Soviet engineers and enthusiasts developed thousands of software titles for Agat, including system software, business applications and educational software. A later model, the Agat 9, had an Apple II compatibility mode out of the box. That helped developers to port Apple II software titles to Agat. The first mass-produced models, the Agat 4 and Agat 7, had different memory layouts and video modes from Apple II, which made them only partially compatible with Apple II software.Īgats were not direct clones of Apple II, but rather uniquely designed computers based on 6502 CPU and emulated Apple II architecture. An example was Pineapple who Apple successfully forced to change its name to "Pinecom".Īgat was a series of Apple II compatible computers produced in the Soviet Union between 19, widely used in schools in the 80's. Without explicitly stating that they were Apple II clones, many had fruit-related names.
Apple sued and sought criminal charges against clone makers in more than a dozen countries. Most could not be legally imported into the United States.
According to some sources (see below), more than 190 different models of Apple II clones were manufactured. The Apple II home computer series was frequently cloned, both in the United States and abroad, in a similar way to the IBM PC.
0 kommentar(er)
