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by deater 3y ago
I do plan to release a "final" version that improves a bit in places. There's no video of it yet but if you view the in-browser-emulator at archive.org you can see disk2 the full length 3d-flying sequence is finished (the pa
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by deater 3y ago
some more of the effects (or better attempts at them) should be possible. The tunnel, the bouncing dots, the bounce effect with the polar bear image. A lot got thrown together at the extreme last minute to hit the Demosplash deadline.
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by deater 3y ago
Second Reality for Apple II!!!! http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/
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by deater 3y ago
don't settle for chess on the Atari 2600 when you can be playing Myst on the Atari 2600: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs/ I'm trying to get it to the speed-runnable state before Mysterium n
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by deater 3y ago
there are no artifacts in the recording because it was recorded on an Apple IIe which has slightly better video hardware. You do get some glithces on the earlier Apple II+ Later models you can bypass the floating bus/vapor lock and ge
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by deater 3y ago
there's often a lot of misunderstandings about the Apple II Apple II nostalgia is not due to modern Apple's success. The people keeping it alive actually are often hostile to modern Apple, never forgiving them for killing off the
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The Apple II basic Twitter bot shuts down Sunday(twitter.com)
2 points by deater 4y ago|1 comments
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by deater 4y ago
you should try "Secret Collect." https://atariage.com/forums/topic/338131-secret-collect-home... and "Myst" https://atariage.com/forums/topic/338659-myst-homebrew-proo
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by deater 4y ago
there was a fan-made IIgs version LemminGS made in 1996 https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/lemmings.html
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by deater 4y ago
a lot of the jumpiness in the sprites for the Apple II version is because in "hi-res" mode each 2 bytes gets you 7 pixels, so it's a lot easier to do sprites that are 7 pixels wide. Every other system tends to have 8-pixel w
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by deater 4y ago
You can also find size-optimized LZSS decoders in 30+ different assembly languages here: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/asm/ll/ll.html
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by deater 4y ago
also, explanations of 80 demos that fit in 280 chars (they were tweets to the AppleIIbot Applesoft BASIC twitter bot) http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/appleiibot/
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by deater 4y ago
If you're into Apple II programming, see a bunch of demoscene demos written in the past 5 years: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/demos/ and a bunch of games written in the past 5 years http:/&#
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by deater 4y ago
for those demanding chunky pixels, you should try this version: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/monkey/
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by deater 5y ago
It's funny how everyone loves the portal demake the most. It's currently the lemmings one that's under heavy development. http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/
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by deater 5y ago
If you're a fan of demakes you should also check out some recent ones made for the Apple II: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/demakes/
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by deater 5y ago
as someone who couldn't manage getting hired by an R1 university, and also had three NSF CAREER proposals rejected, it's a bit sobering to see someone get it all so easily and then walk away from it. Not that I necessarily blame h
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by deater 5y ago
Maine brook off because during the War of 1812 England conquered a huge chunk of Maine and the good people of the rest of Massachusetts were too cheap to do anything about it.
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by deater 6y ago
if you like size-coded demos you should check all of the ones released at the lovebyte 2021 "sizecoding" demo party last weekend http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1935&when=2021 also look up the byte-battle
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Twelve under 256 Byte Apple II submissions to the lovebyte sizecoding party(deater.net)
2 points by deater 6y ago|0 comments
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by deater 6y ago
there's also a demoscene demo that shows off some of these programs https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=87462
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by deater 6y ago
there's a page that exaplains what's going on with a lot of these entries: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/appleiibot/
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by deater 6y ago
also note this will run fine on a stock system from 1980: an Apple II+ with 48k RAM (1MHz 6502) and a 16-sector 140k DOS3.3 Disk ][ drive. If you're a commodore person, you should be comparing this with what you could do with a PET or
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by deater 6y ago
it's also a matter of size. lores graphics are 1k (they usually compress at least 50%). There are 800 backgrounds in the demake. You want to fit this on a reasonable number of floppy disks, in this case it fits on 3. If you use &quo
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If you can't play the new VR version of Myst, why not play the Apple II demake(deater.net)
127 points by deater 6y ago|27 comments
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Applesoft BASIC programs that fit in a tweet (first place Demosplash demo)(deater.net)
2 points by deater 6y ago|0 comments
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Celebrate 30 years of Monkey Island by playing a demake on a 40 year old machine(deater.net)
2 points by deater 6y ago|0 comments
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Writing Apple ii demos that fit in a single tweet(deater.net)
2 points by deater 6y ago|0 comments
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by deater 6y ago
you can use these js emulators to play the just released v1.0 of Myst for Apple II http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/mist/
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An Apple II Another World/Myst Mashup(deater.net)
3 points by deater 6y ago|0 comments

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