Category: Apple II
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…
Kelvin Sherlock, creator of the Ample GraphicalUser Interface for the MAME emulator, has released a new version of the interface. Release 56 of Ample brings the interface in line with the 0.264 release of MAME and includes a host of fuxes and changes including the following: Ample Changes Added some ORIC and TRS COCO machines. ORIC used 3″ floppies but…
This little two line program from Lee Fastenau is sure to give your Apple II computer a bit of a complex and as he said, an Identity Crisis. 0A$=”2D40D030F0602@209010@0109010@0109010@010B0103020203010B0103020203010<010707010<010707010<0106170109010@010?01040305010<0105360109010@0109010@010602@2030F030F030F030F09011952030F030F030F030F01F40D040D040D01F”:P=1:HGR2 1HCOLOR=6:HPLOT0,0:CALL-3082:FORY=31TO62:C=4:I=ASC(MID$(A$,P,1))-48:J=INT(I/3):X=114+(I-J*3)*2:FORM=PTOP+J*2:HCOLOR=C:C=11-C:S=2*(ASC(MID$(A$,M+1,1))-47):HPLOTX,Y*2TOX+S-1,Y*2:HPLOTX,Y*2+1TOX+S-1,Y*2+1:X=X+S:P=P+1:NEXT:P=P+1:NEXT
From: Bob Giddings I think I have worked on this enough. Here is my command line demo called CLEAR. Included with a few commands. It is mostly meant for 80-cols, some commands won’t display properly in 40-cols. Although most of the commands will work on a II+. The most powerful command is included. The ALIAS command will let you make…
From Henry Lowe: RAMWerks 2 is now available for testing. In addition to testing RAMWorks-compatible Apple II memory cards, this new version also tests RAMFactor, Apple Memory Expansion (‘Slinky’) and Saturn compatible RAM cards (with some limitations – see web page). RAMWerks now runs on all Apple II computers and supports 40 or 80 column displays. You can download a…
From Antoine Vignau: Watch the six double-sided eduware laserdiscs for the Apple IIgs @ https://www.youtube.com/playlist… This ScienceVision series was directed by Professor George Dawson in 1992, and was published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
from Michel Pollet: MII Apple II Emulator version 1,8 has been released. The latest version of the MII emulator is available from the Github page at: https://github.com/buserror/mii_emu 1.8 Change Log: Changed the floppy disk view. It now rotates, and the heat map is now a ‘trail’ of the head, showing where it’s been. It’s a bit more useful, and looks cooler….
