These sites contain software from various Apple II developers and software companies. Many of these sites contain popular commercial programs that the authors have now generously made available for free or as low-cost shareware. Others are home to software currently being developed for the Apple II or utilities for manipulating Apple II files on modern computers. Some of the commercial sites have the history of the company and other interesting information on them.
ADT (Apple Disk Transfer) 2005 - http://adt.berlios.de/
ADT is a set of programs used to transfer 5.25" disk image files
between a PC and Apple II whose serial ports are connected by a null
modem cable. A disk images saved on the PC can be written directly to a
floppy disk in the Apple II drive and a floppy disk in the Apple II
drive can be saved as disk image on the PC.
ADTPro (Apple
Disk Transfer ProDOS) (David Schmidt) - http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/
ADTPro is a set of programs used to transfer floppy and hard disk image
files between a PC and Apple II whose serial ports are connected by a
null modem cable. ADTPro expands on the original ADT's
functionality by being able to transfer data to and from any ProDOS
block device, as well as supporting the Super Serial Card or IIgs modem
port at 115,200 baud.
Adventureland (Stefan Meier) - http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/
While not geared specifically to the Apple II, this site has
descriptions and box scans of adventure type games published for the
Apple II and other platforms. Mirrored at http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/
Andrew's Hobbies: Apple II (Andrew Roughan) - http://home.datacodsl.com/kalandi/apple
Andrew's finished and unfinished projects. He is also making John
MacLean's materials are available for download here.
Andy McFadden's Apple II Software - http://www.fadden.com/dl-apple2/
Software written by Andy McFadden, some with source. Includes NuLib
file utilities, HardPressed system-level on-the-fly data compression,
and various other utilities. Andy has also posted an article on early copy
protection techniques for Apple II cassette tapes. For Andy's
excellent shareware disk image manipulation utility for Windows,
CiderPress, go to the FaddenSoft site at ( http://www.faddensoft.com/ciderpress/
)
Apple 2 Forever - http://www.apple2forever.org/
This new site has the Erie Apple Crunchers Disk Of the Month disk
images available for downloading.
Apple //c Stuff for Windows - http://members.aol.com/windowsbbs/themes.html
Chris Morrison's Apple //c themes, screensavers, wallpaper, etc. for
Windows. OK, it's not really Apple software, but it's Apple II related,
right?
Apple II Games Museum - http://www.angelfire.com/80s/apple2/
Screenshots, box scans, and memories of many Apple II games.
AppleCommander - http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/
A tool for manipulating Apple II disk images that is written in Java,
allowing it to run on many platforms.
Beagle Bros
Software Repository - http://beagle.applearchives.com/
An archive of Beagle Bros software, manuals, and catalogs.
Bret Victor's IIgs Software -
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~bret/create_software_iigs.html
IIgs software written by Bret Victor.
Bob Bishop's Home Page - http://www.geocities.com/robertjamesbishop/
Bob Bishop wrote the "Apple-Vision" program on the DOS 3.3 System
Master, as well other games for the Apple II and magazine articles.
Click on the little "Apple-Vision" screen located about midway down the
page for Bob's Apple II software and articles.
]Call -151 (Lucas
Scharenbroich) - http://iigs.dreamhost.com/
Formerly the IIgs Haufbrauhaus, this site is the home of Generic Tile
Engine, a graphics programming library for development of games on the
IIgs, and a IIgs port of Super Mario Bros that uses it.
cc65 - http://www.cc65.org/
cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems,
including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian
and several other tools.
Contiki Operating System - http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/
Contiki is an open source, highly portable, networked, multi-tasking
operating system for memory-constrained systems. The Apple II version
can also be downloaded from the a2RetroSystems
site.
DAR Systems International (Eric Seiden) - http://www.darsys.net/dsi.html
Some history of the company and downloads of their
Apple II adventure games and ProLine BBS software, Eric has made these
previously commercial programs available for free now.
Dave Tribby's Apple II Page - http://www.callapple.org/apple2/software/tribby/
Dave Tribby's programs for the Apple II.
Disk2FDI (Vincent & Sonia Joguin) - http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/
Disk2FDI is a utility that can read Apple II disks on a PC and save
them as disk image files.
DiskMaker 8 (Mark Percival) - http://www.syndicomm.com/~mark/DM8/
DiskMaker 8 brings the ease of use and functionality of Sheppy's Apple
IIgs program for converting disk images to real disks to the 8-bit
Apple II world
Eamon Adventurer's Guild Online
(Matthew Clark) - http://www.eamonag.org/
A comprehensive information source and archive for Eamon adventures,
the classic text adventure games that began in the early 80's.
FishWings (Charlie Danemark) - http://www3.bboard.com/charlied/fishwings.htm
Fishwings is a file viewing and management utility for manipulating
Apple II disk images on a PC.
Free Tools Association - http://www.freetoolsassociation.com/
Awesome IIgs utilities and demos from the famous group of programmers
in France.
The Ghost of So What Software - http://www.sowhatsoftware.com/home.html
They're back from the dead and giving everything away for free.
grw Systems (George R. Wilde) - http://www.wilde.org/grwsystems/index.shtml
Home to UtilityWorks (integrated set of utilities) and UtilityLaunch
(program selector/launcher) for the IIgs. The software and
documentation are available for download here.
Huibert Aalbers' Software - http://www.huibert-aalbers.com/AppleIIgs/Apple2gs.html
Software from Huibert Aalbers: Jigsaw!, Laser Force, & SoundSmith.
Infocom Archive - http://www.latz.org/infocom
A site with all of the Infocom text adventures. These are stored in
Z-code, and interpreters are available on the site for several
platforms, including the Apple II.
Jonathan G. Lampe's Apple IIe Pages - http://people.stdnet.com/jonathan/emu/apple2.htm
Look for information on Bard's Tale, Seven Cities of Gold, and the
ApplePC emulator under the "Gaming > Apple 2" menu.
Kelvin Sherlock's Site - http://www.syndicomm.com/~kws/
Software for the IIgs written by Kelvin, as well as patches for Orca/C
and Orca/Pascal.
Kim Howe's Apple IIGS Programs - http://www.a2central.com/~kimhowe/
Programs by Kim Howe for the Apple IIGS: Arachnid web browser, Telnet
NDA, Yahtzee NDA, and Ship Wrecked!
Kitchen Sink Software (Eric Bush) - http://www.kitchen-sink.com/a2/
Collection of Kitchen Sink Software, now available for free.
Kreative Korporation (Jon Relay) - http://kreativekorp.cjb.net/apple2/index.html
Home to several Apple II programs, including ProDOS File Navigator.
Also includes a collection of technical information about the Apple II,
including I/O memory, zero page, ProDOS file types, and graphics modes.
Laz's Apple ][ Pages - http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/
Lazarus I. Long's Apple II software, programs to work with Apple II
disk images and graphics, an Apple II font for the Mac, programming
information (including the infamous Beagle Bros Peeks, Pokes, and
Pointers chart), and the soon to be released Apple DOS File System
(ADFS), which lets you do all sorts of neat things with Apple II disk
images on a Mac.
Moose's Software Valley (Moose O'Malley) - http://move.to/moose
Click on the "Apple ][ Emulation" link to access Moose's Apple II page.
Morgan Davis Group - http://www.morgandavis.net/portfolio/mdg/
A brief history of the Morgan Davis Group and Morgan's Apple II
programs, including ProLine BBS, MD-BASIC, ModemWorks, Object Module
Manger, VirusMD and RADE. The programs are now offered as freeware.
Ninja Force - http://www.ninjaforce.com/
Programs and demos for the Apple IIgs from a group of programmers in
Germany.
Penguin Software/Polarware (Mark Pelczarski) - http://www.magictree.com/polarware/polarware.htm
History of Penguin Software/Polarware and documentation for some of
their games.
Richard Bennett-Forrest - http://www.kashum.com/rbf.pl?c=a2
Information and software from the developer of the Marinetti TCP/IP
stack for the IIGS.
The Robot Odyssey Resource - http://members.aol.com/Fractal101/odyssey.htm
Information on the Robot Odyssey game for the Apple II.
Rolf Braun's IIgs Software - http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~rbraun/apple2.html
(Formerly Sassy Software) The Sassy Software site is gone, But
Rolf's freeware for the IIgs is still available here.
Ron's Software Page (Ron Kneusel) - http://www.geocities.com/oneelkruns/
Various programs written by Ron, including DSK2FILE, NIB2FILE, QForth,
Mult, and Trax. Also his "Incredilble 6502 Page" full of tutorials,
language summary, links, etc.
SarahSoft (Sarah Shepherd) - http://sarah.sheppyware.net/
Sarah's first shareware program is GS ROM Grabber, which lets you save
a copy of your Apple IIGS ROM for use in emulators.
Shawn Behrens' Apple IIgs Page - http://www.shawnbehrens.de/apple2.htm
IIgs programs for Orca Shell & GNO, C programming utilities, Orca/C
bug lists.
SheppyWare Online - http://www.sheppyware.net/
Eric Shepherd's freeware and shareware for the Apple II and IIgs.
Stephan's Retrocomputing Site (Stephan
Süberkrüb) - http://www.retrosite.de/emulator/appleii/appleii.html
Information on several Apple II emulators and adventure games.
Tom's Ultima Page - http://members.aol.com/tommage/UltimaPage/ultima.htm
Dedicated to the Ultima series of role-playing games.
Ultima Web Archive - http://www.uo.com/archive/
Has clues, walkthroughs, maps, and other goodies pertaining to the
Ultima series of games.
The Unofficial Home Page of Eamon Games (Fredrik Ekman) - http://www.lysator.liu.se/eamon/
Information on the Eamon text adventures. Over 200 adventures archived.
Whale Watch! HyperStudio Stack (Colin Williamson) -
http://www.tokyopia.com/colin/whalewatch.html
A HyperStudio stack adventure that was started by a 12-year-old and
finished 15 years later.
Wizardry - http://www.geocities.com/wizardrygame/frames.html
Information on the Wizardry series of role-playing games.