Recreate the classic 8-bit computer on Raspberry Pi. Emulate Apple II on Raspberry Pi. It’s the last Maker Monday before Halloween and we still don’t have a costume sorted, so instead, we’re going to follow this treat of a tutorial from The Raspberry Pi Guide to Retro Gaming to disguise our Raspberry Pi as the classic 8-bit Apple II computer.
The Apple II was not the first personal or home computer, but it was part of the iconic ‘trinity’ of computers that came out in 1977: Apple II, Commodore PET, and TRS-80. The Apple II wasn’t as capable a gaming computer as some of the other 8-bit systems of the era, but it was designed with games in mind. In designing the Apple II, Steve Wozniak took inspiration from his work on the Breakout arcade game during his time at Atari.
It’s why the Apple II has colour graphics, support for paddle controllers, and even audio. (10 points to anyone who can tell us what this is in the comments) Apple II audio was quite limited: anything more complex than a beep was quite CPU-intensive. Add-on audio boards, such as the Mockingboard, became popular and enjoyed support from several game developers.
The Apple II included a version of the BASIC language that only supported integer numeric data types: by eschewing floating-point numbers, Wozniak’s Integer BASIC, as it was called, processed numbers extremely fast.
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