Browser-Based Emulation · Apple //e Enhanced

The Apple //e.
In your browser.

A cycle-accurate Apple IIe Enhanced — 65C02, 128 KB, 1.023 MHz — compiled from C++ to WebAssembly, rendered in WebGL, sounding exactly as it should. Complete with a suite of period-correct expansion cards, right down to fully emulated dot-matrix printers.

Contents

Key Features01 Expansion Cards02 Ink on Paper03 Developer Tools04 Under the Hood05
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Chapter 01

Key Features

CPU

Cycle-accurate 65C02

Per-instruction cycle counting, decimal mode, page-crossing penalties — at a faithful 1.023 MHz.

Video

Six video modes

Text 40/80, LoRes, HiRes, Double LoRes & HiRes, with NTSC artifact colors and per-scanline rendering.

Audio

Mockingboard sound

Dual AY-3-8910 chips in stereo, plus the built-in speaker with anti-aliased samples.

Storage

Disk II & SmartPort

GCR encoding with write support for DSK, DO, PO, NIB, WOZ; hard drives via HDV and 2MG.

Display

CRT shader effects

Scanlines, curvature, phosphor glow, vignette, NTSC fringing — or green, amber, white monochrome.

Persistence

Save states

Autosave every five seconds, five manual slots, full machine serialization.

Chapter 02

Expansion Cards

Seven slots with hot-swappable cards, faithful to the IIe's legendary expandability.

Disk II Controller Slot 6

Two 5.25″ floppy drives with stepper-motor emulation and GCR encode/decode.

Mockingboard Slot 4

Dual AY-3-8910 sound chips and dual VIA 6522 timers — stereo across six tone channels and two noise channels.

Thunderclock Plus Slot 5

ProDOS-compatible real-time clock and calendar services.

Z-80 SoftCard Optional

A full Z80 co-processor at 2.041 MHz with hardware address translation — CP/M software on the Apple II.

Super Serial Card Optional

ACIA 6551 serial with WebSocket-to-TCP proxy and Hayes modem emulation. Also drives the ImageWriter printers.

SmartPort Optional

Hard drive controller supporting two block devices — HDV, PO and 2MG images for high-capacity storage.

Parallel Card Optional

Centronics printer interface running the original 341-0005 firmware — drives the Epson FX-80 and Apple DMP.

Chapter 03

Ink on Paper

Connect a printer just like the real hardware, send output with PR#1, and watch your documents build up dot by dot on fanfold paper — in true carriage-travel order, with the unmistakable buzz of a nine-pin head at authentic speed. Standard fanfold presets or drag-to-size custom paper, colour ribbons, print history, and PNG / PDF / ZIP export.

ImageWriter II

Colour · NLQ · MouseText

ImageWriter I

B/W · Correspondence

Epson FX-80

ESC/P · Roman & Italic

Apple DMP

Parallel · Bit-image

“The entire dot-matrix subsystem — four printer models, the mechanical head and sound model, colour ribbon rendering, paper handling, history and export — was designed and built by Shawn Bullock.”

Contributor Spotlight

Chapter 04

Developer Tools

CPU Debugger

Breakpoints, watchpoints, step-over/out, conditional expressions, and beam breakpoints for position-based debugging.

Memory Browser

Hex/ASCII across the full 128 KB with a live read/write heat map.

Assembler & Disassembler

Merlin-syntax 65C02 assembler; recursive-descent disassembly with flow analysis and symbols.

BASIC Editor & File Explorer

Applesoft tokenizer and variable inspector; DOS 3.3 / ProDOS browsing with syntax highlighting.

Soft Switch Monitor

Real-time view of every IIe soft switch, stack viewer, zero-page watch, instruction trace.

Screen Dumps

Print the current //e screen straight to paper as a bit-image graphics dump, exactly as the ROM would.

Chapter 05

Under the Hood

Core

C++ → WebAssembly via Emscripten with full LTO. CPU, MMU, video, audio and every card run at native speed.

Timing

Master clock driven by Web Audio at 48 kHz — precise timing, background-tab support, no A/V drift.

Threading

The core runs in a Web Worker behind an ES6 Proxy wrapper — the UI never blocks.

Rendering

Per-scanline WebGL catches mid-frame mode changes, through a configurable CRT shader pipeline.

Agent integration.

A full MCP server and AG-UI event protocol let LLMs drive the emulator — multiple named tabs, broadcast or targeted commands, sandbox mode.

MCP · AG-UI · Multi-Tab

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