Graphics Master.woz by @burgerbecky, may she rest in peace

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Graphics_Master

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Trans Day of Visibility on the Apple II.

BASIC Code:

10 GR : COUNTER = 0 : DIM ARR(4) : ARR(0) = 6 : ARR(1) = 11 : ARR(2) = 15 : ARR(3) = 11 : ARR(4) = 6

20 COLOR = ARR(COUNTER)

30 FOR I = 0 TO 8 : HLIN 0,39 AT I + (COUNTER * 8) : NEXT I

40 IF COUNTER < 4 THEN COUNTER = COUNTER + 1 : GOTO 20

50 IF COUNTER = 4 THEN HOME : PRINT "HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY!" : END

#AppleII #tdov

#Apple2 talking to my #Linux box over #SSH via the #FujiNet adapter, and the CaTer terminal program, which can connect to any supported network endpoint.

(more info at https://fujinet.online/)

#retrocomputing

RIP to a real one.

The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V1A.Q-jg.JJqQwhmKtnD2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Amazing comment in the Copy ][+ source code:

#AppleII #retrocomputing

Apple IIe + RGB card + cable + RGB TTL adapter + CGA monitor = mostly works (controls are completely stuck, image is wobbly). So this Samsung CK4644 CGA monitor needs a bit of love (and cleaning) but otherwise is doing okay.

By the way, if this monitor looks familiar I'll be posting additional pics of it and of a Tandy CM-5 25-1043 (the later model of the CM-5). The cases seem to me to have been made from the same injection mold.

Behind it is a Gateway VGA monitor connected to the same Apple IIe via an a2Vidga card. Colors are different and behavior is not identical but close.

#appleII #retroComputing #CGA #CRT

When software was fun. I miss the quirky and passionate small software houses and bedroom programmers of the 1980s, who were not yet as glamorous as "studios" or "indies".

https://unsung.aresluna.org/our-programs-are-fun-to-use

#AppleII #retrocomputing #software

The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/02/23/the-challenges-of-porting-shufflepuck-cafe-to-the-8-bits-apple-ii/

#HackerNews #ShufflepuckCafe #PortingChallenges #AppleII #RetroGaming #GameDevelopment