Gerard Putter’s excellent 8-bit Apple II emulator Virtual ][ for Mac OS X has been updated to version 6.4.Ă‚ The most significant change is that support for Mac OS X 10.4 and PowerPC Macs has been dropped.Ă‚ Here’s a list of what’s new: – Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4 and the PowerPC processor. […]
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ADTPro 1.2.0 released
David Schmidt posted to comp.sys.apple2 this morning that the latest version of ADTPro is now available to Apple II (and III) users. The text of his post: This release, contrary to its “.0” suffix, isn’t revolutionary – I just ran out of digits in the mod level counter before I came up with anything extraordinary […]
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Washington Apple Pi Apple /// DVD Reclassified as Public Domain
Dave Ottalini of the Washington Apple Pi user group announced today on Facebook that their Apple /// DVD, which formerly sold for $45, is now reclassified as public domain.Ă‚ Here’s the text of David’s announcement: Folks – I’d like to let you know that I’ve decided to put the old Apple /// DVD into the […]
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FTA updates ActiveGS to 3.5.750
From Bill Martens over at Call-A.P.P.L.E. comes the news that the FTA ActiveGS plugin Apple IIGS emulation system has been updated to version 3.5.750.  Primarily a maintenance release, this version addresses the following issues: Download ActiveGS here.
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Online Apple Game Server now online
Egan Ford (aka datajerk of the jerkwerks) today announced that his web-based Online Apple Game Server is open for business. The concept is that games can be served directly to your Apple II as audio files through the machine’s cassette ports. Ford has posted a video tutorial explaining exactly how to get it up and […]
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Call-A.P.P.L.E. releases GEOS CD
This morning, our good friend Bill Martens over at Call-A.P.P.L.E. announced the (re-)release of the GEOS Apple II CD. Containing a wealth of documentation and software, this download weighs in at a hefty 140 MB. GEOS is a graphical user interface for 8-bit computers that was originally developed and released by Berkeley SoftWorks for the […]