Notices by Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)

Everything I wanted to implement is implemented, I now consider the Kodak DC50 support complete in my #AppleII digital photography program!
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/08/23/kodak-dc50-now-usable-on-the-apple-ii/
#RetroComputing #QuicktakeForAppleII

@thomasfuchs oh that would be cool. I still have a few things to reverse engineer.

This one is going to be able to transfer at 115200bps 🎉

Two things achieved today: good reset/wakeup procedure, and 🥁 getting pictures from the camera's internal storage!

Todo: a lot (thumbnails, camera controls, getting pictures from the PCMCIA card, ...)

#RetroComputing #AppleII #QuicktakeForAppleII

#DC50 update on the #AppleII :
- Thumbnails are displayed
- Fetching pictures from the PCMCIA card is now OK

I'm now trying to figure out camera controls. The only Kodak Windows software I could find does not provide any option for that - just transfer, so I'm a bit blindly poking.

I am very much back on my bullshit! #RetroComputing #QuicktakeForAppleII

I am apparently very much back to my bullshit. #RetroComputing #AppleII #SixForty

@NanoRaptor looks good in green too 🤩

@peertube Hi! I see captionPath is deprecated from the VideoCaption API object, replaced by fileUrl.
I cannot find since when does fileUrl exist? Thanks!

Look at these pants my partner made me 🤩 These are #RETROCOMPUTING selvedge jeans!! With floppies on the pockets!

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

@benjamin Y'a pas ultra-besoin d'une appli, le site est pratique sur mobile je trouve ?
@jeanbaptistemarie

#appleII people, would anyone be able to dump the ROM of their MouseCard? We're having doubts about the existing one in MAME. (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/13598)

#RetroComputing

"I'm just debugging, officer"

#RetroComputing

Previously, but I forgot to post, I have, as you've seen from the previous video, implemented a interstitial screen between levels, showing your score and the next level.
It required completing my font, and a little bit of code: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/4f227989ad474025d5a041ca61556b6cd665354d

By the way, @circfruit, the game is now keyboard-controllable.
Not only that, but it can also run without a MouseCard installed!

I have prepared, very laboriously, a start screen. (Yes I did place every letter one by one haha). I'll install it in the game later because my eyes are tired.

#RetroComputing #Apple2 #PixelArt

The start screen, integrated. Also just committed a reorganisation/cleanup of the code, splitting it into more functions rather than the previous enormous loop. This allows me to get nice call graphs with KCachegrind, in which I confirm that my whole screen drawing is just under 4000 cycles on average.
It makes it faster than it takes the ray to reach the top-left of the screen during vertical blanking (4550 cycles) and leads to no tearing or flickering!

#RetroComputing #Apple2 #MARCHintosh

New side quest unlocked, extending cc65 in a satisfying way to include the original 48kB Apple ][

I've added a "you win" message at the end of the game, a a going back to the start screen, instead of just quitting.

We know the game is won when loading the next level from floppy fails, so I wanted the victory message to acknowledge that, a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Commit: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/acf87dadbc0582866ccd30734d550292eb12242d

#RetroComputing #Apple2