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!
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Oh look - it's a new blog post, an introduction to the USCD p-System Editor, *written on* the UCSD Pascal Editor:
https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/29/ucsd-pascal-in-depth/
Yes, this means that my #Rust #psystem utility can successfully copy files off of the emulator disk image, and convert them into Mac-formatted text, from the frankly bizarre format that's native to the text editor.
markbessey.blog · UCSD Pascal: In depthPart 1: The Editor Note: This Blog Post was written in the USCD Pascal Editor, on an Apple II emulator. There may be a few more typos than usual. The p-System comes with an editor. It’s a ful…
These last days I've actually implemented the things I wanted to do since a while in my 6502 debugger, and it now counts cycles with page-crossing penalties, resolves y-indirect "($nn), y" memory accesses, warns me when a function returns with a stack imbalance.
It can now also exclude files or segments from the symbol-resolving, which is good when your projects have nine opponents sharing the same segment at different times.
I'm impatient to use all that extra help on my next project!
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Okay, testing @MuseumJoe 's A2Vidga with Mario Bros on my Apple IIe. Composite output first, VGA output second. The latter is so much cleaner than composite.
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By the way, do go take a look at http://jcm-1.com as there's a ton of cool retro stuff. The A2DVI is one of those things and likely is a better choice for most as it's HDMI compatible.
But I chose the VGA version because I happen to have a VGA-only 5:4 LCD monitor and because VGA was released in 1987, when the Apple II line was still heavily in use - making them contemporary.
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Packaged has arrived - it's an A2 Vidga VGA card for the Apple II by @MuseumJoe.
Looking forward to testing it out!
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/
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/
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.
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The first beta version of Shufflepuck Cafe for the Apple II is... published!
colin@colino.netFirst beta release of Shufflepuck for Apple II
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In addition to the Amdek DVM, I also have two Amdek RGBI cards, and a Kaga-Taxan analog RGB card.
The top card is an Amdek DVM II, it doesn't have any daughter cards and the 80 column input is an RCA connector on the front.
The middle card is a Video-7 card made by Amdek. It also has no daughter cards and has many of the same features as the Video-7 IIe only card that Apple produced.
The bottom card by Taxan does analog RGB.
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That’s what I see by beeping it out without removing the boards. I should have drawn the 2x8 connector in the middle. Oh well, that’s what #KiCad is for. #AppleII #VintageComputing #RetroComputing
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Case separated, giving me access to the two Amdek DVM daughter boards. #AppleII #VintageComputing #RetroComputing
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Taking the case apart requires removing 10 screws from the bottom. Because it's a late model RFI case, it also requires removing 4 screws from the motherboard so the RFI back shield can be slid out from under the motherboard. #AppleII #VintageComputing #RetroComputing
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This II+ motherboard is one of the last ones made, from 1984. #AppleII #VintageComputing #RetroComputing
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Listening to very old (up to 2011 currently) Open Apple podcasts, and they have a listener question I've asked for years:
Why is there so little public Apple ][ fan stuff and online material?
There's preserved stuff, a few emulators, people buying old machines & disks for $$$, but nothing like the many Atari & C= sites & rabid fandom.
The hosts blame it on numbers, but that didn't make sense, Apple sold more than Atari did, right?
#retrocomputing #appleii #atari
Do you want to program #Atari2600 console like it used to be done back then on an #AppleII computer? Now you can do it thanks to FROB card and associated software https://gitlab.com/retroabandon/apple2-re/-/tree/main/frob #atari #retrogames #retroprogramming
