Posts by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
(DIR) Post #AvmgKhvIIxd0hMljLk by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-07-03T19:51:00Z
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Implement a menu item to be able to open a Quote (and interact with it): +118 bytes (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/f747ae17de01de0db99ead267d81ba5183a73b0a)#RetroComputing #AppleII #MastodonForApple2
(DIR) Post #AvmgKopWcoAm7V7ipU by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-07-03T20:01:43Z
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Total "Quote displaying" cost is 723 bytes. I expect the same, in time, to implement Quote Posting, and I have 3kB free on disk, we should be good!You can release, @Gargron, I'm ready#RetroComputing #AppleII #MastodonForApple2
(DIR) Post #Awe3PlgQoZY04N03Ga by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-01-24T12:25:50Z
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There's quite a bit of new people here, so, new people, did you know that you can use Mastodon with your Apple II ? Well, you can: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/releases#RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AwioZf0Ry3rmjbQDxY by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-01T09:14:24Z
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@benjamin Y'a pas ultra-besoin d'une appli, le site est pratique sur mobile je trouve ?@jeanbaptistemarie
(DIR) Post #Awnd8G0efYjjgV32VU by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-02T17:42:29Z
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As I don't have any new project in the pipe, I spent my saturday going back to see if I have progressed in #6502 #assembly, and gave a bit of attention to my #Quicktake for #Apple2 JPEG decoder.I think I progressed: decoding a Quicktake 200 photo now /only/ takes 190 seconds (3 minutes 10), a 25% improvement and a whole minute less than previously!#RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #Ax0X1li8Kh5PJ6O1b6 by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-07T18:09:43Z
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You know how bank robbers squeeze a few precious seconds by yelling "DRIVE!" to the getaway driver *before* they're in the car?Turns out, if an #AppleII program yells "start the motor!" to the floppy drive just a bit before running out of buffer and needing to refill it, that program will finish... 7 seconds faster! New decoding time on my reference JPEG is now 159 seconds.#Quicktake #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #Ax0X1nCIo0oRuxVdGC by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-08T21:00:24Z
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Dove deeper into the huffman decoding function, as as much as I find it not perfect (fetching bits one by one), I have found things.- the function ends with a substraction that could have been done when building the tables- the function loops at most 16 times to find the Huff code, but on the first 8 iterations, the code is an uint8, so I don't need to do 16bit math. Unrolled the loop into two, 0-7 and 7-15. As Huffman's shortest bitcodes are for the most-occuring symbols, this is not negligible.We are now right under 152 seconds. #RetroComputing #AppleII #Quicktake
(DIR) Post #Ax0X1ny9w55sJNtqr2 by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-09T20:43:14Z
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I thought I was nearly done with the big wins, but I gave a second (or fifth, probably!) look at the bit getter, which of course works by shifting bytes (a thing the 6502 does one bit at a time...).I (finally) managed to get it down to an 8-bit "buffer", and that paid off!-11 seconds.#RetroComputing #Apple2 #QuickTake
(DIR) Post #Ax0X1pRcS2Fkt2gtPc by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-09T21:31:35Z
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@cr1901 with this thing I made : https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/a2trace-debug-and-profile-cc65-apple2-programs-with-mame/
(DIR) Post #Ax1N5XuIn9oJGpCVSi by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-10T08:29:35Z
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@foone Thank you! It's imperfect, in particular it gets confused by some pha/pha/rts tricks (https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/RTS_Trick) in some ROM paths, for example in the mouse firmware on Apple IIe. Those tricks aren't present in the IIc ROM, so it works well enough for me, I just profile using `mame apple2c0`.@cr1901
(DIR) Post #AxVOPdGeV4IKNqauvI by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-24T19:34:20Z
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This new release of #Mastodon for #AppleII mostly brings you the ability to view pictures and send pictures in DHGR - Double High Graphics Resolution! 560x192 in monochrome, or 140x192 in 16 colors. You can find it via https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/Attached are two examples, courtesy of @GLaG_38 and @8ctobre
(DIR) Post #Axdfy486O2I01gHNqK by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-08-28T20:00:36Z
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@futurebird Well it *is* a multi-million dollar vehicle with a chauffeur after all
(DIR) Post #Ay3GNYkw6rglYMtik4 by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-09-09T19:25:57Z
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@Hundstrasse Because we wanted to make `a` happy!(Sorry I don't have a real answer. Comes from math vocabulary maybe?)
(DIR) Post #AyjQ1P7lLjRR8VRkGG by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-09-30T12:22:17Z
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@MASTERBOOTRECORD Can I ask at what time you're scheduled Thursday in Toulouse at Le Bikini? thanks :)
(DIR) Post #Ayk19UMJT39dzYyEC0 by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-09-30T19:18:22Z
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@MASTERBOOTRECORD see you there !
(DIR) Post #AzOnL73SVMMVJU9nsm by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-10-20T11:26:44Z
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@futurebird about 430kWh per month, about half of it is solar, and we export about 350kWh per month to the grid.BUT our heating is gas-based, and represents about 1.4MWh per month because our house is very badly insulated.
(DIR) Post #B0H28Cube7ZC86Bcae by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-11-15T15:17:02Z
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Look at these pants my partner made me 🤩 These are #RETROCOMPUTING selvedge jeans!! With floppies on the pockets!
(DIR) Post #B0dT8MwrEX1sobOg08 by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-11-26T11:13:01Z
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@peertube Hi! I see captionPath is deprecated from the VideoCaption API object, replaced by fileUrl. I cannot find since when does fileUrl exist? Thanks!
(DIR) Post #B0dZ7vBD4k68PxHPZQ by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-11-26T12:20:10Z
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@peertube Thanks!
(DIR) Post #B0dlYvuNfpLHwi3SYi by colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr
2025-11-26T14:39:31Z
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@peertube Woztubes, the Apple II Peertube client, will be ready https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/5cb3b38770ed1d30cc7a79557d0bd7fc9136ef51