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Pom2 v0.9.4 is released. Pom2 is an Apple ][ , ][+ , //e , //c , //c+ emulator.

🌟 Why POM2?:
🎞️ 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.
🧊 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.
📺 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 γ) and persistence (temporal glow), barrel distortion, hue/BCS — the full Display → CRT Settings panel.
💾 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.
🌐 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).
🎵 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.
🔬 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.
🌐 Runs in your browser. The full emulator builds to WebAssembly — play it now, no install.

Pom2 Changelog:
An Apple //c or //c+ with no disk boots again: it prints "Check Disk Drive." instead of hanging on a blank screen.
The //c's CPU-socket Mockingboard 4c has its own setting and stays asleep until a program calls it, so a //e's slot 3 card no longer follows you into a //c; Slot Configuration's connector lists now match the real machines.
The TransWarp accelerator works on an Apple ][, ][+ or unenhanced //e: as on the real board, the card's own 65C02 runs the program while it holds the bus.
--blank-disk creates a diskette that has never been formatted — unmagnetised, no address fields — so a program's INIT has real work to do.
"Download missing from RetroBIOS" in the ROM Status panel can now complete the whole romset: 38 dumps instead of 18, each verified by size, CRC32 and SHA-256.
Two more character sets in the picker: US Enhanced with the later MouseText (Return symbol and title bar), and ReActiveMicro's ReActiveText.
Fifty defects fixed across three bug hunts, each with a test that fails without its fix: media write-back and write-protect, host folders, snapshot and rewind restores that lost state, printing, sound and the //c's Disk II after a SmartPort write.
3.5" drives turn at the right speed on the PAL profiles, where every revolution used to be 0.7 % too long.

Download: Pom2 v0.9.4
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