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The programming history that led to my current iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. Apollo Eagle : A simulation of the final twelve minutes of the landing of "Eagle", the Lunar Module from Apollo 11. (iPhone) Jupiter Atlas: Explore Jupiter's Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Mars Atlas: Explore Mars. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad, Mac) Mercury Atlas: Explore Mercury. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Moon Atlas: A great tool for those who observe the Moon. Correct phase and libration are shown. (iPhone, iPad, Mac) Planisphere: A simple start charting app showing all naked eye stars, the Sun, Moon and planets. (iPhone, iPad) Saturn Atlas: Explore seven of Saturn's moons. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Venus Atlas: Explore Venus. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Zone Warrior: Originally a Mac game from the 90's. Defend your space station from alien attack! (iPhone)
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1981
1983
First version of 3D engine forMOS 6502 assembly language, first on the Commodore PET. Character based.
1986
1994
1998
1990
Moved over to Commodore 64bit mapped and colour.
Moved over to Macintosh. Enhanced3D Engine, including basic texture mapping. Casady & Greene, ZOA.
New 3D engine for MC68000,first on Atari ST.
Reverse engineered 3D engine intoC because of RISC architecture ofPowerPC.
1997 Moved to QuickDraw 3D RAVE.
Steve nixes QD3D. Moved to OpenGL. Casady & Greene, Zone Warrior.
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2006Continual updating as Mac OS X evolves. Switch from PowerPC toIntel.
2008iPhone OS X SDK ships. Zone Warrior in App Store 15/10/2008.
Today
2001 Move from System 9 to Mac OS X.
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iPad Launch video 2010
iPad Safari tutorial video 2010 Demo app in all of Apple’s retail stores worldwide 2011
Moon Atlas
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