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AppRecs rating 4.5. Trustworthiness 67 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 21 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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91% of sampled ratings are 5 stars
About VirtualKim - 6502 Emulator
Start with the most basic user interface you can imagine — 7-segment LEDs and some buttons — to enter, debug and run your applications. Then upgrade to a display and keyboard, and use the built-in monitor program to dump memory, makes edits and execute your code. Can you run BASIC? Maybe. FORTH? Perhaps. Assembler? Definitely!
Don't think of this as a game (or something "fun" or "enjoyable" in the traditional sense). Think of it as a puzzle: how on earth did those folks in the 1970's manage to do ANYTHING when computers were this basic?
Documentation is provided, but to get the most of out of this app you'll need to do your own research. Just like in the 1970s.
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Reviews for VirtualKim - 6502 Emulator
E000R
A Brilliant Tribute to Chuck Peddle, Jim Butterfield, and Steve Wozniak!
I absolutely love this app. The description is hilarious and the manual (Readme.txt) is a fun read and a fantastic asset. As an “80’s kid” whose first 6502 experience was the Atari 2600, it was really fun to learn to use the legendary KIM-1. Lunar Lander is a blast on the keypad UI! The only issue I encountered was with the terminal interface. While the vintage-style keyboard layout looks awesome, I found it difficult to use for any nontrivial typing. I also wished for system keyboard features and support for landscape mode. Perhaps this is as it should be, as I find it equally difficult to type on vintage keyboards from the '70s and '80s. In any case, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, as this app is packed with a ton of great retro-computing functionality for ZERO COST. As a developer myself, I know the dedication and labor it takes to produce an app like this—I developed WOZNIAC-1 to address the issues I had with the VK terminal UI, and that has taken as much effort as my previous full-time job. Many thanks to John for putting in the effort to create this!
rastyk
Wow this is great!
I’ve had this around for a very long time, but I must have seen something about the Kim and revisited this app - wow, this is awesome! You can revisit the glory days and actually program and run this to see what it was like to be on a computer back then. I can only imagine how crazy it must have been to play lunar lander in the 1970s…very awesome!
