8Bit
19/06/2017First of all, this is an amazing website. The detail for everyone is great. One question though, how was the xmas_split demo sound file have 14 channels? The Apple 2GS only supports 8 channels. What did you to accomplish that? Anyways, this is a great website. Keep up the good work.
Hugo
16/06/2017I'm here by the Druaga video too
Leda
16/06/2017I came here because of Druaga1's video on Youtube
Yann Hamiaux
13/04/2017From Montreal, Canada...
Hi there! I happen to look on youtube a video taken in 2010 at an apple IIgs party and I saw an apple with FTA logo! So, I google your name and found this website!
Congratulation to all members of FTA for such nice demos you did back in the 80-90s... I think you did not get that much competition in the demo field?
I wonder, if back then or since then, there was ideas or things you though will be nice to do on that machine?
Best regards,
F-Cycles / Quebarium
Ross Nye
18/02/2017Any chance of adding the music from the Photonix II "About" screen to the Bonus Musics page??? I used to boot Photonix just so I could listen to that.
Also an archive with all those tunes in one would be great.
Cheers
junebeetle
21/06/2016Hey,
I collect old operating systems and games, and ActiveGS is great. One thing though - it would be nice if it saved everything using relative paths to the emulator instead of at ~/ActiveGSLocalData. Could you release the source for the Mac front-end so that I can change it myself?
Anyways, great software, thanks.
- junebeetle
Remy
15/06/2016Wahou!
Je tombe par hasard sur ce site qui me renvoie 30 ans en arrière au tant de l'AppleII GS, du club Pom's, et des demo des dijonnais du FTA!
Incroyable!!
Merci pour ce site
Remy
15/06/2016Wahou!
Je tombe par hasard sur ce site qui me renvoie 30 ans en arrière au tant de l'AppleII GS, du club Pom's, et des demo des dijonnais du FTA!
Incroyable!!
Merci pour ce site
Kristofer Saseniuk
28/04/2016Great to see Apple games still kicking around! Used my apple IIE for 18 years.
Huibert Aalbers
23/02/2016Salut depuis le Mexique.
Je viens tout juste de découvrir que vous avez développé un émulateur de l'Apple IIGS pour iOS. Bravo! Juste une petite question... Y a-t'il une bonne raison pour laquelle le produit ne soit pas disponible sous le soleil du Mexique?
A part ça, je suis content de voir que la plupart d'entre vous ayez réussi à avoir une bonne carrière professionnelle dans le monde informatique. Le travail est probablement mois divertissant que ce que nous faisions su le IIGS, mais probablement nettement plus rémunérant.
A+
Malaval Renaud
05/08/2015Hello all,
Just some words to share this unbelievable news !!!
Announcing Apple IIgs System 6.0.2 :
http://www.callapple.org/software/announcing-apple-iigs-system-6-0-2/
Best regards,
Renaud
John Brooks
30/05/2015Hi guys, haven't seen you since your 1991 California trip. Looks like your team has done some great GS work over the years.
I'm in the SF bay area now, so please look me up if you come to town. It would be great to catch up with you.
-JB
thunderwolf
19/01/2014Allez, je ne résiste pas au fait de laisser un message de la part de Babylon Software Corporation.
Un grand bonjour de la Corse et un grand regret de ne pas avoir trouvé un seul Big Shit !! Antic's que t'ont-ils fait !
Amitiés
Ed
02/08/2013How is it possible to get thre ios version installed? Thanks.
Olivier Goguel
20/05/2013Karateka rulz
Spk
16/06/2012Love the IIGS and FTA. And it's great FTA is still alive. But ActiveGS needs fullscreen support - without it I cant immerse into the Apple II world. Please please please can you make this happen.
FTA
10/06/2012Guestbook is back!
shyrkan
15/11/2011Que de bons souvenirs... Photonix et le reste, les copies à la fnac, le caps etc... bref...
cordialement,
Shyrkan
from "Load Runner IIGS" Fame
Abbas
13/12/2010I miss the II GS days. Simple machine that was good at what it did.
Christophe Sidot
16/11/2010pour les anciens un groupe RTEL existe sur FB : 3614 3615 RTEL !!!
Christophe Sidot
16/11/2010félicitations pour le boulot à l'époque !
le bonjour à tous les anciens FTA, She, Aragorn etc etc...
FTA
01/11/2010FTA Wormz Party coming soon!
cool
28/06/2010Sweet! I finally get to see what the craze for this thing was!
Brandon Taylor
10/06/2010Do you think that, in a future implementation of ActiveGS, you could implement a "print" function that prints to files, similar to what AppleWin (http://applewin.berlios.de) has implemented?
Brandon Taylor
Fred Crouch
19/04/2010Brilliant spoof. I thought I was connected to a real GS!
C'est bon! La plaisir demoder encore!
OrionPax
15/03/2010I'm glad you guys are still around from the good old days, and still carrying the flame of Apple IIGS Forever. It seems mobile phones is the next arena that duplicates the excitement and fun that we've had!
Malaval Renaud
15/01/2010I wish you all an happy new year 2010.
Quelle époque !!!, j'en ai encore les yeux qui brillent...
Amicalement,
Renaud
Radd Berkheiser
15/01/2010Probably not the best place to ask the question, but did you guys ever write a converter for NoiseTrackerGS to a more modern mod format? I recently dug out my GS and began migrating all my old mods over to my Mac for conversion, but I had written over 600 mods with NoiseTracker and the work is more than a bit tedious by hand. I've exhausted my wits trying to find such a beast online, but I'm still craving a good way to convert them to something like Renoise.
Any ideas?
GrolaR
25/09/2009Oops! S3m that's great.
http://rapidshare.com/files/284982016/FTA_-_Modulae.mp3.html
^^ I had put the Apple // version in mp3
(I fell like it's not the same - probably one sample a bit different)
Many thanks ;)
See ya
FTA
21/09/2009You can find some of the musics (including the modulae introduction song) in the bonus>musics section. enjoy!
GrolaR
20/09/2009FTA !
...Et je ne pourrais pas oublier la musique d'intro de modulae
Merci et bravo pour votre travail
A bientôt
ps: d'ailleurs cette zik si vous l'avez en *mod *xm ou mp3 je suis preneur
Antonio Gonzalez jr.
15/09/2009Glad to see you have the classics going and have not forgotten the machine we all love. Am thrilled you have Wolfie 3D up. My own part is the music soundtrack. For giggles, if you ever get to the secret level, you will get a secret music soundtrack that no other version of Wolfie has.
Keep up the spirit, am hoping to get the GS back in my life...
Pavel
14/09/2009Great site !!!
turn me back in the past :)) with my favorite Apple II!
congratulations man!
ARN
25/08/2009A lire vos noms ici, on se croit bientôt revenu sur 3614 RTEL ;)
A+
Arnaud.
FTA
18/08/2009Great to read all of those neat entries on the board after all the years!
Some names are very familiar, others used to be from sane competitors, some others had been forgotten and even if lot of them were not known to us, behind those names stand people whose Apple 2/2GS have deeply impacted their lives as much as it did to us.
Keep up da faith! O.
Sheherazade
03/08/2009vous avez marqué une sacré page dans ma vie
merci pour ce site plein de souvenirs...
Doede
17/07/2009Got your e-mail today and re-played some of the demo's online. Never thougth that you'd stay around for such long time. Same goes for myself! Hope to see you on IRC on a2central!
Tony
16/07/2009Hey, just got your Noisetracker, it's just what I'm looking for. Only problem is it doesn't have any docs, and I am not very familiar with trackers. I understand the basic concept, but don't know any of the effect codes. Think you could give me a hand?
Thanks
Sean
24/06/2009This is awesome! Thank you so much for the GS/OS! I've been looking for an emulator and the GS/OS for a week!
Mark Manning
22/06/2009This is great! I just found your site and had been despondent over ever finding a //gs emulator. Thanks for doing this! I still have (and occasionally us) my //gs. Now all I have to do is to finish up transferring the 1000's of disks I have over to my PC! :-)
Grand Sot
19/06/2009Hé bien que de souvenir.
J'achète une revue contenant une démo de FTA, je regarde le code avec un éditeur de bloc (ça se fait encore de nos jour ça ? :p), et la je trouve en ASCII au milieu : "contacter nous sur RTEL". De la est partie bien des choses puisqu j'y ai trouvé un belle communauté.
Merci à vous pour cette séquence nostalgie.
Mouss
15/06/2009Many thanks for the NoiseTracker program, developped by Gog's in my intention, in order to challenge Amiga Sound Box.
Very happy to watch and heard Demos created in Gog's garage, sharing time between electronic pool and ][GS.
http://www.ftaprofessionals.tv
31/01/2009Been playing with fta for years and did not know about this. Thanks
barry
28/01/2009While digging around in some old computer storage boxes I have found an original hyperstudio program on 3.5" disks with manual printshop a game called dexter and near 20 Big Red disks that came as a subscription with free and shareware of the time on it. total of near 30 disks.
I had a II GS Woz but donated it Phoenix apple users group years ago. I had a thunderware scanner and it emulated a 286 pc lots of fun times on my first computer.
Does anybody have use for a box of my old treasures?
Barry
-=LoCuTus=-
19/01/2009Where can I get a cheap IIGS? I love this thing!
ppuskari
25/12/2008Once again the FTA XMAS DEMO is my MUST RUN of the season or it's not Christmas. Been playing that demo since it came out the first year I was in college at Ohio State University.
Thanks for the many years of enjoyment!
ppuskari
Stuart
12/05/2008The excellent site!!! Want you good luck!!! With best wishes Stuart!!!
FritzThird
10/05/2008This website has revived my greatest of memories, thanks FTA. It's time to get my old IIGS up and running.
Roi-Tan
26/04/2008Wow, the FTA is still out there. I had so many great memories with my GS. Hats off to you guys for doing such cool stuff back in the day. I was 11 when I got my GS. You captured the imagination of this kid! 21 years later, I'm still on a damn computer all day long. :)
Lanfranco
27/03/2008What a shock, surfing the net, to find the famous FTA! I was back with my //GS again, struggling on BBS to find some new software, and using your copier program.
You gave me a lot of good moments on my GS. Thank you!
Your page is already on my bookmarks.
Lanfranco (AppleGhiro)
Rastan
09/01/2008can anyone tell me the keyboard controls for your rastan download. Loved the old game and was happy to see that you have it but i cannot figure out what the commands are.
GTMaster
28/11/2007The correct address is bestoldgames.net
GTMaster
28/11/2007Bestoldgames.com has quite alot of these old games, not sure if Transylvania is there, but check it out.
Long live Sierra games!
BB
24/11/2007I was hoping someone could tell me where I can find Transylvania. I really want to play it.
Lizard
08/08/2007Coded some lame GS stuff, like a rip of Activision's Kaboom (Boom!) back in the day. Had no graphics talent and little music talent. FTA definitely set the bar high for the rest of us (damn genius coding/creativity of Gogs)! Disassembly was a great learning tool. Miss the monitor. Miss being able to tweak at the machine/assembly level on PCs like I used to do on the GS. (Have a problem? Throw some code together that fixes it!) Miss BBS's.
EOR, BIT, ASL, LDA, LDX, etc. (What about WDM?)
Glen Bredon (2000 RIP) & Merlin 16.
Wonder where Lepton and Slob are at these days? At least I know where Cha0s is!
Where's Bullwinkle Moose?
Is Abbas (Talisman) now a dentist? If so, all dentists tell me to get my wisdom teeth out but the teeth never bother me (and I'm 35)! What do you think? :)
Judas
13/06/2007Ah, Karateka... That brought me back. You don't have many games. I'd suggest getting some to the true arcade classics, like Montezuma's Revenge, Spy Hunter, and Canyon Jumper.
Still, though, seeing some of these old Apple ][ games made me nostalgic. In fact, I think I still have my old IIgs stored away somewhere...
Chet
28/03/2007Hey everyone. Great site! I have tons of old writing that I did on the Apple IIe. I have dozens of 5-inch floppies with lots of writing text stored on them. Any way to open those files, copy and paste them into modern Word, then re-save them all?? Maybe I can even do so through an emulator on this site? Any ideas would be appreciated. It's a pain having to boot up the old Apple evry time I need to search for one of my files !!
let me know at bookiebrooks@yahoo.com
amotyka
02/03/2007The apple iigs has to be my all-time favourite computer. I own a rom 03 machine with extra ram & harddrive. My dream is to have a pocket-sized iigs, but trawling the web has only revealed pocketgs on this site, which isn't finished. Any plans for further development?
Aragorn GS
24/02/2007Aujourd'hui, je suis chez mes parents, j'ouvre un placard et je retrouve quelques bouquins de programmation de mon vieux GS. Alors je me dis : tiens je vais essayer de taper "Apple 2GS" sur dans Google, et je tombe sur votre site avec l'émulateur en ligne. Bon bin c'est tout simplement génial les enfants ! Franchement c'est vraiment bien. Quelle machine ce 2GS quand même, elle était vraiment bien. Tout une époque, une fin d'époque plutôt. Après mon Apple2c j'étais passé au GS. J'en ai eu 2. Dont l'un gonflé à bloc avec Transwarp GS, PC transformer (ou un nom dans le genre), carte SCSI et HD de 60Mo, etc. Quelle époque !
Continuez comme ça les gars. Ca me rajeuni.
steve jobs
23/02/2007Lame, slow and ugly stuff as you would expect from this so laaame computer.
TheMunger
10/01/2007Great site. Old sysop of RABBS ][gs in Seattle, and FTA was a staple of file section's selection. Take a look here for more usable images.
http://www.virtualapple.org/
Long live Transwarp, AE the byte bros. and Nibble magazine!
gtmaster
09/01/2007HAPPY NEW YEAR! Long live all Apple IIgs computers :)
All the best,
gtmaster
MkV
05/01/2007Houla !
J'ai rajeuni de 15 ans en quelques minutes...
Excellente idée de maintenir ce site et l'esprit qui va avec en vie !
C'etait l'bon vieux temps !
Pascal, ancien de Miami Software et du Clan des Crackers Francais Unis.
Maxor
31/12/2006Great sites and projects. It sucks I can't find any of the old educational games and software I played as a kid. Some off the top of my head are a program where you fill black and white pages with color like a coloring book. Another was called Showtime and allowed you to create plays where actors would move on screen and speak. And the "Tales of" games by Scholastic I think, like Tales of Adventure, Tales of Mystery, Tales of the Future. I hate thinking that some software may be lost forever.
FTA
18/11/2006If you have some problem browsing the virtualapple.org website, you can manually install the ActiveGS emulator by using the following url : http://www.freetoolsassociation.com/fta/activegs_code.html
Jim
19/10/2006So groovy to be seeing these old classic games still around on the Virtual Apple 2 site! Now, if I could just get to play them... Where do you download the activex controller here?! I see the stand-alone version, and that's it. I set the pop-op control to install the activex control, and still nothing. What am I missing?
commodorejohn
04/10/2006Hey, nice site. Being that FTA did software development for the IIGS, could you provide technical information on it for those of us who still want to program it?
gtmaster
08/09/2006Hi,
Great website, good old memories. I still have my IIGS. Haven't used it for a year but i remember the FTA stuff. By the way, is Space Shark an FTA game? It's french, but i think it's an FTA game. My GS is the base version: 2mhz cpu, i think 0k ram, or the next step in the ram line. I'd really like to get some old hardware for it, but i can't find any.
Well, keep your IIGS and turn it on from time to time. It's great fun!
Bye!
P.S : in PQ1, on the apple you have to press shift0 for the siren to work. (shift zero.) It should work. I've played it before as well.
Dave
05/09/2006BTW, anyone with a functional IIGS or using KEGS, you HAVE to go to the Apple anachronistic ring at http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/ for all kinds of disk images.
Dave
05/09/2006I got the 500 meg at a best buy almost 10 years ago. It was marketed for Macs, but it was a standard SCSI, so it works on the IIGS. I have several 32 meg Prodos partitions, 2 I used for MSDOS for my PC Transporter, and one 125 meg HFS partition I use for storage. No, I never got close to running out of space. :)
I am trying to image my favorite partitions to use with the KEGS emulator, but it is proving difficult. I have a SCSI ZIP drive I connect to my chain with an HFS formatted disk, but the disk is not liking being written to. It keeps crashing the system. Doesn't help that my TWGS died a long time ago and I am at native speed.
The_n00b
04/09/2006Hey Dave, that's pretty cool. How did'ya get that 500 MB harddrive? I desperately need one so I can install GS/OS. The only free disks I have are some 5 1/4 inch disks, and two 3 1/2 inch disks (we all know you can't install GS/OS on those). Of course I could use the bootdisk, but what's the point? (Besides, it used to work, but recently it would not go into the Finder. (It didn't think it had enough RAM, even though I didn't do anything with the RAM). Thanx for reading!
Gomez
31/08/2006Why are you using the expression " 2GS " instead of the much closer " ][gs " or " IIgs "? " 2GS" just looks goofy.
Dave
30/08/2006Anyone know where I can get a transwarp GS or a ZipGS? I have dusted off my old IIgs for nostalgia's sake and remember now that 2.8 mhz is really slow. I had a TWGS but fried it trying to make it faster. That was when I jumped ship to a pentium windows machine.
Dave
24/08/2006Well I'll be! I have a IIgs sitting on a desk gathering dust, and I was just thinking of firing it up to play Rastan and Noisetracker when I found this site. Awesome effort guys! My IIgs has a 500 meg HD and it used to have a transwarp GS, but it died when I tried to overclock it. I also used to have a CD Rom on it as well, but it too, died. I do have a functioning PC Transporter.
Makes me remember going to the Apple users group meeting way back in the day to trade software and see what everyone else had. Sigh. The good ol days.
Rocket
26/07/2006Hey how do I turn on the siren in the car in police quest 1?
I pushed f10 and nothing happens
How I miss these games of the late 80's
The _n00b
06/07/2006I obtained a ROM 01 Apple IIGS about 2 years ago and it has a color monitor, a 3 1/2 floppy drive that uses 800k capacity disks, and a 5 1/4 inch drive. I'm just wondering how to transfer IIGS programs that I downloaded off the internet onto it. I don't have a null modem cable or terminal software, and I also don't have a macintosh capable of writing ProDos disks (no, it's not my main computer, my main computer a pentium 4 rig running WinXP, it's a Macintosh Classic with a superdrive and System 6. I'd be able to write 800k Prodos disks with system 7). Any help? Thanx.
P.S. I don't have a joystick or paddles, and I need those to play certain 8-bit games I have. Any way to rig up an old gameport gamepad or an NES controller or create my own? Thanx again.
Steve
30/06/2006I have an Apple 2GS computer that is looking for a good home.
Please contact me for info @ dcsc08@mail.com.
The computer and software are free. All I ask is for you to pay for Shipping.
pierre louis
19/04/2006ça fait drôle de retrouver la communauté apple 2 et cette démo superbe à l'époque. j'ai toujours gardé mon 2gs au fond d'un carton avec le dd, les drive 5 1/4 et 3 1/2... j'ai même encore le 2e, sa chat mauve, sa midi faite maison...
JCD
10/04/2006Ben ca fait bizarre de retrouver tout cela ..... Amitiés a ceux qui se souviennent du "pere noel est une ordure" remaster.
JCD
Pi r squared
08/03/2006I really used to enjoy playing "hacker II" on my old Apple II Gs.
Does anyone know of a website that I could obtain a pc version?
A million thanks.
Jim
08/02/2006It's back up at virtualapple.org.
Yay!
Roro
24/12/2005Salut Dominique
Je me souviens bien de toi. Au milieu des annnées '80 tu avais fondé la BPS (Bank of Pirated Software). J'étais membre (passif?) pour quelque temps.
Ma dope c'était la série Wizardry/Sorcellerie. Il y avait tellement de softs pur l'appple II (près de 10'000). A cette époque, tu connaissais pas mal de monde: Godfather, Gonedu, Ping-Pong, etc. Tu avais aussi un IIGS ou un modèle
antérieur je crois. Je n'pouvais pas m'en offrir un, mon apple II 64 Ko avait déjà coûté près de 5 tickets à mes parents. Aujourd'hui tout est devenu plus facile et plus convivial. Mais note que mon ancien apple démarre et s'éteint plus vite que windows...
Merci de m'avoir fait partagé ces moments d'excitation et de bonheur.
Murdock
abcpea
25/11/2005Very sad news, the virtualapple website is down and i fear that it may never go back up =(
Ouaouw!
11/11/2005Merci pour tout! Juste entrer sur votre site et j'ai commencé à chantonner la musique d'intro de Modulae, 12-13 ans après que je l'ait écouté pour la dernière fois. Preuve que vous avez été une méchante influence.
Shellee Housekeeper
06/11/2005This site appears to have some owesome game templates. I don't work on
this one, I Play.
rolando
16/10/2005Bonjour, c'est vraiment super ce que vous avez fait. Jouer sur un pc aux vieux jeu d'apple II. C'est génial. Surtout que je cherchai transylvania pour finir le jeu et que n'avais pas terminé à 14 ans. Le problème c'est que je parviens toujours pas à le finir. Je suis bloqué au niveau de la grille du cimetière. Je ne sais pas non plus à quoi sert le pain? Est ce quelqu'un peut m'aider.
D'avance merci
oliviarolando@hotmail.fr
ROLANDO
16/10/2005I find virtual apple excellent. It was for a long time I 'd like to play again to transylvania on apple because I was not able to finish this game. Did someone no how to finish it. I can't open the grate on the cemetory. Please help me.
paul
30/07/2005Oh my goodness. NUCLEUS! That was the program I used to show my friends that my IIgs was better than their Atari/Mac/Commedor. Way too keep everything alive! You guys rule!
Krishna
29/07/2005You guys rock! Thanks for bringing back those good ol' GS memories. I remember the day I first saw Nucleus and Photonix demo'd. My jaw was on the floor - I couldn't believe how slick, how fast, and how awesome your demos were.
In this day and age, the demo scene seems to be dead. But you guys were and are great, and I wanted to give you thanks for showing the world that the IIGS could hold its own against the Amiga and Atari ST.
-Krishna
Cartoonist, "The PC Weenies"
http://www.pcweenies.org
The Usurper
02/06/2005Since there was mention of Future Crew, heres what one of them is up to.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=T4992LL/A
Alchemy Features:
...
Brand new mystical soundtrack by famed Future Crew composer Skaven.
...
http://www.futurecrew.com/skaven/
Enjoy!
FTA forever! Apple II forever!
Tuvok88
25/05/2005Hey guys wicked site. I got my first 2GS in 1989. It cost way back then AU$4699! I've been searching the net for my favourite game back then to run on an emulator called 'Xenocide'. Does anyone remember that game? Thanks guys you rock.
troypalin@msn.com
Frank M. LIN
20/05/2005Hello FTA Gang!!! Ahh how I miss the good old days. You guys were some of the best programmers I loved your work. Anyway, I'm not sure if you guys have heard of myspace.com but it is a VERY POPULAR "friends" site in USA, very much like friendster.com but much faster and quicker. Anyway, I've made an Apple ][gs Alumni Group. I hope any and all Apple ][ users join.
http://groups.myspace.com/appleiigs
FTA FOREVER!
Viperion
16/01/2005In my time I've owned 2 ROM1's, a ROM1 Wozniak edition and a ROM3. Ive had various goodies, like a ZipGS and at one point one of the rare 7mhz Transwarp GS's with double onboard cache. I was a GS/OS developer for a while (I primarily kept away from 16-bit ASM), primarily writing NDAs and the occasional standalone app. My favourite NDA to date is Sonobox.
I still remember the day Nucleus rumors started popping up on Genie and then eventually the demo itself appeared. I was amazed at what the FTA pulled off on a machine that didn't seem capable of realtime fillmode 3D graphics, not to mention all the music and display indicators updating around it.
I have a pile of old GS disks, unfortnately I can't read any of them unless I buy a mac. I wish a company would produce a floppy drive for the PC that would read the nonstandard floppies, then I could relive some of those basic programs I wrote that did nothing.
Long live the FTA.
Another group (though not as old) that fits into the category of computing legend is Futurecrew (makers of Second Reality). I also remember when that demo was world famous, back in 1993 I believe.
Dipo
11/01/2005Geeez! FTA site!!!!
Back in my teens!!!
MAXIMUM respect to you all for what you did and what you're doing. Keep on!
Apple II Forever!
Dipo
11/01/2005Geeez! FTA site!!!!
Back in my teens!!!
MAXIMUM respect to you all for what you did and what you're doing. Keep on!
Apple II Forever!
Michael
10/01/2005I want to thank you for what you've done, i've been searching for some things for years with no luck. till this and virtualapple.com
Louis
09/01/2005Salut les ACS, je suis en plein total recall, je me souviens plus si on s'est fait la guerre ? que devenez vous ?
Lionel PICAMELOT
08/12/2004p'tain, ça m'rappelle des souvenirs....
Salutations et petit coucou du fin fond de l'Alsace et en particulier pour "The Gog's" et "silicon-man"
Max (a gaZ)
Colin W
24/11/2004The FTA were/are still coding gods! I will never forget the moment I played Modulae for the first time. Winners don't use tools!
frank (CEDLecca)
21/11/2004Hi there guys, you are LIVING LEGENDS!! Now I can, at last, say THANK YOU for all your did for the IIgs and all the time you made me spend with your great software! Thanks so much, and good luck :-) Keep up the great work with your emulator!
D
14/10/2004Very Cool!
LeFab
14/09/2004encore et toujours là le gogs ... toujours aussi megalo, la photo de nucleus sur le tosh avec pil poil les coordonnées de Dijon ... Trop fort.
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Alessandro (aka Dadopado)
08/08/2004Hail to the memories! Hail to old good friends!
Dado
Shiraz Akmal
29/07/2004Hello to Olivier ! I remember the Talisman BBS -- that rocked! FTA was definitely one of the reasons why I'm developing games today. The XMAS demo -- that was awesome! Nice to see some familiar names here...
- Shiraz
Abbas (Iron Eagle)
13/06/2004A big hello to everyone. I ran into this site by accident. It has brought back many memories from my GS days running the Talisman BBS. A big hello to Olivier and Dominique. It was because of your demos that The Talisman got popular. I miss those days. Todays computers are fun but just not the same.
Fortan
16/05/2004Hi to all IIgs Fans, and a big Hi to The Apple Chemical Service crew...Thanks You for giving me many years ago Flubinoid (great breakout!) on the old good Apple II !
Tal
22/04/2004Yeah!!!!! nice products :o)))
Apple II demoscene rulez!
Keep the great work ;o)
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/talandia/
Angela
20/03/2004I am looking to find a place to download olympic decathalon. I miss it and loved it when i was a child, if anyone knows where I can find it, let me know. angymangin@comcast.net. I tried playing it on virtualapple.com, but it wont work.
angela
Aaron Howard
15/03/2004Wow... I'm in awe.. I was searching for a ][gs emulator since I have about a million old ][gs discs I found in a locker.. and then... pow... FTA...
I'm still in shock of being able to just load up the X-mas demo and hear that damn loading song.
Ok.. so this is the question of the day.. what'd you have to type into the xmas demo to get the screens? It's been so long, I've forgotten...
Well this does bring back the good ole days of 1200 baud modems and hard drives as large as a bookcase... I still have a ton of softs for the ][gs.. I dont know how good the media is after all these years.. but I do have a ton of bbs soft for the gs as well.. drop me a line.. I have tons of games and stuff.. is there anywhere out there thats got it?
PAO
21/12/2003Some pictures don't look real...
Steve
10/12/2003I am looking for a monitor for my old Apple 2GS system. Does anyone have one for sale? My monitor went and I have some disks that I have to read.
Mike Frisco
27/11/2003FTA ROCKS!
I still have my FTA pins...the ones advertised in the Delta Demo! Keep up the good work with that emulator! If the Kegs guy can't be bothered to keep the win32 port up to date, I have no doubt you guys can do it.
gregor
05/11/2003Yea i feel 12 again
Keep thise side up
greetings
gregor
Ross Nye
02/11/2003FTA! WoW i can't believe that the Utlimate GS programmers are still around.
I still got my Space Harrier Demo, Delta Demo, XMas Demo and Photonix on 800K FD.
Havent tried it yet, but im betting this is the best GS emulator there is
Tres bien - year 8 french at its finest ;-)
C
11/08/2003Common guys ! This site needs to get updated more often !
I'm sure everyone here would agree with me since you guys
already brought back the good memories so now you're going
to have to keep it up :)
Isabelle Caron
07/08/2003Two thumbs up !
Tim Meekins
25/05/2003Wow! This site sure has brought back some memories. I really miss those old IIgs days! It was always an exciting day when the next FTA disk came out. It was a bit sad when I left the IIgs for bigger and better things.
-Tim
http://www.tmeekins.com
Claudio H. Picolo
21/05/2003Hey!
How to contact Free Tools Association by e-mail from the site?
Do someone owns the "MODULAE main music" or the "NoiseTracker IntroMusic" on ".s3m", ".med", ".xm" or other similar format?
(Good tips to put on this site for download, ah?)
bryan caney
16/05/2003Like so many who have posted here, my early teenage years were spent in front of a IIGS watching FTA demos with mouth open and drool coming out. Very special memories. You guys ROCK!
Jim
12/05/2003I can't believe it! The Gogs? Mr. Z? I remember talking to Mr. Z on the phone a decade ago. I lived with Joe Hack & The Mercenary would spend college break with us. The hidden messages in the demos between ECC & FTA were a riot (well to me anyway LOL!). I was up late with JH the night he released Rastan. Glad to see most of you are still around. I sold my Apple's long ago, but I miss them :( Playing the games & demos from your site brought back fond memories. Thanks guys!
Cg
09/05/2003Ca fait du bien de revoir ces demos apres tout ce temps...
Un grand bravo aux membres du FTA qui ont vraiment donne un 'boost' a l'Apple IIGS. Est-ce que les membres du FTA ont toujours garde leur IIGS ;) ?
Claudio H. Picolo (http://www.yunes.com/picolo)
14/04/2003As a IIGS fan, it's very nice to know that the IIGS community is still alive!
Congratulations FTA!!!
Ben
07/03/2003Very nice! Good work!
BrianD
06/03/2003Incredible site. I loved the FTA demos when I was a sapling. Trying to figure out how they worked provided months of enjoyment. Welcome back to the limelight!
Gator
05/03/2003Fta was fantastic back in the day. I loved disassembling FTA, GSA, FUCK disks. I learned so much from you guys. I still remember the days I figured out how to control the ensoniq for music, or the day I figured out the timing, down to the cycle, to get border text scrolls.
Let's face it. There is never again going to be a machine like the GS where you could turn in on and control the computer without an OS. Low level access to disk drives, video hardware, sound hardware, mouse hardware. Now you can hardly program without a few levels of translation. Sure, there is something to be said for not having to reinvent the wheel, but there is something also to be said for being ABLE to reinvent the wheel if you wanted to. What the hell is an API? ;)
All hail GOG!
SIMONE & GUY
13/01/2003Et bien oui Guy, nous sommes en directe de Vesoul pour vous souhaiter une BONNE ANNEE A TOUS, mais il est déjà midi et nous devons rendre l'antenne. Ici Vesoul, à vous Cognacq-Jay, à vous les studios !
Stefan Stefansson
11/01/2003Greetings from Iceland.Your demos made quite an impact on me as a kid. Nucleus, Modulae, NoiseTracker and even photonix were unbelievable piece of software at that time :) I remember the joy when I discovered and understood the line drawing algorithm you used in the Modulae demo after having used the built-in monitor (interactive assembly shell :) to hack around the code. Later on I found out that the algorithm was called Bresenhams line drawing algorithm. These were great times. The Apple IIgs was a brilliant machine that was a great vehicle for experimenting with and learning about the various aspects of computation and also providing some fun along the way. It is a bit sad when one thinks of these modern day black box entertainment machines, especially geared towards kids, such as the XBox and Playstation that have no soul and no mysteries waiting to be unlocked by some curious young people.Keep up the good work :)Regards,Stefan.
Deny
06/12/2002Don't skate bearfoot...Use Deny's socks !
SpK
29/11/2002"Keep up the good work !" - Air célèbre. ;-D
La Sister
29/11/2002Analphabète, bête, inintelligent !
GRoNK
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Chez Rasade
21/11/2002Gulp-Gulp ! Lydie Hot.
TIGER
20/11/2002Définitivement, je ne suis pas Joe Silvera !F.U.C.K
CALYPSO
20/11/2002"Dis, tu trouves pas quelque-chose de changé, dans mes yeux ?"Bise de lune.
Lacaze's Brothers
06/11/2002C'est assez amusant de se replonger dans le //gs apres toutes ses années.... Nous avions presque oublié toutes ses demos et toutes ses applications.....
le temps passe.... les modes passent mais FTA reste;;!!!
Phoenix
01/11/2002Ciao from Italy and from the makers of TricksZone
Russell Nielson
01/11/2002Wow, the FTA on the 'net! AWESOME! I don't want to recount everything that has been said in this Guestbook so I will simply add a few words of my own.
Nothing can describe the impact the FTA had on me. I was young, only around the age of 16 when I remember being awestruck by the FTA demos and programs. I must have sat at my GS for countless hours, days, weeks, months, YEARS, admiring the FTA demos. I had my GS equipped with a stereo card and fed it directly into my receiver pumping out 110watts to two enormous 5 foot speakers (two woofers, two mid range, and 1 tweaker each). The GS simple rocked! Whether I was blasting out SounthSmith tunes or tracking music with NoiseTracker, or queuing up music from my desktop with DeskPlay, it didn't matter, it all sounded awesome, and the FTP was the most creative of all.
I still use my GS today. It's all hooked up with 10MHz Zipcard, two Zip Drives, a Hard Drive, CDROM drive, etc. Still boots up perfectly every time!
Long live the FTA, and of course, take those tools and stick them #@$%$#! :-)
Russell Nielson
www.russelln.com (go check out my Apple page from there)
FTA
30/10/2002Now open!
Neville Ridley-Smith
02/10/2002I had my GS for a year or two. Then I got the Nucleus demo. Far out! I was overwhelmed. I immediately had to drag all my family members into my bedroom to see it. Dunno how much time I've spent watching all your various demos - it's probably be quite scarey. Thanks for the good times.
pierre.hnospam@nospamcineaste.org
28/09/2002Je suis tombé par hazard (ou presque) sur ce site, et revoir tout cela me balance en pleine nostalgie. Revoir mini-prix sur la page des créations du FTA me fait forcément penser à PAD-Dany qui n'est plus parmi nous.
D.R.
21/09/2002I wonder what Bullwinkle Moose is up to these days? =)
Seriously though, FTA had a really meaningful impact on my life. I must have been 13 or 14 when I got Neucleus and it just blew me away. It got me into programming and gave me an appreciation for really well written and efficient software.
It would be great to see a new FTA project. An emulator maybe, or a new demo?
Eric ZMIRO
29/08/2002Salut Bô Blond !
Un petit salut de Paris, en souvenir de nos echanges autour de la protection de Prehistorik2...
J.R.
17/08/2002When do the mp3s for Modulae come out?! I do my work with an emulator minimized so I can listen to that nostalgic music.
FTA Forever
Ballajack
19/07/2002Salut Olivier,
En souvenir du bon vieux temps de l'Apple 2 GS, de Photonix II et d'Argenteuil...
A+
S.S.
12/07/2002The Apple II is the best.
It was the worlds first and last computer.
When will the true 2nd computer come out!
Phoenix
22/06/2002Thank for the great joy, for the demos, for the games that you have created!
For me you are legend!
Nucleus and X-mas Demo (and their hidden parts) was really superb!
jgeiger
02/05/2002Yeah, that's really my email address, and it's on the license plate for my car. It's nice to see that this is still somewhat remembered. It seems everyone moved into some part of the video game field but me. (well I make websites, but not video games) Anyway, I'm still waiting for my no-doz pills.
www.joeygeiger.com
(and I might have the rastan intro page on a disk somewhere)
Stefano
06/03/2002Some days ago I've decided to bring back to life my old IIGS. After connecting all the cables, I put the NUCLEUS disk into the 3.5 drive and then turned it on... When the intro screen appeared and the music started playing, some tears appeared in my eyes... I spent some more time watching MODULAE, XMAS DEMO and PHOTONIX... I was thinking: "I will never see all these things on my PC. A PC is only a computer, a cool computer. Apple IIGS is a wonderful world where you can really learn to write code and where you can watch incredible software written by true programmers". Now I'm trying to improve my programming tecnique on the PC, because I'd like to create a game for it that somehow remember the IIGS world (if it can be possible...). But I'm also looking for someone that will help me: I think it's too hard for me to do that all by myself !!! Thanks to the FTA and all other free tool programmers !!! APPLE II FOREVER !!!
Andy McDonald
14/02/2002FTA... IIGS days... What a blast it was, when programs had style and were innovative. How different things are now.
The stuff you produced really pushed the iigs past what others believed were it's limitations. As the Space Harrier Demo stated "They said it was not possible but here it is". This gave us iigs users a lot of hope. You were the "rock stars" of the iigs, dudes.
You had a profound effect on my personal computing during my adolescence. U da bomb. FTA is dead. Long live FTA!!!
Did you ever finish "Blue Helmet"? :))
Alex Lee
09/02/2002FTA: legends.
Have had a lasting influence on my expections of the user experience with computers. So far, I've never been as impressed with software since the FTA's stuff. I wish developers would take time out to see how innovation, kick arse music, brilliant graphics and design and equally brilliant coding can truely make using computers an absolute joy.
I would also say that the FTA's influence has also lead me in a career in graphic design and multimedia.
Mike Frisco
07/02/2002Holy crap dude. FTA. I can't tell you how many times I watched Modulae play over and over again.
I even bought those FTA lapel pins advertised in the Delta Demo!
When I'd heard that the FTA had disbanded, I was heartbroken. None of my friends seemed to care, though. They were busy playing their fancy VGA games. The truth is, the IIGS had never seen such amazing high-quality work as the stuff that was made by FTA. The PC world should be so lucky.
I've spent a good hour going through this site, reliving my childhood. The good ol' days. Thanks a lot for taking the time to put this all together.
You guys should reunite to produce a Windows-based GS emulator! KEGS and XGS just aren't cutting it. Thanks!
Jason
02/02/2002Your work was one of the major reasons why I bought the IIGS and was also very motivational and entertaining to watch. Your code helped to teach me how to program more better, and how to do some neat tricks.
I want to thank all the FTA members for their contribution to the IIGS community, even though every one has gone their own way, the memories will last for a long time.
Thanks again, and FTA rulz forever!!!
FTA
30/01/2002Thanks for you support, even after all those years. Please check the "team" page as it has been updated to answer (some of) your questions...
Vinnk
25/01/2002I was 13 years old when I heard the news that FTA was no more... I tried to get sympathy from my friends but they were busy with their 286es. FTA helped me take pride in my GS as "uncool" as those around me made it out to be. I am still using it today, I think I must be one of only a handful of people who aver put a CD-Rom drive on that thing! I wonder what you guys could have done with CD-Rom on GS....
Clue
11/01/2002Say no to tools, and let the good old times roll!
Phil Tyler
10/01/2002Excellent site. Great to remember the days when computers were still FUN and Microsoft didn't own the world. Your programs were great - it's a shame that Apple's marketing black hole and stupid pricing stopped the Apple IIGS from becoming the world beater it could have been.
Are you working with Linux, MacOS X or Windoze these days? Or have you all got proper jobs and escaped computers altogether?
Thanks for puttining these pages together.
Phil (http://www.godfreyb.com)
John
10/01/2002FTA!!! Yes, you guys were the best!! I spent countless number of hours glued to my 'old //GS monitor watching your incredible demos and listening to the fantastic music that accompanied them. When Nucleus came out it wouldn't play on my machine because of not enough ram, so I immediately upgraded to 4 1/4Megs! I immediately showed it to some of my Amiga friends to tell them that there *was* demos for the //GS! lol! Anyway, I'm glad you guys programmed for the //GS, and as cheesy as it may sound, your demos and apps as well as other French demos for the //GS, was a special part of my young life back then. I can't exactly describe the feeling back then, but it was a warm funny Christmasy type feeling.. hehe Very special indeed!
I hope all of you are doing well!
Hey- I'd also like to give a big shout out to a few of my buddies back then: Richard!!! (The Jazz), Jim!!!!, Kent (NoiseTracker expert! eheh), and everyone else that I became friends with back then..
-John aka SyKo aka AirJohn
King Lerch
09/01/2002I've always loved the FTA. It is amazing that a small group of programmers kept the GS alive for so long. I listen to the music even today (with a //GS emulator). I even programmed a few Soundsmith songs myself years ago. Are you still programming?
FTA
09/08/2001Welcome to the official FTA site!
Enjoy :-)