Apple II Forever

The author using an Apple II in 1983

Years ago, the only computer I had access to was an Apple II. I spent a lot of time hacking on it in BASIC, but we eventually got a 386 before I got into serious programming.

I do still own an Apple system, and still create projects on it when I have the time...

Projects of Mine

I've given work presentations using an Apple II
Tom Bombem 6502. A video game written in 6502 apple 2 assembler.
Linux Logo 6502. I ported my assembly language linux_logo program to 6502 assembly.
Linux Apple Dos 3.3 filesystem driver. Mount your old Apple II disk images as a Linux filesystem!
Apple Dos 3.3 utilities. mkdos33fs, dos33defrag, make_b, asoft_detoken, userspace dos33 tool.
upload_slow.c. A program to upload programs slowly from Linux to the Apple II monitor over a super-serial link.
I plan (hope) to make an ARM accelerator card that runs Linuz that plugs into the Apple II, much as the z-80 cp/m cards did back in the day.

Other Interesting Projects (not by me)

Apple II Prodos filesystem driver for Linux[NOTE This site no longer seems to exist. I am mirroring the filesystem here]
Linapple -- a currently good Linux Apple IIe emulator
Linux Apple II emulator: Not as well supported as the one below, but cross-platform.
Linux x86 Apple II emulator: I actually got SDL support for an older version of this. Sadly someone else was already working on it (but nothing came of it) and I lost my series of patches.
Lunix Next Generation A unix-clone for 6502 computers. [Mainly Commodore at this point, but I'd like to help on the Apple II port someday].
Contiki Operating System Another cool OS for older machines, including the Apple II. Includes info on people who made an ethernet card for the Apple II.
Good Apple II history page

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