#modernretro — Public Fediverse posts

I'm still having a blast with Quicktake for Apple II from @colin_mcmillen. It's pretty cool (and rather geeky) to be walking around in public these days with a QuickTake 200 in my pocket. :-P

And new features are on the way...

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/quicktake-for-apple-ii/

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

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: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/quicktake-for-apple-ii/

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

Tempest Port on the F256K2 Is Fully Playable
#F256K2 #Tempest #WildbitsComputing #ModernRetro #RetroComputing #ArcadePort #65C02 #RetroCommunity #IndieRetro
https://theoasisbbs.com/tempest-port-on-the-f256k2-is-fully-playable/?fsp_sid=8095

I just stumbled upon this upgrade I would have leapt at a few years back when I was building up my "new" Tandy 1000HX:

Tandy 1000 EX/HX 3-in-1 V2 Adapter --- 640K RAM + 2x Serial + Parallel + XTIDE Upgrade by Rob Krenicki

https://www.ebay.com/itm/197473626636

It looks like the creator of this device, who posted the project to GitHub, has made his last production run, sadly. Several are available still on eBay.

It doesn't look like the RAM expansion has the DMA chip, but that really doesn't much matter. What a great unit. I upgraded my own 1000HX to this spec -- but did it the Hard way (note the capital H).

https://github.com/rkrenicki/Tandy-EX-HX-3in1

#Tandy #Tandy1000 #Tandy1000HX #Tandy1000EX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #XTIDE #modernretro #eBay #x86 #TRS80 #RadioShack