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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

a2_4am, to animals
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foone,
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@a2_4am @txgx42 whoa. I had this for my Packard Bell 486, it was literally the first video game I ever owned. I didn't know they did an Apple 2 port!

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a2_4am,
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This is a fun one because the .woz file was created not by analyzing a flux image of an original disk, but by the original developer's master maker program. Several years ago, a "friend of Larry [Sherman]" posted a collection of floppies on eBay which included several maker disks, the source code to several of his games, and — somewhat amusingly — pirated copies of Locksmith, presumably used for testing his own games' protections. You can download the maker disk here:

https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/misc/lsherman_collection/lsherman-acey-duecey-duplicator-apple-no-notch-9-5-82.dsk

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

a2_4am, to animals
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Zara, who did nothing wrong, would like a blueberry, on account of her being cute and having done nothing wrong.

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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

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@a2_4am I love the use of dithering on the Apple II screen to make it look like it has more than the six colours in its high-res palette.

a2_4am,
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@cyningstan It was definitely one of those "creativity springs from constraints" kind of art forms!

a2_4am, to random
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I regret to inform you that we have found more software.

pixel,
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@a2_4am promises promises 🤣

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

"We have chatbot at home."

Chatbot at home:

RL_Dane,
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@a2_4am

I mean, ChatGPT is the embodiment of a million monkeys smashing away at a million typewriters, except that they take the best monkeys and breed them and do it all over and over again.
While eating up gigawatts of power and untold megaliters of water.

a2_4am, to random
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Nothing but respect for my president of AI

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Zara, who did nothing wrong, is sorry for that thing she did.

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.

a2_4am,
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pixel,
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@a2_4am That's exactly what I expected.

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Current status: replaying Wizardry 1, 2, and 3 with Wizard Replay <https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay>

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