Software

Anne Bredon, Glen’s widow, has authorized the public domain release of all of his software, including ProSel, the Merlin assembler, and more?complete with source code. We’ll have files available for download here on A2Central.com soon. Thanks to Charles Turley for his assistance in obtaining this release, and to Mrs. Bredon as well for her generous donation to our community.

Richard Bennett announced this morning that the Marinetti TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS will become open source. Read the press release online.

The classic sea strategy war game, The Ancient Art of War At Sea, has been reclassified as freeware! This game for 8-bit Apple II systems is a great game and A2Central.com thanks the Lost Classics Project for its efforts toward its release. You can download this two-disk game at http://www.gno.org/pub/apple2/prodos/games/strategy.

Ancestorworks 5 version 2.0, a genealogy program that works within AppleWorks 5.1 (and only 5.1) for the Apple II, is now available as a freeware product. Among other valuable features, ANW can import standard GEDCOM format genealogy data files. Visit http://www.geocities.com/budmannet for details and to download.

This new update to the ProLine BBS software provides a CS update and Y2K fixes. ProLine is a popular, powerful bulletin board system package for the Apple II (//e, //c, and IIGS), and requires a modem, 80 column text, and 64K of RAM, plus a small hard disk. Read the announcement.

DAR Systems International has reclassified its Apple II software as freeware. These products, including Mines Of Moria and Mines Of Moria II, The Pits of Doom, Gem Of Zephyrr, Sword of Altair, Quest For Varsar, and Casino Games. Also available is Sable Powers Rising, which was never released and is a beta version Visit the […]

Apple II Oasis, an Apple //e emulator for Windows, has been updated to version 2.4. The new version includes support for full-screen video and can emulate a joystick using the keyboard.

Silvern Castle, the popular role-playing game for 8-bit Apple II computers released only a year ago at KFest ’99, has been updated to version 5.0! New in this version is the ability to turn off encumbrance and to restrict coinage to just gold pieces. Also, clerics can now identify items like druids, back-row characters have a lower chance of being hit during melee combat, NPCs may exchange information if they surrender, spellbooks and holy symbols can be dropped, and there’s been some fine-tuning to the monsters. A new expert scenario, “Time Master”, is included, but can only be played by registered owners.