I decided to start off by reacquainting myself with graphics on the Apple II. I started out by having a paddle bounce a ball around the screen. Originally, it was terribly flickery. I fixed that by drawing the paddle and ball in their new positions before erasing them from their old positions. Now it’s merely painfully slow. However, it was good practice. I started over, this time making it into a breakout clone, trying to streamline it from the start. The result is somewhat playable.

The listings for both are available under the “listings” section of this website, and I also put up a disk image which contains both programs and will be updated with additional ones I write throughout the month.