Humble beginnings Integer Basic When the Apple II became available in 1977, it came with no Disk Operating System. Indeed, it did not use Floppy discs as mass storage media, but audio tapes (then called “cassettes”), which are not well Read more…
In the previous post I discussed how to code an efficient tile engine running on Apple II computers that can be used to write a Rogue-like game. This engine is neat but, alas, the player can see the entire portion Read more…
As I wrote in a previous post, programming a game engine in HIRES (”High Resolution”) is no small feat: its memory layout implies that contiguous lines on display are not contiguous in memory, there are some ”holes” in the memory Read more…
At the beginning of the 90’s, the PC platform was often mocked by its rivals. PCs of that era had become much more powerful than, say, an Amiga 500. But the Amiga offered a flat memory address, while a DOS Read more…
Recently, I acquired an almost complete vintage PC: a mighty 486DX2 66 MHz! I will restore it, complete it with some spares of mine, and install the pinnacle of PC games of the early 90s. And of course document my Read more…