Registration is now open for INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference to be held at the System Source Computer Museum in the Baltimore, MD area.
I'll be there - just registered. I hope you're there too!
https://init-hello.org/2025/05/registration-is-open/
#INITHELLO #AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #Apple #conference #Apple2 #MD #Baltimore #technews #retrocomputers
Found a super top secret morse code military transmission. Who better to decipher it than my green glowing Apple IIe from 1983? What could the message be?
#apple2forever #appleiie #appleii #apple2 #apple2e #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retrocomputer #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #AmateurRadio #hamradio #retrotech #retrotechnology
I had to clarify with "old-school" disk images because .DSK files are now retro-retrocomputing, as opposed to .WOZ files, which are modern-retrocomputing. :)
I love how the canonical file extension for old-school disk images for Apple II emulators is .DSK — its subconsciously implies that Apple II diskettes are the canonical diskettes. Everyone else: pick another file extension, this one's taken 😆
Question for retrocomputers apple II people. If you could buy any apple II but only one, which one do you choose and why?
Thanks in advance for your replies & comments. I also greatly appreciate boosts for reach.
the ending to Zodiac Castle, where I outwit the parser (mostly) via an absolutely absurd observation about the exact character length of nouns
also, more tiny dragon antics and an endgame involving death by black magic
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/23/zodiac-castle-most-magic-is-merely-illusion/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #appleII #apple2 #apple
35 years later... It's finally there! https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/shufflepuck-cafe-for-apple-ii/
At All the Adventures, Zodiac Castle continues, with ornery secrets being hidden by an even more ornery parser.
Also, killing tiny dragons.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/22/zodiac-castle-as-in-the-fairy-tale/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #appleII #apple2 #apple
All the Adventures reaches what might be its last "traditional" adventure of 1982 with the North Star / Apple II game Zodiac Castle.
Includes a single-path labyrinth and an omnipresent dragon that can visit any dark room.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/21/zodiac-castle-1982/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #appleII #apple2 #apple
Vinnie gets a lost-game animation. (sound on)
Second Apple II Shufflepuck beta released: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/04/19/first-beta-release-of-shufflepuck-for-apple-ii/
It contains three fixes, a few animations improvements, and a Pause feature.
The first beta version of Shufflepuck Cafe for the Apple II is... published!
The Hand is in!!
And I have a full 1024 bytes left in the CODE segment.
Big commit, I had to move lots of init code to the ONCE segment, but this had to be done at some point, and I *think* I have everything I want in ??
This week-end is probably be beta-release week-end!
I was playing around in #apple2 #pascal in the Virtual2 emulator this morning, and since the emulator supports a virtual hard disk (for Apple IIc models), I experimented a bit and determined that the largest volume size that Pascal supports is 32767 512k blocks, or about 16MB.
I'm not really sure what you could realistically do with a 16MB disk, with a non-hierarchical filesystem that supports a maximum of 77 files. But it's an interesting data point.
I know that other UCSD Pascal systems support splitting a single hard drive into multiple filesystems, but I'm not sure at what level that is implemented.
Not only has the Frob #Atari2600 #Gamedev System for #Apple2 been #reveng, Golden Child from #MAMEDEV has emulated it in MAME!
https://youtu.be/FkfZBKysvFE
✅ Splash screen!
My new Apple //e Platinum has replaced my older //e in the 8 bit activities corner of our retro lounge. The color composite monitor is absolutely beautiful! At least the old //e has a matching monitor now. And yes the Apples and the Atari get along just fine. #AprilApples #atari800 #apple2 #retrocomputers
Working on my data loader so I can add a splash screen. Shit's gonna be cleaner the second time!
I have searched for a way to have a splash screen instead of LOADING... text, but didn't find one yet. So instead I made a few cute animations !
The #Frob PCB rev-eng is done. Now we make some test boards.
Now this rare PCB is preserved for any1 who wants one.
Available on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/retroabandon/apple2-re/-/tree/main/frob?ref_type=heads
(The #Frob was an #Atari2600 #GameDev system for #Apple2)
