Cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen died Monday.
Many are celebrating him for "Dry Bones," his great life's work.
But he has a lesser-known legacy: as a tech innovator who brought humor and humanity to the cold silicon world of computers.
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Do you want to program #Atari2600 console like it used to be done back then on an #AppleII computer? Now you can do it thanks to FROB card and associated software https://gitlab.com/retroabandon/apple2-re/-/tree/main/frob #atari #retrogames #retroprogramming
Hey what’s in the box? Well. It’s what it says it is. An Apple 3.5 drive for the #appleiigs in absolutely beautiful shape. And it works! #appleii.
Rewriting the exquisite Apple DOS 3.3 command keyword parser to do less with more bytes like some kind of idiot
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Well, internal test works - ribbon is pretty much dead but that was to be expected. Still, it sounds pretty good now. Will try to revive the ribbon.
Warning: might be loud.
Edit: Connected it to my Apple IIe's parallel printer card later on and I was able to print from BASIC. So it works.
Hey there, fellow retro-tech nerds! The @mediaarchaeologylab has posted its open call for practitioners-in-residence in the lab for the next season, which begins in September. Submit your proposal by May 15!
Please boost for reach.
https://mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/practitioner-in-residence-open-call/
The theme for the 2025/2026 residency is Counter Computing: Alternative Imaginaries.
Lab director Lori Emerson describes it this way: "We are interested in any form of artistic and/or scholarly practice that engages counter-computational practices, such as glitching, hacking, tinkering, queering, subverting, (un)making and (re)imagining. Through such experimentation, we encourage you to explore how our relation to (and imagination of) technology can be remade to envision alternative pasts, presents and futures."
The lab is asking interested parties to submit a proposal for an up-to-4-week residency that includes full access to the lab and its resources, and logistical support. Residents are expected to produce a public lecture, demo, video, performance, or exhibition as part of the residency. Examples of previous technical reports can be seen at https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/projects
Get to it, my peeps! We'll see you in the lab starting in the fall.
mediaarchaeologylab · Practitioner-In-Residence Open CallWe forgot about March & so feel less bad about sending out a second bulletin, especially because it is to announce that
APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2025/2026 PRACTITIONER-IN-RESIDENCE COHORT ARE NOW OPEN!
The theme for our 2025/2026 residency is Counter Computing: Alternative Imaginaries. We would like to see your interpretation
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The conclusion of the Apple II game Sherwood Forest, involving some antics to entertain the Merry Men, impress Maid Marion, and completely bypass the Sheriff who is a bit of a jerk anyway
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/02/sherwood-forest-lets-go-make-some-beautiful-music-together/
All the Adventures is starting to wind down on 1982. Sherwood Forest is the last Apple II graphical game left!
Dale Johnson of the extremely difficult Madventure and Palace in Thunderland returns with something that seems to be a little bit easier ... so far.
Time Zone
Source: Computer Gaming World 3.1 (January/February 1983)
Scan Source: CGW Museum
Managed to compile an MD5 program with cc65 on the #AppleII and it actually works! It takes forever to calculate, but what matters is it gets the hash right.
Program was found here: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Md5.c
(Also I hate that cc65 programs aren't re-entrant and have to be loaded from disk again.)
It is the year 2025 CE. I have received a 5.25-inch floppy in the post (among other things).
Product list from Polarware (formerly Penguin Software), January 1988. Lists "The Spy's Adventures in Asia", Africa, and Australia as "coming soon." The series was steamrolled by the success of Carmen Sandiego, and none of those three ever shipped (c.f. http://graphicsmagician.com/polarware/spyadventures.htm )
Next on All the Adventures:
Kirsch continues his wild exploration of different genres as the protagonist squares off against the brothers of the Dalton Gang.
Includes location-and-condition-based event triggers, unannounced softlocks and Dirty Harry.
The Apple II and the demoscene, a late bloomer