Hugh Hood has announced AppleIIWorks Envoy, a tool for adding support for classic 8-bit Appleworks to the MacOS X Finder. Attached is part of Hugh’s announcement from Usenet comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup. AppleIIWorks Envoy is an application for Mac OS X with a two-fold purpose. First, it provides for Mac Finder recognition of Apple II AppleWorks Files, […]
Programming
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How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes really work
An extensive article detailing the illegal opcodes present in the original MOS 6502 has been posted over at pagetable.com. Â Check it out here. Note: this article is rather old (2008) (age being a relative thing on the interwebs), and as the author states, much has been written to document the opcodes already. Â The difference here […]
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Brutal Deluxe releases Mr. Sprite
Paris, March 3rd, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce Mr Sprite, a command-line tool to manage sprites and to simplify the integration of sprites into Apple IIgs games. Discover Mr Sprite at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/mrsprite/ Mr Sprite is part of the Brutal Deluxe’s Cross Developpement Tools Project, a full set of utilities available on […]
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Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source
Bill Budge has posted to github the source code to his seminal hit Pinball Construction Set, according to this Y-Combinator item. Â Some sharp eyes in the comments thread noticed that although the code is for the Atari 800 version of the program, it was developed on an Apple II, a common practice in those days […]
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1977 version of Apple Blue Book
Steve Weyhrich has made available a PDF of the 1977 edition of Apple’s first Applesoft manual, the Blue Book, on his Apple II History website. He also offers the 1978 edition and the later Red Book.
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Easy 6502 assembly language ebook
Still haven’t learned how to program your Apple II in its native language? Maybe this “tiny ebook†is just what you need to get started. Author Nick Morgan writes: In this tiny ebook I’m going to show you how to get started writing 6502 assembly language. The 6502 processor was massive in the seventies and […]
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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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Ewen Wannop creates Sweet16 Starter Kit, updates SAM2 and SNAP
Ewen Wannop announced via Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.apple2 that he has created a starter kit for the popular Apple IIgs emulator, ‘Sweet16′. Ewen’s announcement is attached: Announcing the Sweet16 Starter Kit Comprising a pre-installed disk image, and a PDF set of instructions, you only need to add a copy of Sweet16, and your favourite IIgs ROM […]