Apple II
Random level generation on Apple II
Algorithms and their implementation for an efficient random level generator on the Apple II. As a 1MHz 6502 isn’t much, some clearness is required.
Apple II
Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight
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…
Apple II
An HIRES tile engine for the Apple II
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…
Programming
Async tasks in C++
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…
Apple II
A Game of Life
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…