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The Demon Razor that Wouldn’t Turn Off

December 12, 2018 Big Mess o' Wires

What do you do when a battery-powered appliance won’t turn off? And when it’s a sealed unit, so removing the batteries is impossible? And when its body starts to grow disturbingly warm? That’s the situation I found myself in a few days ago.

 
Riddles in the Dark

I was

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New Apple II Low Res game: Blockchain

December 12, 2018 Reddit

Block dropping game in the vein of Tetris meets 2048.

Game starts in self-playing “attract mode”. Press SPACE to start your game. R to reset/restart. ESC to quit.

Press J and L to move the dropping blocks left and right. K will drop the

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AppleWorks & TimeOut Grammar

December 10, 2018 Apple II Bits

I was working on a particularly complex Juiced.GS article recently, so I did something I hadn’t done in awhile: I loaded it into AppleWorks Classic and ran it through TimeOut Grammar. It’s a tool that has served me well for decades.

For much of my academic career starting in fourth

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Apple /// with Profile-drive:

December 7, 2018 FinApple

Finally (february 2018) i got around testing the Profile hard drive i got with the Apple /// 128k (12v) i bought few years ago. I no longer have that /// but i kept the Profile that i never was ableto test as i didn’t have fully working ///. Now i

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