Mastodawn

I have a lot of #apple2e and #makintosh computers and drives for sale in Central Missouri. Let me know if you are interested.
#vintagecomputing

hkz Mar 2

I *think* I fixed another issue with the #Delta #Apple2e clone. Details here:
https://codeberg.org/hkzlab/NE_Delta_Schematics/src/branch/main/Apple2e_differences.md#dxxx-bank-switching

It's been running Total Replay carousel for hours now (around 5) without crashing, which was doing before, while in the demo mode of some games.

Hoping nothing else broke.

NE_Delta_Schematics/Apple2e_differences.md at main

NE_Delta_Schematics - Reconstructed DELTA computer (Apple IIe clone) by Nuova Elettronica

Codeberg.org

Graeme (A Thousand Projects)Feb 20

De-capped, measured and now to go buy some new ones #apple2e

Graeme (A Thousand Projects)Feb 19

Oooohh…. That does not look good… even though the power supply does work. #apple2e

hkz Feb 9

Excuse the mess! :D

I'm beta testing a #burgerdisk by @colin_mcmillen on my Delta #apple2e clone.
It's wired to a SmartDisk][ card, and so far it's been working great. I could even daisychain it to a #FloppyEmu!

https://github.com/colinleroy/BurgerDisk
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colinleroymira/burgerdisk/

hkz Jan 18

Before going to prepare dinner for my cats, I want to show you two little side projects I worked on these days.

On video you'll see the splash screen of "Silk Dust", an #interactivefiction game by @davbucci which I helped optimize for #apple2e . Here it's running on my Delta clone, out of an #A2DVI with a custom firmware that can output composite artifacting simulation for hires graphics (and not only D*GR).

The splash screen is showing while the game loads the whole text resources in the aux bank of the computer.

You should hopefully be able to play this version soon!

Davide Bucci Jan 11

Thanks to the amazing help by @hkz, I could add the Apple 2 enhanced version of "I passi della regina", the Italian version of The Queen's Footsteps: http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/queen/queen.inc This version is interesting because it exploits the 80 column mode and the additional memory, so the game does not need to be split in three parts. #retrocomputing #Apple2e #Apple2 #TextAdventure #Italian

The Queen's Footsteps - Davide Bucci

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Wolfgang Tremmel Dec 26

So, what to do with it? I guess the power supply needs some repair. #apple2e

hkz Dec 21

Ahhh, finally completed #PrinceOfPersia on the Delta #Apple2e clone.
It was ages since I completed this game (and I originally played the DOS version).
No idea if I got much worse at it, or it the #apple2 version is harder, but I had a much harder time with it than I remember.

This also gave quite an exercise to my #homebrew keyboard, which held up perfectly.

hkz Dec 15

Finally labeled every keycap in the Delta Redux #mechanical #keyboard !

I also took the occasion to release the repository for everyone: https://codeberg.org/hkzlab/DELTA_Redux_KB

As you can see, this was sponsored by #PCBWay, all of it. Without them, I'd be months behind on this project.

For those that do not follow ramblings, the Delta (https://codeberg.org/hkzlab/NE_Delta_Schematics) is an italian #apple2e clone, whose PCB I have redrawn and schematics reconstructed.

This is a keyboard for it! Thanks to @tubetime , as I based my work off his Datanetics replica.

If you like what I do, consider supporting me on ko-fi, it really helps me when I need to buy components.