All the Adventures aims to give the history about and play every adventure game ever made in chronological order. The 1982 sequence has just concluded, and I've written a post looking back and collecting some notable games.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/14/all-the-adventures-up-to-1982-in-review/
Clip of Deater's new work, an Apple II rendition of the 2024 ZX Spectrum demo Scroll Block by Otomata Labs.
Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
The Apple II MouseCard IRQ is Synced to Vertical Blanking After All - Recently [Colin Leroy-Mira] found himself slipping into a bit of a rabbit hole whi... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/09/the-apple-ii-mousecard-irq-is-synced-to-vertical-blanking-after-all/ #reverseengineering #retrocomputing #interrupts #appleii
@deater78 , I'm in line with about 50 other people to see your talk on Apple II games. No one appears to have brought in an Apple IIc, but there's still time.
Fun fact: Print Shop's "from other disk" UI scans the disk catalog and builds a complete list of all matching files + a start-of-page address cache to speed up paging. Each menu page can fit up to 12 files and the cache can fit up to 9 pages, meaning the maximum number of files on a disk can not exceed 108. (There is no range checking because lol.)
John Sobanski revisits the Apple II programs he wrote in BASIC four decades ago as a 9-year-old. They're typical of the code many of us wrote back then when learning to program, to experiment with and combine language features to get interesting results.
#appleII people, would anyone be able to dump the ROM of their MouseCard? We're having doubts about the existing one in MAME. (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/13598)
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!
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.
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!
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.
Powering the Apple //c with a 15v source and a bespoke USB-C power adapter.
This //c has been setup in more places than any other system I own. Here is the latest, atop a small shelf system in the Byte Cellar.
#AppleII #Apple//c #vintgecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #CRT #setups #retrogaming #SteveJobs #computerrooms #Apple #Apple2Forever #photo #ByteCellar
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.
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/
