Colin McMillen
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Colin McMillen
@colin-mcmillen.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy
Cycliste, écologiste, gauchiste, et d'autres mots en iste. Sur mon temps libre, je fais des trucs comme du logiciel libre, des meubles, du #RetroComputing […]

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I updated my #vccc2025 entry so that the binary is the bootsector, no need for ProDOS. This loads much faster ! (And also provides you reader a spoiler, you can now guess that my code is less than 512 bytes - which is a very low bar, given that the pattern to […]

[Original post on piaille.fr]
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Here we are. An Apple II game skeleton that can
- draw a sprite on a background at 60fps
- handle mouse detection
- handle VBL
- play sound
- load compressed data from disk

https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/tree/master/src/skeleton

Now I just need a game […]

[Original post on piaille.fr]
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Also released Quicktake tonight, as I worked HARD on the Quicktake 150 decoders to bring you an image on the screen in less than two minutes! (previously three).

As I am in a good mood, please find attached a real-time video where you can watch a giant progress […]

[Original post on piaille.fr]
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM