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  1. #genAI cranks out an endless stream of ugly, soulless, near-identical fliers, signs, and ads; used everywhere by the uncaring masses who have no design talent and no concern for aesthetics.

    we had the same thing in the 80s. it was called The Print Shop.

    #retrocomputing #applewriter #dotmatrix #tractorfeed #broderbund #c64 #appleIIe

  2. A friend has a collection of framed #computer parts from an #AppleIIe and he's wondering if there's a market to sell them. That seemed like a #question for Mastodon.
    #Apple #IIe

  3. 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.

    More about Colin's Quicktake for Apple II: colino.net/wordpress/quicktake

    #AppleII #QuickTake #QuickTake200 #Apple #vintageApple #apple2forever #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #photography #photo #retrocomputers #cameras #digitalcameras #CRT #floppydisk #vintagetech #tech #modernretro #FujiDS8 #AppleIIe #ByteCellar #setups

  4. This is pretty cool.

    MS-DOS 2.0 on the Apple IIe (March 2026)

    An Apple II enthusiast ported MS-DOS 2.0 to an Apple IIe running an ALF AD8088 Plus 8088 card (a much simpler device than the PC Transporter) designed for CP/M-86.

    It boot, supports 80-columns, reads the clock, reads disk data from a shared ProDOS file on the IIe's hard disk.

    Stated plans from the author, Seth Kushniryk, include Super Serial and Uthernet II support as well as running CP/M-80 on MS-DOS on ProDOS with a V20 swapped in for the 8088.

    sethkush.com/post/2026/03/12/m

    #AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #MSDOS #CPM #CPU #operatingsystems #OS #coprocessor #i8088 #AD8088 #maker #hacking #blog #blogpost #nostalgia #vintagetech #technews #tech #Apple2forever #Apple #AppleIIe

  5. "Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️

    I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.

    #Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX

  6. After some wild mathematical hat rendering yesterday, kicked off by @scruss and @paulrickards, I've got John Brooks' ridiculously optimized 10 line Applesoft BASIC program running on the IIe.

    (Time-lapse video; the hat takes about 9 minutes to render on the 1MHz IIe.)

    The listing can be found here: groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.a

    #BASIC #AppleII #AppleIIe #Applesoft #plotting #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #apple2forever #CRT #CFFA3000 #video #geek #nerdy #programming #geometry #WhizKids #timelapse #ByteCellar

  7. Completed reverse engineered Ninth Wave 512k memory expansion card for the Apple IIe.

    I'm still not sure what the SEGA/SEGB/VC/GR logic is for, and why it's only present for bank 3 and not bank 0.

    Github repo: github.com/RobertBaruch/ninth_

    #ReverseEngineering #RetroComputing #AppleIIe

  8. 🤔 #ethernet on a #appleiie? Not sure if I'll be able to make this work, but I'll do my best. This is an adapter for the DAN ][ Card. #vintagecomputing #appleii