David Schmenk has released a second developer preview of PLASMA 1.0. This release includes a number of minor fixes and optimizations including a bevy of them from Peter Ferrie and John Brooks. The PLASMA Preview #2 1.0 System disk has been updated and is available for download from the PLASMA website. This release, while not […]
David Schmenk has released his long awaited PLASMA programming language for the Apple II series computers. Under development since 2006, version 1.0 of PLASMA can be run both from floppy as well as from hard disk. It includes a bevy of improvements and enhancements with a number of people from the Apple II community taking […]
The PLASMA (PLASMA: Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple)programming language, developed and curated by David Schmenk has gotten an overhaul and update. For those who have never used PLASMA, ” PLASMA is a medium level programming language targeting the 8-bit 6502 processor. Historically, there were simple languages developed in the early years of computers that improved […]
Mike Westerfeild, curator and owner of the ByteWorks and all related titles has announced the immediate availability of the Source Code for ORCALib and ORCA/C. The GitHub Repository for the two titles contains all of the source code and is freely available for download and replication. According to the Facebook posting, this particular project was […]
Jeremy Rand has announced the release of a build environment for the Apple II gs. According to his post to the Kansasfest list, During my lightning session at KFest 2017, I demonstrated a build environment for Apple //gs development which used Xcode. At the time, I said it wasn’t ready for public consumption but would […]
Buckshot is a free to use, open-source image conversion utility for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It is based on a command-line image conversion tool called “bmp2dhr”. It’s mostly a toy to play around with, as it doesn’t support all features available in bmp2dhr, but it works well and is fun for checking out possible […]
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has updated the manual for the popular Apple II graphics programming tool Turtlesoft: Turtle Graphics for Applesoft with a new softcover manual. Originally published in 1983 by A.P.P.L.E., the new manual features revised formatting and now includes the 15 sample programs with screenshots. In addition to the original […]
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Apple has announced that Swift is now Open Source as had been promised by Tim Cook. According to the posting on the swift blog (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ ), Apple has set up a new GITHUB account specifically for Swift source code. The features of this new open source movement includes: A bug reporting and tracking system Mailing […]
In the Assembly Lines Podcast #18, Chris Torrence displayed the capabilities of the Apple II based Web Server. For those wanting to install their own, you will want to meander over to David Schmenk’s PLASMA Source page. David has made the source code available as part of the samples package for PLASMA. Web Server Source […]
