Pom2 v0.9.9 is released. Pom2 is an Apple ][ , ][+ , //e , //c , //c+ emulator.
π Why POM2?:
π️ Beam-raced to the scanline. Soft-switch flips mid-frame land on the exact scanline the CPU touched them — split-screen demos, hi-res/text mode swaps and AN3 DHGR toggles render correctly. The composite NTSC path beam-races too, so artifact colour follows the same event log the RGBA path does.
π§ Tilt the screen into 3D. A MicroM8-style voxel view lifts the Apple II framebuffer off the glass into an orbiting 3D scene — pixels become extruded voxels you can fly around with a real camera.
⏪ Rewind time. A snapshot ring buffer records the machine as it runs; scrub backwards through your last seconds of execution and resume from any point. Same serializer feeds the AI-control HTTP /snapshot endpoints, so they can never drift.
πΊ CRT you can dial in. OpenEmulator-style composite NTSC shader and AppleWin's CPU IIR-LUT NTSC, plus mono phosphor with an adjustable phosphor curve (luminance Ξ³) and persistence (temporal glow), barrel distortion, hue/BCS — the full Display → CRT Settings panel.
πΎ Disks that sound right. Cycle-stamped mechanical floppy samples: the Disk II head step and the Sony 3.5" drive whir, timed off the CPU clock — disk-turbo collapses wall-clock gaps but the nibble stream stays cycle-correct via an event-driven LSS.
π Online, from 1984. The Uthernet II's W5100 is a hardware TCP/IP stack, so POM2 runs it straight on host sockets — point a period IRC, telnet or FTP client at the real internet with no extra dependency and no privileges, on Linux, macOS and Windows. The Uthernet I (CS8900A) is there too for IP65 / Contiki, bridged by optional libslirp (Linux/macOS).
π΅ A whole sound-card era. Speaker, cassette, Mockingboard A/C, Mockingboard C Sound II with SSI263 speech, the Applied Engineering Phasor (2×VIA / 4×AY), and the Cricket / Echo SSI263 line.
π¬ MAME is the source of truth. Every hardware port cites the MAME file + line range in a comment and is pinned with a smoke test under tests/. CPU → audio/UI events carry a CPU-cycle stamp, never wall-clock.
π Runs in your browser. The full emulator builds to WebAssembly — play it now, no install.
Pom2 Changelog:
Browser: ?url= boots a disk image from another site, the screen
opens on its own, and the audio no longer crackles.
Input: the host mouse can drive paddles 0 and 1, and the //e
Shift-key mod is an option.
Disks: choose a disk's sector order by hand, format a WOZ on any
track, and a macOS command-line disk boots once.
//c and //c Plus: Ctrl-Reset keeps the 3.5-inch drives, and SmartPort
calls answer like the Liron firmware.
Accuracy: WDC WAI, the ThunderClock interrupt from power-up, and a
cassette recording that follows the rewind.
Proven on real software: DIX, Arlequin and Extasie on the FΓ©line, and
A2osX printing and networking through POM2's cards.
pom2_core SDK: the //c and //c Plus, the mouse, a bus watch and the
display state.
Many fixes from bug hunts against MAME and AppleWin.
Download: Pom2 v0.9.9
Source: Here
2026-10-27
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