Open Apple -- An Apple II podcast
Drop /// Inches | The Apple /// podcast
Description: Keeping you connected to the past.
TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years . Github link.
On a long drive home, still high off the heady retro fumes of KansasFest 2019 , I was thinking of new projects I could work on with the Apple II. I had, days before, given a presentation about an Altair 8800 emulator I worked on that, while functional, is incredibly slow on real hardware. After all, SIM8800 emulates a two MHz Intel 8080 on a one MHz 6502, and crams 64K of emulated Altair memory into the fragmented, bank-switched 128K of an enhanced Apple IIe.
To what other purposes, I wondered, could I employ that single megahertz processor, that would be similarly impractical, but still demonstrate its unique power and flexibility?
Open Apple -- An Apple II podcast
Drop /// Inches | The Apple /// podcast