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I'm so sorry, Becky. Our lives intersected only briefly, but I am better for having known you.

was looking forward to seeing the fujinet presentation and workshop at #INITHELLO this weekend

I just verified my age by referencing green screen Apple IIes.

I am!

Oh hey, I released that. @jmechner.bsky.social sent me his personal collection of floppy disks for imaging about 9 years ago, and this unreleased game was part of it.

Apple IIe City Skylines at Night. 💜

This is my first time playing the unreleased Apple IIe original version of D/Generation, one of my favourite proto-survival horror-ish games. Going to sit here and take in the twinkling metropolis for a while before moving on.

This is called an attempted murder.

black and white Print Shop sign with old-school Apple logo and Blammo font sampler

I can't explain it, but Print Shop *deserves* this font.

(based on the amazing "Kablammo" github.com/Vectro-Type-...)

#AppleII #retrocomputing

OK hear me out...

Fraction Action (san inc crack) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Fraction Action is a 1985 educational game developed by David Howard Flatman and Ray Tripamer, and distributed by Unicorn Software. It self-boots and runs on...

Fraction Action (1985, unpreserved, PACE encrypted protection check of wobbly flux timings, cracked by qkumba)

archive.org/details/Frac...

This is one of the oldest titles on Macintosh Garden's "most wanted" list of unpreserved vintage Mac software. Now preserved!

#retrocomputing

This broke me.

This is one of those features where I wasn't sure if it was worth the dev effort (or the increased loading time) until I finally put enough pieces together to see it in action, then I wondered why I didn't do it sooner. It feels like a stunning upgrade in showcasing and experiencing these old games.

The next version of Total Replay will show super hi-res artwork while loading a game on supported hardware. This works on the 16-bit Apple IIgs and any 8-bit Apple II with a VidHD card — even an Apple ][+!

More than ⅔ of the games have artwork [thanks Alex L, Andrew R, et al.]

#retrocomputing

title screenshot from "The Print Shop" by David Balsam and Martin Kahn, ©1984 Pixellite Software, presented by Broderbund Software

flux visualization of "The Print Shop" disk side A

The Print Shop (clean crack, full write-up)

archive.org/details/TheP...

Read: archive.org/download/The...

#AppleII #retrocomputing

title screenshot from "The Print Shop" by David Balsam and Martin Kahn, ©1984 Pixellite Software, presented by Broderbund Software

flux visualization of "The Print Shop" disk side A

The Print Shop (clean crack, full write-up)

archive.org/details/TheP...

Read: archive.org/download/The...

#AppleII #retrocomputing

remember that every dog you see with an “I voted” sticker is evidence of extremely serious voter fraud by those dogs

She has not voted, because she is a dog. She eats blueberries and takes naps and looks cute. But 100% of her humans — a group that now spans three generations — have voted, some for the first time.

Photo of brindle French bulldog lying in a blue dog bed, burying her nose in the bed

The election ignorer

I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff

Please check your kid's Halloween candy carefully. My kid accidently ate a UTF-8 mismatched surrogate pair last year and we spent three hours in the ER pumping �s out of his stomach

Worf in jeans / he's directing all the Star Trek scenes / but the actor's name is Michael Dorn / maybe in this one he'll fight a Gorn / I'm really torn

Apropos of nothing, "Worf In Jeans" has the same cadence in my head as the way Billy Joel sings "Uptown Girl." Do with this information what you will.

Worf wearing Jeans

It’s Halloween post your Worfs in jeans

Jesus Christ I'm never going to unsee that

omg, Stickybear is Mavis Beacon's fursona!?

Man I got terrible news for you about Stickybear

Box art of Software Toolworks Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software featuring A MODEL with no typing tutor experience not named Mavis Beacon

Just learned that Mavis Beacon isn't a real person, pretty shook up

if they have bread in the Cars universe i bet it's bumpernickel

EPIC GAMER COMIC 27

I do not want to "allow Zoom to access my microphone." I want to drive the little replica steam train that chugs around the park