Window Pack

This library was developed around 1987 to provide a more flexible UI framework for a series of other applications. The library provides a simple window and menubar abstraction for Apple II systems in 80 column text more (with mousetext). One thing of note, this library makes use of 65C02 instructions. It will not run on basic 6502 systems or systems w/o an 80 column card in slot 3. Machines like the enhanced Apple //e and the //c will support the library.  Documentation is included in the included demo program.  Additional information is available in the github repo.

Around the end of 1987, the library was entered into the Compute!'s Apple Applications programming contest. It took second place and was published in binary form in the October 1988 issue of that magazine.  In 2024, the original source code to the library was unearthed and the original programmer decided to fix up the project enough so that it could be rebuild and run again.

The application is contained in an Apple II '.po' format 140k disk image file which can be read by most emulators or written to a 5.25" floppy disk and run on a physical device.  It could also be used with tools like Floppy EMU and CFFA to run on physical hardware.  

Thanks to the great work by Chris Torrance and Michael Morrison, one can run this game directly in your browser via their TypeScript Apple II emulator (Apple2TS). 

• Run Window Pack demo in the browser

The source code is a work in progress.  The original assembly had no comments, and the memory layout was undocumented.  The code is actively being updated to address some of these limitations.