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Wizard Replay lets you play Wizardry 1-3 and several unauthorized third-party scenarios on your Apple ][, all from the comfort of your ProDOS hard drive. Version 2.3 fixes a crash with certain mass storage devices.

https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay

Wizard Replay ships with Snafaru's "Proving Grounds 3.2" game engine, reverse engineered from original Wizardry binaries with 100+ bug fixes and quality-of-life upgrades. https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-v3/

Thanks to @a2_qkumba for everything.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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This new release of #Mastodon for #AppleII mostly brings you the ability to view pictures and send pictures in DHGR - Double High Graphics Resolution! 560x192 in monochrome, or 140x192 in 16 colors.
You can find it via https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/

Attached are two examples, courtesy of @GLaG_38 and @8ctobre

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Let's live-toot the adding of quote-posting to #Mastodon for #AppleII, in case it interests some nerds.
First of all, let's detect whether a toot is quotable: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/275c282698a18169fcd0bda3ffbc0af55cbdbfe2
The JSON field `quote_approval.current_user` of a Status entity will either contain `automatic`, `manual`, `denied` or `unsupported_policy`. We'll consider everything but `denied` as quotable.
If the field doesn't exist, for retro-compatibility, we'll use a default `d`.

In the commit you'll see that we compare the first character of that field to `d`, this is much tighter size-wise than an strcmp().

Don't mind me, just copying A2Desktop from its 800kB floppy to a directory in my brand new 32MB /APPLICATIONS volume, which lives on a microSD card in my #BurgerDisk

#RetroComputing #AppleII

Total Replay v6.0 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v6.0

No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years.

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone else who contributed.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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Total Replay v6.1 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image. This version primarily fixes several crashes discovered by our new automated testing framework.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v6.1

No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years.

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone else who contributed.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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My web shop is open with BurgerDisk and DominoDisk in stock: Apple II SD-based Smartport hard drives that don't make you choose between modern storage and floppy drives.

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/

#RetroComputing #AppleII #BurgerDisk

I'm looking to connect with the #retrocomputing community here in the fediverse because I'm restoring an #appleii and I really want to avoid things like youtube, reddit, etc.

I know this makes it hard, but frankly, those places suck and if I have to choose between going there and doing it all the hard way, fine.

But I really think there's a third way here in the fediverse, and I'd love to prove it 😁

If you're hacking on Apple II machines, I want to hang out.