[GOODIE] A2Emulator

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Wed Nov 21 00:20:11 UTC 2001


Russ Van Rooy wrote:
> 
> It works nicely ! The following even works:
> ] 10 PRINT "Hello World"
> ] 20 END
> ] run
> Hello World

Cool!  I guess that must be the Integer Basic, which I think was included on the ROM?  (as opposed to AppleSoft Basic)

This brings back memories of when I was a kid in the early 80's playing around with an Apple II+, and my older brother brought a strange book called _Computer Lib/Dream Machines_ home from college.  The game of "Life" was one of the things covered in the book, and my brother helped me write a version of Life in AppleSoft Basic, which ran at the astounding speed of about one generation per minute, in lo-res graphics mode.

A couple of years later, I figured out how to re-write Life in 6502 machine language (without an assembler), which ran at a more reasonable one generation per second.  With the exception of that program, though, I've always tended toward using higher-level languages. :)

(Yes, I now know that Computer Lib/Dream Machines was written by Ted Nelson.)

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com




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