The programming history that led to my current iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. Apollo Eagle : A simulation of the final twelve minutes of the landing of "Eagle", the Lunar Module from Apollo 11. (iPhone) Jupiter Atlas: Explore Jupiter's Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Mars Atlas: Explore Mars. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad, Mac) Mercury Atlas: Explore Mercury. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Moon Atlas: A great tool for those who observe the Moon. Correct phase and libration are shown. (iPhone, iPad, Mac) Planisphere: A simple start charting app showing all naked eye stars, the Sun, Moon and planets. (iPhone, iPad) Saturn Atlas: Explore seven of Saturn's moons. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Venus Atlas: Explore Venus. Also shown as seen from Earth. (iPhone, iPad) Zone Warrior: Originally a Mac game from the 90's. Defend your space station from alien attack! (iPhone)

1. First version of 3D engine for
MOS 6502 assembly language, first
on the Commodore PET. Character
1981 based.
Moved over to Commodore 64
1983 bit mapped and colour.
New 3D engine for MC68000,
1986 first on Atari ST.
Moved over to Macintosh. Enhanced
3D Engine, including basic texture
1990 mapping. Casady & Greene, ZOA.
Reverse engineered 3D engine into
1994 C because of RISC architecture of
PowerPC.
1997 Moved to QuickDraw 3D RAVE.
Steve nixes QD3D. Moved to
1998 OpenGL. Casady & Greene, Zone
Warrior.
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2. 2001 Move from System 9 to Mac OS X.
Continual updating as Mac OS X
2006 evolves. Switch from PowerPC to
Intel.
iPhone OS X SDK ships. Zone
Warrior in App Store 15/10/2008.
2008
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3. Moon Atlas
iPad Launch video 2010
Demo app in all of Apple’s retail stores
iPad Safari tutorial video 2010
worldwide 2011
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