Month: August 2010

RetroMacCast
Mac

Episode 170: Lots o' Slots

August 7, 2010 retromaccast

  James and John discuss eBay Finds: Pearcom Apple 2 clone, set of six Apple mugs, and Apple 2 cassettes. They talk about the Apple //e card, and news includes rumors, an Apple history infograph, and Woz talks about Apple from Spain. Other related links from this episode: Join the …

Apple II

Mandelbrot and Video

August 6, 2010 GeekDot

Like with the C64, this is probably the reason you came here:

The friggin’ fastest Mandelbrot displayed on a IIgs, ever!

Yeah, you’re right, it’s not the fastest Mandelbrot calculated by an IIgs (its very own 65c816 CPU, that is)… but hey, it’s still kinda cool – and sooooo

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Apple II

1st basic example

August 6, 2010 GeekDot

Like with the T2C64, the CPLD on the T2A2 maps the C012 registers into the memory area of the used slot, using just 6 addresses starting at 0xc080 + (SLOT# * 0x10). So for e.g. Slot 4 this would be:

BASE        (0xc080 + (4 * 0x10))  = 49344 Data in:    …

Apple II

Found Footage: The Oregon Trail-er

August 2, 2010 engadget

Were you one of the millions of American kids who grew up playing MECC’s classic educational video game The Oregon Trail? Several TUAW bloggers remember spending hours in front of an Apple II coaxing their pioneers ever Westward, only to have them die of snakebite, dysentery, or cholera. …