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          July 20 & 26, 2025 
                What is the Apple IIGS? Launcher v0.8 released 
            During Virtual Kansasfest 2025, the largest Apple IIGS game collection is updated with more titles than ever before.
              Fire up your IIGS and take a deep dive into your favourite games and demos - Download. 
            But wait, there's more! Version 0.8.1 of the Launcher has been released to coincide with the new Apple II event, INIT HELLO.
              The menus now include colour, Time Pilot and some small fixes and optimisations have been made. Download 
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          July 06, 2025 
            Asimov v2.01 released 
            Asimov, our well-beloved IIGS disk imaging tool, is getting an update. A bug was fixed that prevented creating images from read-only volumes. Get it here.   | 
        
        
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          September 17, 2023 
                    SenseiPlay 2.0 
              SenseiPlay by Digarok for the AppleIIGS version 2.0 is out!! 
              It's a music player for MOD files (comverted to NTP). 
              
                - Allows you to play a directory full of files like a jukebox
 
                - Shows current ProDOS path
 
                - Hit "Tab" to go straight to online volumes
 
                - Supports loop/no loop
 
                - "GR"aphics player
 
                - Faster startup, faster text routines, bug fixes, cleaner UI
 
                - The ninja will now blink on occasion
 
               
              Source code: https://github.com/digarok/senseiplay/ 
                Download:  https://github.com/digarok/senseiplay/releases 
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          July 29, 2023 
                  What is the Apple IIGS? Launcher released 
              WHAT IS THE APPLE IIGS? is the web page that hosts the largest collection of Apple IIGS  software titles to browse and download. With today's release of the WITA2GS Launcher at Virtual Kansasfest 2023, you can now launch your favourite games on your Apple IIGS easier than ever before! Download.  | 
        
        
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          July 21, 2022  
                SenseiPlay released
            First shown at Kansasfest, SenseiPlay is an easy to use player for NinjaTrackerPlus music files. Listen to music in style! 
                Update, August 7 - SenseiPlay updated to v1.03.  
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          April 18, 2022  
                TaifunBoot fixed 
            Apparently, TaifunBoot v1.8 was broken on this web site. This is fixed now and the previous version 1.7 is available now, too. Download.  | 
        
        
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          January 2, 2022  
                NinjaTrackerPlus updated 
            NinjaTrackerPlus can now stream instruments,  allowing playback of many more module files than before. 
              Update, January 16 -  An improved version is now available, with support for up to 31 tracks! Update, February 5 - Tool 222 up to date, minor bug fix in converter. 
                Read more. Download.  | 
        
        
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          April 08, 2021 
            "No Hard Feelings" released 
            At the Revision 2021 demo party, we released a  demo in the "Oldskool demo compo". The disk image released at the party does not boot (the demo had to be launched from ProDOS 8). Today we present a fixed disk image here.   | 
        
        
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          July 25, 2020 
                Samurai v1.1.1 
            Just in time for Kansasfest, there is an updated version of our IRC client Samurai, so you can hang out with Apple II enthusiasts at irc.a2central.com.  Download.  | 
        
        
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          July 21, 2019 
                The Shoddy Demo 
            An completely unknown group  has released a new demo for the Apple IIGS. Download.  | 
        
        
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          September 16, 2018 
                NinjaTrackerPlus released 
            The next generation of NinjaTracker is here. And Brutal Deluxe turned it into the brand new Tool 222. Read more. Download.  | 
        
        
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          July 28, 2018 
                  NinjaTracker Online Converter
              Want to make music for the Apple IIGS? Now you can convert  MOD files into NinjaTracker format with this new online tool.  | 
        
        
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          September 2, 2017 
                Making of Kernkompetenz
            Today at Apple II convention OzKFest 2017, Ninjaforce coder Jesse Blue gave a presentation about our latest production:  Behind the scenes of an Apple IIGS demo.  | 
        
        
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          June 8, 2017 
                NinjaTracker updated 
              During the development of Kernkompetenz, some tweaks to the music player where necessary. So here is now an update of NinjaTracker, our vastly modified version of the SoundSmith player. And yes, the source code is included. Get it here or read the changelist.  | 
        
        
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          April  22, 2017 
                Kernkompetenz released  
            First presented at Revision 2017, the world's biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries, Kernkompetenz was ranked 4th place in the Oldskool competition. Today, we're happy to announce a bugfixed version of the demo, which you can find here.  | 
        
        
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          June  30, 2016 
                KABOOM! v1.03 
            This update supports Rev. B of Alex Lukacz' 4-play joystick card. Read the changelist. Download or Play.  | 
        
        
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          April 29, 2016 
                KABOOM! goes fourth
            More BOOM than ever before! As presented at  WOzFest /// today, KABOOM v1.02  fully supports Alex Lukacz' awesome 4-play joystick card! But that's not all - turn up on your 4 speakers thanks to Jon   Christopher Co and John Valdezco's upcoming 4soniq sound card!  Now get your friends, grab those joysticks and blast 'em bombs all surround you!  
              Read the changelist. Download or Play.  | 
        
        
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          May 25, 2015 
              NinjaTracker released
            Yes, you heard it right: NinjaTracker, our vastly modified version of the SoundSmith player is available from our web site. And yes, the source code is included.  Get it here.  | 
        
        
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          May 02, 2015 
            KABOOM! v1.01 
            This update fixes some bugs. Read the changelist. Download or Play.  | 
        
        
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          April 11, 2015 
            KABOOM! released  
              It is done! Today, we can finally and proudly announce the release of our long-awaited game for the Apple IIGS. Read all about it here. 
               
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          May 11, 2014 
            Old Article 
              Just dug up an old demo scener magazine called "Blackmarket" from Latvia. The issue from April 2001 included an article about the Apple IIGS demo scene. They took my money but somehow forgot to send me my copy.  | 
        
         
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          August 18, 2013 
            Documentations added 
              The products page now includes all documentation files and readmes to read online.  | 
        
        
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          August 18, 2011 
            Blast from the Past 
              Whoot! Videos of  Ninjaforce Megademo, Wolfenstein, XAOH Preview and many Apple IIGS games are available online at Brian Picci's Channel. Nice work!   | 
        
        
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          October 27, 2007 
            Dotland 2007 Soundtrack  
              Welcome to 2007! The world moving on, and we remember the good ol' times, with a brand new version of the Megademo's all time favourite Dotland Soundtrack. Download it at  music.ninjaforce.com.                | 
        
        
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          February 26, 2005 
                    XAOH Preview / Email turned off  
              Look what we found on an old hard drive image: XAOH Preview!  
              Please note that we have turned off our email addresses. We got hundreds of unwanted messages per day. If you want to contact us, please use the form on the contact page.   | 
        
        
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