Category: Apple II
Vince Weaver was already news here on ViTNO when he showed us the excellent Myst demake for the Apple II using double lores graphics. Now he has done again, releasing an impressive proof of concept of The Secret of Monkey Island running on the same Apple II computers. It all started when Vince decided to play the Secret of Monkey…
The excellent Vintage Computing & Gaming website one day decided to ask Steve Wozniak, via email, why the Apple II didn’t have support for lowercase letters and for Benj Edwards’ surprise, Woz answered with a very long and detailed explanation, which in my opinion is now an interesting bit of the computer history. We know for example, that the TRS-80…
The Nibble Magazine website is the place where you can buy the full collection of the Nibble Magazine and other publications. After his creator, Mike Harvey had died last year, the website went dark but after many months of work, his son Scott Harvey brought it back, revamped and offering not only the Apple II magazine but also other publications…
The mysterious Apple II hacker and software preservationist 4AM has announced via his Twitter account that a new pre-release version alpha 4 of the upcoming Total Replay v4.0 is available now on Internet Archive. This new version fixes some issues found in alpha 3, like the use of a CFFA3000 on IIgs and VidHD on IIe. It also adds more…
The Crow Cousins (Daniel Henderson and Roby Sherman) have released a new graphic adventure for the Apple II, featuring beautiful low-resolution graphics using the double lowers mode of the Apple II. Murder Manor follows a similar plot and gameplay of a Clue game where you have to walk around, going to different places of the Screenhole Manor, interacting with objects…
During the ongoing KansasFest 2020 “online edition”, one of the most surprising presentations was the demake of MYST for the Apple II! If porting down MYST for the Apple II is a feat by itself, imagine if it was done using only low-resolution graphics? That is what Vince “DEATER” Weaver decided to do. A seasoned 6502 programmer, Deater had made…
Starting from the //e enhanced, the Apple II featured a double LORES mode with 80 x 48 pixels in 16 colours. Although still blocky, the smaller pixels and full access to 16 colours brought new graphics capabilities for the Apple II. The only problem was that BASIC programmers didn’t have available easy-to-use commands to access this mode and with sparse documentation and complex implementation…
A month ago I published on YouTube a video showing my vintage computer collection from when I was living in my old place (the video was shot in Nov/Dec 2019) and my main point when posting it was to raise the discussion about the differences to be a collector or simply accumulating old computers just for the sake of it….
Manic Miner, one of the best-sellers games released for the ZX Spectrum, has been ported for the Apple II, and the source code is available on Github. I’ve reached out to the author, “StewBC”, and he was kind enough to answer my questions and more! Stefan Wessels, a fellow Canadian living in British Columbia, first saw Manic Miner at a…
The traditional Apple II enthusiasts summer camp is following the trend and moving the event to the virtual world. Although the event happens in July, the organizers rightfully decided to cancel the face-to-face gathering due to the current pandemic. Initially it was hoped that the world and national situation would be sufficiently improved by July that we could proceed as…
