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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jul 27

was looking forward to seeing the fujinet presentation and workshop at #INITHELLO this weekend

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Halo-Harvest Librarian 🇵🇭🇺🇲ℹ️📖 @infoandhalohalo.bsky.social · Jul 25

I just verified my age by referencing green screen Apple IIes.

T. Green, MLS 📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · Jul 25

I just verified my age by mentioning Galaga.

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · Jul 25

I just verified my age by mentioning Jem

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am!

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jul 25

Oh hey, I released that. @jmechner.bsky.social sent me his personal collection of floppy disks for imaging about 9 years ago, and this unreleased game was part of it.

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Jan 31

Apple IIe City Skylines at Night. 💜

This is my first time playing the unreleased Apple IIe original version of D/Generation, one of my favourite proto-survival horror-ish games. Going to sit here and take in the twinkling metropolis for a while before moving on.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Jan 31

Apple IIe City Skylines at Night. 💜

This is my first time playing the unreleased Apple IIe original version of D/Generation, one of my favourite proto-survival horror-ish games. Going to sit here and take in the twinkling metropolis for a while before moving on.

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4am @4am.bsky.social · May 31

This is called an attempted murder.

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · May 31

The crow friend has brought a second crow friend! 😯

They flew off before I could get a picture though 😩

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4am @4am.bsky.social · May 29

I can't explain it, but Print Shop *deserves* this font.

(based on the amazing "Kablammo" github.com/Vectro-Type-...)

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jan 15

OK hear me out...

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jan 15

Fraction Action (1985, unpreserved, PACE encrypted protection check of wobbly flux timings, cracked by qkumba)

archive.org/details/Frac...

This is one of the oldest titles on Macintosh Garden's "most wanted" list of unpreserved vintage Mac software. Now preserved!

#retrocomputing

Fraction Action (san inc crack) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Fraction Action is a 1985 educational game developed by David Howard Flatman and Ray Tripamer, and distributed by Unicorn Software. It self-boots and runs on...

archive.org

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jan 9

This broke me.

Our next-door neighbor texted us, saying that she would actually be able to make it to a meeting next week with our landlord with a shared beef we’re having with them. Originally she thought she would have to work during the time the meeting was scheduled. She works at a school in the Palisades. Her school burned down. So had her sister’s house. I saw my neighbor right before we left. I told her I would be back on Friday. I had a flashback to my last day in the VICE office in March 2020, when they sent us home for COVID. I told everyone I would see them in a week or two. Some of those people I never saw again.

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jan 4

This is one of those features where I wasn't sure if it was worth the dev effort (or the increased loading time) until I finally put enough pieces together to see it in action, then I wondered why I didn't do it sooner. It feels like a stunning upgrade in showcasing and experiencing these old games.

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Jan 4

The next version of Total Replay will show super hi-res artwork while loading a game on supported hardware. This works on the 16-bit Apple IIgs and any 8-bit Apple II with a VidHD card — even an Apple ][+!

More than ⅔ of the games have artwork [thanks Alex L, Andrew R, et al.]

#retrocomputing

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Dec 26

The Print Shop (clean crack, full write-up)

archive.org/details/TheP...

Read: archive.org/download/The...

#AppleII #retrocomputing

title screenshot from "The Print Shop" by David Balsam and Martin Kahn, ©1984 Pixellite Software, presented by Broderbund Software

flux visualization of "The Print Shop" disk side A

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Dec 26

The Print Shop (clean crack, full write-up)

archive.org/details/TheP...

Read: archive.org/download/The...

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · Nov 5

remember that every dog you see with an “I voted” sticker is evidence of extremely serious voter fraud by those dogs

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Nov 5

She has not voted, because she is a dog. She eats blueberries and takes naps and looks cute. But 100% of her humans — a group that now spans three generations — have voted, some for the first time.

4am @4am.bsky.social · Nov 5

The election ignorer

Photo of brindle French bulldog lying in a blue dog bed, burying her nose in the bed

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Nov 5

The election ignorer

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · Nov 4

I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff

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Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · Oct 28

Please check your kid's Halloween candy carefully. My kid accidently ate a UTF-8 mismatched surrogate pair last year and we spent three hours in the ER pumping �s out of his stomach

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squeaky from:me @skeet.best · Oct 31

Worf in jeans / he's directing all the Star Trek scenes / but the actor's name is Michael Dorn / maybe in this one he'll fight a Gorn / I'm really torn

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4am @4am.bsky.social · Oct 31

Apropos of nothing, "Worf In Jeans" has the same cadence in my head as the way Billy Joel sings "Uptown Girl." Do with this information what you will.