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 of the dungeon that surrounds him: he gets the magic 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 section, individual pixels are written in reverse order inside a Read more…
The introduction of the concurrent memory model and the concurrency library in STL are major features brought by C++11. With prior versions, we had to resort to platform-specific extensions or library in order to write multithreaded applications, limiting the portability of the code. One of the new facility introduced is Read more…
My port of Conway’s Game of Life to the Apple II is now complete! The whole code is available on GitHub. Plus, there are four posts on this documenting my progression that could interest those who want to learn more about programming on the Apple II, Coding in C for Read more…
Now that my port of Conway’s Game of Life on Apple II possess a proper HIRES Title Screen, some kind of music would be great! In this post, I will present the sound capabilities of the Apple II then explain how I coded a (simple) music library. This is the Read more…