Volume 30, Issue 4 (December 2025)

Juiced.GS Volume 30, Issue 4 (December 2025)
PagesTypeHeadlineAuthorSummary
2My Home PageA Roller-Coaster RideKen GagneRefleecting on thirty yeas and three decades of growth and changes for Juiced.GS and the Apple II community.
3Letters from the Land of ROMHugh HoodCommenting on the artistic creativity that goes into the color covers over the last fifteen years of Juiced.GS.
4-7Behind the ScenesChanging the GameSean GuglerA behind-the-scenes look at Ultima IV Remastered, fixing bugs and adding features that were originall missing from Richard Garriott's 1985 game.
8-11Juiced.GS TributeThe Loss of a Gaming LegendsEric Shepherd, Megan Lemmert, Dana Ross, Seth Sternberger, Jon-Paul Dyson, Beth Daggert, Jarrod Kailef, Quinn Dunki, Andy Molloy, Kate SzkotnickiSharing memories and paying tribute to Rebecca Heineman, a.k.a. Burger Becky, who passed away in November 2025.
12-14ReviewA Second Serving of ApplesauceDavid SchmidtA review of the Applesauce+, the updated floppy disk controller and imaging software from John Keoni Morris.
15-17ReviewNo Mere ShellChris TorrenceA review of A2osX, a multitasking, Bash-like operating system (OS) by Rémy Gibert, Patrick Kloepfer, and others.
18-20ReviewEmulation Evaluation 2025Ivan DruckerReviews of Apple II emulators updated or released this year, including apple2emu, Virtual II, microM8, Apple2TS, and LinApple.
21CrosswordJeanne BreenAn original crossword puzzle featuring dozens of retrocomputing and Apple II clues and answers.
22-23DumplinGSThe Great UndergroundKen GagneKansasFest returns to University of Illinois Springfield for July 13–19, 2026; INIT HELLO returns to Hunt Valley in 2026; David Greelish releases unedited interview of John Sculley from the documentary Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa; Microsoft open-sources Infocom's Zork; Vince "deater" Weaver releases award-winning Monster Splash demo; Joshua Bell releases CHIP-8 language interpreter; Escape from Castle Dracenstein text adventure releases soon.
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23From the Assembly LineBurger Becky, HostChris TorrenceReflecting on Rebecca Heineman's attendance at KansasFest and her ability to make everyone feel welcome in the Apple II community.
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Letters from the Land of ROM

Krishna M. Sadasivam
Artist who has created multiple covers for Juiced.GS, including our 100th and 120th issues.

Behind the Scenes: Ultima IV

Ultima IV Remastered
Per Olofsson (a.k.a. MagerValp)’s Commodore 64 upgrade of Quest of the Avatar.

Ultima IV for Apple II, Remastered
Sean Gugler’s Apple II upgrade of Quest of the Avatar.

Ultima IV Bugs and ProDOS
Sean Gugler’s presentation at INIT HELLO 2025.

Juiced.GS Tribute

Rebecca Heineman passes away
News of Rebecca Heineman’s passing on November 17, 2025, at the age of 62.

Rebecca Heineman
Memories of Burger Becky, as shared by her friends and fans in the pages of Juiced.GS.

Review: Applesauce+

Applesauce FDC Shop
Official online store for the latest model of John Keoni Morris’s floppy disk controller.

Review: A2osX

A2osX
Official GitHub code repository for the multitasking, Bash-like operating system from Rémy Gibert, Patrick Kloepfer, and others.

Review: Apple II emulators

Emulation Evaluation
The previous year’s installment of this annual series, now available online for free.

Virtual II
Gerard Putter’s venerable 8-bit Apple II emulator for macOS.

apple2emu
Mark Allendar’s up-and-coming 8-bit Apple II emulator.

microM8
An online emulator from the publishers of Paleotronic magazine.

Apple2TS
An online emulator written in TypeScript by Chris Torrence.

LinApple
An 8-bit Apple II emulator for Linux.

Fun Pak

Jeanne D. Breen
New York Times-published author of Juiced.GS‘s inaugural crossword puzzle.

DumplinGS

KansasFest
The longest-running annual Apple II convention, being held July 13–19, 2026, at University of Illinois Springfield.

INIT HELLO
An Apple II conference whose second annual event will be held June or July 2026 in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

John Sculley
Excerpts from the full interview with Apple’s former CEO.

“Preserving code that shaped generations”
Microsoft officially licenses the code for Infocom’s Zork as open source.

Zork source code
The GitHub repositories to which Jason Scott uploaded Infocom’s source code in April 2019, now under the MIT License.

Monster Splash
An award-winning self-running Apple II demo from Vince Weaver, a.k.a. deater.

CHIP-8
A language interpreter for ProDOS.

Escape from Castle Dracenstein
News about an upcoming Apple II text adventure coded in Applesoft BASIC.