Category: Apple II
The Ample MAME interface for Mac OS has been updated. Ample version 0.280 marks the 72nd release of the Ample MAME Interface brings the interface in line with the latest release of MAME and includes two new ROMs which can be downloaded within the interface. Also, this release of Ample now requires a minimum of MacOS 10.14 or newer. To…
The 350 Point version of the classic text adventure game, ADVENTURE is now available on more than 32 different retro computing machines including the latest version for the Mega 65. The game is sometimes called Advent, because the system it was created on in the 70s would not allow filenames to be more than six characters long. This game is…
The Vera Cruz Affair is coming to your Apple IIgs in English and French. This first game by Gilles Blancon was published by Infogrames in 1985 and was a hit on the Amstrad CPC and many other machines of the time. Discover and download @ https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/affaireveracruz/ Who killed Vera Cruz? And why?
From our friends David Greelish and Randy Kindig The NEW audiobook chapters of “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer: From Altair to IBM, A History of the PC Revolution.”By Stan Veit, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, “Computer Shopper”Read by Randy Kindig & David Greelish “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer” audiobook, chapters 1-9: https://classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_Veit.htmlRemembering Stan Veit: https://classiccomputing.com/Classic_Computing/Blog/Entries/2010/9/3_Remembering_Stan_Veit.htmlDownload Stan’s book in a…
I’ve reached a point where I feel confident to release – Mastodon, Wozamp, Quicktake, and assorted utilities all get DHGR support in this release! https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases/tag/v24.0.1This release also contain the multiple-weeks effort that lead to halving the JPEG decoding time for QT200 photos, and a bit more little things.
The Sydney Affair is coming to your Apple IIgs in English and French versions. This game by Gilles Blancon was published by Infogrames in 1986. Discover and download it @ https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/affairesydney/ Can you find the culprit of Mr. Sydney’s murder?
Philip Lord has introduced a version of Pac-Man in AppleSoft BASIC. The game is a text based version of the popular arcade game. While this may excite many Apple II fans, this game at the moment is only for emulators as it is absolutely too slow to run on a normal Apple II at 1 MHZ. However, the game does…
From Nicholas Bernhard, @nantucketlit@mastodon.social For any #AppleII fans out there, I’ve been working on my very first game. It’s called Catching Snowflakes. https://codeberg.org/nantucketlit/snowflakes You play as Billy Bigfeet, and the goal is to catch as many falling snowflakes as you can. The game is playable using an Apple II emulator. I’m using a #freesoftware license.
Some highlights:PunyInform v6.0 is out! Some highlights: Requires the Inform v6.43 compiler. Uses Grammar Version 3, which can save hundreds of bytes in a typical full-sized game compared to Grammar Version 2, which PunyInform always used until now. Supports setting meta flag on individual actions. You can have the library automatically pick the right key for LOCK/UNLOCK. You can easily…
The Ample graphical interface for the MAME emulation platform has been updated. Ample is as the author, Kelvin Sherlock puts it, “A slightly more user-friendly front-end for using MAME as an emulator.” This update includes Includes the MAME 0.279 compatibility. Also this version now requires MacOS 10.14 or later. Ample now includes emulation for the Apple 1, II and III…
