I have finished The Mask of the Sun, which was a cacophony of softlocks, mazes, and an "outsider" approach to using information in puzzles that ends up being fascinating.
The link is to the series of four posts in chronological order:
In my second post on The Mask of the Sun, I discuss the (somewhat overhyped) parser, the real-time animation as you type, and the gamebook-style structure.
Apple IIgs screen. No amount of #retrobright would have saved this one. The crust on it was unbelievable. Took 0000 steel wool and a LOT of scrubbing and a LOT of patience for this one... THis isn't even the worse side! And yes this is the bathtub :-) #apple2#retrocomputing#vintageapple#retrogaming
I've posted a little article explaining the data format/algorithm that I made for streaming video to the #Apple2 over the serial port. #RetroComputing#1MHz
Here's an Apple IIe motherboard from 1984, free to a good home. It worked when I took it out of the case and hung it on my wall as a decoration years ago. #RetroComputing#Apple2#free#VintageComputing
Now this is #retrocomputing: someone has ported 40 year old #RTS from some uncertain #Forth dialect from the #AppleII to gForth. It originated a Byte Magazine article.
The game is playable on #Linux in a terminal at 40 columns. Someone else modernized the game to be 80 column native and make a handful of other quality of life improvements.
So, I went to #appleii and asked them to talk me out of buying an apple iigs. They didn't try very hard, in fact they did the opposite. Anyway, check out my new system! It's a ROM 01 iigs with a 2mb memory card. I added a microdrive turbo from ReactiveMicro and I just got it booting into GS/OS 6.01. Next step is digging up a serial cable so I can hook up my RS232 wifi modem and see if I can't find some cool BBSs. #retrocomputing#apple2#retrocomputer#appleiigs