colin_mcmillen, to random French
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New release of my #AppleII things!

STP, my FTP client, is now much more usable. It gets search, is ported to non-enhanced Apple II, and more importantly can now transfer floppy images (.po and .dsk) to a floppy, in the same way that ADTPro does.

This means that if you make yourself an STP floppy (with ADTPro), you won't have to unplug your Apple II from the Surl proxy and plug it to your ADTPro computer to transfer other disk images anymore!

https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases/tag/v2.5.0

colin_mcmillen,
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Here is a demo of using my Apple II STP client to transfer a floppy image to a real floppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38sfTsgN4K8

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Wheeler Dealers.cass

This was distributed on cassette, which I normally don't include in the woz-a-day collection. But this was a "white whale" for @A2_Canada, who spent many years searching for an original of this 1978 game by Danielle Bunten Berry, who went on to a long game development career.

The game was shipped with custom controllers, but it is possible to play 2 players in the in-browser emulator.

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Wheeler_Dealers

photo of original "Wheeler Dealers" cassette for 16K Apple II

french_touch, to demoscene
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During the development of Digidream 2, we found some "strange" issues with the AY-3-8913 soundchip.

More info here: https://fenarinarsa.com/?p=3183

by @fenarinarsa

french_touch, to demoscene
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a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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rauschma, to mastodon
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You can use on an (6502 processor, max. 48 KB of RAM): https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/

What people say about it:
– “I will never use this and yet I love that it exists.”
– “Absolutely pointless, beautiful work here”
– “All the good features are included, such as unfollow and block, and none of the bad features such as account creation and polls.”
– “I set this up as a lark, but I’m kind of falling in love with it. It’s a different and surprisingly lovely way to use Mastodon.”

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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I was exploring some old Softdisk (magazine-on-a-disk, Apple II) and stumbled on this double hi-res title screen and it's... a lot

fenarinarsa, to retrocomputing
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Still checking why chiptunes sound bad on the Apple II Mockingboard and we have a pretty good idea of the root cause right now.

We're waiting for a specific board in the following days to make a final check, but we may bring bad news for some people out there.

fenarinarsa, to retrocomputing
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Trying to fix a Unidisk drive I've just got. The loading mechanism was completely stuck. The famous faulty eject gear seemed fine but broke as soon as I touched it... I don't have any spare, so I need to find one before going further.

(The Unidisk is a 3"1/2 floppy drive for Apple II that uses an internal Macintosh drive with an adapter card)

The opened disk drive mechanism.
Some small geares into the opened ejection system.
A gear broken into pieces.

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Mathosaurus: Kindergarten (cracked by Passport, 13-sector track embedded in 16-sector disk)

https://archive.org/details/MathosaurusKindergarten4amCrack

flux visualization of "Mathosaurus: Kindergarten" disk

colin_mcmillen, to retrocomputing French
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I've spent the weekend finding a more efficient solution to stream videos to my and found one that gains me 1.5fps, here's some documentation about it. https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2024/04/28/how-i-stream-audiovideo-through-an-apple-ii-serial-ports/

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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"Mommmm, can I have a chatbot?"

"We have chatbot at home."

Chatbot at home:

sidde, to VintageComputing
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OpenEmulator.app is a great Emulator. (https://openemulator.github.io/)

Spent hours with Applesoft/Microsoft last evening and been playing Oregon Trails over and over again since then.

And all the software and magazines from Asimov's Apple II Archive will take a lifetime or two to go through.

iigs, to random
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Happy 40th to this little workhorse of a computer.

thomasfuchs, to apple
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fenarinarsa, to retrogaming
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Currently finding out that the Mockingboard design is shit and most of it is useless

jdyer, to retrogaming
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My journey on the first Italian adventure game continues

with some intuitive and not-so-intuitive leaps of logic

and a very, very, large cat

https://bluerenga.blog/2024/04/21/avventura-nel-castello-the-sorcerers-apprentice/

fenarinarsa, to demoscene
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Serial transfer of disk image is what happens when you fry your floppy emulator because of those dumbass connectors

Javmaster, to apple
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a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Nothing but respect for my president of AI

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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You will not believe the sound this 1985 Apple II educational software makes after animating the sperm uniting with the egg.

fenarinarsa, to demoscene
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Just fried my Floppy Emu while testing some new and amazing code on my Apple IIe. 🤬

I'm tired and f*ck those connectors

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