Yes, you read that correctly – AppleWin for the Mac. Well, not quite. It is the same current release of AppleWin for Windows users, what I’ve done is use WineBottler to package up the download into a self contained app that uses Wine to provide the Windows API support. If you don’t want to compile Wine yourself, there are pre-compiled Wine installers on the WineBottler download page. So, why would I want to do this on my MacPro? That’s a very good question. Most of the time I use Virtual ][ to emulate an Apple][, but when rebuilding my development environment to the MacPro I could find my license key, and as I was doing clean installs of my software that became a bit of a problem, so I’ve emailed and asked if it would be possible to retrieve my license keys (fingers crossed that comes through), but back to this story.
January 22nd, 2017
AppleWin on OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
10 Comments, Apple2, AppleWin, Emulators, Programming, Random Thoughts, Virtual ][, by Michael.February 24th, 2014
It’s not an Apple][ !
11 Comments, Dick Smith, Random Thoughts, VZ200, by Michael.Boldly stepping into the retro world that is not Apple][ related. Just arrived is my ‘new’ Dick Smith VZ200. I still need to find an old cassette player recorder to go fully retro, but in the meantime I intend to digitise the tape, and play the audio file from my iPhone to the the input port of the VZ200. Should be able to save files by recording to the iPhone. I’ve downloaded a VZ200 emulator, so I can at least look at the basic programming in my spare moments.
May 8th, 2013
Programming like we did back in the day.
5 Comments, Programming, Random Thoughts, by Michael.There is a new podcast coming from the Retrobits family by Earl Evans for all us ‘ancient’ programmers. Called “?NEXT WITHOUT FOR” it aims to discuss retro programming languages and systems, as well as new tools for current systems for creating programs to run on the old iron. This got me thinking and remembering, that back in the 80’s and 90’s I used a mainframe document generation system called DCF (Document Composition Facility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)) and as well as a GML (Generalised Markup Language) extension it had quite a powerful scripting language itself. One inadequacy that I encountered early on using DCF, was that there was very little loop control/processing available, so I created my own FOR/NEXT command, and to celebrate Earl’s new “?NEXT WITHOUT FOR” podcast, I’ve decided to post the code for my FOR and NEXT commands.
Remember those days in the 80’s going to TimeZone, dropping in all those coins (or tokens), to play the latest machines, or playing Space Invaders down at the local shops. Well, here is the podcast to bring those memories back, as well as find out the history of those games, and trivia about them that you just won’t know how you survived without.
Thinking about the issues I had with setting up my KryoFlux USB FDD controller on my venerable Power Mac QuickSilver 2002, got me cogitating over the “How old is Retro?” argument. Many say the rule-of-thumb is 10 years. On that basis, my QS2002 qualifies as the QS2002 range was released January 2002 as an update to the previous QuickSilver Power Macs, and ended July 2002, and then replaced by the “Mirror Door” series. but . . . . . .