microM8 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/microm8/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:55:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png microM8 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/microm8/ 32 32 146320098 cyanIIde Web-Based Apple IIe Emulator http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/28/cyaniide-web-based-apple-iie-emulator/ http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/28/cyaniide-web-based-apple-iie-emulator/#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:43:20 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=17861 cyanIIde is a subset of our microM8 Apple II emulator meant to run on lower-power systems such as the Raspberry Pi and in the browser. This page contains an early release of the WebAssembly version. [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2021/07/28/cyaniide-web-based-apple-iie-emulator/feed/ 0 17861 microM8 Apple II Emulator Cracks 10,000 Downloads! http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/27/microm8-cracks-10000-downloads/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/27/microm8-cracks-10000-downloads/#respond Sun, 27 Sep 2020 07:44:36 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14365 When we started working on microM8 just four years ago, it began as a simple project to make an Applesoft BASIC interpreter. We didn’t have any idea that our little project would eventually become a [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/27/microm8-cracks-10000-downloads/feed/ 0 14365 Old Logo Turtle… New microLogo Tricks! http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/05/old-logo-turtle-new-micrologo-tricks/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/05/old-logo-turtle-new-micrologo-tricks/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:19:19 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=6691 So it’s fair to say we might have gone a little crazy tricking out the turtle in microM8‘s OpenGL Apple Logo implementation… New Graphical Primitives: Wireframe: Reminder: SETPC color – sets the ‘pen’ colour SETPOPA [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/09/05/old-logo-turtle-new-micrologo-tricks/feed/ 0 6691 microM8 Update: Back to the Debugger http://paleotronic.com/2019/07/20/microm8-update-back-to-the-debugger/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/07/20/microm8-update-back-to-the-debugger/#respond Sat, 20 Jul 2019 10:44:37 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=5233 Mark Lemmert of 6502 Workshop has been using microM8 to debug Nox Archaist, an Apple II RPG he’s developing, and we’re really happy when people use our stuff to do cool things. So we thought [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/07/20/microm8-update-back-to-the-debugger/feed/ 0 5233 A microM8 update and a glimpse into the future of Paleotronic http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 02:13:51 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4596 The latest update to microM8 adds a few new features and fixes a few outstanding bugs. Platoterm support Mockingboard enhancement Original Apple II and 13-sector disk support Compatibility improvements Taking microM8 (and Paleotronic) into the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/feed/ 0 4596 microM8 Update: Experimental GUI and control API http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/21/microm8-update-experimental-gui-and-control-api/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/21/microm8-update-experimental-gui-and-control-api/#respond Sun, 21 Apr 2019 04:30:33 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4184 Recently we’ve had requests from users for both an API (an interface for controlling our microM8 Apple II emulator externally) and a GUI (a graphical user-interface native to the host operating system). The lack of [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/04/21/microm8-update-experimental-gui-and-control-api/feed/ 0 4184 microM8 Update: High-Contrast UI Mode and Filled Triangles in microLogo http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/30/microm8-update-high-contrast-ui-mode-and-filled-triangles-in-micrologo/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/30/microm8-update-high-contrast-ui-mode-and-filled-triangles-in-micrologo/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2019 03:53:59 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3888 We love our colour text but it can be difficult for visually impaired people to read, many of whom chose the Apple II back in the day because it didn’t have multi-coloured text or background [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/30/microm8-update-high-contrast-ui-mode-and-filled-triangles-in-micrologo/feed/ 0 3888 Lunarcy: A Lunar Lander in Apple Logo http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/16/lunarcy-a-lunar-lander-in-apple-logo/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/16/lunarcy-a-lunar-lander-in-apple-logo/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:44:33 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3752 Lunarcy is a fun and simple lunar lander game written in Apple Logo and compatible with microM8’s microLogo, a vector-based OpenGL re-implementation. You control a lander with a joystick (or the keyboard’s arrow keys) and you [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/16/lunarcy-a-lunar-lander-in-apple-logo/feed/ 0 3752 There’s a 3D Flying Dragon inside microM8’s [Applesoft] microBASIC Interpreter! http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon-inside-microm8s-applesoft-microbasic-interpreter/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon-inside-microm8s-applesoft-microbasic-interpreter/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:49:48 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3602 It made a sort of logical sense that if our microM8 Apple II emulator rendered in 3D (it does) and it had its own Applesoft-compatible BASIC interpreter (it does), we should make a 3D graphics [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon-inside-microm8s-applesoft-microbasic-interpreter/feed/ 0 3602 microM8 Update: Super Hi-Res (SHR) support http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/11/microm8-update-super-hi-res-shr-support-1-2/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/11/microm8-update-super-hi-res-shr-support-1-2/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:42:05 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3648 John Brooks’ VidHD video card for the Apple II renders Apple II graphics in 1080p, but it also allows the Apple IIe to use the Apple IIGS’s colour-indexed Super High-Resolution modes (320×200 and 640×200). So [more...]

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