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Apple II Forever: The Complete Story of the Machine That Taught America to Compute
April 1977, San Francisco. The first West Coast Computer Faire had packed some 12,750 hobbyists into the hall — rows of bare…
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Another World, Forty-Eight Pixels Tall: The Apple II Demake That Rebuilt a Classic From Scratch
The most famous first screen in the game, redrawn at 40 by 48: Lester surfaces at the lake, and something is already…
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The Knight, the Cup and the Caps Lock: Oubliette, the Apple II Dungeon Written Entirely in BASIC
A level of the 2019 original: chequered stone, white corridors, and the prize — the cup in the top-right chamber — waiting…
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Twelve Hours as a Trash Panda: Raccoon City — Toronto Raccoon Simulator Is the Apple II’s Most Canadian Game
The game on real iron: an Apple IIe running the Raccoon City title screen at the author’s own display, flanked by boxed…
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Asteroids, But Faster and Angrier: OidZone Blasts the Apple II Into the Modern Homebrew Age
Title screen over a live field, from a pre-release build: Sector A, eight Oids to go, and the high score already north…
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Six Days, Five Nights, One Paper-Bag Crown: KansasFest 2018 and the Apple II Faithful
Keynote speaker Roger Wagner, crowned the traditional way: KansasFest’s paper-bag regalia, worn with entirely appropriate ceremony. Photo: KansasFest At a glance: KansasFest…
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The Prince Crosses the Atlantic: Prince of Persia’s Apple II Source Code Finds a New Home on the BBC Master
New art for an old prince: John Blythe’s title screen for the BBC Master conversion, complete with its honest 1990 copyright line.…
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Third Place, First Rate: The HackFest Sudoku That Gave the Apple II a Proper Puzzle
A2Sudoku mid-solve: the givens stand tall and the pencil marks crowd the empty cells, exactly as the paper game’s marginalia intended. Screenshot:…
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Floppy Days: The Top Ten Apple II Games
The machine that started an industry — and, not coincidentally, a games industry. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Apple II was not designed…
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Dig, Doug, Dig: Remembering Lode Runner Creator Douglas E. Smith (1960–2014)
The credit that mattered: the Apple II title screen, “By Doug Smith,” 1983 — an author’s name up front, in an era…