Surprise! Version 0.8.1 of the What is the Apple IIGS? Launcher is released to coincide with the new Apple II event, https://init-hello.org!
Now with colour menus, Time Pilot and some further optimisations and bug fixes, you can download it from https://www.ninjaforce.com.
During KFest 2025, I’m very happy to announce that v0.8 of the What is the Apple IIGS? Launcher is finally available.
Ever wanted a convenient way to play all commercial IIGS games with little fuss? Like Total Replay but includes every genre of IIGS specific game as well as some demo examples pushing the G and the S?
If you’ve got a storage device that supports 7 smart port devices and a IIGS with 1.25meg of RAM, you’re in luck! Go straight to https://ninjaforce.com/html/news.html to download.
My MOOF disk image format (for copy protected Mac floppies) has been gaining acceptance. MAME added support a couple months back and now Floppy Emu supports it for connecting up to your real Mac.
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2022/12/03/moof-disk-image-support-for-floppy-emu/
And I'm sure that the recent gains are in huge part due to @a2_4am doing his relentless preservation thing with his moof-a-day.
https://archive.org/details/moofaday?sort=-date
If you are interested in the MOOF spec for adding support to your own project, you can find it here.
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