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a2_4am, 2 months ago to vintagemac

Annals of awesomeness in interface design: Ultima III has an "A–M" menu for commands that start with those letters

#VintageMac #retrocomputing

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Unity (the game engine) is just really ruining my week. This program is crashing in a way that the actual Unity process (standalone exe or the Editor) just crashes, hard C crashes inside Unity's closed source code. I'm reduced to turning objects on and off and seeing the minimal set of objects to cause a crash, but I still have no idea what [my] C# code was doing before [Unity's] C++ code crashed!

I wish I could get, like… a trace of every unmanaged to managed transition. Every C# entry point.

mcc, 2 months ago to random

If UNICEF is so great then when are we going to get MULTICEF

a2_4am, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

Nibbles Away ][ vA1.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Nibbles_Away_II_A1

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

[main menu screenshot from "Nibbles Away ]"
[copy parameters screenshot from "Nibbles Away ]"
[flux visualization of "Nibbles Away ]" disk

a2_4am, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

Back It Up III v3.4.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Back_It_Up_III_3_4

Thanks to @ianoid for the disk!

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

main menu screenshot from "Back It Up III"
copy menu screenshot from "Back It Up III"
flux visualization of "Back It Up III" disk

a2_4am, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

As there is some interest in the game itself, here are some screenshots from "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension" for Apple II, ©1985 Adventure International. The company had many successful releases on a number of platforms and had moved heavily into licensing deals with major films including Marvel. They went bankrupt the next year.

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gameplay screenshot from "Buckaroo Banzai" showing Yoyodyne building and a corner gas station
gameplay screenshot from "Buckaroo Banzai" showing Buckaroo's cool jet car
death screenshot from "Buckaroo Banzai" showing a dead buckaroo after wandering too long and getting lost and an atomic bomb blowing up and destroying the world

a2_4am, 2 months ago to random

Happy "my Apple II clock is right again" day to all who celebrate.

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

paulrickards, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to retrocomputing

We're Zoning out! We've now got three different sites connected via Apple Internet Router!

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk #LiveLaughLocalTalk

a2_4am, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

Browse by year

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a2_4am, 2 months ago to random

I made this and I'm sorry

a2_4am, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Back on my bullshit

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screen video of apple-shaped mask moving across Adventure Replay title

dosnostalgic, 3 months ago to random

If you've played a pirated version of Prince of Persia 2, there's a really good chance you've played the pre-release version which is a lot more difficult that subsequent releases (which also have their own issues).

Pressing ALT+V won't display a version number in it, but instead just the title "PRINCE OF PERSIA 2" will appear at the bottom.
#DOSGaming

a2_4am, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

I have decided that Adventure Replay will have a screensaver mode (like Total Replay). But since the games don't have built-in demos like arcade games, I am adding hooks to each game to take commands from an external text file, then writing scripts where you die as quickly as possible.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

screenshot of player death in "Pirate Adventure", a fantasy scene with giant mushrooms
screenshot of player death in "Strange Odyssey", a giant demon holding a pitchfork
screenshot of player death in "Masquerade", an winged angel wearing sandals and holding a harp

mcc, 3 months ago to random

In c#, sizeof(T) returns a int32, not a UIntPtr/nuint.

a2_4am, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Remember

#AppleII #retrocomputing

paulrickards, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

I got an untested SyQuest 88MB removable SCSI drive and some 88MB cartridges are coming soon. I had one of these in the past so this scratching a retro itch for me.

Anyone have modern experience with them? How likely is the drive to work? Do they always fail over time, have known issues, etc?

#RetroComputing

a2_4am, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Total Replay v5.1 is out. It features 486 Apple II games (184 new since v4), all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v5.1

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M., Kris Kennaway, @ladyailuros, and everyone else who contributed to this project in the past four years.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

title screenshot from "Serpentine" by David Snider copyright 1982 Broderbund Software
title screenshot from "Death Sword" Maxx Out! series from Epyx, ©Palace Software, Apple version by Designer Software
title screenshot from "Angry Birds"

a2_4am, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

OK, but only because you asked nicely.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

mcc, 3 months ago to random

I do not like this "feature" and wish it had not been added

a2_4am, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Hard drive port of Transylvania (1985), from a cold boot to signing the guest register in 7 seconds.

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video/mp4