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:

• [Firefox] Updated package for Firefox 9.0 and beyond
• [Chrome] Added icons
• [OSX/Safari] Restored Async Window refresh

Download ActiveGS here.

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 running. Inspired by the original a2gameserver, Ford’s project has been tested on the iPhone 4, iPad 2, Mac Firefox, Mac Chrome, and Mac Safari. More than 100 titles are available to play now.

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 Commodore 64.  Breadbox Software, current GEOS copyright holder, reclassified the Apple II version, which was originally released in 1986, as freeware thanks to the efforts of Bill and Call-A.P.P.L.E.

Visit the Call-A.P.P.L.E. article to read more about it and download the CD.