@dbergey unfortunately, my Time Machine is offline.
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Member of the Second Breakfast Club
_SDGOL_ Supreme Dark Galactic Overload (to his kids)
I'm all about vintage computers, Apple Macintosh, TI 99/4A, Apple IIe, Commodore 64, and vintage analog medium/large format film photography.
Currently authoring a HyperCard text adventure game and editor, as well as other vintage programming languages and environments.
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An appreciation of one tool that does screenshotting in a really interesting way, plus the history of how ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 ended up where they are.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-shoot-a-screen-using-a-board-of-keys/
So I’ve been trying to make a thing. I’m on my sixth attempt.
And I’ve used most of a spool of filament.
It’s going great!
Almost there…
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The #PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide
Join me this Saturday at 9 am Eastern for Today's HyperCard Stack. We'll examine The #Scientific and #Graphical #Toolkit for #HyperCard.
@futurebird throw a small CRT, with the keyboard and guts of a C64.
@kiwa um, crunchy.
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If you're curious how the effect was accomplished, you no longer have to wonder...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
#MARCHintosh is approaching! Here’s some of my prep. #AppleTalk #GlobalTalk
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🪨 HyperCard on the Macintosh 🛠️
The "software erector set" that launched careers and an entire industry, and came tantalizingly close to delivering us the world wide web 6 years early. Our last post of 2025 takes a deep look at this important title. I also muse a bit on the approach HyperCard takes in extending the definition of what it means to develop software. Happy holidays!
(Back January 2)
https://stonetools.ghost.io/hypercard-mac/
#RetroComputing #hypercard #classicmac #mac #atkinson #nocode
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The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
HyperComposer is a #HyperCard application from 1988.
It is the sound and music toolkit for HyperCard. Designed for enthusiasts at any level, HyperComposer makes HyperCard music mouse-click simple!
@lonespelunker looks very cool and at such an affordable entry level for someone new to RPG tabletop games. Purchased!
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I just released "Fable on your Table 2e", the second edition of my papercraft tabletop skirmish RPG thingie.
I've been working on this one a long time (first edition came out in 2020), and I'm excited to finally get it into people's hands!
It's a fun dungeon crawler that comes with all the minis and terrain you need to play (if you want to use it).
https://lonespelunker.itch.io/fable-on-your-table-2
#ttrpg #solorpg #miniatures #wargames #wargaming #papercraft #rpg #tabletop #indiedev #indierpg
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