We started a little project for our beloved Apple IIGS - which we called
The Apple IIGS Show.
This is a series of short video showing kids using the Apple IIGS computer. Each video will show some of the best software that a kid can do on the computer. We will also show how to do programming on an Apple IIGS.
This show is hosted Ding Wen, with the help of his sisters. This is a show for kids by kids!…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on May 13, 2009 at 2:30am —
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Space War is this week Apple iPhone featured web app!
Space War for iPhone is ported from the Apple II game Infiltrator and is initially
co-written by me and my son Lim Ding Wen for the Android phones. It is later ported to iPhone and Java ME phones.
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on April 13, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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When I was young, I wrote my first Apple II space arcade game called
Infiltrator. It is my first assembly program and has multiple levels where the user needs to control a spaceship and navigate through waves of alien attacks.
Many years later, my son Ding Wen wrote his first space arcade game for the Apple IIGS -…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on March 10, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Due to a harddisk crash of the iMac hosting the iPhone SDK, we are now unable to do iPhone development until we get the machine back and set up the environment again. In the meantime, we focus entirely on Google Android development. Android OS is so fun to program and it finally gives me a chance to teach my son Ding Wen Java programming.
The result? Ding Wen has ported his Doodle Kids (an Apple IIGS and iPhone program) to Android phone! Doodle Kids for Android has some features not available i…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on March 8, 2009 at 9:00am —
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My son
Ding Wen is porting some of his Apple IIGS and iPhone programs to Google Android phone.
There are 2 ways to do it. The first way is to embed a WebKit browser (WebView) to host a web application. The 2nd way is to use
Canvas.
Using WebView
Write a web application and tested them to work under Android Browser. If you have…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on March 3, 2009 at 3:30am —
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All of the sudden everybody wanted to know about this little programmer. It is really very simple - it just involved a computer called Apple IIGS.
The best story comes from
The Singapore iPhone Blog. I find this story to be the closest to what actually happened.
Majority of the programming works are done on Apple IIGS emulator.
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on February 9, 2009 at 7:30am —
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The story starts spreading. The New Paper of Singapore came for an interview, and release an excellent article (5-2-2009).
Reuters picked up the story in the morning and this becomes the top tech news of Reuters!
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on February 5, 2009 at 7:30am —
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It all started from this article
9-year-old writes iPhone app in the popular blog
The Singapore iPhone Guide.
A few days later, Ding Wen started to receive interview invitations for his love of the iPhone and Apple IIGS...
Then it appeared in Singapore newspaper, showing a live working Apple IIGS showing pictures on TV, and also an iPhone showi…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on January 30, 2009 at 9:30am —
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Ding Wen's first space game for the Apple IIGS -
Invader War - is now on iPhone! You can now
download in Apple App Store!
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on January 27, 2009 at 2:00am —
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The iPhone version of the Apple IIGS application
Doodle Kids is now in App Store. Doodle Kids is written by the young Apple IIGS programmer
Lim Ding Wen. It uses the original Apple IIGS Super Hires palette, and was initially written in Complete Pascal.
Have fun!
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on January 22, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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The iPhone version of the Apple IIGS application
Simple Paint is now in App Store. Simple Paint uses the original Apple IIGS Super Hires palette, and was initially written in Complete Pascal.
Have fun!
Kids Paint - a simplified version of Simpl…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on January 18, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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My son
Ding Wen just ported some of his Apple IIGS programs to iPhone using
GScript.
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on January 10, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Now you can do BASIC programming on the go!
Point your iPhone or iPod touch to
http://virtualgs.larwe.com/gsbasic and you can key in a BASIC program - similar to Applesoft BASIC. It supports the Apple IIGS 320x200 Super Hires and 40x40 Lores graphics modes.
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on November 4, 2008 at 6:30pm —
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Simple Paint is this week Apple iPhone featured web app! Simple Paint for iPhone is ported from the
Apple IIGS version.
Kids Paint also got the Staff Pick.…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on September 27, 2008 at 3:00am —
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I have created a JavaScript library called
GScript for Apple IIGS programmer doing graphics and animation. The library syntax is based on QuickDraw and even have support for Apple IIGS color palette! Programs written with it can run on Safari and Firefox browsers. To see more examples, visit
Virtual GS page.
The programs can also run on
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on August 19, 2008 at 3:00am —
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How easy is it to program nowadays?
When we were young, we used to be able to sit down and type on the Apple II:
HGR
HCOLOR = 3
HPLOT 0, 0 to 279, 159
The code above will draw a white line.
But no longer. Programming has become a science, where you need to be a rocket scientist to just to do something simple!
So I decided to do something about it. I created
GScript BASIC for Applesoft BASIC programmers. Unli…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on August 16, 2008 at 4:00am —
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It is possible to run Apple IIGS software on a web browser, just like Flash or Java. In fact, with the correct plugin, now all the Apple IIGS software is just a click away - and essentially makes Apple IIGS into a Virtual Machine.
If you have a PC with IE or Firefox, you can go to
Virtual Apple or my
ActiveGS page and experience Apple IIGS live, without the need of installing or configuring any software…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on June 11, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Apple IIGS is a great platform for writing applications. There are many programming languages available, and the most famous set of programming languages came from a company named
Byte Works. It has everything from assembler to Modula-2. But the one I like best, is the language called Orca/Pascal. This is because it has a little hidden gem - it supports the Apple
Object Pascal extension. This makes i…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on June 8, 2008 at 9:00am —
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There is now a painting program designed primary for kids. It can randomly draw squares, circles, lines, triangles and stars at different sizes and colors, and can create a totally wonderful result.
This is
Doodle Kids for the Apple IIGS - a full screen painting program written for kids. The kids just need to use the mouse to paint and see the result comes to life with random shapes in random colors. Press the space key, and a…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on May 31, 2008 at 10:30am —
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My son Ding Wen is probably the world youngest Apple IIGS programmer. Not just Apple II programmer, as anybody who can type a simple line - 10 print "Hello World" - can become an Apple II programmer - programming on an Apple IIGS required a lot more knowledge. I feel so proud as a father today when Ding Wen wrote his first event driven program which he called
Doodle Kids, a simple painting program he wrote for his younger siste…
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Added by Lim Thye Chean on May 25, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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