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Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept

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Re: Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept

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Post by Lio »

I love these sorts of what if experiments. Just how far can we push these old machines?

What if Apple pushed IIGS over the Mac? What if Commadore had got behind the Amiga properly?

I always wondered if it would be possible to run Doom in a meaningful way on the original 1987 Acorn Archimedes[1], the first computer with an Arm processor[2].

It had 256 colour chunky pixels, 8-channel stereo sound and a, for the time, very fast processor.

Would a game like that have tipped the market in its favour if it had been there at launch?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

2. Not counting the development board for the BBC Micro.

Re: Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept

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Post by rob74 »

Impressive! The music is really well converted, and the colors have a very... psychedelic look to them, which I guess is appropriate too :) What's different from other versions however (at least Amiga and PC, with which I am familiar, and also the C64 version as far as I can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTKmyqqugG0) is that the Lemmings seem to pause after each step, in the original game the movement was continuous. Maybe due to some calculations which have to be done while no animation is playing?

Re: Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept

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Post by News-Dog »

partomniscient wrote: post #6
thrdbndndn wrote: post #3

Sorry for being off-topic but why "][" instead of "II"?

Because that's what the logo looked like: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsonian_National...

And followed by the Apple ][ plus

I think you could purchase a kit with a replacement ROM and case face plate to convert the Apple ][ to an Apple ][ plus

Edit Add;

Integer BASIC : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC

Applesoft BASIC : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC

Officially Woz : http://www.woz.org/letters/apple-basic/

Re: Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept

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Post by Gordonjcp »

Lio wrote: post #2

I love these sorts of what if experiments. Just how far can we push these old machines? What if Apple pushed IIGS over the Mac? What if Commadore had got behind the Amiga properly? I always wondered if it would be possible to run Doom in a meaningful way on the original 1987 Acorn Archimedes[1], the first computer with an Arm processor[2]. It had 256 colour chunky pixels, 8-channel stereo sound and a, for the time, v…

There was a port of it to the Archimedes.
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