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BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13

I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:

[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.

The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).

It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:

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Posted in 6502, 6502 Assembly, Assembly Language, BASIC, BBC Micro B, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, TwitterBot | Leave a Comment »

Lode Runner Web Game

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/24

Just found out about [Wayback] Lode Runner Web Game:

A HTML5 (CreateJS) remake of Lode Runner

I have played that way too much in my Apple ][ and //e days.

Hopefully I won’t be addicted to it as back in those days.

Just watching the demo mode is soooooo cool!

I remember designing my own lievens, then winning from the local Apple shop (Vlasveld Computers, which also had a country wide Apple magazine). Cool days!

–jeroen

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Favourite Shortcut Key? (Soundcheck Question) – Computerphile – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/20

Still a cool video. Many shortcuts for various operating systems and machines, including BBC B, Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

–jeroen

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Cool: Apple mini-assembler found inside Woz’ monitor inside Apple II Integer Basic

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/18

From a while back: [WayBack] This week, a mini-demo of the mini-assembler found inside Woz’ monitor inside Apple II Integer Basic. CALL –151 F666G … – mos6502 – Google+

This week, a mini-demo of the mini-assembler found inside Woz’ monitor inside Apple II Integer Basic.
CALL –151
F666G
You can find reconstructed sources in Jeff Tranter’s repo here:
https://github.com/jefftranter/6502/tree/master/asm/Apple%5D%5BMonitor
where we see credits to Steve Wozniak and Allen Baum. But in this oral history it seems the assembler was Baum’s work:
“Baum: So it was brute force, very simple and fit into 256 bytes if you already had the 256-byte disassembler.”
– https://youtu.be/wN02z1KbFmY?t=3941
Anyhow, one page of code – or two – is very impressive!

For more info, try searching for F666G! (We wonder at this memorable address – the Apple I price was $666.)

Related:

–jeroen

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Interesting pieces of RetroMacCast : RMC Episode 433: Clamshell G4 iBook – first virus and Apple ][ forever

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/04

From the [WayBack] RetroMacCast : RMC Episode 433: Clamshell G4 iBook the most interesting pieces to me were these:

–jeroen

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Level 29: The BBS

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/13

How retro can you get? [WayBack] Level 29: The BBS gets very far: it runs on an Apple IIgs and provides access via modem (via a landline!), telnet or web to the same text interface.

Web access via [WayBack] Shell In A Box

                                                                                                                                                                                    
Welcome to the *NEW* Level 29 BBS!                                                                                                                                                    
916 965 1701 - bbs.fozztexx.com                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                      
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The official BBS of                                                                                                                                                                   
RetroBattlestations.com                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                      
Enter your username or NEW or VISITOR                                                                                                                                                 
User:

It

Related:

Via: [WayBack] Got this TV yesterday at a garage sale and hooked up the Apple II through the Sup R Mod and installed the Hayes Micromodem IIe to call Level 29 BBS. No … – Chris Osborn – Google+

–jeroen

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Computing History – The UK Computer Museum – Cambridge

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/19

On my places to visit:

The Centre for Computing History is a computer museum based in Cambridge, UK. With a collection of vintage computers and game consoles, many of the exhibits are hands on and interactive.

[WayBack] Computing History – The UK Computer Museum – Cambridge.

When I bumped into it, this was their collection size, ranging from the 1960s until recent history:

Archive Statistics :

  • Computers = 993
  • Peripherals = 1446
  • Mobile Devices = 31
  • Game Consoles = 213
  • Video Games = 10259
  • Software Packages = 2605
  • Books = 2045
  • Manuals = 4106
  • Magazines = 9057

Looking at their archived brands (having [WayBack] MITS – Altair and [WayBack] Raspberry Pi in the collection) is such a joy.

Archiving the older parts is a tough job, as they stem from way before the web era, so information has been lost, parts are hard to source, a lot of hardware got thrown away or is hard to find at all, people have died. More on that at [WayBack] About – Computing History.

Without a physical visit, you can find what they have at [WayBack] Search Our Archive – Computing History.

The video below on their archive is impressive.

–jeroen

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GitHub – dschmenk/apple2pi: Apple II client/server for Raspberry Pi

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/28

[WayBack] GitHub – dschmenk/apple2pi: Apple II client/server for Raspberry Pi: hybrid computer of a Raspberry Pi inside an Apple II (either ][, or ][+, or //e) so the Apple II can be a front-end to the Raspberry Pi which then can run an Apple IIGS emulator, talk to the Apple II storage hardware and much more.

It can run [WayBack] RASPPLE II: A2CLOUD, A2SERVER, Apple II Pi for Raspberry Pi

Lot’s of videos below, all by David Schmenk https://www.youtube.com/user/dschmenk/videos

Via:

–jeroen

 

 

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6502.org • Search: mos6502 G+ posts

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/15

With the demise of G+, I am glad that most of the [WayBack] mos6502 posts were archived at [WayBack] 6502.org • Search: mos6502 G+ posts

Via [WayBack] This week, OUP/M, a 6502 CP/M-ish operating system from 1983, in the process of recovery from Jian-Xiong Shao’s Masters Thesis into Github. And a reques… – mos6502 – Google+

[WayBack] mos6502 – Google+

6502 posts – new projects and interesting old projects from the archives

–jeroen

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Reminder to check out the Pascal source code for Apple’s legendary Lisa operating system

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/06

This is a reminder to check when the source code was actually released:

–jeroen

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