Bits of yore. Probably not here much anymore. This same username on other platforms stands a good chance of also being me. E.g., https://xitter.cf/t.co/8Lc79TWa8v on Bsky.
Boston, MA
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Lotus 1-2-3 Rocks. Discussed here: danbricklin.com/log/2012_11_… — youtube.com/watch?v=5cNJNKkC…
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RCR Episode #261: Cause the Commodordian is Keeping Up With You. Join us as we talk neural nets, Commodores, PCs, Mastodon, Javascript, noisy flash drives, binary dice, Newton apps, Super Elves, being cool like Microsoft, and more! rcrpodcast.com/episodes/2022…
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RCR Episode #260: Recommended Standard 232 and Programmed Data Processor-1. 1960 brought us RS-232 and the PDP-1. Join us as we talk more about COBOL, floppy disk manufacturing, programmable rulers, Microchannel architectures, Happy Computers, and more!
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For some reason, Sheldon’s mother is typing her novel on a Lisa keyboard. (S06E03) Kind of dirty, missing a key, and inexplicably connected to a PC it seems. Still, caught my attention.
Catching up on older episode. On the carrying cases: The Apple II and Apple III bags were actually in the Apple price lists. A2M0009 for II $30, A3M0009 for /// $75 (Mar 1981price list). thecomputerarchive.com/archi…
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Greetings Mac Using #Apple ][ Enthusiasts. Good news is I've repackaged the Windows only CiderPress v4.1.0 to run on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. I've tested this on a 2017 i5-MBA, 2020 M1-Mini, and a 2022 M2-MBA all running Monterey.
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Someone disassembled and recreated an Apple /// demo that I wrote in early 1980, the colorful "Running Horses" demo that was used as part of the launch. It used images originally created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878.
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The Twitter robots, scoring high on the artificial half but poorly on the intelligent half, have made an error locking @a2_4am's account. If me tagging @TwitterSupport helps cause a less artificial and more intelligent look to be taken at this, then tag @TwitterSupport I shall.
As an avid Apple II user @a2_4am provides a much needed service for the preservation of the platform.
Their recent blocking by @TwitterSupport is clearly an error.
Please review this mistake.
No idea. It was one of their last titles, released pretty shortly before they stopped selling Special Delivery Software. Would be interesting to know if they contacted Apple or if someone at Apple liked the game and approached them.
:D Yeah. Unfortunately, Earl's recording reported (after the fact) that it had dropped samples. I tried to catch them and swap in YouTube audio when it got choppy, but I clearly missed a couple. Sorry about that!
Hm. Listening back to this one, the editing is a bit bumpy on it. Little skips, and a few echoes I missed on my travel laptop. Oh well. Sorry about that, should be more normal next time.
RCR Episode #255: The One With All The Ones. We have reached the end of the 8-bit-representable episode numbers. Join us as we speak of bits, bytes, nibbles, nybbles, Traveler, Apple Boogies, and more! rcrpodcast.com/episodes/2022…
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Oops we found 3 different versions of Sierra On-Line's 1982 release of Ultima II for Apple II.
At least one of them seems unpreserved in any form.
Yes they're all real. 😂
ALT screenshot of Applesauce disk comparison tool showing differences between two revisions of "Ultima II"
ALT screenshot of Applesauce disk comparison tool showing differences between two revisions of "Ultima II"
Ordered a Macbook Air for delivery today. It's being delivered to me by Uber Eats. I guess it is an Apple, potentially algorithmically considered to be edible.
👎Though, could be worse I suppose. Not illegible, but not nearly as readable as they are in real life.
Without a CFFA1 you're kind of limited to what you can send in over the serial port (as if you typed it in), or, you know, typing it in. You can also capture output with a terminal program. But that's the only way to persist data I think without a cassette board or CFFA1.
The main add-on for the Apple-1 is the CFFA1 board, which provides flash-based storage. They're unfortunately unavailable presently, but should be available in June. dreher.net/?s=projects/CFfor… — that makes doing fun things with the Replica-1 quite a bit easier, giving data a way in.