It’s mid-2016 and a new Apple II game has been published called GENIUS, Ep.1 “Into the Toy Warehouses” by Daniele Liverani. Billed as a strategic, fast-action high-res arcade game, you must help GENIUS save an imprisoned prince by tackling 80 levels of obstacles, puzzles and enemies. The first copy of the game is up for […]
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MSX games and applications on the Apple II?
Ian Kim of South Korea is a busy person. He’s apparently working on a Z80 co-processor board that will run MSX programs on the Apple II. I’ve used Google Translate (the site is on Korean) to get a pretty good translation here.
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AIPC (Apple in PC) Apple IIe emulator released
The Korean Apple II Community has been busy this month! Keonwoo Kim has released AIPC, an Apple IIe emulator for Windows with an impressive list of features! AIPC is freely available open source software released under the GPL. Source download: https://github.com/sosaria7/appleinpc Latest release: Apple in PC 0.1.34.4 Screen shots: https://github.com/sosaria7/appleinpc/wiki/Apple-in-PC—Screen-Shot If you can read Korean, […]
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David Finnigan’s Marina IP stack now Uthernet II compatible
Announcement copied from Usenet comp.sys.apple2 The January 2016 edition of Marina is compatible with the new Uthernet II from a2RetroSystems. Find updated demo disk, user’s manual, and source code at the Marina web site. The source code disk also has some sample programs that use the Uthernet II’s built-in TCP/IP stack. Marina’s Uthernet II driver […]
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David Caldwell’s Apple II Plus simulator updated
Check it out here. It features an interesting TV emulation that looks totally whack on a faux Monitor II. Several disk images and various controls are located at the bottom of the page. Have fun!
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Dagen Brock announces MiniMemoryTester for Apple IIGS
Dagen Brock has released a cool new RAM diagnostic utility for the Apple IIGS called MiniMemoryTester. MMT is a fast ProDOS 8 application compatible with the IIGS ROM 01, ROM 3 and has been tested with several different RAM cards. It’s also open source — check out the source code at https://github.com/digarok/mmt and for the […]
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Java on the Apple IIGS?
Miraculously, Java on the Apple II isn’t something new. But Mike Kohn is taking a different approach and experimenting with Java Grinder (which recently added support for the W65C816 CPU) to produce code that will execute on an Apple IIGS.
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Ivan Drucker releases A2SERVER v1.2.5
Hello, hello. A2SERVER 1.2.5 is now available. Its main new feature is to offer to install GS/OS 6.0.1 for network boot (as it did before), as well as community releases 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. It also now includes HFS.FST with the install, and has a handful of bug fixes. You can update by typing “a2server-update” at […]