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Original retrocomputing hardware is now decades old and showing its age, so the chances are it’s more common in 2024 to experience a machine from the 1970s or 1980s by …read more Continue reading It’s a CoCo! No, it’s an Apple II!
Clocks are a favourite project here, and we can say we’ve seen all conceivable types over the years. Just a software clock on a retrocomputer perhaps isn’t the coolest among …read more Continue reading An Apple ][ With A Pendulum
Nice, visual simulators of CPUs such as the 6502 are usually made much later and with more modern tooling than what they simulate. But what if that wasn’t the case? …read more Continue reading A Mysterious 6502 Apple 2 simulator
Back in the very early days of consumer digital photography, one of the first stars of the new medium came from Apple. The QuickTake 100 used a novel flat form …read more Continue reading Digital Photography Comes To The Apple II
A few years ago on a long flight across the North Atlantic, the perfect choice for a good read was iWoz, the autobiographical account of [Steve Wozniak]’s life. In it, …read more Continue reading It’s a Humble ‘Scope, But It Changed Our World
![Closeup of an Apple ][ terminal program. The background is blue and the text white. The prompt says, "how are you today?" and the ChatGPT response says, "As an AI language model, I don't have feelings, but I am functioning optimally. Thank you for asking. How may I assist you?"](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-12-at-5.09.17-PM.png?w=800)
Hackers are finding no shortage of new things to teach old retrocomputers, and [Evan Michael] has taught his Apple II how to communicate with ChatGPT. Written in Python, iiAI lets …read more Continue reading Apple II – Now With ChatGPT
[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new drop-in replacements for widespread old-school CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088. Both of the “chips” run in …read more Continue reading Teensy Twofer of Plug-In Emulated Retro CPUs
The Apple II is one of the most iconic microcomputers, and [James Lewis] decided to use the Mega-II “Apple IIe on a chip” from an Apple IIgs to build a …read more Continue reading An (Almost) Single-Chip Apple IIe
Some of the most popular vintage computers are now more than forty years old, and their memory just ain’t how it used to be. Identifying bad memory chips can quickly …read more Continue reading Simple DRAM Tester Built With Spare Parts
A major part of the retrocomputing scene for many of us lies in the world of chiptunes, music created either using original retrocomputing hardware or in the style of those …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive Into The Sound Of An Apple II