Thursday’s report is brought to you by fifth year attendee Mark LaPlante Thursday (Day 2) Today’s schedule was packed full of mostly technical sessions. Some were about software, some were about hardware, some a little of both, but what struck me most, and what I enjoy about KFest, is they were about collaboration. Following breakfast […]
Programming
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Rebecca Heineman releases Mindshadow for the IIGS
Rebecca Heineman has released Mindshadow, a graphics text adventure for the Apple IIGS programmed by her and formerly produced by Interplay Productions. You can get a zipped disk image of Mindshadow here.
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Ewen Wannop updates BrkDown, new Marinetti link layer for Uthernet II
In honour of KFest 2015, OZ KFest 2015 Take Two, and of course so I don’t suck, I have released two updates today. Firstly, BrkDown gets even better, with more functionality, more features, more bug fixes, and is now even easier to use. The PDF manual has been updated to show the changes. Secondly, with […]
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Apple IIGS System Software 6.0.x
Something interesting is on the horizon. Details to be released soon.
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4am cracks featured at Internet Archive
4am is a well-known and gifted software cracker best known for releasing detailed step-by-step instructions for cracking commercial copy-protected programs for the Apple II series, and for also producing ‘clean’ cracks, which is to say the so-called ‘warez’ were free of any vanity crack screens (where the cracker usually takes credit for their exploits). The […]
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NinjaForce releases Ninjatracker
The programming ninjas at NinjaForce are certainly active lately. Today they released Ninjatracker, a “vastly modified version of the SoundSmith player” for the Apple IIGS along with the programs source code. You can read how to use it and download it directly from NinjaForce’s Ninjatracker web page.
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Apple II Festival France 2015
Mark your calendars! Coming this August 3rd through August 9th is APPLE II FESTIVAL FRANCE 2015, at Maska to Castera-Verduzan in Gers. Join your fellow European Apple II enthusiasts for a week of retrocomputing, gaming, hacking and fellowship. Apple II Festival France 2015 is being produced by Silicium and Groupe Apple II France (Facebook). Click […]
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UNISDISK Air used for cross development
Courtesy Arnaud Cocquière
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Merlin 16 assembler macros for System 6.0.1 updated
Eric “Sheppy” Shepherd has released an updated version of his Merlin macros for System 6.0/6.0.1 (fixing a broken Toolbox macro) and a new version of his Merlin GS/OS macros (there’s no functional improvement to the new version of the GS/OS macros; just updated contact information in the comments). The macro files included with Merlin 16 […]