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When we think of programmable hardware, we think of FPGAs. But they’re not the only option. [Oliver Schmidt] has been exploring how the Raspberry Pi Pico can serve in such …read more Continue reading Using The Pi Pico As ‘Programmable Hardware’ For The Apple II
Twenty years before the 1997 release of Riven – Cyan’s sequel to the critically acclaimed title Myst – a fruity company in California released the Apple II, a 6502-based microcomputer …read more Continue reading Walking Through a Scene from Riven on the Apple II
Besides obvious technological advancements, early computers built by Apple differed in a major way from their modern analogs. Rather than relying on planned obsolescence as a business model, computers like …read more Continue reading Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player
Here at Hackaday, we love living in a future with miniaturized versions of our favorite retrocomputers. [James Lewis] has given us another with his fully functional Apple IIe from the …read more Continue reading Mini Apple IIe Now Fully Functional
The Apple II was at the forefront of the home computer revolution when it came out in 1977. In its era, nobody really cared about hooking up the Apple II …read more Continue reading An Easy Z80 And VGA Upgrade For the Apple II
[Nathanial Hendler]’s Apple2Idiot expansion card for the Apple II family of computers is a nifty mix of modern and vintage, and provides a clever means of allowing the host computer …read more Continue reading APPLE2IDIOT Expansion Card Lets Your Apple II (Sort Of) Access the Internet
We have a soft spot for synthesizers – seriously, who doesn’t? So when [Joshua Coleman] combined his retro-looking DIY modular synth with the equally retro Apple II computer, we just …read more Continue reading Modular Synth Pairs Perfectly With The Apple II
We can still remember when the WS2812 LED first came into ourconsciousness, way back in the mists of time. The timing diagrams in the datasheet-of-questionable-veracity made it sound quite tricky, …read more Continue reading WS2182s on a 6502
In its day, the Apple II computer didn’t typically require active cooling. However, the increasing scarcity of replacement hardware convinced [Joshua Coleman] to come up with a more robust active …read more Continue reading Simple Fan Controller Helps Apple II to Beat the Heat
For those who might have missed it, there was a brief period in the mid-00s where gamers everywhere eschewed consoles and PCs in favor of simple Flash-based games to be …read more Continue reading The Faux-Vintage Becomes Vintage