#apple-ii — Public Fediverse posts
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This 1996 game for an #AppleII clone pre-dates reCAPTCHA by more than a decade, and also supports the War on Cars.
Video clip from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZk-utRYrI0
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(3/4) Ranking by increasing time to compute, number without credit are by Greg
#RC2014 : 14 (thank you JonV)
#BBCMicro : 19
#AmstradCPC : 22 (thank you Devlin)
#AmstradPCW : 23 (thank you Pete)
#AcornElectron : 25
#C128 : 27 (fast mode - thank you Jonas H)
#LuxorABC80 : 29 (thank you Erik)
#SharpMZ700 : 32 (thank you Tim Holyoake)
#DAI: 33 (by NAM-IP)
#VIC20 : 36
#AcornAtom : 37
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I didn't realize it when I started, but I'm apparently stepping into a double minefield:
1) mastodon and AI
2) chess engines and AI
🤦Oh well. I was curious how modern chess engine principles would fare on ancient hardware. The result is 8fish, entirely written by Claude, but with art by me.
It beats Sargon III quite a bit of the time (91-38-21 in the last test, although I haven't tried super-hard to validate that the test was fair), but requires 128K of RAM to Sargon III's 48K, so it's not—ahem—apples to apples. But it was a fun experiment. And I enjoyed painting with double-hires graphics for the first time.
The logo looks much better in color, and the board much better in green, so that's how they're shown in the readme!
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Total Replay v6.1 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image. This version primarily fixes several crashes discovered by our new automated testing framework.
https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay
Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v6.1
No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years.
Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone else who contributed.
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I visited the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast inside the Southern-Fried Gaming Expo and enjoyed looking at some old stuff.
#VintageComputerFestivalSoutheast #VintageComputerFestival #VCF #SouthernFriedGamingExpo #SFGE #SFGE2026 #AppleII #Apple_II #AppleLisa #AppleMac #TomyTutor -
COMPUTE!’s Gazette Anniversary Issue Ships to Subscribers
#ComputesGazette #Commodore #Commodore64 #Amiga #Atari #TRS80 #AppleII #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/computes-gazette-anniversary-issue-ships-to-subscribers/?fsp_sid=11321 -
Mini Replay v1.1 is out. It features 8 Apple II games on a single floppy disk, complete with game help, loading progress bars, and selectable "infinite lives" hacks. All games are fully playable with only a keyboard.
Mini Replay runs on any 48K Apple II. 64K machines also get a bonus screensaver mode that cycles through self-running demos of each game.
v1.1 fixes a crash in Spy Hunter reported by @_the_cloud
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Virtual KansasFest 2026 - Appletini: the card for everything
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Virtual KansasFest 2026 - Appletini: the card for everything
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyAJ...
#appleII #retrocomputing
Virtual KansasFest 2026 - Appl... -
@theLogBook Where did you get that screenshot? It's emulating the Apple II hi-res screen's NTSC artifacting in a way I've only recently seen, performed by the new BOOK II...
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New #AppleII games (and some other stuff too)
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #apple2
New Apple II games (and some o... -
Playing around with my old Apple //c computer, bought new by me in 1985. The hardware is fine and the drives were serviced not long ago. The floppy disks are slowly deteriorating.
I'm trying to decide whether to invest in a mass storage solution. I have a lot of old games that are Dos 3.3 which won't work on anything but floppies. #retrocomputing #appleii
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Here's a very recent example.
Using software written in 2026 (by @colin_mcmillen) on a computer released in 1983 to extract digital photos from a digital camera released in 1994.
Apple QuickTake 200 connected via serial to my 128K enhanced Apple IIe (video output via composite to CRT and to LCD via VidHD video card) with "large" volumes mounted via CFFA3000 flash storage card.
The 640x480 camera images (JPEGs) are decoded and scaled for display in the double high-res graphics mode at 560x192 monochrome pixels. Just lovely.
@siracusa @marcoarment @caseyliss
#AppleII #Apple #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers
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Thanks to @jsnell for turning me on to Virtual ][, an emulator for the Apple ][ series that is still in active development! If you want hundreds of free programs and games to play, I'll show you how to enjoy them all for free. @kcase will be proud of me.
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Mini Replay v1.0 source code is now available @ https://archive.org/details/MiniReplay
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TIL there was a German-branded Apple II clone named "Boskopp II", a reference to a breed of apple:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Boskoop
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@dgar My introduction to his work was a younger me playing the #appleii text adventure game #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy, I had to devour everything #DouglasAdam after that!
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Repórter Retro 127
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/29/reporter-retro-127/
#ReprterRetro #6502 #AppleII #ATAIDE #ATAboy #BenEater #breadboard #CanadianRetroThings #Clone #CoCo1 #Commodore128 #Commodore64Ultimate #Criptografia #DavesGarage #EGA #ELKS #GameTank #GPU #IBM #IBM8514A #Java #Linux #microsoft #MSDOS #MSXPicoVerse #Nintendo #PGP #PhintageCollector #Playstation #Prottipo #RetroRio #RGB #RunStopRestored #SayakasDigitalAttic #scsi #Sonic #Sony #spectravideo #Sprint1000 #Spriteworx #
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Garbage Collector especial: FujiNET
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/24/garbage-collector-especial-fujinet/
#MundoRetro #AppleII #AppleIII #atari #Atari2600 #Atari8bits #AtariLynx #BallyAstrocade #BBCMicro #ColecoAdam #Commodore64 #ESP32 #FujiNet #GarbageCollector #GoogleDrive #Intellivision #Jogos #MSDOS #MSX #multiplayer #NECPC6001 #rede #redes #TRS80ColorComputer #videogame #WiFi #ZXSpectrum
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#Dominodisk might be the closest to an USB key for the #AppleII. (But it's not hot-pluggable. The microSD is, though).
#RetroComputing
