Cycliste, écologiste, gauchiste, et d'autres mots en iste. Sur mon temps libre, je fais des trucs comme du logiciel libre, des meubles, du #RetroComputing.
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Last Notes npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen An in-depth write-up about how I made Shufflepuck Cafe run at 60 fps on an 1MHz computer - including two-player network games. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…hl5m They connect to the floppy DB19 port, but they require firmware support for the Smartport protocol (present in Apple IIgs, IIc with all but the oldest ROM, and as extension cards for the IIe) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…valu What's your prefix when you try with relative paths? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…valu yes, because it's supposed to work... I use it all the time, via cc65 runtime, in and out of PREFIX. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…valu yeah, that should work the same relative or absolute or floppy or HD... npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…valu Oh right. I have no other idea right now, seems sane. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…valu if I remember correctly, the first byte of filename should be it's length. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen It's the second time in a few years that I buy a vintage computer with its CRT monitor, with the monitor described as non-functioning. It's the second time I open the monitor, check the fuse, replace the fuse, and fix it with 5 minutes of work. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen How comes it's so hard to find #Kubernetes hate stickers? I can't be the only one. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…0ppc et le câblage vu qu'il est important de les équilibrer. @nprofile…934v npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…lg04 Elle te paye au moins ?? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen I managed to get a "for parts" #Quicktake 150 for 15 euros, it only needed 15 minutes of work to "fix it" (the Trash button was stuck down). Here's its first picture! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen 6502 assembly optimization starts to feel real good when you can replace npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Blog post: divide your computing needs by a hundred with this simple trick. GPU vendors hate it! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Coding for speed on 6502 npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen 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. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Let"s try sending DHGR to Mastodon. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Preview of Ammonoid, the soon-to-be-out new Apple II file manager. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Not yet a release, but I think it's functional enough for a beta of Ammonoid, a file manager in the style of MC for the Apple II. It aims to be simple, and implements VSDrive so disks images presented over serial (David Schmidt's ADTPro, Bobbi Manner's ProDOS-Utils or my own surl-server) are accessible. I'd like to hear your thoughts! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Hi. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…pt5f Y'a pas ultra-besoin d'une appli, le site est pratique sur mobile je trouve ? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Implement quote-toot viewing in Mastodon for Apple II: +605 bytes. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Numéro 3 a grandi, je vends son vélo 20" (à Toulouse). C'est un très bon vélo en bon état mécanique, mais son état esthétique reflète qu'il a déjà été utilisé par deux enfants. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Anybody knows how a #Mastodon client developer can test the new `quote` feature? From what I understand, Mastodon 4.4 will ship with the ability to read quotes (and will attach them to statuses in JSON API responses, but only at Mastodon 4.5 will quote-posting be available. So I have no idea how to test quote-showing support. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…kgua It is in a private window. Shall I open a real issue? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…kgua Sorry it's possibly the worst way to report a bug :) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…jewr are you folks aware that signing in via browser to mastodon.social ends with a 500 error ? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…m676 je relance du voisin qui passe le rotofil thermique en plein cagnard npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…0arq C'est juste le récepteur de la télécommande en plus mais pas moyen de le trouver sur internet avec une réf précise, je vais devoir attendre une réponse du SAV d'où je l'ai acheté :( npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen le ventilo du plafond de la salle à manger qui décide qu'il est mort???? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…args Here's my entry. I hope it fits the bill! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Two-players #Shufflepuck news: I've cleaned up and abstracted the serial code from the two-players code, and put an effort into describing things, so I've opened issues to point out that if someone were to implement it, Shufflepuck could get #Uthernet and/or #Fujinet support. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen My adventures in 6502-land: I discovered that drawing lines is a pain in the ass. The reference algorithm is Bresenham's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm), which is really smart and good, but requires to check which point is at the right/the top of the other one to know where to start from, then which kind of slope the line has (to know whether to iterate on X or Y), and even if it involves no division, it involves a lot of additions/substractions/absolutes and branches. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen One puck two players. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Deep dive into the Apple II mouse firmware: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/05/08/yes-the-apple-ii-mousecard-irq-is-synced-to-the-vbl/ npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…lpyw Thanks! Perfect. I got a test on //c+ from someone else so I'm all set :) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen I need someone to test a thing for me. Could someone with access to an US Apple //c, and/or a //c+, check that the first thing this image says after loading is "60" ? https://colino.net/tmp/shflpuck-hz.po npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen 35 years later... It's finally there! https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/shufflepuck-cafe-for-apple-ii/ npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…de2h please note that BASIC.SYSTEM (the "shell") handles backspace since ProDOS 2.4.3, which is out since December 2023 ! (And yes this is a huge improvement) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen "I'm just debugging, officer" npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Next project? I'm still at the "I'll never manage it" phase. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen I have woodworked! I badly wanted to share progress here because a ladder is a fun thing to make, but I couldn't because it was a birthday gift to my lover who's reading me here. So, no step-by-step here, sorry! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…5ek2 FYI one can use #Wozamp on their #Apple2 as a photo-frame, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk63krOz6VQ npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…sxgz @nprofile…m676 @nprofile…mcct purée quels imbéciles. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen J'ai un ami qui galère à commencer sa transition (masculinisante) et qui aurait bien besoin de conseils pour trouver un·e soignant·e en mesure de le recevoir pour une primo-ordonnance de T. À Toulouse ou alentours, qui ne demande pas d'attestation psy et dans l'idéal avec un délai qui se compte pas en mois. Il a épluché la BDDTrans et la carte de Fransgenre sans succès jusqu'ici. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…ct7c surprising nobody npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @nprofile…72sj Noie le truc entier dans l'epoxy (ah tu veux que ce soit maintenable aussi?) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen There's quite a bit of new people here, so, new people, did you know that you can use Mastodon with your Apple II ? Well, you can: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1sw0…l08m si ça peut te rassurer j'en ai un dans le placard et on l'entend franchement pas. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub13le…6saf i ll have to look at what kind of software writes this format npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub13le…6saf I remember my dad's plotter (he was an architect before retiring), black & white but A0 too, I was 12 and in awe npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub13le…6saf does the Wav file sound awful? npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Ça fait plaisir de voir que #Dettinger, le boxeur de flics, n'est pas un confus comme il avait été parfois dépeint à l'époque pour le discréditer. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe Or one of the sticks is defective npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe i am interested. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen #Wozamp 2.2 released, bringing : npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub195l…4d7a Il y a cette mécanique dans Singularity, mais je suis pas sûr que ce soit celui auquel tu penses, car je ne connais pas INSIDE npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Mastodon for Apple II, version 2.0.0, is out, and you can now watch videos from your timeline on your #apple2 ! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen I have removed #MastodonForApple2's image loading progress bar, because I don't need it anymore at that speed! Actual 4kB/s at 1MHz 🙂 npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub13le…6saf oooh this seems nice. It could probably be ported to Apple II! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe You can't jumper DTR to CTS, you down it via RTS :) (at least on the IIc which only has 5 pins. Maybe different on a "real" SSC) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe you can try 😉 npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe two SSC, in slot 2 (for RX/TX) and slot 1 (for DTR) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe ah right, it wants the modem port anyway. I should mention that somewhere. npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe wow this is really weird. Like it's stuck sending, not receiving after. I'll have to look into the Zilog manual again to remember what can cause that (cts down maybe) npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe If you can be bothered, I've added timeout/error checks at this phase in https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases/tag/v1.9.6 npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe That's weird. I can't promise the release you tried is supposed to work on IIgs because I don't always test on the IIgs. But I did test this one I did right now, and it works on my stock IIgs: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases/tag/v1.9.5 npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen @npub1rp6…wzqe should be faster than that though, there may be a problem npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen New Mastodon for Apple II release! npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Trucs à regarder pour se rafraîchir : npub1gzwh5scgk5j6evv32t0s3cmam2a8swgqjkfzrqmrtlx75yx2fu0qsudtda Colin McMillen Release 1.2 of MastApple//c adds (some) emoji to smiley conversion 😊
