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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 of several versions of the game, Jeremy has worked it into a fun reminder of simpler times. Be sure and…
BurgerDisk is a Smartport hard drive for the Apple II. Its main unique feature is that it is daisy-chainable.
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 *Complete challenge mode for an additional bonus 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 apple II emulation, you will need to download the updated apple2.zip file. All ROMs are downloadable from within the Ample…
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: Further information about the Virtual II emulator, license information for the full Virtual II package and downloads of the latest update for the emulator can be found on the Virtual II website at:https://www.virtualii.com/
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 its double hi-res and lo-res graphics. After 40 years, I have Apple //e Platinum. This is small 6502 assembly 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/dschmenk/PLASMA/blob/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 even Bill Gates and a host of others. He also had worked professionally at both PBS and ABC and taught…
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 of projects which have been disassembled using SourceGen that are available through the webpage at https://6502disassembly.com/ that users can check…
From Henry Lowe: Card Cat Version 1.91 in now available at https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/ This update adds additional cards and preliminary support for detection of a No-Slot-Clock (NSC) on a card or under system ROM. Thanks to the Apple II community members who have helped add new cards and assisted with testing.
For those of you who are 6502 fans, this project will be right up your alley. Many of us attend the vintage computer festivals and related events around the country each year and with Frank Eggen’s little project, we can now attend in style. According to his introduction of the project on Facebook: I am excited to announce the release of the final version 2.6 of my open-source project: “The MOS 6502 – 50th Anniversary Computer Badge.” This is a minimalist,…
Fredrik Ramsberg has announced the immediate release of the latest version of the PunyInform library for retro adventure programming. PunyInform is a library written in Inform 6 which allows authors to create text adventure games / interactive fiction using the Z-machine virtual machine, to be played on 8-bit computers as well as newer platforms. It provides a parser, implementations of common verbs, as well as a framework for writing text adventures. According to the release notes, the following items are…
The Clock Signal Emulator (CLK) for Mac OS has been updated. The CLK emulator is a clock signal accurate emulator created and curated by Tom Harte that emulates over 30 different retro computing platforms includes a number of updated features including: Additional features and platforms are forthcoming. The CLK Emulator and source code are available on the CLK GitHub page at: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK
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, in preparation for Apple IIgs emulation. The most notable changes to this over v0.5.0 are: * 100% accurate “Apple IIgs…
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: Kelvin Sherlock, the curator of the project has made the latest version of the App available along with all source code on the Ample GitHub Page at: https://github.com/ksherlock/ample
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: According to the GitHub page, this will run on any Apple II series computer with at least 64K of memory and a…
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 MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so…
