back then, but also the…
Jeff Mazur has announce the immediate release of the updated Firmware 1.2.0 for all ROMX* (ROMX+, ROMXe, ROMXc, and ROMXc+) which is now up at https://theromexchange.com/utilities/romxce Also, images for instant load ProDOS 2.4.3. https://theromexchange.com/rom_images/romxce theromexchange.com ROMXc ROMXc+ ROMXe ROMX+ | ROMX ROMX – The ultimate ROM replacement for your Apple ][! theromexchange.comROMXc ROMXc+ ROMXe ROMX+ | ROMXROMX – The ultimate ROM replacement…
Fredrick Ramsberg announced the release of The Airlock Collection of text adventures created with the Puny Inform and PuddleBuild tools. The collection of adventures is available for a number of computing platforms including those shown in the sections below. This collection is available for free and according to the announcement and website: The Airlock Collection Welcome to hours of fun…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated. Applewin 1.30.18, curated by Tom Charlesworth, was released with a number of changes and bug fixes including the following: [Change #1272] New HDC firmware v2 to support returning HDD size in Y:X for status call. [@peteri] [Change #1277] Add (debug) cmd line switch to revert to HDC firmware v1: -hdc-firmware-v1….
From the Kansasfest Committee: While the evenings and nights of KansasFest are renowned for their spontaneity, the mornings and afternoons are reserved for sessions spanning a variety of uses, extensions, and applications of the Apple II family. Similarly, the virtual event features a variety of topics ranging from Apple II artwork to hooking your retro computer up to the internet. Just…
For those of you following the Apple II Desktop project, the latest alpha release is now available. The changes in the latest version of Apple II Desktop, version 1.4 alpha 8 includes a slew of changes including the following: Changes relative to previous v1.4 alpha: DeskTop Fix corruption when exiting Shortcuts dialogs with a list view window. (#790) Reorder columns…
