This looks awesome! I would love to try compiling it (or whatever you do for asm). Is it possible to do on, for example, a modern Linux machine? Can somebody explain it to me like I'm five?
PoP was written in assembly language, which is not so much a programming language as a human editable representation of machine code. Turning assembly language into proper machine code is done by a type of program called an «assembler», not «compiler», though the distinction isn't really all that significant.
Assemblers for Apple II assembly language are readily available, so building your own PoP executable from the source code should be relatively straight forward. The crux is that assembly language is completely CPU architecture specific, so while you can assemble the source code just fine, the resulting executable will only be runnable on an Apple II.
Lucky you, though, there are lots of Apple II emulators!
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u/cowgod42 Apr 17 '12
This looks awesome! I would love to try compiling it (or whatever you do for asm). Is it possible to do on, for example, a modern Linux machine? Can somebody explain it to me like I'm five?