Im not sure what program he is running to load the images. Some companies still survive on a software formoney model adobe comes to mind, along with many game developers. Page g11 tuning graphics at the apple ii program sources page g12 graphics workshop part 1 hplot a series of lessons about apple graphics. Demos for the apple ii, including graphics and sound demonstrations as well as truncated versions of commercial software. See here for a list of 16bit apple iigs games there are currently 567 games on this list. This site is dedicated to the preservation of the apple iigs computing platform. Of those two, lores has 16 colors with large rectangular pixels 40 x40 grid. The miniassembler is basically a lookup table for opcodes. The culture of developing programs that render images and music in real time on pcs used in the 1980s and enjoying those images and music is called demoscene. It is the nets largest forum for apple ii programmers and programming beginners to ask questions, discuss issues, and share ideas.
Older apple iis can loadin applesoft or, via a plugin board, access it from rom. The apple ii had a large user base and was a popular game development platform in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. How apple became the worlds most valuable company vox. He also wrote a very fast bitblit routine bitblit was the most important graphics primitive in guis. Contents programs r us fundamentals of programming integer basic. Byte magazine referred to the apple ii, commodore pet 2001 and the trs80 as the 1977 trinity. Wherever he went, a line of ink would follow him it came. Using the jsmess emulator, users can boot up an emulation of the. It is hoped that one day this archive will feature a complete library of apple iigs applications, games, educational software, hardware references, drivers and publications. Following is a list of apple ii applications including utilities and development tools.
The chart here uses information from apple s apple ii technical references, beneath apple dos by worth and lechner, and exploring apple gsos and prodos 8 by little. That changed in 1979 when programmer dan bricklin created visicalc, the first. At its core, the apple ii is a black and white machine. Apple ii, apple and apple programming and productivity. Variants of the apple ii and the logo programming were popular in. Is designed for use with standardresolution graphics available on all apple iis, there are two versions of the picture painter in this package. How to write an apple ii basic program in your web browser.
The internet archive software library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. This is the archive site for the 1980s software company known as penguin software and polarware penguin software published some of the first computer graphics software for personal computers, allowing people to draw and create 3d wireframe images and animation on the first personal computer to feature color graphics capabilities. One works with the standard highresolution graphics available on the apple iis 280 by 192 dot resolution, six base colors and 106 blended colors. Quick demo of apple s version of the logo programming language, also know as turtle graphics. I found these in the back of a manual for ii in a mac, one of the first apple ii emulators that ran on the original mac and mac 512.
Software on the apple ii in the apple ii part of the computer world, the first distribution of software came from home authors. It supersedes integer basic and is the basic in rom in all apple ii series computers after the original apple ii model. The finnish cultural heritage agency announced that the demoscene, which was said to have begun in northern europe around 1980, was registered as an intangible cultural heritage of the united nations educational, scientific and. Apple ii single and double lores and hires graphics in the c. When you first load the emulator or boot an apple ii without a floppy disk system, you see a. The apple ii graphics were composed of idiosyncratic modes and settings that could be exploited. Graphics programming, free graphics programming software downloads. This graphics system debuted on the original apple ii, continued with the apple ii plus and was carried forward and expanded with the apple iie, enhanced iie, iic, iic plus and iigs. Using the jsmess emulator, users can boot up an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. The graphic modes of the apple ii series were peculiar even by the standards of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Applesoft supports the apple ii lores graphics display, where 40 color blocks horizontally, and up to 48 blocks vertically, can be displayed in 16 colors, with commands to plot individual blocks and horizontal or vertical lines. Many home computer systems of the time as well as todays pccompatible machines had an architecture which assigned consecutive blocks of. The following section assumes the user has a working knowledge of 6502 programming and mnemonics.
A collection of past and current apple ii ftp sites. Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by wally feurzeig, seymour papert, and cynthia solomon. The main thing users could do with an apple ii was to write and run programs in the basic programming language. Frameup lets you use your apple to make displays of hires, lores and text. The internet archive software library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released. Full text of apple ii computer graphics internet archive. The apple ii series trademarked with square brackets as apple and rendered on later models as apple is a set of home computers, one of the first highly successful massproduced microcomputer products, designed primarily by steve wozniak, manufactured by apple computer now apple inc. The apple iie styled as apple e is the third model in the apple ii series of personal computers produced by apple computer. By contrast, some commercial software programs for the apple ii used this memory space for various purposes usually to display a help screen. Everything on this page is included in the above distribution including apple ii diskimages of all programs, the source code and library routines for all. Applesoft basic is a dialect of microsoft basic, developed by marc mcdonald and ric weiland, supplied with the apple ii series of computers. Apple ii graphics formats just solve the file format problem. Top kodi archive and support file community software vintage software apk msdos cdrom software cdrom software library.
With the release of the ii gs, it became possible for better gui software to be produced. It shows which zero page locations are used by the monitor, applesoft basic, integer basic, dos 3. Meanwhile, my good friend bill budge, who was an amazing apple ii games programmer, came up with an incredibly fast way to draw proportional text on the apple ii graphics screen, using seven preshifted tables. Choose the amount to pay for your annual membership to the apple pugetsound program library exchange a. These people were usually firsttime computer buyers who were captivated by the excitement of owning their own computer, and then had to sit down to actually find something useful or fun to do with it. Running your favorite software from the past i recently have been on a bit of an apple ii retrocomputing kick. They look back at march 2000 in macaddict, and news includes new macbook air, ipad pro, and a mac clone.
Frameup does not include software for creating hi or lores graphics. Apple portrait display, quadra 605 with apple 2 card, apple 2 hd prototype case, and clear case 512k. It ran apple ii software, but required gs software to use the enhanced. Rather, any saved graphics on the apple ii series of computers, particularly from the earlier days of that platform, were likely to be in a format that was highly specific to the rather quirky graphic modes of that machine. The apple iigs styled as iigs, the fifth and most powerful of the apple ii family, is a 16bit personal computer produced by apple computer, inc. There was so much great software for the apple 2 and i have manyafond memories of games like karateka, star blazer and ultima. Apple iigs gs graphics sound introduced in 1986 and discontinued in 1992, the faster iigs had better graphics and sound. Now that i know how to program my apple ii in c and asm, i could not resist trying to display a high resolution image on my screen. New listing apple iie 2 e computer, image writer ii 2, hard drive and keypad with mouse. Corvus ii multicomputer software apple ii prodos released. The e in the name stands for enhanced, referring to the fact that several popular features were now builtin that were formerly only. It uses the great sdl library, so the game is platformindependent and there will at least appear packages for linux and windows. Apple 2 products surplus games, educational programs, word processing, publishing, cables, accessories, etc. Music by me done with a vintage waldorf microwave synthesizer.
Graphics programming software free download graphics. The apple ii graphics were composed of idiosyncratic modes and settings that could be. The gs in the name stands for graphics and sound, referring to its enhanced multimedia. The digital art culture demoscene of the retro pc that. As i remember it, logo was a triangular turtle that roamed across the monochrome screen of an apple ii in my first grade classroom. The first 3d graphics cards appeared 25 years ago and since then their power and complexity have grown at a scale greater than any other microchip found. The apple ii miniassembler is a programming aid aimed at reducing the amount of time requir. Apple ii, apple e, c, iigs, iic plus, and apple programming and productivity software on 5. The price paid being that programming hires graphics on the apple ii is not as easy and fast that it could be on other machines.
In this episode, james and john discuss ebay finds. On the contrary to other 8 bit and 16 bit machines, you dont select colors in a palette. James savage and john leake have released the 519th episode of their retromaccast podcast. While featuring the macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the commodore amiga and atari st, it remains compatible with earlier apple ii models. Hi there, you do not need to buy at this first time, assuming you do not have graphic design experience you can start by using an apple application as pages, keynote, iphoto or others in your applications folder, check it out, try opening applications, read tutorials and welcome presentations or open a template file for some start edition. One notable peculiarity of these modes is a direct result of apple founder steve wozniaks chipsaving design. Apple ii programmers reference heres a brief list of applesoft, integer basic, dos 3. There are bunches of ways of creating bitmapped graphics on an apple ii. Apple then modified the program and included it with as a rudimentary desktop modeled after the macintosh finder for their first versions of prodos 16 system software for the apple ii gs. It is also referred to as fp basic from floating point because of the apple dos command used to invoke it, instead of int for.
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