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The Golden Grail

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

This is the latest version of the Golden Orchard CD on a ISO 9660 compliant DVD with a complete emulation system for the Apple IIs, along with all of the applications from the Golden Orchard CD's.

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.

We have taken the liberty of including several emulators on this CD as part of the release. There are emulators available for all computer OSes.

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 and March 2008 by Jim Maricondo and Bill Martens as part of an effort to re-release all of the materials to the public free of charge. The Release Notes are here

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.

Twilight II

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