I know a bit about Apple computers since year 1981, and purchased my first Apple (a //e) not much later its market introduction.
I love writing utilities for the Apple computer (see previous posts on csa2 and csa2p under the Benoit0123/Benoit alias). The last ones I am currently still working on are:
a) How to extend the Applesoft features in some unusual ways (like bring the coroutines features) with the “Peersoft” companion utility (to be run on DOS 3.3);
b) How to run (un|non) protected DOS 3.3 application software on ProDOS 8 (a newer Apple OS with extensive support for mass storage and interruptible devices). DOP (that’s its name) is a container module living happily with the ProDOS kernel.

My experience with Transputers is somewhat much much less extensive (to say a few), I have purchased some startkits from XMOS (the company managed by David May) whcih I understand offer similar features for the embedded world than transputer for the desktop/workstation at its time and I saw some amazing demos of the transputers networks which did Ray tracing @ the SICOB many years ago hence my current interest.

The projects I am thinking about would be to implement:
a) hardware FP for the Applesoft interpreter (but I am afraid that the communication overhead) would nullify many expeceted performance benefits.
b) and to port a P-code machine to the transputer (at a later stage) with the REAL format being very similar between the two environments (I have a T800 which support both single and double precision FP operations).

Currently I am designing a small assembly routine (Merlin format) that will allow the detection of the T2A2 poeripheral card in a slotted Apple //. I hope to get my first results in the few weeks to come.

Voilà,

Replying to myself..
My “session works” web site where you can browse thru some personal projects I did in the past. for users interested.

Replying to myself..
The correct URL is this one
Forgive me..
Benoît

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Axel.

Hi,

my name is Jonas I was born 1980. I have a Youtube and Soundcloud channel as ‘Vintage Micro Music’.

I own a lot of old computers (using a separate 70qm apartment for storage) but my interest is mostly Apple II in all its variations.

I am a Java programmer but I have yet to do any programming on the A2 or Transputer.

-Jonas

I picked up one of these for fun. If you guys come up with some interesting stuff that is nearly turnkey, I look forward to trying it out.

I’m ‘ianoid’ in most collector forums and @deliciousgames on Twitter. I had a //e as a kid in 1983. I spent a lot of time online back then with a Hayes Micromodem //e and then an Apple Cat. I started collecting video games in 1997. I got back into Apple II stuff in earnest around 8 years ago. I’m not very technical.

He folks, I am Richard, sometimes also known as Tricky or Trick-1. I Have the Transputer bug real bad but also collect other multi CPU systems link Sun Sparc 20, Parallella, Nvidia Tesla.

I have one of the T2A2 in my Apple //e and am working on an external carrier card that will hold 4 more TRAM’s. I have got my carrier card working (but with some issues) with the T2A2 so am rather happy with myself tonight.