Month: June 2007

RetroMacCast
Mac

Episode 25: It's better to be a pirate!

June 10, 2007 retromaccast

James and John are joined by special guest Tommy Thomas of Low End Mac, and they discuss the Power Macintosh 6400 and review Pirates of Silicon Valley.  They discuss two eBay auctions:  an Apple kite and a Swiss-designed iMac desk.You can view higher quality versions of the images embedded in …

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Apple II

Oversampler Sound Driver Demo

June 25, 2007 Christopher Shepherd

Today, I took advantage of a marvellous rain shower to integrate my basic GS/OS “shell” program that draws a basic menu bar and goes into a TaskMaster event loop, with a sound player that, although recoded by hand, is still a shameless ripoff of Oversampler technology. The end result, though,

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Apple II

using dsktool.rb on ubuntu

June 17, 2007 Jamtronix

first install the dsktool gem with sudo gem install dsktool

now try to run dsktool.rb with dsktool.rb -v

If you get an error message like “-bash: dsktool.rb: command not found” then you will need to put the gem bin directory into your path:
open up ~/.bashrc  in the editor of your choice,

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Apple II

dsktool.rb

June 16, 2007 Jamtronix

dsktool.rb

dsktool.rb is a command line tool + libraries (all in ruby) for manipulating DSK format images used by Apple 2 emulators. Currently only DOS 3.3 format is supported.

Usage
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dsktool.rb [switches]

-c | –catalog               display catalog
-l | –list FILENAME         monitor style listing (disassembles 65C02 opcodes)
-e | –extract FILENAME      extract file

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Apple II

Just Another Update…

June 14, 2007 Christopher Shepherd

Haven’t gotten a new power supply yet, or finished upgrading one by myself, however I did put the VOC and PC Transporter and SCSI card back into the machine, thus occupying all 7 slots as well as the memory slot (with planning and careful management of card protrusions to prevent

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Retrobits
Computers

Show 089: A Book Review – “iWoz”

June 12, 2007 Retrobits

I keep hitting the “Home” key, but I’m still not home.

Welcome to Show 089!  This week’s topic: A Book Review – “iWoz”

If you’re having trouble getting to the PETSCII Forums (including the Retrobits Forum), here’s an alternate link…
SNOBOL?  Yep, back when we used Fortran and loved it, SNOBOL was

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Retrobits
Computers

Show 089: A Book Review – “iWoz”

June 12, 2007 Retrobits

I keep hitting the “Home” key, but I’m still not home.Welcome to Show 089!  This week’s topic: A Book Review – “iWoz” If you’re having trouble getting to the PETSCII Forums (including the Retrobits Forum), here’s an alternate link…SNOBOL?  Yep, back when we used Fortran and loved it, SNOBOL was …