Jeff Fink has released version 7.5 of Silvern Castle, his popular role-playing game for 8-bit Apple II computers. The update fixes several bugs, and enhances speed as well as adding new features. We’ve reported on them before, but for your convenience:

• Your characters now keep all their known spells when changing class.

• As a consequence of being able to keep your spells when changing class, fighters can now cast spells and acquire mage spell scrolls, once they’ve reached level 25 (adjusted for intelligence).

• New unlisted combat command: Go B)ack. This feature simply lets you go back and redo the combat decision for the previous character, instead of using ESC to redo all characters.

• New unlisted camp command: M)inimum Weapon Damage. This command lets you determine the minimum damage your character can inflict, depending on the weapon selected and your character’s strength and class.

• New unlisted camp command: Equivalent H)uman Age. Lets demihuman (non-human) characters determine how old they are in “human” years.

• New preferences for sound parameters. You can also mute the sound.

You can download this update right here on a2central.com..

The Aurora, Illinois Aurora Area Apple Core user group will take a road trip this month to Rockford, Illinois, where Lyle Syverson will host the group’s meeting. After a light lunch and a short business meeting, Lyle will demonstrate the use of the Apple IIe Card in a Macintosh LCIII computer. For additional information, contact a club member..

South Bay Apple Computer Club of Torrance, California, will meet at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, May 13, at the preschool of the Church of Christ, 3525 Maricopa St..

The Princeton Apple Users Group will meet on Friday, May 9, at 7:30 PM in Dave Ciotti’s basement, as usual, where the group will check out the results of the computer put together at last month’s meeting and talk about whatever comes to mind..

A preliminary list of some of the presentations scheduled for KansasFest has been released. Steve Wozniak will perform the keynote address. Ryan Suenaga will do a presentation on fonts and desktop publishing on the Apple IIGS, as well as a session on setting up Bernie ][ The Rescue for Apple II emulation on the Macintosh. Eric Shepherd will show how to develop Apple IIGS software on the Macintosh using MPW, and, in a second session, will introduce Palm OS programming and show why it’s similar to programming the Apple II. Howard Katz will demonstrate cruising the Internet on an Apple IIe. Tony Diaz, Geoff Weiss, and Jay Edwards have also committed to doing sessions but the topics are not announced yet. More sessions will be announced before we reach K-Day!.