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ONE LINER: Vaporshow

Did you ever want to test whether there are any active bits at an unknown address or memory-mapped-IO port?  This one-liner uses vaporlock to distinguish active bits vs floating bits on the Apple data bus.

ONE LINER: Jitterbox cursor

This precisely-timed machine code tricks a 2513 character generator into displaying a dancing-box at the current cursor position, despite the fact that the character generator contains only 64 character shapes -- none of which is a box-shape!

Some synchronous nibble captures

This blogpost is a quick data dump of raw Disk II data, captured synchronously at intervals of exactly 8 CPU cycles.

Picture 1: Synchronous capture of 10-bit sync nibbles and 8-bit address-mark nibbles

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