Category: Apple][

Apple ][ mini-theme.

• Math finds.
• Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron keyboards.
• REXPaint – ASCII art editor.  (via)
• Baman Piderman returns.  (via)
• The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics.  As a former industrial design student that went on to do nothing directly with my education, I agree.
• Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection.  I linked to this 8 years ago and it’s time for a reminder link; a gem of a puzzle collection.
• Floor796.  You will lose some time searching around.  (via)
• INIT HELLO, a new Apple ][ convention that just happened, at The Computer Museum.  (via)
• FujiNet, networking for older computers.  (via previous link)
• Also, Applesauce.
• Silo, from an interesting design company.

A bit short this week; I’ve been traveling.

• G4 Mac Mini Is A Wolf In Apple IIc Clothing.
• Origin of the ‘more’ command.  (via)
• The Doc Web.  (via)
• Balance of Power, a game I never heard of.
• Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons.
• rc, the paper, and rc, designed and redesigned for UNIX shell.  (via)
• SQLite exists because of battleship database failure.  And other things.  (via)
• POSSE, Publish On your Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.  I see this more often now from writers that I would call Serious.  (via)

Oddball multimedia is the mini-theme.

• Laws of Identity.
• Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games.
• Using Game Design to Make Virtual Events More Social.  Talks about the sort of MUD that was Roguelike Celebration 2020.  (via)
• Wifi/Bluetooth Apple // board.  (via)
• When will we learn?  The ‘intentionally left blank’ part is ominous.
• Destroy All Values: Designing Deinitialization in Programming Languages.  (via)
• Radio Shack Telephone Answering Machine Outgoing Messages: Music Edition.  If you can’t stand it for more than a few minutes, well, that’s 1985.  (via)
• Walkies Day.  (via)
• Panasonic RK-P400C Penwriter typewritter plotter.  (via)
• History of computing/technology podcast suggestions.
• Pie Manufacturing Process.  (via)

Old computer mini-theme.

• POCKIT, a modular computer.  (via)
• Exploring the Amiga.  (via)
• Remote Desktop Fun For Your Old Macintosh.  (via)
• Some tiny personal programs I’ve written.  (via)
• More Than a Dozen Command Line Tools I’ve Written.  (via)
• Relativistic Ray Tracing.
• A Colorful “Peek” at the Graphics Performance of the Apple II.
• Smurk (1981/1982).  Linked for the Smurfenstein screenshot.
• A UTF-8 / Ruby tutorial.  (via)
• History of Interactive Computing.  (video, via)

Time for a new category marking.

• 2021 IGF nominees: stunning environments, cosmic horror and not-horror, and there’s a bunch more summaries.
• Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe.
• Understanding OpenSSH’s future deprecation of the ‘ssh-rsa’ signature scheme.  More than one thing named RSA, is the issue.
• The Ratings Game, Part 3: Dueling Standards.  Goes with lyrics labeling in music.
• Digital.Visual.Material, computers as audiovisual material, a symposium.  (via)
• “Bluetooth” name origin story filters through to normal media – remember I linked to a similar story some time ago?  There’s a lifecycle to where news shows up.
• NEVER OBSOLETE.  (via)
• Diffusion-limited aggregation, so you now know where that one screensaver comes from.  (The more interesting source.)
• Nixie tubes AND persistence of vision effects, together.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. and 1989: Monster Island.
• A Few More Useful Pandoc Tricks.
• z88dk, the z88 development kit.  (via)
• How the personal computer broke the human body.  Excellent pictures.  (via)
• Who Invented Heavy Metal?