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The Golden Grail

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:06:02 +0900

Golden Grail 1.0 is available as of 12 January 2009!

DigiSoft Innovations is proud to announce the Golden Grail 1.0 is available as of 12 January 2009! After nearly a year of work and many false starts, we now have a new product. Final release details to come soon.

The material has been reworked and now is available in .SHK as well as .2MG files. All of the files are compliant with all of the modern emulators.

For Emulation purposes, we recommend the following emulators for the Apple II gs

Windows Platform:

Kegs -- http://kegs.sourceforge.net/

Mac OS X

Sweet16 -- http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/index.html

The Golden Grail 1.0 -- This is essentially The Golden Orchard 2.0 CD re-worked and made compliant for a variety of OSes. It was produced in February 2008 to January 2009 by Jim Maricondo and Bill Martens as part of an effort to re-release all of the materials to the public free of charge.

Golden Orchard

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:04:37 +0900

The Golden Orchard is an HFS CD-Rom for the Apple II gs computer equipped with the Apple CD-Rom. It contains over 650 mb of the finest utilities and games for the Apple II gs computer.

There were three version of the CD in the 1990's which were produced:

Version 1.0 -- First public release, but is missing icons on a couple programs

Version 1.1 -- Released by A.P.P.L.E. in 2003 with the fixed icons. This release was never released but was completed in 1996

Version 1.2 -- The second A.P.P.L.E. Release of the program was actually produced in 1997 and was basically completed but needed updated release documentation.

Version 2.0 -- This is the current DigiSoft / A.P.P.L.E. release. It is the first of the releases to be completely emulator compliant and includes several emulation systems for the Apple IIgs as part of the DVD. It has a complete .2MG and a .SHK archive. Produced in 2008 by Jim Maricondo and Bill Martens, this issue is available under The Golden Grail 1.0.

Twilight II

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:01:37 +0900

This program was one of the premier screen savers ever produced for the Apple IIgs computer. It is presented here as a free download along with the users and programmers guide.

Presented here is version 1.1 which was the final release to the public by DigiSoft Innovations in 1993.

Provided courtesy of the WTB collection and Bill Martens