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  • Apple ][ emulator from 30 years ago

    From Emil Dotchevski@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 21 16:21:21 2021
    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting:
    https://github.com/zajo/appler.

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  • From Steve Nickolas@21:1/5 to Emil Dotchevski on Tue Sep 21 22:47:49 2021
    On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote
    as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.

    Appler was actually one of the emulators I used in the late 1990s,
    alongside ApplePC and APL2EM.

    -uso.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Emil Dotchevski on Tue Sep 21 23:08:45 2021
    Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> wrote:
    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting:
    https://github.com/zajo/appler.

    Nice. Thanks for open sourcing and sharing it. I shared your link in https://www.reddit.com/r/apple2/comments/psvten/github_zajoappler_apple_emulator_for_msdos/.
    :)
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  • From Raymond Wiker@21:1/5 to Emil Dotchevski on Wed Sep 22 06:49:13 2021
    Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> writes:

    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with
    a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also
    wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made
    clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.

    Very nice writeup for an impressive effort (and result)!

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  • From Emil Dotchevski@21:1/5 to Steve Nickolas on Wed Sep 22 18:22:03 2021
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 7:47:51 PM UTC-7, Steve Nickolas wrote:
    On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote
    as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.
    Appler was actually one of the emulators I used in the late 1990s,
    alongside ApplePC and APL2EM.

    Recently someone said that Appler made it all the way to Australia, pre-Internet. Who knew. :)

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  • From Bob Piltz@21:1/5 to Emil Dotchevski on Fri Sep 24 19:43:15 2021
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:21:23 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting:
    https://github.com/zajo/appler.
    Great to see the author of Appler is still with us. Thanks, sir, for making Appler open source, and for coding Appler.

    I still use Appler to this very day! It is such a fast, lean, truly wonderful emulator. It is FAST, much faster than any other apple ii emulator for MS-DOS. These include apple2 PC, apple2em by Randy Spurlock, and many others. The assembly routines in
    Appler make the others seem like slowpokes in comparison. The debugger is great, and it runs perfectly, and consumes so little resources and very, very little diskspace. It compresses to something like 24kb.

    So, I just want to say "Thanks!" for 30 years of a great apple ii emulator -- and, yes, I've used appler for each and every one of those 30 years. (Well, I think I first found it in 1996, so, technically "only" 25 years.

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  • From Emil Dotchevski@21:1/5 to Bob Piltz on Wed Sep 29 19:44:11 2021
    On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:43:16 PM UTC-7, Bob Piltz wrote:
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:21:23 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
    Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting:
    https://github.com/zajo/appler.
    Great to see the author of Appler is still with us. Thanks, sir, for making Appler open source, and for coding Appler.

    I still use Appler to this very day! It is such a fast, lean, truly wonderful emulator. It is FAST, much faster than any other apple ii emulator for MS-DOS. These include apple2 PC, apple2em by Randy Spurlock, and many others. The assembly routines in
    Appler make the others seem like slowpokes in comparison. The debugger is great, and it runs perfectly, and consumes so little resources and very, very little diskspace. It compresses to something like 24kb.

    So, I just want to say "Thanks!" for 30 years of a great apple ii emulator -- and, yes, I've used appler for each and every one of those 30 years. (Well, I think I first found it in 1996, so, technically "only" 25 years.

    Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)

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  • From Bob Piltz@21:1/5 to Emil Dotchevski on Thu Sep 30 15:40:55 2021
    On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 7:44:13 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

    Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)

    Yes I should have said "one of the authors" when I replied. By, the way, I trust that both of you are still well, after the 30 years, and hopefully no longer "poor programmers." I looked at the source code and find it a treasure trove. Thanks again. I
    wonder how many are still using (real bare-metal) DOS in 2021 and emulators like Appler on a daily basis. I'm probably the only one left in the world, but I feel so gratified when I can spend 5 seconds booting DOS, run a wonderfully robust program like
    Appler which consumes some few *kilobytes* of code, and does its job exceptionally well. Verses the alternative of running an emulator in a faulty, multiple-abstraction layered "walled garden" of dozens of *gigabytes* of runaway, ridiculously slow code,
    on a "modern" system! It boggles my mind, so I don't ever do it, preferring my short and sweet version of DOS instead.

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  • From Emil Dotchevski@21:1/5 to Bob Piltz on Fri Oct 1 17:30:01 2021
    On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 3:40:57 PM UTC-7, Bob Piltz wrote:
    On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 7:44:13 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

    Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)
    Yes I should have said "one of the authors" when I replied. By, the way, I trust that both of you are still well, after the 30 years

    We were in high school when we wrote Appler, so yeah, still among the living LOL.

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  • From Speccie@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 3 07:49:25 2021
    David,

    When I launch Webber, I get a message saying that the HTML fonts are required. As far as I can tell, I have indeed copied all the fonts that are included in the Fonts folder with Webber, into my System Fonts folder. And I have all 3 Tools copied into
    the System Tools folder too. I'm running System 6.0.1. Any ideas on what might be wrong?
    Webber wil run in 6.0.1 to 6.0.4.

    If you have downloaded and expanded the webber111.bxy package from my website, you will find 27 fonts in the Fonts folder that need to be installed in the System Fonts folder, though you may already have some of them from older installations of Spectrum,
    SAM2, or Webber.

    There are three Tools that need to be installed into the System Tools folder, and they must be the latest ones include with the Webber archive: Tool130, Tool132, and Tool056. You also need the TimeZone CDev installed, and the IIgs clock correctly set for
    your Time Zone and Daylight Savings setting.

    If you have downloaded and used the installer on the webber111.2mg install disk, it will have automatically installed all the required fonts and tools for you.

    Once you have rebooted, then all should be well.

    The SIS fonts run from SIS.1 to SIS-7, and except for SIS.3, SIS.4, and SIS.5, all have six sizes, from 9-24. There are 27 fonts in all, and they all must be of filetype $C8.

    Cheers - Ewen

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