Category: Apple II
From Jawaid Bazyar:I am pleased to announce the availability of GSSquared v0.6.0. GSSquared is a complete emulator for the Apple II series of computers. It is written in C++ and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. This release is something of a maintenance release. There are some interesting user-visible additions, and there has been significant work done under the hood,…
The Ample emulator interface for MAME on MAC OS has been updated. Ample version 0.283 is the 75th release of the interface and brings it in line with MAME version 0.283. Some of the current features of the Ample emulator interface include: Emulation for most Apple II series and Apple II Compatible machines Emulation for Retro Macintosh platforms Emulation for…
The famed hacker A2_4am has announced the release of the latest version of his Wizardry Replay front end for playing Wizardry Games. Version 2.0 includes a number of updates including all of the Wizimore games as well as fixes allowing the games to run smoothly on the Apple IIgs. Some of the features of this latest release include: 12 different…
The latest version of the Apple II Desktop graphical user interface for the Apple II series computers is now available for download. Version 1.5 includes well over 100 new changes and updates over version 1.4 and now comes in 10 languages. You can download the latest version of the Apple II Desktop from the project’s GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d
Microsoft has announce that the Zork Trilogy will be Open Source from now one. According to the posting on their website: Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the…
AUTHOR’S NOTE by Brian Wiser: This interview was first posted August 2, 2015, and is being reposted in honor of Rebecca Heineman who passed away November 17, 2025, and Jennell Jaquays who passed away January 10, 2024. I had the pleasure of meeting both Rebecca and Jennell a year before this interview and spending several hours with them. Their artistic,…
Release 5 fixes multiple bugs, and brings the game closer to the original. There are now five dwarves, as in the original, and you can’t just teleport out of tight spots. Of course, the game still rocks on 8-bit hardware.
From Randall Frank Announcing the general release of DIAFLW, an ‘adventure’ game for the Apple II. This is a game we wrote in 1986 and had been talking with SoftDisk magazine about publishing. College intervened and it sat on 5.25 media until 2024 when I found the original source code. It was refactored to cross-build on Windows/Linux and all the…
Client Release 2.06 – https://evolutioninteractive.com/applesauce/Applesauce_206.zip Added support for Hewlett-Packard 9885/9895 disk format, HP file system, as well as the HPI image format., More support for Amstrad CPC disks., Additional CP/M definitions for NEC PC-8001, DEC Rainbow, and Amstrad., Improvements to detecting clocked data in unusual formats., More tweaks to the NorthStar DOS support., Fix the loading of IMD files that…
The Ample MAME Interface for MAC OS has been updated. This update brings the latest release in line with the 0.282 release of the MAME emulator. A custom version of MAME is included in Ample. The custom MAME build focuses on Apple II/Macintosh emulators but also includes a handful of other 8/16-bit home computers (BBC, Tandy, etc). There are also…
