@A2_Canada

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Tasty nibbles along the road of Apple II software history and preservation
A2_CanadaJan 20
4am ❧Jan 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/115924184016966918

I've been working with @A2_Canada to image, verify, and provide complete metadata for a number of scenario disks by Strategic Studies Group. SSG was an Australian video game developer+publisher that specialized in hex-based wargames. They had a multi-year print run of a magazine ("Run 5") devoted to these games and the community that centered around them. The magazine included type-in variations that nobody actually wanted to type in. They quickly started selling the variations on floppy disk.

A2_CanadaJan 10
4am ❧Jan 10

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai

Thanks to LoGo for the disk!

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

A2_CanadaJan 7

2025 was a good year in Apple II software archiving. I imaged just under 100 titles, including a number of unique, unpreserved, and in some cases, unknown games and programs. Here's a link to everything from the last year, in A2R format:

https://archive.org/details/A2_Canada_Just_Flux_It_2025

A2_Canada Just Flux It 2025 : A2_Canada : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

50 Mission Crush (SSI)APLUS (Sensible Software)Arctic Antics- Spy vs Spy III (Epyx)Battlefield (Dynacomp)Battlefront - Scenario Disk Five - Battleaxe - Sealion...

Internet Archive
A2_CanadaSep 7, 2025
Oh this is fun. The first four (the only four?) issues of the Adventure Construction Set Newsletter, from 1986.
A2_CanadaSep 6, 2025
Oh hey I found a couple of SSG scenario disks
A2_CanadaAug 29, 2025
This is Master Trader, a commercially-released game published by Argon Games in 1981 for the Apple II and the TRS-80. The game is essentially non-existent, with one mention in a 1982 issue of Ares magazine. It has now been imaged after 44 years.
A2_CanadaJan 6, 2025

2024 wasn't nearly as exciting for me as 2023 in terms of Apple II flux imaging. Still, there were a few significant highlights such as On-Line Systems' extremely rare Trapshoot, Dragonfire by Magicware, a whole pile of Simulations Canada originals, and a long list of terrible-but-unpreserved titles by ALA Software. Here's a link to everything I imaged last year:

https://archive.org/details/A2_Canada_Flux_Energy_2024

A2_Canada Flux Energy 2024 : A2_Canada : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Action Sounds and Hi-Res Scrolling (Avant-Garde Creations)Adventure Creator (Spinnaker)Akalabeth (Progame)Alien Lander (Sierra Software)Apple Spice (Adventure...

Internet Archive
A2_CanadaNov 10, 2024
Up to no good as usual, and I noticed this. So we have a to-the-month timeline for the Rhiannon games - and a list of systems for which they were released, or at least intended to be.
A2_CanadaSep 17, 2024
Mail's here. Some quality programs from ALA Software.
A2_CanadaAug 30, 2024
4am ❧Aug 30, 2024
Boy howdy there sure is a lot of software.