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+# apple1
+The Apple 1 emulator with the boring name.
+
+…but hey, it's portable!
+
+It uses curses for output:
+
+![Screenshot of the Woz Monitor](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/RyuKojiro/6c3320ca21eea094513fcea796dcd76f/raw/a66748e712ea096f216e1f6dba7c90368ac5ca1d/wozmon.png)
+
+It can play your favorite Apple 1 games:
+
+![Screenshot of Microchess](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/RyuKojiro/adcff249b8d6d6080922db8285358578/raw/e2cf53cd41ee98e4c1b01348c6416695101081b9/microchess.png)
+
+It even has a built-in machine debugger:
+
+![Screenshot of the debugger](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/RyuKojiro/afa19aebb12a83a47284fec521c4a805/raw/3928cb2a815b0110e427b13eed3062d63bc9178f/a1debugger.png)
+
+# Building
+`make`
+
+# Running
+`./apple1`