![]() Microsoft has ported their software to many other CPUs and platforms. Running Robotron in AppleWin an Apple II emulator under Wine on a Linux distro inside a virtual box running on Mac OS running in a container compiled with gcc running on Windows10. Software can be ported, cross-compiled, simulated, emulated. ![]() "Running games and Windows requires a x86 CPU." Apple II software was rewritten in assembly to run on the PC. The few expensive compilers from that era were flaky, and you were probably better off rewriting the slow parts in assembly. ![]() "Additionally almost all of this early pc software is written in assembly, so even if you had the sources, it would be impossible to recompile without rewriting it completely." ![]() If anything the Apple II has taught me, is that anything is possible. ![]() I was very surprised to find US-DOS (1991), a MS-DOS like program for the Apple II. ![]()
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