From Antoine Vignau’s post at comp.sys.apple2 on August 17: Graffidisk is a new kind of software for the Apple II. Its limit is your imagination: enter text or draw a GR picture on your Apple II and let Graffidisk tag your 5.25? floppy disks. See the results of your piece of art with John Morris’ […]
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Pleins gaz by Froggy Software
Brutal Deluxe Software, in partnership with Jean-Louis Le Breton (CEO of Froggy Software) and Richard Soberka (programmer, author of Zephyr), is happy to announce the release of the arcade game Pleins gaz for the Apple II. This color HGR arcade game was released by Froggy Software in late 1986. As the company shut its doors […]
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Brutal Deluxe releases Mr. Sprite
Paris, March 3rd, 2013 – Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to announce Mr Sprite, a command-line tool to manage sprites and to simplify the integration of sprites into Apple IIgs games. Discover Mr Sprite at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/mrsprite/ Mr Sprite is part of the Brutal Deluxe’s Cross Developpement Tools Project, a full set of utilities available on […]
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Brutal Deluxe Software releases Window Capture
*Paris, Nov. 19, 2012* Brutal Deluxe Software releases WindowCapture. It is a utility focused on screen capture. It has been designed to help in Graphic Resources catching (backgrounds, sprites, animations, palettes…) from games running under emulators. Unlike Windows native Screenshot functionality (PrintScreen key), WindowCapture captures only the content of a window (not the whole screen) […]
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Brutal Deluxe is fEDD up!
October 1st, 2012 – Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini, founders of Brutal Deluxe Software, are proud to introduce their newest software to the Apple II community. “I’m fEDD up†is Brutal Deluxe’s second answer to nowadays preservation of 5.25″ diskettes on the Apple II. Its main features are: Essential Data Duplicator compatible If Utilico Microware’s […]
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Brutal Deluxe’s DeluxeWare CD-ROM reclassified
Apple IIGS French programming super-group announced that their DeluxeWare CD-ROM has been reclassified as freeware. The text of their press release follows. Paris, September 11st, 2012 – Brutal Deluxe’s DeluxeWare CD-ROM now available Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini are proud to announce that DeluxeWare, their CD-ROM released in 1996 in partnership with La Pomme Illustrée, […]
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Happy Birthday, Brutal Deluxe!
On the 20th birthday of the French IIGS programming group, Open Apple podcast co-host Ken Gagne sits down with Antoine Vignau and Olivier Zardini to chat about the group’s history, what the Apple II and BBS scenes were like in France in the 1980s, how they acquired the rights and assets to popular licenses and […]
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Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 2 now available
Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 2 (June 2008) shipped on Friday to all subscribers. This issue features an interview with Henry Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com; Em Maginnis’ review of ADTPro; a collective look at KansasFests past; a survey of disk copy protection methods by Antoine Vignau — and much, much more! This is Juiced.GS’s second issue of […]