This is, by my reckoning, the first "official" translation of an adventure game, possibly of any computer game.

The French version of Mystery House, original by Roberta Williams, translation by Tom Nalevanko.

I give a full history of how the translation happened.

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/03/17/mystery-house-the-french-version-1980/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #history #french #apple #appleII

Can't sleep. Instead played "Prisoner" for the APPLE ][ with APPLER.EXE using DOSBox on my Android Phone.

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Europe Ablaze Scenario Disk Two: Case White.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Europe_Ablaze_Scenario_Disk_Two_Case_White

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

Europe Ablaze Scenario Disk One: The Blitz.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Europe_Ablaze_Scenario_Disk_One_The_Blitz

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

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I spent the last couple of days at the Train and Hobby Show at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne.
My particular table's theme was the Apple Snow White design language, used on a range of Apple computers and peripherals from the mid 80s to the start of the 90s. Got some good interest from people visiting the table, even got a 6 year old girl addicted to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on the Macintosh SE.
Nothing crashed, let out smoke or just refused to work. Good weekend in all.
And I may be appearing in a brief interview on YouTube soon 👀

#retrocomputing #mac68k #appleII

Carriers at War Scenario Disk: Pedestal.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Carriers_at_War_Scenario_Pedestal

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

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This is pretty cool.

MS-DOS 2.0 on the Apple IIe (March 2026)

An Apple II enthusiast ported MS-DOS 2.0 to an Apple IIe running an ALF AD8088 Plus 8088 card (a much simpler device than the PC Transporter) designed for CP/M-86.

It boot, supports 80-columns, reads the clock, reads disk data from a shared ProDOS file on the IIe's hard disk.

Stated plans from the author, Seth Kushniryk, include Super Serial and Uthernet II support as well as running CP/M-80 on MS-DOS on ProDOS with a V20 swapped in for the 8088.

https://sethkush.com/post/2026/03/12/ms-dos-2.0-on-the-apple-iie/

#AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #MSDOS #CPM #CPU #operatingsystems #OS #coprocessor #i8088 #AD8088 #maker #hacking #blog #blogpost #nostalgia #vintagetech #technews #tech #Apple2forever #Apple #AppleIIe

Crossfire
Source: Softline Vol. 1 No. 2 (November 1981)
Scan Source: CGW Museum

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A preview of the progress on my #AppleII typesetting. The text is from @atgonzalez's Galapagos Larvae, shared with their permission. Here, you can see the following features: justified text, mixed case, proportional fonts, smart curly quotes and italic text.

Because of the way the Apple II displays color, white lines on a color TV have a distinct rainbow effect on them. It looks fine on a black-and-white monitor. I'll take a look at my other color options. #NantucketLit #retroComputing

Carriers at War Scenario Disk: Gilberts Strike.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Carriers_at_War_Scenario_Gilberts_Strike

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

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