apple ii Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/tag/apple-ii/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:08:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png apple ii Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/tag/apple-ii/ 32 32 146320098 Tetris for Applesoft BASIC http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/26/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/26/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:08:35 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=863 What do Steve Wozniak and George H.W. Bush have in common? They’ve both been seriously into Tetris! But who can blame them? The object of the game (as if you didn’t know) is to complete [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/26/tetris-for-applesoft-basic/feed/ 0 863 microM8 adds alternate font support http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/21/microm8-adds-alternate-font-support/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/21/microm8-adds-alternate-font-support/#respond Sun, 20 May 2018 15:11:32 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=418 Our Apple II emulator microM8 has recently added alternate font support, and includes additional “Fancy” and “SciFi” fonts to add an additional stylistic element to classic games. Check out this presentation of Zork I in [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/21/microm8-adds-alternate-font-support/feed/ 0 418 Steve Wozniak Talks Disk ][ http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/#respond Fri, 18 May 2018 14:37:11 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=408 Paleotronic was lucky enough to be given the chance to have a chat with Apple co-founder and  engineer-extraordinare Steve Wozniak, who gave us a personal look into the development of the Disk II. I like talking [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/feed/ 0 408 “Record” Mockingboard music, play it back during other games… http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/11/record-mockingboard-music-play-it-back-during-other-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/05/11/record-mockingboard-music-play-it-back-during-other-games/#respond Fri, 11 May 2018 08:54:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=359 Most emulators work by running everything through a single “loop”. This makes sound emulation easy because everything is synchronised. However, microM8 doesn’t operate this way. Each component of microM8 (video, sound, CPU) functions on its [more...]

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