A.P.P.L.E. Memberships and Specials

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…

CLEAR Command Line Demo for ProDOS Released

From: Bob Giddings I think I have worked on this enough.  Here is my command line demo called CLEAR.  Included with a few commands.  It is mostly meant for 80-cols, some commands won’t display properly in 40-cols.  Although most of the commands will work on a II+.  The most powerful command is included.  The ALIAS command will let you make aliases of Basic, Binary and System files. There are a couple of commands that need some explanation. Type COMMANDS at…

RAMWerks Version 2 Available

From Henry Lowe: RAMWerks 2 is now available for testing. In addition to testing RAMWorks-compatible Apple II memory cards, this new version also tests RAMFactor, Apple Memory Expansion (‘Slinky’) and Saturn compatible RAM cards (with some limitations – see web page). RAMWerks now runs on all Apple II computers and supports 40 or 80 column displays. You can download a disk image of RAMWerks 2 from: https://henrylowe.net/ramwerks/

ScienceVision Eduware Videos now on YouTube

From Antoine Vignau: Watch the six double-sided eduware laserdiscs for the Apple IIgs @ https://www.youtube.com/playlist… This ScienceVision series was directed by Professor George Dawson in 1992, and was published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

MII Version 1.8 Released

from Michel Pollet: MII Apple II Emulator version 1,8 has been released. The latest version of the MII emulator is available from the Github page at: https://github.com/buserror/mii_emu 1.8 Change Log: Poor quality gif, It is a LOT smoother at 60fps in the program! Super Serial Card config dialog libmui Internals

MARCHintosh project: Mac IIci 6-node Hermes II BBS

From Todd Holcomb: The 90’s Mac underground scene is back for the month of March at The Crow’s Nest BBS – download the latest Mac releases, read some HackAddict/Happle Mac underground G-Files, browse the message forums, and play some old-school door games all from your vintage Mac! The Hermes II v3.1.1 BBS software is running on a 40MHz 68040 Carrera-accelerated Mac IIci with a CSI Hurdler II 4-port serial NuBUS card connected to 5 WiModem232’s and one dial-up Zoom modem….

Wozamp – a music player for the Apple II

From Colin Leroy-Mira: Wozamp is a simple network music player for the Apple II. It can: Requirements: Wozamp should run on any 64k Apple II with a serial card. In addition to that, it requires a surl-server proxy to handle the transcoding and resampling. Screenshots: Playing « Jesus built my hotrod » from Ministry Browsing my ftp://diskstation.lan/music share Preparing to listen to 8bit.fm Installing the surl-server proxy: See the dedicated surl-server page. Transferring the floppy to your Apple II: Download the latest…

KansasFest 2024 at University of Illinois Springfield

From the Kansasfest Committee:  The KansasFest Committee is excited to announce that KansasFest 2024 will be held July 16-21, at the University of Illinois Springfield, followed by the virtual meeting July 27-28. Great Room / Presentation Room Dorm Outside Seating Dorm Room Dining Seating Dorm Lobby Since its beginnings in the late 1980s, KansasFest has been held in several locations with various names. After growing out of the AppleFest conference in Boston, the “A2-Central Summer Conference” was held in 1989…

RAM Hjacker, AIIE 80COL to 64K RAM adapter

I designed a type of RAM card to be used as a daughter board for the AIIE 80COL card. Many people may like the 80COL card, but I never used it and had a lot of it in my drawer. *In fact, 80COL is also supported in AII VGA projects, so there is no need to use the 80COL card alone. For now, it will not be open sourced and will be sold in my store. It will probably be…

Randy Brandt’s “Heroes of D-Day” Kickstarter

Randy Brandt, programmer of Beagle Bros and JEM Software fame, has launched a Kickstarter for “Heroes of D-Day: 101st Airborne“ – playing cards featuring WW2 mini-biographies. The Kickstarter has 23 days to go with a goal of $1,944 to fully fund the project. As Randy shared, “We are three months from the 80th anniversary of D-Day. In honor of the brave paratroopers of the 101st Airborne, I’ve created a special deck of playing cards.” Randy is passionate about history and…

Mastodon for The Apple II Series Updated

If you have a passion for retro computing and enjoy bridging the gap between vintage technology and modern platforms, you’ll be delighted to discover that a binary release of the Mastodon client for the Apple II is now ready for download. This latest version, 2.0, has undergone extensive testing primarily on an Apple //c and IIgs. The brain child of Colin Leroy-Mira, the Apple II Mastodon Client is an advanced social media client with a number of feature found on…

tl;dr A2Pico is here

From Oliver Schmidt: A2Pico is a generic Apple II peripheral card based on the Raspberry Pi Pico. As of today there are already five different A2Pico firmwares available basically turning A2Pico into five different cards: Some background: Soon after the introduction of the Raspberry Pi Pico in 2021 Glenn and I started to experiment with directly connecting it to the Apple II slot bus. In 2022 I published a working Pico firmware on GitHub. Based on that we started to…

The Northern Spy — When the Months Go Marching On

The Northern Spy

Have you ever questionedhow the transition from gasoline powered cars and trucks to electrified ones willwork in practice? To wit: The Spy does have a possible solution to #4-5a on the list. Keep many of the gas stations open, but change what they sell to reusable and recyclable component materials. Assuming for the sake of argument that future batteries consist of (metal) plates immersed in a liquid electrolyte, why not rather than recharging batteries directly using electricity, use the regular…

Sneak Peek: v1.4-alpha7 Pre-release of Apple II Desktop Unveiled

Joshua Bell has made the latest pre-release of Apple II Desktop, v1.4-alpha7, available for Apple II enthusiasts. This release is packed with a number of enhancements and optimizations, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the future of the Apple II Desktop package. What’s New in v1.4-alpha7? Notable Changes in Apple II Desktop version 1.4 Alpha7: Desktop Enhancements: Desk Accessories: Available Language Options: Apple II Desktop is now available in nine languages including the following: How to Get v1.4-alpha7: Download the latest…

Ample 0.263 Released: An enhanced MAME Interface for MacOS

Author: ksherlockVersion: 0.263Repository: ksherlock/ampleTag: r55Commit: 8b37b5e With a slew of enhancements and optimizations, the latest release of Ample, version 0.263, curated by Kelvin Sherlock, is now available. With a focus on compatibility, performance, and usability, this update promises to streamline your MAME Emulation experience on MacOS.  With a focus on the retro Apple II series computers and the retro Macintosh line, Ample makes it easier for you to get started with the Multiple platform emulation of MAME. Platforms included in…

Anti-M Apple II Disk Boot Utility Updated

The latest version of the Apple II disk boot utility, Anti-M has been updated. Anti-M version 2.2 adds support for booting ABM. Anti-M is a disk boot utility created by the Apple II hacker, A2_4am, which allows users to boot older games made specifically for the Apple II and II plus on their Apple IIe and Apple or IIgs machines. The booster users a modified PROM that can boot any disk allowing the machine to bypass ROM checkers that are…

PLASMA Version 2.11 Available

David Schmenk has released a new version of PLASMA. According to the release notes, PLASMA version 2.11 is a minor update to address the relocating loader for EDASM generated modules with 8 bit fixups. All modules up to now have been generated by PLASM and only use 16 bit fixups. Mostly usefull for future modules built with EDASM. You can download the latest version of PLASMA for the Apple-1, Apple II or Apple III computers from the Plasma Github page…

rSounder version 3.1 Released

From Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software: rSounder goes v3.1 – A small but useful update to the great sound toolbox published in 1995 by Paul Benson.I wanted all sounds to be page aligned when saved, now they are (and Paul’s copyright suffix is also removed, shhh) => https://github.com/antoinevignau/source/tree/main/rsounder rsounder31.jpg

Physical Copies of Castle Dain now on Sale

The author of the Apple II game Castle Dain is offering a physical release of his mini-RPG game for the Apple II. This limited release includes a 6″ x 9″ folder, 5.25 disk, quick-start guide, cross-section diagram of the castle, and 4 collectible cards. The cost is $25 plus shipping. For more information and an in-depth video about this release, click on the video below: Castle Dain physical copy (Apple II)

SE Michigan Vintage Computer Club “Swap Meet”

Four hours of selling, buying, trading, showing off and community discussion completely free of charge thanks to generous donations from Frank Linares of Retro Rewind, Martin Jenkins, Peter Bartusek as well as the continued support of the Commodore Chronicles’ Fast Load Collective (Petzel, Pones, Nelson, BeardedSonOfNel and Nagel). Retro Rewind will be in attendance, offering their incredible products surrounding the Commodore 64, 128, Plus 4, C16 and Amiga computers as well as the Tandy COCO line of computers. See https://www.retrorewind.ca…

Mastodon Client for the Apple II Updated

Colin Leroy-Mira has announced the latest release of Mastodon for Apple II, version 1.14.0! It provides a big performance improvement on the serial bandwidth, all the way to 115,200bps. This is especially visible for loading images. You can download the latest version and find out more about the program at: