User Group Membership Joining our User Group has many benefits, such as our new full-color Call-A.P.P.LE. magazine that is usually around 50 pages with lots of photos, technical articles, reviews, and interviews with legends of the industry. You also have access to all previous issues published back to 1978. Additionally, the Apple User Group Bulletin we share has discounts on software for your Mac from a variety of vendors around the Apple world. If you are not an A.P.P.L.E. member…
After a multi-year effort to remaster GS+ Magazine and make it available digitally, the remaining issues of GS+ are now available – completing the collection. All issues have been remastered and re-typeset, with enhanced graphics. The 37 issues of GS+ Magazine published from 1989 through 1995, along with all of the floppy disk images for the magazine, are officially available in the A.P.P.L.E. Store, along with official GS+ T-shirts, mousepads and other goodies! You can purchase the entire “Ultimate” collection…
The Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange users group is proud to announce, in coordination with copyright holder Kevin M. Smallwood, the immediate availability of the GBBS Pro Newsletters from the L&L Productions days. These newsletters were intended for the sysops and GBBS Pro owners around the world. Now, for the first time, they are freely downloadable by the general public. There were 11 known issues of the GBBS Pro Newsletter published by L&L Productions in April 1987 to May 1988….
Chris Vavruska has released a version of the tile game Sokoban for the Apple IIgs. The release, which according the author, came out of a need to explore the Generic Tile Engine on the Apple II GS. According to him, “I have been wanting to play around with Lucas’ GTE for a while so I ported a version of the puzzle game Sokoban to the GS.” Also, as a quick witted Antoine Vigau pointed out, there is no sound in the…
The Clock Signal Emulator (CLK), a multi-platform emulator for Mac OS by Tom Harte has been updated. This update is primarily focused on the BBC Micro emulation and includes the following changes: CLK is a clock accurate emulator that supports a number retro computing platforms including the following: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles,…
The latest version of the Ample Emulation Interface for the MAME multiplatform emulation package on Mac OS has been updated. Ample 0.281 includes the following updates: You can download the latest version of the Ample package from the Github page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample
The A2kit version 4 has been released. A2kit is an open source, script-able command line interface for disk image and language manipulations, and the engine behind a number of editor extensions for Apple II languages. A2Kit version 4 features the ability to define, create, and manipulate your own track formats and nibble tables (but bring your own DOS when it comes time to boot!). This feature can also be used to unlock and manipulate files on existing disks with special…
The latest version of the Tom Charsworth managed Applewin Emulator for Windows has been updated. This is fairly extensive update with the following changes being made to the system: Applewin has been one of the longest actively developed Apple II emulators and supports the Apple II through Apple IIe platforms. The is no support in this emulator for the Apple IIc, IIc+, IIGS or the Laser 128 series. The latest version of the emulator can be downloaded from the GitHub…
8-Bit Shack is pleased to announce: The Kickstarter for our brand new game “Skull Island” has launched!Check it out: https://www.8bitshack.net/skull_island A true open world “role playing game” set in a completely self-contained world with fantastic game play with over 90 individual hand drawn screens and 48 hand drawn Islands complete with fantasy characters and interlinked back stories. We have incorporated true point and click control, for a more modern feel, with the authentic immersive experience you associate with an 8 bit…
Following in the footsteps of Hexapucchu, The Secret of Anubis is presented as an adventure game inspired by the mechanics of Choose Your Own Adventure books. The cold had frozen Paris… and my business,when… a letter. It was waiting for me on the desk, lying there like the ultimate reminder that miracles still exist.Thick paper, the scent of aged leather, a golden seal pressed into wax: for once, it wasn’t a bill! The crest – I knew it. I had…
Fredrik Ramsberg, curator of the PunyInform library, has announced the latest edition of the PunyComp programming contest for PunyInform library users. The PunyComp 2025 event requires all submissions be made by the 1 December 2025. Voting by the public on the best submissions will begin shortly thereafter and will end on 1 January 2026. The winners will be announced after that. This years theme requires players of your game to interact with an animal within the game in order to…
Hexapucchu, the Lost City of Patchucca, offers an interactive adventure with simple and accessible mechanics, inspired by the famous choose-your-own-adventure books. The game is based on a succession of screens, each representing a location that you will explore throughout your journey. On the left side, you will discover an illustration of the place you are in. On the right, a short description provides the context of the scene and important elements to observe or remember. Finally, at the bottom of…
The Ample MAME interface for Mac OS has been updated. Ample version 0.280 marks the 72nd release of the Ample MAME Interface brings the interface in line with the latest release of MAME and includes two new ROMs which can be downloaded within the interface. Also, this release of Ample now requires a minimum of MacOS 10.14 or newer. To download the latest version of Ample, check out the Ample GitHub page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample
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 sometimes considered as the very first text adventure. This particular version of the game came out on 24 November 2024,…
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?
From our friends David Greelish and Randy Kindig: Stay tuned, new chapters are coming up for the great classic book, “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer,” in audiobook form, and on YouTube. See the discussion where Randy Kindig (Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast) and I discuss it, Stan Veit and more, as an introduction! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpxqp11HpZw The NEW audiobook chapters of “Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer: From Altair to IBM, A History of the PC Revolution.” By…
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.
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?
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 run and plays actually quite well for the Apple II fan running either Applewin or Virtual II. Notes from the…
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.
