Notices by 4am (a2_4am@mastodon.social)

@dosnostalgic hey man instead of having that fight have you considered not doing that

For comparison, the original takes 17 seconds to get as far as requiring you to flip the disk to side B, then loads for 10 more seconds before you can sign the guest register, then requires you to flip the disk again to start the game.

Hard drive port of Transylvania (1985), from a cold boot to signing the guest register in 7 seconds.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

The thing that even I forget — because I mostly use modern tools for developing and emulators for testing and I turn off "authentic" drive speed — is that 8-bit computers were terribly slow because media storage was terribly slow, way out of proportion to how those things evolved just a few years later.

I said this in 2018 when we first released Pitch Dark, and it's still true: if you have a real Apple II, the best bang-for-the-buck upgrade you can get for it is a mass storage device.

I have ported the first 7 Scott Adams graphical adventures to ProDOS: Adventureland, Pirate Adventure, Mission Impossible, Voodoo Island, The Count, Strange Odyssey, and Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle. Each port includes patches for a better text input routine, an increased number of game save slots which read/write from external ProDOS files, auto-uppercase of input and auto-lowercase of output, quit to ProDOS, and of course no copy protection.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

@dosnostalgic This seems bad, actually?

@dosnostalgic Now you're just fucking with me

@dosnostalgic My entire childhood is a lie.

@dosnostalgic WHAT

@dosnostalgic Fuck everything about this.

@dosnostalgic Well if Tetris taught me anything, it's that errors compound and achievements disappear.

@dosnostalgic Aw crap. I mean, I saw the trailer and is was a bit overdone, but I was still hoping...

Now THIS is an about box

Harrier Strike Mission.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_Harrier_Strike_Mission

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Airborne!.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_Airborne

Thanks to @ianoid for the disk!

#moofaday

The Mind Prober v1.0.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_The_Mind_Prober

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The Toy Shop v1.1.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_The_Toy_Shop_v11

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The Home Accountant v1.01.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_The_Home_Accountant_v101

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Strategic Conquest v1.2.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_Strategic_Conquest_v12

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Sub Battle Simulator.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_Sub_Battle_Simulator

#moofaday