Re: woz' original "brick out" - source code , paddles

[mad.scientist.jr@gmail.com]

Incredible - thanks so much!

I tried running that pong code on a real 128k IIe, and it is kinda
slow. Would removing the REM statements speed it up?
Would a BASIC compiler help?

I found a couple online - Einstein and Flash (though it says Integer
BASIC which I don't think comes on the IIe).
I also went to the Beagle Bros download site which had a bunch of
files but the BASIC Compiler was missing (just the manual was there,
to show you what you are missing).

What language / method would be best to develop in on the Apple 2? I
have dabbled in Pascal and C, and some 6502 assembly (on the Commodore
64).
I got the ball to beep with chr$(7) and wanted to get it to beep in
higher & lower tones, but read that to get anything other than the
system beep or a click, you have to write assembly code. Are there any
good tutorials on this and samples of sound code?

Also, typing/editing the BASIC code on the IIe is a nightmare! I
forgot the pain of not having an editor. Can BASIC be edited in an
editor on the Apple? I am used to the Commodore where a Basic program
is not stored as an ascii-type text file, and so can't be edited with
a text editor (you would have to use a conversion program to translate
the text listing into the equivalent BASIC tokens and save to a binary
file).

Finally I have to figure out how to get all these disk image files (I
am not familiar with the Apple II file extensions - dsk bin shk sdk
rsrc po nib com do bxy bsc asm acf) transferred over to the IIe. I
downloaded Cider Press and see there is quite a bit of info in there,
so I have some reading to do.  Since I have a Mac LC III with an Apple
II emulator card & y cable, could I use this to transfer the DSK and
other image files to the actual Apple IIe ? Or are there any specs
online on how to build a cable to connect your PC to the Apple Disk II
(the X1541-series cables allow you to do that for Commodore disk
drives - http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html)?

Well thanks again for the help and posting the link to that awesome
game controller book...

On Oct 23, 9:51 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> http://www.atariarchives.org/ccc/chapter1.php
> On Oct 23, 7:44 pm, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:> look on the archive sites.  One of the atari guys scanned and posted a
> > book that includes an article on how to make game controllers for the
> > Apple II.