May 18
iPad used to replace Apple IIe data cassette, feels seriously underutilized (video)
Posted in: Apple, ipad, mod, Retro, Today's Chili, videoYou know how we much love our old Apple IIe around here, and whether it’s being used to create chiptunes or as an 8-bit Twitter station, we’re always tickled when the venerable home computer makes an appearance. When an artist named Stewart Smith asked a Mac software developer called Panic to run some software on their in-house Apple IIe, he provided them with the source code as an audio file — but he failed to supply them with a cassette player to load it from. The solution? Panic played the program off its iPad. As you can see from the video below, this isn’t just any old program either — it’s a homebrew video for Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) by Grandaddy. Thanks for amusing us, guys. And thanks for reminding us how much we enjoy The Sophtware Slump.
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