Card Cat 1.94 is now available at: https://henrylowe.net/card-cat/ New card detections Card Cat now detects a number of additional cards, including: System and firmware detection improvements Display and formatting improvements Reliability fixes Preliminary SmartPort support Card Cat 1.94 adds preliminary support for SmartPort device detection:

Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the …read more

The latest major update to the Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows based machines has been released. This version includes dozens of changes including the following items: The Applewin Apple II Emulator is maintained by Tom Charlesworth and a team of almost two dozen other Apple II fans. The emulator is a free download from the Applewin Github Page at: https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin One…

From Fredrik Ramsberg: I have released a new version of 350p Adventure, AKA Colossal Cave Adventure, AKA Advent. It has another exploit removed, and it’s faster than before. Get it today at: https://microheaven.com/advent/ The Game download includes builds for a number of platforms including the following: Also, instructions on how to get it running on your flavour of CP/M.

Hideaki Seike has announce that he has a new graphics converstion website tool that allows users to create a variety of retro images for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and other platforms. The tool takes the original image and converts it one of four different variants or the Apple II: HGR, DHGR, Lo-Res and Double Lo-Res graphics. The converter also allows users to select settings for dithering and…

The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator is now available. Applewin v1 31.0.3 includes a reworked configuration graphical interface and is the 2nd beta release with this new GUI.. Change in the Tom Charlesworth led Applewin project are as follows: You can download the latest release of Applewin including both he betas and the stable releases from the Applewin GitHub page…

Joshua Bell has released the latest alpha of the Apple II Desktop. Version 1.6 alpha 2 contains a host of improvements over the first alpha of the Apple II Desktop. These include the following items: General DeskTop Disk Copy Desk Accessories Apple II Desktop is a free download and is available from the Apple II Desktop GitHub page at:https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d

The 80th release of the Ample Interface for macOS brings the emulation interface with MAME 0.287. This update includes one additional ROM for the Ample interface. Also, be sure to re-download all of your Apple II related ROMs as they were updated in 0.286. The Ample MAME Interface can be downloaded from the GitHub page at:https://github.com/ksherlock/ample

After a lot of debugging, [Seth Kushniryk] has managed to get the last issuess shaken out of his port of MS-DOS 2.0 to the Apple II, and has released the …read more

From Jawaid Bazyar: I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.7.2. GSSquared is an Apple II series computer emulator. Supported platforms are: Pre-built binaries available for: This is a maintenance release, focusing on user interface – menus and interactive widgets of various types. User Interface Features Bug Fixes Internals *1: On Linux, because Linux is a dumb wasteland of ego,…

Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: The author wishes to express hi thanks to all those members of the Apple II community who have taken the time and effort to assist in getting new cards into the Card Cat database. The Card Cat 1.93 floppy disk image is a free…

William Winter has released a new Adventure creation studio which produces Apple II adventures in the form of ready disks and Applesoft BASIC programs as well as other formats: Here is the announcement posted by William: “Hi everyone, I’m a little nervous posting this because it’s the first larger project I’ve put out into the world, but I thought the community might appreciate it. I built a web…

New Web-Based Utility Brings Classic Z-Machine Text Adventures to Authentic 5.25″ Floppy Images for Apple II Hardware and Emulators The A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) Users Group, is pleased to announce the immediate launch of the Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator (InfocomGen), a free online tool that instantly converts Z-machine story files into bootable 5.25″ Apple II…

Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest update to the Ample Mac OS MAME Emulation Interface. Version 0.286 brings the following updates and changes to the Ample emulation interface: A2retroNET is a Super Serial Card that also supports 8 prodos/smartport disk images.It’s probably the easiest and simplest way to use a large number of disk images.You might want to back up your disk images just in…

Henry Lowe has announced the latest version of his Card Cat application. Card Cat identifies cards in the slots of Apple II series machines and can accurately identify over 100 different Apple II series specific cards. The latest version of Card Cat includes the following changes and updates: Card Cat version 1.92 is a free download and is available in both DSK and PO format disk image from the…

Emmanuel Castello has announced the availability of a playable demo version of his Ultima style game, Andoria. According to his post, “Hello everyone from the A2SE group. After years of videos and pictures, I am happy to share the first Demo Version of my Ultima RPG Game, Andoria. https://andoria.neocities.org On this link you will find a quick introduction of the game, as well as basic…