Colin McMillen

colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr

Cycliste, écologiste, gauchiste, et d'autres mots en iste. Sur mon temps libre, je fais des trucs comme du logiciel libre, des meubles, du <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RetroComputing</a>. Des fois je poste avec mon Apple //c.

Posts

Post #4250646
Good. Because it would be quite sad if we lost #Voyager1, almost one day-light away from us, to global warming. https://spacenews.com/nasa-and-esa-facilities-avoid-major-damage-from-wildfires-in-spain/
Post #3988374
Bonjour, Le père de mon beau-fils cherche un petit appart à #Toulouse assez urgemment de préférence sur la ligne B ou proche de Jules Julien. Ses circonstances ne sont pas idéales pour une agence (il est en CDD, temps partiel, dossier CAF en cours mais ça traîne). Il a du coup un petit budget (400-500€). Merci pour la magie, Masto ❤️
Post #3665826
Le gouvernement est tellement bien préparé pour les canicules. Y'avait écrit CANICULE ÉVITEZ LES HEURES CHAUDES sur les afficheurs de la rocade.
Post #2450328
I am apparently very much back to my bullshit. #RetroComputing #AppleII #SixForty
Post #2327215
&quot;Voilà, ça c&#39;est fait&quot; This set of adapters allows connecting anything Apple II to anything Apple II https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/apple-ii-hardware/apple-ii-versatile-serial-cable/ #RetroComputing #AppleII
Post #2167243
Hi folks! Happy to announce it's now simpler than ever to connect a Quicktake to an Apple II. I've worked on a better solution than the Frankencable, and came up with an adapter box. It even allows keeping the printer connected, for easy printing of pictures 🙂 https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/apple-ii-hardware/apple-ii-quicktake-connector-box/ #RetroComputing #AppleII
Post #2056175
Let&#39;s live-toot the adding of quote-posting to #Mastodon for #AppleII, in case it interests some nerds. First of all, let&#39;s detect whether a toot is quotable: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/275c282698a18169fcd0bda3ffbc0af55cbdbfe2 The JSON field `quote_approval.current_user` of a Status entity will either contain `automatic`, `manual`, `denied` or `unsupported_policy`. We&#39;ll consider everything but `denied` as quotable. If the field doesn&#39;t exist, fo...
Post #1830068
10% off my daisy chainable Apple II Smartport hard drives for the weekend! (The occasion is the Apple //c&#39;s birthday, the computer that made me love computing). Coupon HAPPY42 on https://colino.net/wordpress/shop/ #RetroComputing #AppleII
Post #1818951
I might have to clean up my &quot;lab&quot; at some point. This is getting out of hand. #RetroComputing
Post #1615995
Apparently currently at #vcfeast, my #AppleII community fellow Jonathan Adar is displaying his Apple IIgs with #QuicktakeForAppleII ! This is making me very happy and proud 😊 #RetroComputing
Post #1615993
#6502 asm: - CLI : Clear Interrupt Disable (enables interrupts) - SEI : Set Interrupt Disable (disables interrupts) #AVR asm: - CLI : Global Interrupt Disable - SEI : Global Interrupt Enable
Post #831882
Yay! This time I read the datasheet correctly and I have made a functional SD card module that *has* level shifters instead of feeding 5v to the card like the Aliexpress things do. #pcb #retrocomputing
Post #831876
#BurgerDisk news: A new option for the BurgerDisk, two new devices, partnering with @MuseumJoe, and sourcing unobtainium connectors thanks to very kind people from the Fediverse. https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/03/28/burgerdisk-news/
Post #785543
Still searching for DB19 connectors. Anyone in #Estonia willing to proxy some to me? I seem to have found a few on an Estonian e-commerce website, but they don&#39;t ship international. I pay for everything of course, including your time. #RetroComputing
Post #722845
Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.