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)
🧵
One of the lovely prints by Melissa Barron that I brought home with me from INIT HELLO 2026. A portrait of an Apple IIe adorning my Apple IIe.
Original is acrylic on gessboard.
Her website: https://melissabarron.net
#AppleII #apple2forever #vintageApple #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #art #AppleIIe #Apple #applefans #CRT #floppydisk #setups #vintagetech #tech #nostalgia #photo #ByteCellar
Shufflepuck Cafe on the Apple II: Two-players "network" game
Shufflepuck Cafe on Apple II
Bad Apple on the Apple II - debugger view
Bad Apple (but the lyrics describe the video), played with Woztubes on Apple IIc
More scenes from INIT HELLO 2026. Day 3 of the Apple II conference of awesomeness at the System Source Computer Museum!
#AppleII #apple2forever #computinghistory #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computers #maker #computermuseum #museum #Maryland #DEC #minicomputer #Tandy #AppleIII #GSOS #retrogames #games #retrogamers #retro #photo
And that's a wrap! INIT HELLO V.2 is in the books and it was a great one! Thanks to everyone who attended, presented, helped out with the show, watched online or was in any way part of it! Looking forward to V.3 in June of 2027! Watch this space! @init_hello
More scenes from INIT HELLO 2026 @ System Source Computer Museum
#AppleII #apple2forever #computinghistory #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computers #maker #computermuseum #museum #Maryland #Mac #retrogames #games #retrogamers #retro #video #jurassicpark
4am ❧
Blake Patterson
Colin Leroy-Mira 
INIT HELLO