Apple ][ Emulator written in LabVIEW? - Happy 35th Anniversary!

[SteveChandler]

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the date the Apple][ first went on sale. This was my first computer and I studied it for many, many days and nights.

Unfortunately because of the ROM copyrights I cannot distribute the emulator. I will remove the ROMs from the project and post the code. You can then find a legal copy of the ROMs and run it. I will probably put the code on SourceForge.

Warning - video contains sound.

The project is not yet complete and I don't know when I will be able to finish it. The things that do not work are

• sound
• graphics, only text mode works
• disk writing, only reading works (Booting Applesoft was my eureka moment and tst almost figured it out!)
• the second disk drive
• expansion RAM
• CPU interrupts and BCD arithmatic. I don't think BCD is used anywhere except embedded devices which have BCD to 7-segment LEDs.

There is another project that I would really like to do. I want to write an emulator for the original "Fat MAC" that LabVIEW was first released on. Then I want to run LabVIEW 1.0 on it

Some day...

[SteveChandler]

I posted the code on Sourceforge. This is my first Sourceforge project and so the page is not really complete yet. I only attached the project as two zipfiles - one for LabVIEW 9.0 and one for LabVIEW 11.0.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/labviewapple2/