Silvern Castle, the popular role-playing game for 8-bit Apple II computers released only a year ago at KFest ’99, has been updated to version 5.0! New in this version is the ability to turn off encumbrance and to restrict coinage to just gold pieces. Also, clerics can now identify items like druids, back-row characters have a lower chance of being hit during melee combat, NPCs may exchange information if they surrender, spellbooks and holy symbols can be dropped, and there’s been some fine-tuning to the monsters. A new expert scenario, “Time Master”, is included, but can only be played by registered owners.
Andy Molloy
Posted inProduct News
Juiced.GS CD to Ship Soon?
Rumors being instigated by usually-reliable sources indicate that the Juiced.GS “Friends For Life” CD should be shipping within a matter of days. Watch the Juiced.GS web site at http://www.wbwip.com/juiced.gs for more information.
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BAUG Meeting June 26
The Big Apple Users Group (BAUG) is meeting on June 26 at 6:30. The program this month is program switchers and launchers, including The Manager, Kangaroo, TransProg III, and QuickLaunch. See our User Group Locator for more information about BAUG.
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Nebraska\’s AppleLinc User Group Meets Again
AppleLinc, which went silent three years ago, is being resurrected. They had their first meeting last night, with six people attending. The group is in its organizational phase and is planning another meeting just before Y][KFest. If you live in or around Lincoln, Nebraska, contact Roy Miller (millers@inetnebr.com) to find out how you can get […]
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Woz Inducted Into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer and the original designer and inventor of the Apple II, was inducted today into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for this achievement, along with several other people; a ceremony to honor the new inductees will be held in September. The National Inventors Hall of Fame was created in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Attorneys. Past inductees include Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, and Henry Ford. [Attribution: Associated Press]
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The Official comp.sys.apple2 FAQ Moves
The official comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup Frequently Asked Questions list has officially been handed off. Two years ago, Nathan Mates stopped maintaining the FAQs, and since then there’s been some confusion over who would take over their management. Nathan decided to end the confusion and officially transferred maintenance duties to Tony Diaz this evening. You can read […]
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A2Central.com Web Badge Available
If you’d like to have a link to A2Central.com on your web site, you can now use the special web badge in your link to help spiff up the reference! For more information, see the About A2Central page.
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a2central.com\’s User Group Locator Opens
a2central.com has opened its new User Group Locator page, which is a free service listing Apple II-friendly user groups and information about them. You can reach it using the button in the navigation bar to the left, or by visiting https://www.a2central.com/ugl.
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Ultima I for the Apple II
Shareware Solutions II has released the Apple IIGS version of the classic role-playing game Ultima I, ported by “Burger” Bill Heineman. Read our review online.