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| Apple III Horses demo [message #394838] |
Sat, 23 May 2020 02:24  |
Rob Justice
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I spent some digging into and disassembling the classic Horses demo for the Apple ///. The main part of the code is implemented in an Invokable module written by Andy Hertzfeld. This is loaded in by the Basic program and it's functions called from there.
I found an interesting header in the invokable code file, looks like a remnant of the original source!
;----------------------------------------------------------- ------------
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; "Horse Demo" Invokable Module for Business Basic
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; by Andy Hertzfeld 09/04/80
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;----------------------------------------------------------- -----------
Read more here in my blog post:
https://robjapple.blogspot.com/2020/05/apple-horses-demo.htm l
And the disassembled code is on github:
https://github.com/robjustice/Apple3/tree/master/horses
This code needs to be assembled by the Apple II or /// Pascal Assembler to produce the required PCD code file.
/Rob
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| Re: Apple III Horses demo [message #395199 is a reply to message #394838] |
Sun, 31 May 2020 14:53  |
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Originally posted by: wolle kemper
Thanks Rob!
I had the demo running on my Apple III a couple of years ago but lost the demo disk.
Just downloaded it and will enjoy the stunning graphic again :-)
Another example on how guys like Andy , who did understand the hardware they where working with, could do such things . At the time it was stunning :-)
PS: Same as Bill Bishop did with Applevision.
Simple through our eyes but at the time breathtaking.
Regards,
Wolfgang
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