2026-10-13

Pom2 v0.9.6

Pom2 v0.9.6 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:
New desktop: Monitor II-framed screen above the machine keyboard,
with Drives, Disk Library and Slot Configuration tabbed on the right.
Insert disks by clicking drive artwork or dropping images onto it.
Machine keyboards: //c, //c PAL and //c+ select their own keyboard
skin and hotspots, with the same displayed proportions as the IIe.
Boot and profiles: drive controls select the mounted controller,
respect native firmware priorities and report conflicting boot targets.
Profile changes validate the new ROM before replacing the machine;
Liron configurations support HD mounting.
Display and input: monochrome preserves native dot patterns;
Alt+Enter toggles mouse capture in fullscreen. Focus changes no longer
leave guest keys held, and gamepads support all four analog paddles.
Storage and sound: corrected Disk II spindle timing and SmartPort
FORMAT/INIT errors. Automatic drive sounds follow the machine family;
Virtual II recordings can be imported locally, with MAME fallback.
Four bundled disks: A2FC XL v0.9.6 (6502 edition), DIX-fix,
ChromaBreak 1.0 and Micro-Sokoban 1.2, with SHA-256 checksums.

Download: Pom2 v0.9.6
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