This blog article is based on my seminar presentation held during Revision 2024. The original presentation can be found here. Who are we? I’m Cyril Lambin, my demoscene name is Fenarinarsa and I’m part of the demogroup “French Touch”. French Touch has been doing demos on the Apple II since 2014 with more than 30 …
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This article was made at the same time than French Touch‘s intro « Digidream 2 ».We wanted to share the issues we ran into when developing this demo, and what we discovered about the General Instruments AY-3-8913 sound chip that is used on most Apple II sound cards. Click here for a free & open hardware patch …
The FYM tools are now available on GitHub (source code + binaries). v05 released on 17/05/2020! When I started to work on Latecomer, the first problem I tried to solve was getting a music. Fortunately, Grouik/FT did some amazing work back in 2015 by taking Atari ST songs and replaying them on the Mockingboard. That’s …
Suite à mon article sur les cartes Chat Mauve sur Apple II, Grouik/FT et moi avons fait des tests sur nos Apple II respectifs afin de coincer les émulateurs qui ne gèreraient pas correctement certains modes. Du coup, j’ai fait de nouveau des recherches notamment en relisant l’excellent Understanding the Apple IIe de Jim Sather. …
[update 05/06/2022: Correction du support Double LoRes sur EVE][update 12/08/2020: Suppression de la mention du charset programmable sur la EVE, qui est en fait une couche software en HGR][update 20/02/2020: Correction du support de modes de la Féline et adaptateur IIc] Dans ma quête d’informations sur les Apple II, une marque de cartes d’extension revient …