Electronics, Computing and Videogame History

cyanIIde Web-Based Apple IIe Emulator

by paleotronic in Apple II 0

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. Examples You can see an example of cyanIIde in action at https://theprintshop.club — our tribute [more...]

Run BBC BASIC… on the Apple II!

Apple II

July 22, 2021 0

The BBC Microcomputer made by Acorn UK apparently has a central API by which its language ROMs communicated with the hardware inside the computer. This means that by creating a series of shims, one can [more...]

Introducing The Print Shop Club!

Apple II

July 13, 2021 0

We’re working on a new web-based Apple II emulator (a fork of microM8) called CyanIIde, and we realized that you can do nifty things with browser-based emulators, such as generate and download PDF files of [more...]

Apple II

Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Programming Language (Part 1)

May 22, 2021 0

When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple [more...]

Apple II

Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again!

December 14, 2020 0

Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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The Oregon Trail of DEATH!

October 17, 2020 0

The Oregon Trail is an 3490 km route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Willamette Valley in what was the Oregon Territory, now Oregon State. The trail covers the modern-day American states of Kansas, Nebraska, [more...]