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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🥱 Oh wow, let's all gather 'round and geek out over the riveting tale of a 40-year-old video card that made the Apple II a "serious" computer. Reverse-engineering ancient tech to understand slot 3's quirks—just what every hip, modern reader was dying to know! 😂💾
https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/ #vintagecomputing #retrotech #reverseengineering #AppleII #techhistory #geekculture #HackerNews #ngated
The Card That Made the Apple II Serious — Wise Owl

The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine. Emulating it on an FPGA means reverse-engineering a 1981 MC6845 CRTC design and understanding why slot 3 is unlike every other slot in the machine.

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The Card That Made the Apple II Serious — Wise Owl

The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine. Emulating it on an FPGA means reverse-engineering a 1981 MC6845 CRTC design and understanding why slot 3 is unlike every other slot in the machine.

Wise Owl
The Card That Made the Apple II Serious — Wise Owl

The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine. Emulating it on an FPGA means reverse-engineering a 1981 MC6845 CRTC design and understanding why slot 3 is unlike every other slot in the machine.

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I'm a long-time Apple ][ Plus user, but recently got an Apple //c.

What is the M in the register dump? I can't seem to find it documented anywhere.

#appleII

Time to fall out and get my fujinet.

It's #AppleII Saturday here, what with the drop of Copy II Reboot too...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116816723286316768

Copy ][ Reboot 1.0 is a disk and file utility for the Apple II. It is an unauthorized update to Copy ][ Plus 8.4, based on the original source code. It adds lowercase support, menu hotkeys, device selection hotkeys, 23 new recognized filetypes, improved Pronto-DOS support, complete documentation on disk, and numerous bug fixes. It runs on any Apple II with 64K.

Download: https://github.com/a2-4am/cii/releases/tag/v1.0

Thanks to @a2_qkumba for compression routines and moral support.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116816723286316768

A fine (virtual) presentation from 4am!

All about the history of Copy II Plus and a resurrection of it.

#inithello #appleii #retrocomputing

Aftermath of my Alibaba custom cable experience : I have received my 50 "vintage Mac serial cables" (50 was the MOQ). Cost me 290€ shipped and taxed, about 6€/cable. That means I can bundle them at 10€ each with my #AppleII hardware without losing money, which is a very reasonable price for my scale of operation.
#Retrocomputing