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Any particular reason why the author chose to do this on an Apple ][?

(I mean, the pictures look cool and all.)

IE, did the author want to experiment with older forms of basic; or were they trying to learn more about old computers?

I wrote about my motivation at https://mdcramer.github.io/apple-2-blog/motivation/, which is obviously tongue in cheek. Tl;dr, I refurbished my Apple ][+ to try to recover a game I wrote in high school (https://mdcramer.github.io/apple-2-blog/recover/). After being unable to find the floppy with the game, I thought I'd try something just for giggles.