Apple IIGS programming advocate Lim Thye Chean has generously released the source code for some of the programs he’s written to the Apple II community. Among the offerings are KeyWin – an Applesoft windowing system, Infiltrator – a side-scrolling arcade space game, SuperMagic – a graphics library for Orca/M and Mandelbrot IIGS – an Apple […]
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Paul Zaleski launches Complete Pascal resource site
Paul Zaleski has announced a new site dedicated to Complete Pascal (the Pascal formerly known as TML Pascal) on comp.sys.apple2.programmer. From Paul’s post: Everything you ever wanted to know about Complete Pascal with access to the tools to help you use it! The site features a detailed description of the software, it’s release history, downloads and resources sections (with […]
Thye Chean launches Apple IIGS programming site
Thye Chean wrote in to announce his website Virtual GS Programming has been updated and moved to a new URL. Virtual GS Programming is the only site dedicated to teaching programming on an emulated Apple IIGS.
HackFest 2007 winners announced
HackFest is an annual Apple II programming contest held during KFest. It begins at 7 am on Wednesday and ends Saturday morning. This year we had five talented participants. Fifth place – Matthew Schock crammed hard to learn C and the result was a program that allowed drawings to display as a movie by using […]
Lunar Productions site relocates
A few years ago I placed Foundation, our IIgs resource editor, into the public domain. The entire package including full source code, is available. There’s no warranty, no support (unless you catch me in a weak moment), no anything… just free stuff from the past that someone may find useful.
Generic Tile Engine (GTE) library v1.0 alpha released
Lucas Scharenbroich’s Generic Tile Engine has reached v1.0 alpha and has been released for public testing and feedback.Here is a partial list of the features supported by GTE in its current state:
cc65 cross development compiler v2.11.0 released
Ullrich von Bassewitz announced cc65 version 2.11.0 is now available for download. cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, librarian and several other tools. cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including the Apple II (and […]
Hobby Cross Assembler (HXA) updated to v0.12
Anton Treuenfels has posted an update to his Hobby Cross Assembler (links directly to 6502-family variant page, main page is here). According to the website, HXA is a one-pass assembler capable of producing absolute output files in binary and Intel hexadecimal formats. HXA is designed to be fairly portable between various processors, and is GPL-licensed […]
A2 programming chat scheduled for August 12th
Join us in the Apple II forum at 7 PM Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, August 12th for our monthly programming chat! Get help with your programming problem, swap tall tales, and just hang out with your fellow Apple II geeks.
Join the second annual Retrochallenge
If you push your classic computer to the limits to fulfill your everyday needs, prove it! The second annual Retrochallenge provides a means for scoring your classic computer usage to find out just how retro you really are.