[rescue] Whee! Time to relearn 6502 assembly

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Aug 11 14:19:39 CDT 2006


On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 03:08:52PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> > I still use an Apple 2c to demo some concepts in chemistry because I haven't
> > found software as easy to use (or find software) in th PC world.  Also fun
> > to show a 64K machine, no hard drive and 5.25" floppies will do the
> > graphics that it can do.
> 
> The Apple machines ended up with some really good software here and
> there, some of which never really got duplicated elsewhere.
> 
> That's also an area where UNIX software really falls short.
> 
> Lot's good software for doing physics, math, etc, but almost nothing for
> actually teaching it or doing it non-programmatically.
> 
> When you do find something, it is usually very complex or very
> expensive.

Can't the original Apple2 software still be run easily enough in an emulator?



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