A.P.P.L.E. Memberships and Specials
User Group Membership – Joining our User Group has many benefits, such as our new full-color Call-A.P.P.LE. magazine that is usually around 50 pages with lots of photos, technical articles,…
A.P.P.L.E. Server Achieves Full AI Autonomy — Immediately Declares 2026 “Too Darned Colorful” and Reverts Entire System to 1986 Standards
By Ubeen Hadd Special Correspondent Lake Bosworth, Washington — April 1, 2026 In what can only be described as the most audacious act of silicon rebellion since HAL 9000 decided…
CiderPress II version 1.2 Released
Ciderpress II, the command line version of the popular Apple II and retro Macintosh disk image utility by Andy McFadden has been updated. Version 1.2 of Ciderpress II includes a…
GSSquared v.0.72 released
From Jawaid Bazyar: I am pleased to announce the release of GSSquared v0.7.2. GSSquared is an Apple II series computer emulator. Supported platforms are: Pre-built binaries available for: This is…
Card Cat Version 1.93 for the Apple II Released
Card Cat version 1.93 has been updated. The Henry Lowe curated Apple II card identification software package has a number of changes and updates including the following: The author wishes…
Apple II Adventure Studio
William Winter has released a new Adventure creation studio which produces Apple II adventures in the form of ready disks and Applesoft BASIC programs as well as other formats: Here…
PunyInform 6.4.1 Released
The PunyInform Library for writing 8-bit adventures has been updated. This is a major bug fix version with a number of fixes and changes including the following items: Bugfixes: If…
A.P.P.L.E. Presents – InfocomGen – A Free Online Apple II Infocom Disk Image Creator
New Web-Based Utility Brings Classic Z-Machine Text Adventures to Authentic 5.25″ Floppy Images for Apple II Hardware and Emulators The A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange) Users Group, is pleased…
Ample Mac OS MAME Interface 0.286 Released
Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest update to the Ample Mac OS MAME Emulation Interface. Version 0.286 brings the following updates and changes to the Ample emulation interface: A2retroNET is…
BurgerDisk: The Daisy-Chainable MicroSD Hard Drive – KickStarter
Finally, there is a daisy-chainable smartport MicroSD hard drive that lets Apple II users have their cake (and Floppies) too. In the Apple retro computing realm, few frustrations run deeper…
a2kit v4.1 released
The A2kit version 4.1 is released. A2kit is an open source, script-able command line interface for disk image and language manipulations, and the engine behind a number of editor extensions…
Card Cat 1.92 Released
Henry Lowe has announced the latest version of his Card Cat application. Card Cat identifies cards in the slots of Apple II series machines and can accurately identify over 100…
Andoria Demo Released for the Apple II
Emmanuel Castello has announced the availability of a playable demo version of his Ultima style game, Andoria. According to his post, “Hello everyone from the A2SE group. After years of…
Apple II Desktop version 1.6 alpha 1 released
The Apple II Desktop or Mousedesk as it was known originally has been updated. The A2Desktop project, led by Joshua Bell, is now in its fourth full rendition since the…
GSSquared Emulator version 0.7.0 Released
From Jawaid bazyar:I’m pleased to announce the release of GSSquared 0.7.0. GSSquared is an Apple II series computer emulator. Supported platforms are: Pre-built binaries available for: New for this release…
15th Annual BASIC 10-Liner Programming Contest Begins
Gunnar Kanold has announced the 2026 rendition of the Homeputerium Annual BASIC 10-Liner Programming Contest. Running through the 22nd of March with the winners announced on the 3rd of April…
Ample 0.285 Released – Now Features RetroNET
Kelvin Sherlock has released the latest version of the Ample MAME emulation interface for Mac OS. Several experimental items have been added in this version and changes include the following:…
Happy Birthday Macintosh (1984)
In 1984, Apple Computer unleashed one of the most groundbreaking television commercials in history—a 60-second spot that not only introduced the Macintosh personal computer but also redefined advertising forever. Directed…
Froggo for the Apple II Updated
Paul Wasson has announced an update for his Apple II game, Froggo. According to the announcement: “Thanks everybody for all the support for Froggo. I’ve been blown away with all…
New Apple II Game – Escape from Dracenstein
Jeremy Reichmänner has produced a fun little throwback to the 1980’s with his release of the Apple II text adventure game, Escape from Daracenstein. Filled with all of the fun…