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Re: Apple II software still being sold

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Post by timcameronryan » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 8:20 PM UTC

T-hawk wrote: post #6

Atari 2600, too. AtariAge.com runs a store that produces and sells cartridges of homebrew development efforts. http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=21 If you think the Apple II is a challenge, try programming for the Atari 2600. 128 bytes RAM, 4K ROM, two hardware sprites. And no frame buffer; "video memory" consists of a couple dozen registers. The graphics chip is one-dimensional; to draw a picture…

Programming for the Atari was one of my favorite coding challenges. I think the web offered a lot of similarities in the past decade (trying to make an unsuitable platform perform magic) and somehow jumping into 6502 assembly and trying to trick beautiful graphics out of the pithy TIA felt extremely satisfying.

Re: Apple II software still being sold

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Post by jthol » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

SurfScore wrote: post #2

Yup, I'm not suprised. Not a huge market for it but it says on the website its just a 1-person part-time thing. You have to buy the software because theres simply no other (easy) way to get stuff onto a computer that old. The Apple II is a collectors item, and hackers love to tinker with old interesting stuff like that. I'm not suprised by the price either. The same thing happened with floppy disks. You'd think they'…

Go try to buy some ram for a 386. Let me know how much it costs.

Re: Apple II software still being sold

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Post by Zardoz84 » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

jthol wrote: post #12

SurfScore wrote: post #2

Yup, I'm not suprised. Not a huge market for it but it says on the website its just a 1-person part-time thing. You have to buy the software because theres simply no other (easy) way to get stuff onto a computer that old. The Apple II is a collectors item, and hackers love to tinker with old interesting stuff like that. I'm not suprised by the price either. The same thing happened with floppy disks. You'd think they'…

Go try to buy some ram for a 386. Let me know how much it costs.

Try to buy a Amiga or a Spectrum +3 in Ebay, they not are cheap.

I can sell you some old RAM modules.... :)

Re: Apple II software still being sold

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Post by Zardoz84 » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 10:32 PM UTC

Amiga upgrades and other peripheral still being sold, designed, and builded. (http://www.amigakit.com/)

Re: Apple II software still being sold

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Post by cmang » Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 8:59 PM UTC

These guys are selling new Apple II software, too -- Apple II DMS Drummer Software:

http://www.8bitweapon.com/store.htm

It is a sample-based music sequencer, which is fairly amazing considering the audio hardware in the Apple II was only capable of producing a "click" when a bit of memory got poked. (Getting that clicker to play back waveforms is all a matter of clicking at the right times.)