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

#demoscene #appleii #chiptune

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 #AppleII Emulator. (https://openemulator.github.io/)

Spent hours with Applesoft/Microsoft #Basic 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.

#VintageComputing #Retrocomputing #retrogaming #Apple #6502 #8bit

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
@jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

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

jdyer, to gaming
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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:

https://bluerenga.blog/tag/mask-of-the-sun/?order=ASC

colin_mcmillen, to retrocomputing French
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2.3 is out. You can now play movies, with sound and subtitles, on your 📽️


https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/wozamp-an-apple-ii-music-and-video-player/

ryanfb, to random
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Restarting my thread for videos, where I play through the @internetarchive Woz-A-Day collection of disk images from @a2_4am in upload order and post the video! You can find the old thread here: https://digipres.club/@ryanfb/110395916573555503

ryanfb,
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can I successfully copy a floppy with Copy II Plus v2? only one way to find out https://youtu.be/CZPA7G4YDJQ

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