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All members are invited to blog on Applefritter. Weblogs should generally be of a technical nature and should be written in such a way as to still be readable and useful 50 years from now. Please do not embed outside media. Images and videos can be uploaded via the Media Browser. Files should either be attached to the blog post or uploaded to the file libraries.

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K-7

Submitted by doug-doug the mighty on January 1, 2023 - 9:22pm

K-7 is my main dektop for working from home at my jobsite location. The purpose of this blog is to document my configuration for reference and troubleshooting purposes.

Side-by-side graphics/text windows

Submitted by S.Elliott on December 6, 2022 - 3:10pm

This blogpost is a partial-transcript of a discussion from Apple2Infinitum on Slack, which was spawned from an even older Facebook thread.  Since it isn't easy to view the old discussions on Slack and Facebook, I've copy-pasted the messages, pictures, and code blocks below...

 

Scott Elliott Sep 3rd 11:29:17 AM

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vaporlock

Nibble Histogram: the seeds of a disk-o-scope

Submitted by S.Elliott on November 28, 2022 - 9:40pm

What is the distribution of raw nibble values of the bitstream a Disk ][ controller would read from an ordinary DOS diskette?

What values would arise from a copy-protected game disk?  Or from a .DSK emulation of a diskette?

This little routine captures incoming nibbles and computes a moving-window histogram of their distribution.  The data usually stablizes after about 8 calls because it applies a base-2 logarithmic decay to the values after each iteration.

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diskOscope hardware

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