From CSA2: So much for my hiatus. I’ve snuck out a couple of updates. If you haven’t been keeping score since the above announcement: A2CLOUD 1.6.2 supports PC ANSI color and graphic text using Spectrum’s ANSI online display; has better VT-100 emulation for non-ASCII characters in ProTERM and Z-Link; provides ttytter for Apple II tweeting; […]
January 2014
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Codename: Tokenizer
Arnaud Cocquière, webmaster of Ctrl-Pomme-Reset.fr and Apple II enthusiast, announced today the release of Tokenizer. This new Windows 32 utility translates an AppleSoft source file written on a modern machine, to a AppleSoft-tokenized binary file which can be later integrated onto a disk image file with Apple Commander or Cadius. As Arnaud states in his […]
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SNAP updated to v1.1.6
Ewen Wannop has updated SNAP usenet reader to v1.1.6 to resolve a bug with the Marinetti 3.0b3 system init. You can get the latest SNAP and the rest of Ewen’s superbly useful software from http://www.wannop.info/speccie/Site/Speccies_Home_Pages.html In addition, Ewen has been given the go ahead to also include the latest Marinetti 3.0b7 system init with his […]
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Paul Lutus GPL’s player routine from Electric Duet
Mark Pilgrim wrote on CSA2: I just had a brief but constructive email discussion with Paul Lutus, the author and copyright holder of “Electric Duet,” the 2-note software synthesizer for the Apple II. He has generously agreed to release the music player routine itself under the GNU GPL. Paul requested that I credit it like […]
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Silvern Castle 9.5 released
Jeff Fink has released Silvern Castle 9.5, the popular Wizardry-like RPG game for the Apple II. You can download it from either: http://webpages.milwpc.com/finkjc/silverncastle/ or http://finkjsc.a2hq.com/silverncastle/ Bugs Fixed in v9.5: Stuff Changed in v9.5: New Stuff Added in v9.5: Tip o’ the hat to Ken Gagne for sharing this story.
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What is the 2gs? Gaming Update Bonanza!
And straight from Alex Lee’s “What is the 2gs?” website: Hot on the heels of the educational and hardware related finds made amongst Tony Diaz’s collection, we now turn our attention to gaming related finds – and there’s quite a lot of new cool stuff archived. Discover new titles and rarities at http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/news/
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AppleWin 1.24.0 released
Straight from comp.sys.apple.2 Hi, Here’s a new build of AppleWin which fixes a few issues: http://prdownload.berlios.de/applewin/AppleWin1.24.0.0.zip As usual, if anyone spots any problems then either post here or file a bug report on berlios: https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=6117 This is really just a maintenance release rolling up the small set of changes/fixes since April 2013. NB. The Win8 […]
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Sixtyfive 2014.01.04 Forth-style assembler is released
Daniel Kruszyna, the man behind Drift, has just announced on comp.sys.apple2 the release of the latest version of his Forth-style assembler: Hello All, I’ve released a new version of sixtyfive, my forth-style assembler. http://krue.net/sixtyfive/ Here are the changes: Miscellaneous new 8 bit definitions: prntx and text window direct page locations. Miscellaneous new IIgs bit definitions: […]