Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.

On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

> Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a
> buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote
> as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps
> y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.

Appler was actually one of the emulators I used in the late 1990s,
alongside ApplePC and APL2EM.

-uso.

Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.

Nice. Thanks for open sourcing and sharing it. I shared your link in
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple2/comments/psvten/github_zajoappler_apple_emulator_for_msdos/.
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Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> writes:

> Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with
> a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also
> wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made
> clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting:
> https://github.com/zajo/appler.

Very nice writeup for an impressive effort (and result)!

On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 7:47:51 PM UTC-7, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>
> > Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a
> > buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote
> > as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps
> > y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.
> Appler was actually one of the emulators I used in the late 1990s,
> alongside ApplePC and APL2EM.

Recently someone said that Appler made it all the way to Australia, pre-Internet. Who knew. :)

On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:21:23 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.
Great to see the author of Appler is still with us. Thanks, sir, for making Appler open source, and for coding Appler.

I still use Appler to this very day! It is such a fast, lean, truly wonderful emulator. It is FAST, much faster than any other apple ii emulator for MS-DOS. These include apple2 PC, apple2em by Randy Spurlock, and many others. The assembly routines in Appler make the others seem like slowpokes in comparison. The debugger is great, and it runs perfectly, and consumes so little resources and very, very little diskspace. It compresses to something like 24kb.

So, I just want to say "Thanks!" for 30 years of a great apple ii emulator -- and, yes, I've used appler for each and every one of those 30 years. (Well, I think I first found it in 1996, so, technically "only" 25 years.

On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:43:16 PM UTC-7, Bob Piltz wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:21:23 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> > Recently I dug up the source code of an Apple ][ emulator I wrote with a buddy of mine, got it to build again and put it on GitHub. I also wrote as short readme about the Apple ][ and the Bulgarian-made clone. Perhaps y'all will find it interesting: https://github.com/zajo/appler.
> Great to see the author of Appler is still with us. Thanks, sir, for making Appler open source, and for coding Appler.
>
> I still use Appler to this very day! It is such a fast, lean, truly wonderful emulator. It is FAST, much faster than any other apple ii emulator for MS-DOS. These include apple2 PC, apple2em by Randy Spurlock, and many others. The assembly routines in Appler make the others seem like slowpokes in comparison. The debugger is great, and it runs perfectly, and consumes so little resources and very, very little diskspace. It compresses to something like 24kb.
>
> So, I just want to say "Thanks!" for 30 years of a great apple ii emulator -- and, yes, I've used appler for each and every one of those 30 years. (Well, I think I first found it in 1996, so, technically "only" 25 years.

Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)

On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 7:44:13 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

> Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)

Yes I should have said "one of the authors" when I replied. By, the way, I trust that both of you are still well, after the 30 years, and hopefully no longer "poor programmers." I looked at the source code and find it a treasure trove. Thanks again. I wonder how many are still using (real bare-metal) DOS in 2021 and emulators like Appler on a daily basis. I'm probably the only one left in the world, but I feel so gratified when I can spend 5 seconds booting DOS, run a wonderfully robust program like Appler which consumes some few *kilobytes* of code, and does its job exceptionally well. Verses the alternative of running an emulator in a faulty, multiple-abstraction layered "walled garden" of dozens of *gigabytes* of runaway, ridiculously slow code, on a "modern" system! It boggles my mind, so I don't ever do it, preferring my short and sweet version of DOS instead.

On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 3:40:57 PM UTC-7, Bob Piltz wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 7:44:13 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>
> > Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)
> Yes I should have said "one of the authors" when I replied. By, the way, I trust that both of you are still well, after the 30 years

We were in high school when we wrote Appler, so yeah, still among the living LOL.

David,

> When I launch Webber, I get a message saying that the HTML fonts are required. As far as I can tell, I have indeed copied all the fonts that are included in the Fonts folder with Webber, into my System Fonts folder. And I have all 3 Tools copied into the System Tools folder too. I'm running System 6.0.1. Any ideas on what might be wrong?
Webber wil run in 6.0.1 to 6.0.4.

If you have downloaded and expanded the webber111.bxy package from my website, you will find 27 fonts in the Fonts folder that need to be installed in the System Fonts folder, though you may already have some of them from older installations of Spectrum, SAM2, or Webber.

There are three Tools that need to be installed into the System Tools folder, and they must be the latest ones include with the Webber archive: Tool130, Tool132, and Tool056. You also need the TimeZone CDev installed, and the IIgs clock correctly set for your Time Zone and Daylight Savings setting.

If you have downloaded and used the installer on the webber111.2mg install disk, it will have automatically installed all the required fonts and tools for you.

Once you have rebooted, then all should be well.

The SIS fonts run from SIS.1 to SIS-7, and except for SIS.3, SIS.4, and SIS.5, all have six sizes, from 9-24. There are 27 fonts in all, and they all must be of filetype $C8.

Cheers - Ewen