colin_mcmillen, 24 days ago to retrocomputing French

I was experimenting with the Quicktake protocol I documented in hopes of finding a way to turn its connection to 115kbps. Did not manage that but it looks like I managed to dump (part of?) its firmware! There are some funny/strange strings in it.

#RetroComputing #QuickTake

This is a password for QuickADJ
Apple Venus LOVE & PEACE CHINON INDUSTRIES
Fujitsu Flexible Microcontroller Venus Camera program TENHOU ver.0 1993.7.17. Followed by a list of names, the developers I suppose.

retropolis, 2 months ago to apple Portuguese

Repórter Retro 101

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/03/27/reporter-retro-101/

#ReprterRetro #AmstradCpc #Apple #AppleII #CmeraDigital #Cartucho #Centurion #ChatGPT #ColinLeroyMira #Commodore64 #F1Spirit #Frana #fusionC #IbmPc #IbmPcPortable #impressora #IntelignciaArtificial #Lemmings #Macintosh #MSX2 #MSXRio #NES #OmegaMSX #OricAtmos #Poltica #Prodatron #Quicktake #RestoFix #SayakasDigitalAttic #symbos #TByteCreator #TheRetroHacker #TheRetroShack #ThisDoesNotCompute #ToughkidCST #TRS80Color

colin_mcmillen, 6 months ago to random French

I got a few days off (it was GREAT) and meanwhile, @fozztexx tested QuickTake for Apple II on a wide range of Apple 2's. I have a little bit of hope it's going to work across the whole range now!
Oh, and also, preliminary #QuickTake 200 support!

Released 1.10.0 with these changes!

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/quicktake-for-apple-ii/

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to random French

So the last news on the #Quicktake project is:
✅ QuickTake 100 works
✅ QuickTake 150 works

Well, it seems I'll need to source a QuickTake 200 for completion 😏

itnewsbot, 7 months ago to retrocomputing

Digital Photography Comes To The Apple II - Back in the very early days of consumer digital photography, one of the first star... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/01/digital-photography-comes-to-the-apple-ii/ #digitalcamerashacks #retrocomputing #applequicktake #quicktake #apple2

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to retrocomputing French

I said I'd do a binary release if there was some interest, and @cquest is interested, so here it is after a full day's work, the first presentable release of Quicktake for Apple II!
(I love holidays)

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/quicktake-100-for-apple-ii/
#RetroComputing #Apple2 #QuickTake

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to retrocomputing French

Who said progress bars should be limited to a single line?
#retrocomputing #apple2 #Quicktake

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to photoshop French

I can now rotate portrait pictures.
#photoshop, I'm coming for you!
#retrocomputing #apple2 #Quicktake

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to retrocomputing French

I decided to show dithering in real time, but I may add a progress bar
#retrocomputing #apple2 #Quicktake

video/mp4

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to retrocomputing French

I have found a better way to process my image and I can now store the resized, 256x192 8-bpp image in memory, which allows me to:

• not lose performance, while adding:
• histogram equalization
• single pass dithering, which in turn allows me to:
• use Burkes algorithm, giving much better results than Bayer

All this and I still have a whopping 183 bytes of free memory to spare!

15 minutes of patience and there should be a good HGR picture.
#RetroComputing #QuickTake

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to random French

VICTORY over the hardware! I connected the #Quicktake 100 to my #apple2!
It was quite difficult as the Quicktake only starts talking once DTR goes down - which is just an ioctl() on a modern PC, but shutdowns the ACIA 6551 on the Apple II.
I built a monstruous cable with a mini-DIN8 on one side and... two DIN-5 on the other. One of them does Rx/Tx, the other DTR.
I use the modem port for Rx/Tx and the printer port for DTR.

Picture of the monstruous cable I built
Photo of the Apple IIc connected to the Quicktake

colin_mcmillen, 7 months ago to retrocomputing French

Image decompression is hard and I'm having a hard time
#RetroComputing

The same, but this time the left and right aren't shifted
Better on the layout, but there's lights artefacts