Category: Apple II
ArsTechnica has posted a video where Jordan Mechner talks about the development of his most successful game, Prince of Persia. In the 20-minute video, he shows some interesting bits of the development process when he was a college student, including the famous technique to design the human-like animation for Karateka and Prince of Persia and tricks used to make Prince…
ReactiveMicro announces the availability of new Apple II Plus, Rev 7 motherboards. The new board is meant to replace existing Apple II/Plus with a modern version built with high-quality parts and sockets while keeping the same look as the original one, preserving the “retro” side of your machine. The boards are sold fully assembled for US$ 299 or as a…
It was released a few weeks ago a new episode of the Apple Time Warp podcast, a show hosted by John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom… you know him) and Craig Johnston. The podcast has a sparse schedule, with only eight episodes published in the last 6 years. This year, however, they managed to release two episodes, and with very prominent…
As a retro computer collector, I know (as my wife!) that space is the most concerning aspect when you get your hands on computers like the PET, the TRS-80 Model III and many other big and bulky ones. Thanks, ZX-81 to keep the footprint small! If you also face that challenge, maybe you would be happy to have a smaller…
As they say: “It is never too late to start learning”. If you believe that and is a happy owner of a TRS-80 CoCo, you are lucky! The Oregon Trail is being ported to the CoCo! Early today, Paul Shoemaker posted a video on the TRS-80 Color Computer Facebook group showing his progress porting probably the most famous educational game…
With the end of NOMAN 2019 this April 14th, the Basic 10Liners contest is also over and the winners announced. If the BASIC 10Liner contest is new for you, check our previous article about it: 2019 BASIC 10-Liner Contest in On! This year there were nothing less than 83 contestants which made the task to give scores to all of…
Apple II emulators for Windows and MacOS received small updates that might interest you. Virtual ][, our favorite Apple II emulator for MacOS, new version 9.1.1 brings small fixes found in version 9.1. In macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) the Apple II screen was shown all black or sometimes semi-transparent. This has been fixed. Fixed a crash that occurred if the…
As many software created last century, Wordperfect for Apple IIgs wasn’t year 2K compliant. If you were one of the last Apple IIgs regular users by the end of the 20th century, you couldn’t use the text editor date features properly. Following the mantra that is never too late, Brutal Deluxe’s Antoine Vignau managed to fix the archaic word processor,…
Virtual ][ is a fully-featured Apple II emulator for MacOS. In my opinion the best one available as you can read here. Today, Gerard Putter announced the immediate availability of the version 9.0, bringing the following changes: Introduction of the “peripherals” side bar, combining the contents of the device and performance drawers. Due to Apple deprecating the drawers feature in…
