marko-555 / apple-ii-programs

Byte-sized delights that are guaranteed to ward off hysteria and melancholy!

Programs For Your Apple II

Short Programs

Select the Project Link below to view each project's details, including the program code. You can either copy and paste these programs into your favorite Apple II emulator or enter them into your actual Apple II by hand, then type RUN to execute the program.

Programs with the badge will run perfectly fine on a 1MHz Apple II, but may take minutes or hours to execute. For these programs, I strongly recommend using an emulator at full speed or an accelerated Apple II.

Project Link	Thumbnail	Description
City Scape		Randomly generates a city skyline
Driving		Driving game with obstacles
Fireworks		Animated fireworks display
FizzBuzz		I AM SO SMART! S-M-R-T!
Floyd-Steinberg Plasma		F-S dithered sine waves
Gumballs		Draws 260 gumballs on the screen
Junk Drawer		Draw things with chunky pixels
Random Plasma		Random dithered sine waves
Tessellator		Tessellated patterns
Typing Game		Type letters and get a high score
Concentration		Card matching game
Desert Island		Text adventure game
Fifteen Puzzle		Sliding tile puzzle
Geometric		Geometric pattern
GR-Kanoid		2019 Two-Liner Contest submission
Hello		Handy Applesoft program loader
Identity Crisis		Susan Kare's "Happy Mac" on an Apple II
Mind The Gaps		2019 Two-Liner Contest winner
Sierpinski Triangle		Draws the fabled fabulous fractal
Snake Game		Interactive snake game
Sprite		Draws Kirby on the screen
Stacker		Simple stacking game
Target Practice		Artillery game
Tower of Hanoi		Interactive puzzle game
Color Plasma		F-S dithered perspective landscape

Disk Image

The following image contains all some of the above programs in a single, easy-to-use package.

• short-programs.dsk
  

Tips & Tricks

If you're interested in writing your own one- and two-liners, I've compiled some tips & tricks that you might find helpful.

My Other Apple II Projects

Game Boy Tetris for Apple II

I released an Apple II port of the Game Boy version of Tetris in late 2023. You can download the playable disk image and source code from one of the following locations.

• MediaFire
• Apple Asimov
• Internet Archive
  detailed instructions in comments

Conway II

A pretty fast implementation of Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton on the Apple II.

• GitHub Project

Community

Thank you for being one of the like fourteen people who really digs this retro stuff. If you have any problems with the programs in this repo, please let me know by creating an issue. I'm also aware that my one- and two-liners are very hacky and difficult to parse out. If there's a particular program you'd like to understand better, but you've hit a roadblock, let me know and I'll try to make time to add detailed dev notes.