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This is called an attempted murder.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I can't explain it, but Print Shop deserves this font. (based on the amazing "Kablammo" github.com/Vectro-Type-...) #AppleII #retrocomputing

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

This broke me.

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

The Print Shop (clean crack, full write-up) archive.org/details/TheP... Read: archive.org/download/The... #AppleII #retrocomputing

submitted 174 days ago • 6 comments

The Print Shop (clean crack, full write-up) archive.org/details/TheP... Read: archive.org/download/The... #AppleII #retrocomputing

submitted 174 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 225 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 225 days ago • 0 comments

The election ignorer

submitted 225 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 226 days ago • 27 comments

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

submitted 233 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 230 days ago • 1 comment

It’s Halloween post your Worfs in jeans

submitted 230 days ago • 32 comments

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

submitted 231 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 232 days ago • 4 comments

EPIC GAMER COMIC 27

submitted 233 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 233 days ago • 7 comments

it's funny when people assume I haven't heard of DRM before

submitted 233 days ago • 11 comments

The sandwich not-haver

submitted 234 days ago • 1 comment

Zara, who did nothing wrong, would like you to know that this is her bone (it is not her bone), her tennis ball (also no), and her rubber fish thing (jury is still out)

submitted 253 days ago • 1 comment

New t-shirts just dropped in my store. #HyperCard ericsedge.threadless.com

submitted 235 days ago • 0 comments

I love the range of Apple II hi-res graphics complexity on display here and across eight years, even Also 4am's continuing work on good old computer stuff is legendary

submitted 235 days ago • 0 comments

Probable (short for "ProDOS-bootable") is my new 496-byte Apple II utility to run DOS 3.3 programs on ProDOS: github.com/a2-4am/proba... Probable runs on any Apple ][ with 64K and is compatible with all ProDOS drivers. Most DOS programs can quit gracefully back to ProDOS by pressing Ctrl-Reset.

submitted 235 days ago • 1 comment

The moment I became the Joker is when someone in charge of copyright law watched my GDC talk about how it's wrong to associate emulation with piracy and their takeaway was "emulation is associated with piracy."

submitted 236 days ago • 39 comments

🕹️👾 Hey new peeps, check out my Retrocomputing starter pack! go.bsky.app/VEZLtHP

submitted 237 days ago • 1 comment

Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope! Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C. www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

submitted 238 days ago • 17 comments

Always remember to wear sunblock when you go outside.

submitted 238 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, I’m following the Starter Pack with an Expansion Pack. Tell me who should be in it who was not in the prev one, and who researches the history behind games — not just reviewing or summarizing old games — or is preserving materials that aid in such research. (You may nominate yourself.)

submitted 240 days ago • 18 comments

Doing some thinking and printing today. #RetroComputing

submitted 240 days ago • 3 comments

Mixing it up: fast lo-res screen fill demo for the Apple II. The demo itself was done in Integer BASIC; the subroutine that does the actual fill is coded in assembly. 🎉 #apple2 #appleii #retrocomputing #assembly #basic #graphics

submitted 240 days ago • 0 comments

thinking of the most efficient way to fit 17 boxes into the smallest possible larger box and getting so pissed off I punch a hole in my wall

submitted 242 days ago • 20 comments

i hope this isn’t super creepy but sometimes when i get my old 90’s video game magazines from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social i sometimes google random people and see what they’re up to today. it’s oddly comforting as we’re all on a similar life journey also sometimes i might email them

submitted 242 days ago • 1 comment

imagine you show up to a fortune teller and she’s reading your fortunes with this setup

submitted 242 days ago • 23 comments

Today’s purchase: an Apple IIe with some neat interface cards.

submitted 242 days ago • 2 comments

Bet you didn’t know that there were computers 34 years ago that could run Unix (specifically what is basically an early version of what modern Macs run), Windows and Mac OS at the same time. #retrocomputing

submitted 243 days ago • 21 comments

Nailed it.

submitted 243 days ago • 0 comments