#appleii

· 11h ago

A few months ago, without fanfare or announcement, I started working on a new project: a brand new, handcrafted, open source Z-machine interpreter for the Apple II. This was partly inspired by Microsoft open sourcing Zork last year, and partly by the relentless flood of slop in the #retrocomputing community, and partly because I wasn't sure I could do it. After learning more about Z-machine, @a2_qkumba@mastodon.social and I settled on an insane design goal: Trinity in 64K. #AppleII #interactivefiction

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Colin McMillen @colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr

· 1mo ago

Demain, je serai au #Geekardon, à Pau. Si vous êtes dans le coin, ça me fera bien plaisir de vous rencontrer et de discuter un peu ! Vous pourrez en profiter pour vous faire tirer le portrait et repartir avec la photo imprimée sur papier tracteur. #RetroComputing #AppleII

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Lobsters @lobsters@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/08/23/kodak-dc50-now-usable-on-the-apple-ii/ #RetroComputing #VintageTech #AppleII

colino.net

Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II

It is now possible and easy to use a Kodak DC50 camera with an Apple II.

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@mastodon.social https://archive.org/details/MiniReplay #AppleII #retrocomputing

archive.org

Mini Replay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

8 games at your fingertips, as long as your fingertips are on an Apple ][DownloadDownload Mini Replay (version 1.1, released 2026-08-08, 140 KB disk...

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Michael Engel @me_@sueden.social

· 3mo ago

There's a new PDP11 extension card for Apple II computers based on the J-11 and a Tang Nano FPGA board. Whow. https://github.com/ushicow/A2PDP11 https://note.com/ushicow/m/ma9f73d2251bc #retrocomputing #appleII #pdp11

github.com

GitHub - ushicow/A2PDP11: PDP11 Card for Apple II

PDP11 Card for Apple II. Contribute to ushicow/A2PDP11 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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root42 @root42@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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 #retrocomputing #appleii

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Mini Replay v1.0 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. It is not copy protected. https://archive.org/details/MiniReplay Thanks to @a2_qkumba@mastodon.social for everything. #AppleII #retrocomputing

archive.org

Mini Replay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

8 games at your fingertips, as long as your fingertips are on an Apple ][DownloadDownload Mini Replay (version 1.1, released 2026-08-08, 140 KB disk...

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Extremely back on my bullshit #AppleII #retrocomputing

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Current status: "Track 0 has 5 bytes free. They are not consecutive." #AppleII #retrocomputing

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Daniel @Amiga_News@fosstodon.org

· 4mo ago

PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 182 (Italian/English) The game reviews in REV'n'GE compare the implementations of classics across different platforms of the time. https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-06-00117-EN.html #retrogaming #magazine #AppleII #Amstrad #ZXspectrum #C64 #Amiga #CD32 #ZX81 #MSX

amiga-news.de

amiga-news.de - PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 182 (Italian/English)

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13 @13@2137.social

· 4mo ago

Bringing Swift To The Apple II https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/bringing-swift-to-the-apple-ii/ #Retrocomputing #SoftwareDevelopment #Apple #AppleII #Swift

hackaday.com

Bringing Swift To The Apple II

Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a popular solution for programming apps across Apple platforms. That…

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Due to illness, I was unable to present at INIT HELLO 2026. In this thread I will post my slides and what I was planning to say about them. COPY OF A COPY: How I set out to fix a 40-year-old bug in Copy II Plus and ended up rebuilding the entire application (and fixing the bug) 🧵 #AppleII #retrocomputing

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Colin McMillen @colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr

· 6mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Hi folks! Happy to announce it's now simpler than ever to connect a Quicktake to an Apple II. I've worked on a better solution than the Frankencable, and came up with an adapter box. It even allows keeping the printer connected, for easy printing of pictures 🙂 https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/apple-ii-hardware/apple-ii-quicktake-connector-box/ #RetroComputing #AppleII

colino.net

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Boosted by @hypebot@tacocat.space

You know, I'm something of a prompt engineer myself. #AppleII #retrocomputing

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internetarchive @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org

· 7mo ago

Boosted by @octothorpe@mastodon.online

Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards, and more from home 🖨️ Celebrate classic software preservation ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/The_Print_Shop_1984_Broderbund #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing #HomeComputing #SoftwareMilestone

archive.org

The Print Shop (Broderbund) : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

The Print Shop is a basic desktop publishing software package developed in the early 1980s by Brøderbund. It was unique in that it provided libraries of...

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