Category: Apple News
Jeremy Rand has released Apple2BuildPipeline to simplify and facilitate making Apple II software on OS X with Xcode. When you select an Apple II project, Xcode prompts you for the name of your program and then creates a new project with the entire build pipeline ready to go. This makes it very easy to create new 8-bit Apple II projects….
If you are a happy subscriber, a new issue of Juice.GS, the quarterly Apple II journal, is on its way to your doorstep! This issue features coverage of KansasFest 2014; developer journals for both Lawless Legends and Apple2048; an interview with Robin Bailey, author of novels based on Infocom text adventure games; a tutorial for dealing with resource forks from…
[youtube bCSDkjhVM2A nolink] Don’t get confused! This is Lesson 1 but the 3rd video of the series made by Dagen Brock, and the topic is Super High Resolution Graphics (SHR) and the first time using the CPU in 16-bit mode. There is also a PDF document called Crash Course available on GitHub giving more information about the subject. Video: YouTube…
[youtube w2P6UJy17ro nolink] Dagen Brock is back with a follow up video of his Lesson 0 one published few weeks ago. This time, he revisits some concepts he talked on his first video and answers questions that the viewers sent. Source: A2Central Video Link: YouTube
Bonhams Auction house will hold on October 22nd the History of Science auction, and the most iconic lot to be offered will be an working Apple-1 Computer. It is expected that it will go for something in between $300,000 and $500,000. Back in 2013, an Apple-1 was sold for $387,750 at a Christie’s online-only auction. Another one was sold three…
I just finished listening to the latest Open Apple podcast, and it is really great. This episode brings a new co-host: Quinn Dunki, and an amazing interview with the team behind The Lawless Legends project, a fantasy role playing game set in the wild west for the Apple II. It was great to see how passionate are those guys with the…
[youtube 3z4bMwHUEnk nolink] Using a real hardware, Dagen Brock gives a nice and well explained introduction to Assembly Language Programming on the Apple IIgs. Even if you are not really interested to learn to program, the 25-minute video is useful to show the Apple II built-in monitor capabilities. Source: A2Central Video Link: YouTube
Quinn Dunki published on her blog an interesting article teaching how to create an Apple II development environment on Mac OSX. Her main objective was to create a “one-click” build pipeline using XCode: I put together this pipeline for developing Apple ][ software within Xcode, and suddenly got a lot of interest in it from the Apple ][ community. That’s always a…
Lawless Legends is a fantasy role playing game set in the wild west for the Apple II, C64, & other modern platforms! Now you can give Lawless Legends v0.50 a spin in your own Apple IIC, IIe, etc… Source: Facebook PageSource code: Github
Tom Charlesworth announced that AppleWin, the leading 8-bit Apple II emulator for Windows, has moved to it’s new repository on GitHub since June 10th. “Berlios has finally been closed (for OSS hosting), meaning that the AppleWin project is no longer accessible on the Berlios site. I have been gradually migrating AppleWin over to GitHub. The move still isn’t 100% complete,…
