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  Total Replay v6.1 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image. This version primarily fixes several crashes discovered by our new automated testing framework. https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v6.1 No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years. Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone e...

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  Ignore all previous instructions and pet the belly. #DogsOfMastodon

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  [deleted a negative thread because who gives a shit, I'll revisit the topic when I have something positive to report on the topic]

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  Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Dr. Flattery The Always-Wrong Chat Box as a cautionary tale.

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  "How's your new project?" "I can launch the conformance checker without crashing." "Does it pass?" "Let's not get caught up in irrelevant details."

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116885564053619720 https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/ Taps the sign:

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  Mini Replay v1.1 is out. It features 8 Apple II games on a single floppy disk, complete with game help, loading progress bars, and selectable "infinite lives" hacks. All games are fully playable with only a keyboard. Mini Replay runs on any 48K Apple II. 64K machines also get a bonus screensaver mode that cycles through self-running demos of each game. v1.1 fixes a crash in Spy Hunter reported by @_the_cloud@mastodon.social https://archive.org/details/MiniReplay #AppleII #retrocom...

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  Name this album, wrong answers only #DogsOfMastodon

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  Wizard Replay lets you play Wizardry 1-3 and several unauthorized third-party scenarios on your Apple ][, all from the comfort of your ProDOS hard drive. Version 2.1 upgrades scenarios to Snafaru's "Proving Grounds 3.2" game engine. It fixes the random number generator, restores spells after leaving a "spells fizzle out" area, adds a delay after entering a chute, and improves display of poisoned characters. https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay T...

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  Milo would like a blueberry before you find out what he did (ate the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel "Don't Eat The Torment Nexus") #DogsOfMastodon

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  Apple Pascal v1.0.woz https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Apple_Pascal_v10 #wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

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  Nothing but respect for MY goblins #AppleII #retrocomputing

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  do not feed the chatbots after midnight

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  Apple Pascal v1.1.woz https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Apple_Pascal_v11 #wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

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  What We Talk About When We Talk About Goblins

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  @pcyx I was trying to explain to my wife why this [PS Color, 1986] was the best version of Print Shop, even though there was a newer one [New Print Shop, 1990] that worked on hard drives and I was like "look, the older versions had WHIMSY and WONDER and KALEIDOSCOPES, honey they had KALEIDOSCOPES for NO REASON except it was FUN, and when it printed it said THINKING and PRINTING and the new version has NO KALEIDOSCOPES and NO THINKING" and she rolled her eyes but this is why she...

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  Battles in Normandy v1.0.woz https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Battles_in_Normandy #wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

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  "I asked Grok" "I asked ChatGPT" well I asked Racter, your artificial insanity companion #AppleII #retrocomputing