Displaying Bitmaps on the Apple II
The Apple II was the popular darling that truly kicked off the ascention of the company that would later bring you darlings such as the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. The brainchild of the legendary Steve Wozniak, it was a low-cost home computer that made use of some interesting compromises to create video output with the bare minimum components. This can make it difficult if you want to output full-bitmap graphics on the Apple II – but it is certainly possible.
[cybernesto] set about completing this task, and released VBMP on GitHub. Programmed in assembly, it builds upon the work of …read more