Works on Mac
This simulator appears to work great on my M3 MacBook Air. Nice emulator!
Great app
I want to start by thanking John Kennedy for making this app, he put probably countless hours into making an educational tool. Not only that but he made it completely free so thank you! The app is a great representation of some old computers and it really gives you a sense of what it would be like to use them back when they came out. My only gripe is on my 14 pro it does seem to heat up my phone a bit on the kim simulator, I haven’t tried any other modes. Regardless I absolutely love the app and again thank you John!
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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!
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!
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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!
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!
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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!
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!
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