Category: Apple II

Jeremy Reichmänner has produced a fun little throwback to the 1980’s with his release of the Apple II text adventure game, Escape from Daracenstein. Filled with all of the fun bits of American Society of those days, anyone who loves thing from that era will enjoy this game. The game was written entirely in Applesoft BASIC and through a release…

BurgerDisk is a Smartport hard drive for the Apple II. Its main unique feature is that it is daisy-chainable. As all Smartport SD-based hard drives, it’s more adapted to the non-slotted Apple II, like the //c and IIgs. It is more suited for people who want to be able to use a hard disk drive in conjunction with floppy drives,…

Paul Wasson has announced the immediate availability of his new Apple II game, Froggo. According to the press release: Announcing FROGGO a new fast retro action game for the Apple //e. Available today for download! See https://www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo for download link and more information. Features Uses double buffered hires graphics 25* unique levels of increasing difficulty Large, zany completion images after each level…

For those Mac OS users who have downloaded the latest version of the Virtual II Emulator, you will need to download the latest update to it. The Virtual II version 13.1.1 release addresses an issue, introduced in version 13.1, that caused some Apple II programs to fail. This latest version is available from the Virtual II Emulator website at:https://virtualii.com/

The Ample MAME interface for MacOS has been updated. Ample Version 0.284 brings the interface into line with the current release of the MAME Emulator. Also included in this version of Ample is the ability to match the MAME ability to select one of the options for the Apple II/II+ keyboard.  If you use one of the alternate keyboards for you…

Gerard Putter has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of the Virtual II Emulator, a full featured, shareware Apple II emulator for the Mac. This release addresses a number of issues reported by users of the emulator and included the following changes and updates: The Inspector window now offers a choice of two layouts, with different font sizes….

Dongsu Jang has released an Apple IIe Double Low Resolution graphics library. Including 12 APIs and 15 ampersand commands for Applesoft, the library gives the user a simple method of using low resolution graphics in their programs. According to his posting on Facebook, “I’d used Apple II+ 40 years ago. At that time, I was so jealous Apple //e and…

From David SchmenkThat time of year again for yet another New Year fireworks demo loop. Written in PLEAIDES FORTH, feel free to edit the code and make it do something new. Self running boot disk here: https://github.com/…/heads/master/images/apple/PLFORTH.po

The famed producer of the PBS television programs Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe, Stewart Cheifet, has passed away on 28 December 2025. The 87 year old Stewart most famously was known for highlighting the growing personal computer realm in the 1980’s with his relaxed professional style, along side other luminaries in the computer field including George Morrow, Gary Kidall and…

Andy McFadden has announced a minor update to the 6502bench SourceGen disassembler for Windows. SourceGen is currently the one tool available within the 6502bench utility. For those of you interested in using the utility, there is a ton of useful information about the package included in the GitHub page including a number of how to tutorials. There are also a number…