Geoff Weiss has updated the premier IIGS RAM verification utility MegaMemoryTester to version 2.1 — you can get it from the program’s support site here: http://mmt.gwlink.net/
Programming
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Jeremy Rand updates A2Sudoku
Jeremy Rand has updated his 2015 Hackfest winning entry A2Sudoku to version 1.2 — you can get a .DSK image directly from here: https://github.com/jeremysrand/a2sudoku/releases/download/1.2/a2sudoku.dsk The main change is that when you enter a value, any scratch values in cells in the same column, row or sub-square are automatically updated. So, if you enter a “5” […]
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KansasFest 2015 Saturday Report
Saturday’s report is brought to you by third year attendee Mike Whalen. So, as I write this at 11:18pm on Saturday, July 18 2015. KansasFest is well and truly over. There no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It’s over, Johnny. It’s over! NUTHIN IS OVUH! YOU CAN RELIVE THUH DAY!! Well, okay, I suppose […]
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KansasFest 2015 Friday Report
Friday’s report is brought to you by third year attendee Mike Whalen. Friday (Day 3) Friday is nearly always bittersweet for me, at least in the few years that I’ve attended the show. Why? Well, thoughts of returning to the Real World(tm) begin to intrude. Oh no! It’s almost over. What will I do? I […]
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KansasFest 2015 Thursday Report
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 […]
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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.