Before I jumped ship to Linux and Windows development, I cut my teeth on the Apple // and Macintosh systems (you don't want to hear why I switched).  Over the years, I wrote a slew of applications for both platforms, mostly games. Since many of these never shipped or are no longer shipping, I thought I'd make some of the available to you here.  

Quite possibly my favorite machine of all time.  First, you will need an emulator. I have written a couple of emulators (in IrisGL and X11), but most recently I have worked on one for Windows.

I just added a few nits and bits to the solid source code base that previously existed and it has served me well. The complete source code is included here.  All of the screen shots of the various apps came from this emulator (F11 is a screenshot to clipboard key I added). Download here. Here is a disk image that includes tool (running in the emulator) that can export/import files from the native Windows filesystem.

The Games...

Here are a number of the more popular Apple II games I wrote over the years.  Rapid fire and all with files that will run in the emulator.  In roughly reverse chronological order:

Death is a Four Letter Word

I was working on this with SoftDisk when the pretty much pulled the plug on the Apple II. Top-down adventure style app with destructible terrain and an effectively infinite world size. All graphics, text, etc are in the scenarios, so every scenario had its own look and feel.  The Scenario Editor is included. Download

Deflection

Simple two player "chess" like game where you move mirrors, beam splitters, etc and fire a laser to try to destroy the other player's pieces. Download

Window Pack

Simple text windowing system that won a programming contest in some magazine. It was eventually used as the interface for PBH Pack.  This one requires a 65C02, thus, an Apple //e or later. Download

Digisim

A gate-level digital logic simulator.  I we designing some hardware at the time and needed a tool to simulate it.  The program turned out more useful than the hardware... Download

Painter

A ridiculous little game, where you enclose the bad guys like Qix and then start a limited flood fill that can be used to kill them. I was really just experimenting with an odd flood fill algorithm and turned it into a game. You have to run the emulator in Apple ][ mode for this one. Download

Pakman/Formula Nibble

These games came from Nibble magazine as I recall and I wanted more.  Starting from their code, I added more levels and various other enhancements. Download Download

Totally

Shoot, shoot and shoot.  Stay away from things and survive.  Download

The Biomed Disk

Instead of lectures, I got to write some training material. Pretty dry stuff, but a couple of the animation techniques were kinda cool at the time.  Download

Rage 3+ (and others)

Early experiments with the combination of compiled Basic and assembler. Rage is a little like Space Invaders, but plays entirely differently.  Download


There were a lot more apps/games, but I'm sure I've bored you enough for one page.