The detachable keyboard on the XEGS let me put another keyboard on the stack! I was afraid I was going to have to go build some custom shelving. #FujiNet #Atari #A8 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #AppleII #TRS80 #Commodore #C128 #C64

In The Dark Crystal, Jen and Kira finally meet, and I ruminate over the awkward puzzles and wild innovation (sometimes both happening at the same time).

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/04/the-dark-crystal-evil-triumphs-over-all/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #apple #appleII #darkcrystal

Testing so many different #FujiNet versions it’s starting to look like a music studio or crazy electric music organ with keyboards stacked on keyboards. Not enough room for the #Atari #A8! Yet! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #AppleII #TRS80 #Commodore #C128 #C64

On the Apple II Lemonade Stand is an iconic game written in Applesoft BASIC. School children across the country were introduced to computers and basic economics with this game.

Did the Beeb have a counterpart BASIC game that every school child was familiar with back in the day?

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #apple2e #apple2 #appleii #bbcmicro #BEEB

Total "Quote displaying" cost is 723 bytes. I expect the same, in time, to implement Quote Posting, and I have 3kB free on disk, we should be good!

You can release, @Gargron, I'm ready

#RetroComputing #AppleII #MastodonForApple2

Implement a menu item to be able to open a Quote (and interact with it): +118 bytes (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/f747ae17de01de0db99ead267d81ba5183a73b0a)

#RetroComputing #AppleII #MastodonForApple2

Implement quote-toot viewing in Mastodon for Apple II: +605 bytes (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/1c7b243a0d0abec9de04e3908204b8b4a00de73d).

#RetroComputing #AppleII

Looking forward to INIT HELLO, a new Apple II gathering at the end of this month in Baltimore.

#INITHELLO #AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #shirts #tshirt #selfie #photo #Apple #usergroup #conference #Baltimore #Apple2Forever

I read somewhere that LogoWriter was a combination programming language AND word processor for the Apple II, C64, and MS DOS. I got curious and spun up a copy in an Apple II emulator. I figured out how to make the turtle move: FD 50, RT 90, FD 50, etc. How is this also a word processor and what benefit was there in combining Logo with it?

#retrocomputing #appleii #Apple2e #c64 #msdos #programming #wordprocessing

My playthrough of the movie-game The Dark Crystal continues as I unearth the secrets of the landscape

and find it closer in feel to King's Quest than the previous Hi-Res Adventure Games from Sierra

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/02/the-dark-crystal-they-lit-the-fires-of-prophecy-and-took-counsel-from-the-flames/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #darkcrystal #apple #appleII #textadventure #interactivefiction

During production of The Dark Crystal, Sesame Street songwriter / Apple II fan Christopher Cerf made contact with one of the most famous Apple II companies at the time, Sierra On-Line.

I tell the history and play the first part of the resulting game.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/01/the-dark-crystal-1983/

#history #apple #videogames #appleII #apple2 #adventuregame #interactivefiction #retrogaming

Snuck in under the wire on registering for @init_hello! July 26-27th! See ya there! 👋
#retrocomputing #AppleII https://init-hello.org

Feeling nostalgic, so I'm having fun with cool-retro-term today. I highly recommend it if you just want a novelty terminal emulator to play around with.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

#Arch #GNU #Linux #Terminal #Appleii #sudo #pacman

back at it again getting my ass kicked by Wizardry! and that’s just trying to load the game! #AppleII #Apple2 #retrogaming #WozADay #Wizardry https://youtube.com/watch?v=mbsNJYSmAE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP5U3R64av0
Allen Anderson, a veteran SNES coder, and one of the key programmers behind Rock n’ Roll Racing. Starting as a teenage game cracker in Arkansas, he shares how hacking games led him into the industry, the chaos of SNES development with homemade dev kits, and how he programmed the Game Genie under insane deadlines, and the story behind the legendary cancelled Sega Saturn title, Propaganda.
#snes #appleii #bbs #scene #demoscene

Tunes on the IIgs tonight

#AppleII #AppleIIgs #vintagecomputing #reteocomputing #chiptune #demoscene #trackermusic #apple2forever #CRT #ByteCellar #setups #retrocomputers #computers #Amiga

Joust on Atari ST 🪶 🥚 ⚔️ (1986)

So much fun 😍 Especially with 2 players! 🥳

It was sometimes tempting to let yourself fall on top of your partner 😁

#Joust #WilliamsElectronics #RetroGaming #Arcade #Atari2600 #AppleII #AtariST #NintendoNES #DOSGaming #AtariLynx

Random screenshot

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #AppleIIgs #Apple #AppleII #photo #nemesis #demoscene #CRT #archiving #setups #desks #retrogaming #pixelart

MicroTimes (1985): "[They] met a couple of years ago at a party ... They became good friends before they started in partnership to produce software." <https://theprintshop.club/2024/07/26/the-people-behind-the-print-shop/>

@LaineNooney, "The Apple II Age" (2023): yeah I interviewed them personally. They were a gay couple. "Both had relocated to the Bay Area ... to explore their nascent identity in what was then a vibrant locus for the gay liberation movement in the United States."

Happy Pride! 🌈

#AppleII #retrocomputing #PrideMonth

The cover here is great, but giving false advertising. No Apple ][ game looked that good, were not in cabinets (that's Atari.), and pretty women in flimsy dresses were not going to be enthralled by your space videogame.

https://archive.org/details/Apple_Graphics_Arcade_Game_Design

Also storybooks with type-ins that don't do much.
https://archive.org/details/The_Science_Fiction_Computer_Storybook
https://archive.org/details/The_Mystery_and_Adventure_Computer_Storybook

#retrocomputing #appleii #basic