This article was made at the same time than French Touch‘s intro « Digidream 2 ».We wanted to share the issues we ran into when developing this demo, and what we discovered about the General Instruments AY-3-8913 sound chip that is used on most Apple II sound cards. NOTE: It looks like at some point an old …
The FYM tools are now available on GitHub (source code + binaries). v05 released on 17/05/2020! When I started to work on Latecomer, the first problem I tried to solve was getting a music. Fortunately, Grouik/FT did some amazing work back in 2015 by taking Atari ST songs and replaying them on the Mockingboard. That’s …
En 2007 une nouvelle chaîne de TV s’est lancée en France : Nolife. J’avais fait cette intro sur un coin de table entre deux bières pour le lancement officiel, le 1er juin 2007, un peu avant 21h. Elle est programmée en Blitz Basic car j’avais cherché un langage simple, avec des fonctions graphiques faciles à …
Latecomer is my first real 8-bits production:A demo for Apple IIe/IIc released at Revision 2019. Because anything can be a demo platform.And the Apple II, which was originally released in 1977, can do amazing things. If you don’t know what the demoscene is about, check this Wikipedia article. The demoscene reference sites have pages for …
Here are some interesting resources if you want to code in assembler on Apple II.This is absolutely not a complete list, your favorite search engine should give you a lot of results, but those are the websites that helped me the most.Also, for generic 6502 algorithms, have a look at what the C64 scene can …