Category: Apple II

350 Point version of Adventure On Your Computer

350 Point version of Adventure On Your Computer

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…

Infogrames Vera Cruz Affair for the Apple IIGS

Infogrames Vera Cruz Affair for the Apple IIGS

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?

Audio Book highlights History of the PC Revolution

Audio Book highlights History of the PC Revolution

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…

DHGR Support added to Apple II Mastodon, Wozamp and Quicktake

DHGR Support added to Apple II Mastodon, Wozamp and Quicktake

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.

Infogrames Sydney Affair for the Apple IIGS

Infogrames Sydney Affair for the Apple IIGS

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?

PAC-MAN in AppleSoft BASIC 

PAC-MAN in AppleSoft BASIC 

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…

Catching Snowflakes: A Game for the Apple II

Catching Snowflakes: A Game for the Apple II

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.

Retro-text-adventure-library PunyInform v6.0 is out!

Retro-text-adventure-library PunyInform v6.0 is out!

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…

Ample MAME Interface for Mac OS Updated

Ample MAME Interface for Mac OS Updated

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…

Boulder Dash 2025 for the Apple II

Boulder Dash 2025 for the Apple II

This is Boulderdash 2025. It supports the 4play joypad and the keyboard, you can define your own keys.New key shortcuts: ctrl-q to quit to your preferred launcher ctrl-r to end game ctrl-z to zap a life ESC to pause the game It runs under ProDOS and it even saves your best scores. Enjoy!Antoine & OlivierBrutal Deluxe Software boulderdash_2025.poDownload