@screambiogenesis

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Just a 16-bit dude in a 64-bit worŸ¯úTáê5µ90QÆ ÂœÊ[?x .mÈþ NO CARRIER

Nazi punks fuck off.

I set this board aside for a little while. While I wasn't looking, nearly two years passed!

Anyway, it wasn't the SMD caps, thankfully. Turns out those are just decoupling doo-dads anyway. Instead, a trace exploded directly under the ferrite bead right next to the caps. Boy howdy that was a fun one.

Does the board work now? Of course not! It reboots when it usually initializes the keyboard, so there's still some fuckery afoot. Boo.

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old enough to remember when you updated software on purpose and then it got better

RE: https://dosgame.club/@emmfoolery/115932443261549966

WE DID IT, CHAT.

It took about 6 months in total to track everything down, but this is the final missing game in the series! Just finished uploading all the files, and the missing manual for Wizard of Words.

Give 'em a play, if you like! 😊

https://archive.org/details/word-fun-one/

So, as it turns out, these units are not for 5¼" floppies, but 8" floppies. This thing was IMMENSE. Probably close to two feet (~60cm) wide. It would have dominated your desk, if not the room.
Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project
Macintosh HyperQuadra

DUDE.

Floppy. Disk. Rolodex.

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And finally, Xerox presents: "Music to Revolutionize the Computer Interface To"

On clear blue vinyl, at that. Surprising for 1976.

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I didn't realize there was WordPerfect for the Apple II. Looked like all of the documentation was in there, but sadly it only had backup copies of the original disks included.

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Mmm, HP pen plotter.

(ImageWriter II for scale)

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