Dear All, This technical article discusses the recent LZ4 data compression algorithm and its ability to become a good multi-purpose lossless compression format for the Apple IIGS computer. Mostly for game programming area, where we have to handle multi-types of data (Graphic, Sound, Music, Code, Misc data…), the availability of one generic compression/decompression algorithm will […]
Antoine Vignau
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Brutal Deluxe Software releases BenchmarkeD
Paris, September 1st, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to introduce BenchmarkeD to the Apple II community. BenchmarkeD is a benchmark utility for the Apple IIgs. It allows you to calculate the average throughput in reading and writing files and sequential disk blocks of your ProDOS volumes. BenchmarkeD uses standard GS/OS routines to perform […]
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Apple II / The 2013 release: Zéphyr by Froggy Software
France, March 22nd 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Pleins gaz), is happy to announce the release of the arcade game Zéphyr for the Apple II. This monochrome DHGR arcade game had to be released by Froggy Software in 1987. […]
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Brutal Deluxe Software releases CADIUS
Paris, June 29th, 2012 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce the release of CADIUS, a command-line tool for Windows to manage Apple II image disk files (.2mg, .po, .hdv). The first purpose of Cadius is to write the output of the 65c816 Assembler directly into an Apple IIgs disk image (usually a .2mg) […]
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Brutal Deluxe releases Fishhead, the Caped Copier
Fishhead is a GS/OS desktop file copier application. It offers several features which make it a powerful software for diskette and file preservation purposes: Fishhead recursively copies files from a selected volume by chuncks of 256 bytes. The main idea is to recover as much data as possible from a bad medium. Fishhead has been […]
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Nishida Radio’s Apple II adapters
For those of you who like homebrew devices for the Apple II, you may be interested in Nishida Radio‘s items. Nishida Koichi, from Japan, builds and offers the following: Â The projects can be purchased as DIY packages or assembled. And half of the price will be donated to the Tohoku Kanto Earthquake charity program. Discover […]
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A website for the SmartPort Virtual Hard Drive device
Cédric Peltier, maker of the SmartPort Virtual Hard Drive has created a website for his nearly-ready SmartPort Virtual Hard Drive device at http://www.spvhd.org/. The device is planned to be available this summer and will be offered as: If you are interested in purchasing the SmartPort Virtual Hard Drive, please contact Cédric Peltier who will provide […]
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The British IIgs Club diskazine
Ewen Wannop and Brutal Deluxe Software now make the complete set of the British IIgs Club disks available to the Apple II community. The bimonthly diskazine was published from August 1992 to February 1999. The archive can be downloaded at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/public/