Annc: Virtual Apple ][ Version 4.0 Released

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Seattle Omniworks Releases Virtual Apple ][ Version 4.0

Latest update to the Virtual Apple site supports Macs and other
platforms on the Apple ][ section

Seattle, Wa. -- 13 January 2009 -- Seattle Omniworks, Inc. is proud to
finally announce the long awaited update to the Virtual Apple ]
[ online Apple II and IIgs emulation system.  Virtual Apple ][ version
4.0 is the result of many months of work on the part of several
people, making the site available on all platforms that support Java.

In our chase to get support for all platforms for our website, we
decided to use the open source AppleIIGo emulator and Nick Westgate
worked closely with us to update the available version of the emulator
to provide both near perfect sound and to fix issues with putting the
emulator online.

Both of these items were successful and there were other fixes to the
emulator such as multi-disk capability, hot disk swapping, and zipped
disk immage support, which meant that the only thing left once the
program was ready, was to re-write The Library generator which
produces the Virtual Apple website.

Now with all of these tasks completed, the emulator is online,
playable and the focus will now change on the website from the
emulation side to the programs side.  We have over 15,000 abandonware
and public domain programs that will eventually come available on the
website making it the worlds largest online playable software
repository.  Manuals for the applications will also be added for those
programs still missing documentation.

For more information about the website or to play the games, you can
go to the Virtual Apple ][ website at http://www.virtualapple.org