The newly-released desktop versions of our microM8 Apple IIe emulator now include an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server built-in. Claude Code playing Zork These allow external AI applications to control them in various ways. We [more…]
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…]
Why did you choose to start aggressively de-protecting, archiving and re-distributing Apple II software? It’s tempting to rewrite history and give myself some noble purpose for starting this hobby, but in this case the truth [more…]
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…]
Christmas graphics and sound demos were common software for 1980s home computers. Most of them were public domain and circulated by users groups, while there were a few commercial offerings, such as the Ziggy Christmas [more…]
We’ve created two new web-based interfaces for our cyanIIde Apple II webassembly emulator! The first allows you to load and edit Applesoft BASIC programs using a CodeMirror-based editor with syntax highlighting and colon line separation. [more…]
Make your own Christmas and holiday cards using the original Apple II version of The Print Shop with no emulators or downloads required at theprintshop.club Created by David Balsam and Martin Kahn, The Print Shop [more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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