Welcome to our computer laboratory of horrors! Come as we take a tour of some of 8-bit computing’s most unloved monstrosities. Our terrors today come in two categories: First, you may not know this, but [more…]
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…]
Some time ago, we wrote an Apple Logo II-compatible interpreter as a part of microM8, our (mainly) Apple II emulator, along with an Applesoft BASIC interpreter. We added some rudimentary 3D support to the Logo [more…]
Blurb from the Woz Birthday Party website: “STEVE WOZNIAK IS TURNING 70!! And he wants to celebrate with you. Join Woz for his 70TH BIRTHDAY PARTY put together by his wife Janet and Jewel’s Inspiring [more…]
Total Replay is an awesome hard disk image created and constantly updated by Apple II heroes 4AM, Qkumba and others. It contains 328 (current count) classic Apple II action games, including just about every game [more…]
In today’s world of plug-and-play peripheral devices, it is difficult to understand the fundamentals of what is happening at the lower levels. How does the computer connect to the device? How does it communicate with [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…]
While using an on-line service like CompuServe allowed you to chat with people all around the world, its per-hour charge was not that attractive to perpetually-broke teenagers. Also, you couldn’t really go ‘hang out’ with [more…]
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…]
Brøderbund Software Inc. was founded by brothers Doug and Gary Carlston in 1980 after Doug had written Galactic Empire, a space strategy game, on his TRS-80 (retro-trivia: many of the locations in the game have [more…]
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