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> You can even write C or 6502 assembler code for Woz's creation, the Apple ][+. Thrill to the unusual frame buffer layout and one-bit speaker output!

These folks get it.

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C? Pascal, maybe, Cobol, Fortran, and even some oddballs like Forth, but C didn't catch traction until the mid-80s. I remember Chuck Sommerville (author of the original Snake Byte) and his father describing this "new language" (C) which has all the speed of assembly but is much friendlier.

Applesoft Basic and 6502 ASM (thanks to the Lazer Systems Interactive Assembler -LISA) were tops in those days.

The OP was quoting the 8bitworkshop page which has an environment, now, for programming the Apple ][+ in the manner decribed.

I understand now. Thanks for that clarification!

I spent a few minutes on 8bitworkshop and honestly, it's kind of exciting to think of coding the APPLE ][ in C.

I think it was the mid 1990s before I saw my first color-coding editor (Metrowerks?). All this for an Apple is just fantastic.

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