![]() Kurt apple applesoft code computer games software user interface video vintage I hope you found this post informative and/or entertaining! Thanks for your interest! And feel free to leave comments or questions below! Including several monitor types to choose from. It emulates the speed of the processor, so it’s a very realistic emulation of the Apple IIe. Or, you can download ROMs for various Apple games and programs from the Internet and boot those instead. Then reboot with the Apple button and it will boot to Applesoft Basic. ![]() Once it starts, just click on the floppy disk 1 icon and choose the master disk file that comes installed with the emulator. It’s in a zip file, so just unzip it and run the executable. Just scroll down to the bottom of the Github page and download the latest release. It’s just not terribly robust.Ī very robust option is the standalone Apple II emulator program that you can install onto your Windows computer. There are some things that this emulator cannot do, though. If you don’t have a working Apple IIe of your own to try your Applesoft code on, you can first try it in a JavaScript implementation of Applesoft Basic. They are all three pointing to the exact same memory location. So if you initialize a variable named “KURT” to a value of 10, you can PRINT the variable “KU” and also the variable “KURT” and also the variable “KUPP” and they will all three show a value of 10. One sort of funny feature of Applesoft Basic is that variable names are only significant to 2 letters, although it allows more. And it can throw syntax errors at runtime if it’s unable to interpret a line of code. It is interpreted and not compiled, so it is not very fast. Wow! Write protect tabs! Amazing! □ Applesoft BasicĪpplesoft Basic is the programming language of all the early Apple computers and was provided in ROM (memory) to make it available to the user without the need for a startup disk or the need to load it into memory from a cassette tape.Īpplesoft Basic was actually created by Microsoft for Apple. This little program was credited as being submitted by Beagle Bros customer Tim Boehme, who received a box of Beagle Bros magnetic write protect tabs for his efforts! This small Applesoft Basic program was published in one of my Beagle Bros Apple Software Catalogs from 1987 (volume 0, number 10). They'd both be composite, but the monitor I've done all the tweaking/stretching positioning for my Apple 2 so it might be real weird compared to the tv.If we type this simple 8 line Applesoft Basic program into my working Apple IIe computer, we will end up with a cool little text based arcade game! Watch the video below to see the game in action! The border is hard to tell on real hardware - I'll need to hook mine up to a TV rather than a composite monitor to see how it compares. It feels like most of the Apple II info is "institutional" and not well documented at this point. And bizarrely enough, 2 is actually pretty hopping. My best resource for Apple II information has been the Apple II enthusiast's group on Facebook, and Asimov is an excellent site with basically all of the software to download. Particular *models* can go for a lot, but an Apple II in general isn't hard find. I can only go by my experiences here in the states, where Apple IIe's still regularly sell for sub-$100 used and aren't hard to find. I tried to look at some vids from the real thing but they are scarce, sometimes there is a border though, not sure if as big as on my monitor. The scaling looks perfect, but the border is really big, or at least seems so to me. ![]() You are welcome to correct me though, because I'm starting to be really fascinated by this machine.ĭo you think its aspect ratio and border are okay? I display on PC CRT monitor, via Direct Video. It's similar when it comes to its software preservation, because I'm not aware of any properly organised and documented resources (comparable to Lemon or ZXDB databases for example). It is interesting though, given how popular, and pioneering the AII was. Even so, there are zillions of cheap C64 or ZXs, for example, yet these cores are fairly well developed. Apple 2 cheap(er)? Umm.I'm not even sure if that's true in the US, definitely not here in the EU.
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