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cyanIIde Web-Based Apple IIe Emulator

July 28, 2021 paleotronic 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. [more…]

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microM8 Update: Back to the Debugger

July 20, 2019 paleotronic 0

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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microM8 Update: High-Contrast UI Mode and Filled Triangles in microLogo

March 30, 2019 paleotronic 0

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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New microM8 release supports WOZ2, DHGR artifacting

February 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

The latest microM8 release supports the Applesauce WOZ2 format, has improved DHGR rendering (with NTSC artifacting) and a refactored VM manager for increased speed and better reliability, among a number of other fixes and enhancements. [more…]

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Emulating the Tube: Completing the Retro Experience

November 10, 2018 paleotronic 0

For some nostalgics it’s not merely enough to emulate the console or computer – they want to emulate the CRT they used it on too! The nature of cathode-ray tube displays distinctly affected how images [more…]

Apple II

microM8 now supports large volumes (HDV, 2MG, 800K PO)

August 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

You can now use “Smartport”-based large volume images with microM8 (HDV, 2MG and 800K PO), via the file catalog or drag-and-drop. We’ve also uploaded a variety of images to the built-in cloud library including Pitch [more…]

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“Upcycling” Pong: Putting a new “spin” on an old game using microM8

July 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

Pong was exciting when it came out back in 1972 but it hasn’t aged very well. By modern standards it’s kind of boring. Luckily in microM8 we can do two things to improve it: first, [more…]

microM8

microM8 adds alternate font support

May 21, 2018 paleotronic 0

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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“Record” Mockingboard music, play it back during other games…

May 11, 2018 paleotronic 0

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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Our Holiday issue explored The Print Shop, Christmas and Party games and much, much more!

turtleSpaces 3D Logo Interpreter

turtleSpaces is a new expanded implementation of LCSI Apple Logo II that features 3D OpenGL graphics, shapes, lights, cameras, location detection, multiple turtles and much, much more! Great for teaching kids how to code. Check it out at turtlespaces.org

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Gadget Graveyard: The Apple Pippin

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The Saturn was released to disinterested gamers, and Nintendo were making what can only be described as ‘interesting choices’ with their releases. The 1995 CES saw the debut of the Virtual Boy, which promptly flopped. [more…]

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