Documenting my retro computing one project at a time
I couldn’t work out why the demo was crashing at the 3 min mark and it bugged me. It turns out the demo is simply a bunch of BASIC programs strung together. It was crashing at a corrupt file. I re-imaged the…
Leave a CommentI have finally got around to recording the Dick Smith CAT in-store demo that was running in Dick Smith stores at the launch of the CAT in 1984. I found the disk in the back sleeve of a bound manual for the…
Leave a CommentI decided a while ago that if I am going to write about retro computers I probably should use a retro computer to do it. I decided on my weapon of choice, my trusty old Apple IIc Memory Expansion model with 1MB…
Leave a CommentWho would have thought that something as simple as installing a ROMX in Apple ][ would turn into a 2-day trip down the rabbit hole of Apple ][ 16K Language cards? I was first introduced to the Apple ][ “16K expansion card”…
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