u/drollercoaster99 — reddlx

Image 1 — Preview of the emulator I'm working on.

Image 2 — Preview of the emulator I'm working on.

Image 3 — Preview of the emulator I'm working on.

Image 4 — Preview of the emulator I'm working on.

Preview of the emulator I'm working on.

Hi everyone. Just dropping some screenshots of the new AppleII Android emulator I'm working on. The base emulator is based on audetto's excellent AppleWin port to Linux. What do you think of the retro phosphor green UI theme? I kinda dig it because my AppleII only had a green monochrome monitor (too poor to afford a color monitor then).

Audetto's AppleWin emulator is called using a JNI bridge and then wrapped in Kotlin. It's still work in progress and a lot of it was built using AI but I'm very happy with the outcome and I think I've designed the code quite nicely with clear separation of concerns, and a configuration-driven architecture. It's way more complicated than just telling the AI "convert this, make no mistakes, and don't stop until finished." :)

I can finally play Ultima4, 5, Nox Archaist, Wavy Navy, Bandits, Karateka (and all the wonderful AppleII games!!!) etc with really good input fidelity. This just brings back such good memories for me as I never grew up with other gaming consoles like Gameboys, SNES, MegaDrive etc. I tried dabbling in the myriad of Chinese made hand-held gaming devices, but they don't really scratch my itch (in fact, quite the opposite - they require too much work to configure). My only childhood computing device was an AppleII+ clone and I'm so happy I can now bring it along with me in my pocket.

The UI supports drag and drop and pinch+zoom to resize controls. I hope this makes it more intuitive to use. I have tried cAndy Apple Emulator, KEGS, and Apple2ix. The way the UI in these emulators handled the keyboard never really satisfied me (no hatred towards the developers - they did excellent work).

Screenshots taken from my Samsung phone.

u/drollercoaster99 — 10 days ago

▲ 5 r/apple2

Keyboard repeat rate

Can anyone with a real AppleII tell me how key repeat works on the computer? When you press and hold a key down, does the key repeat? Is there an initial delay before repeat fires?

I'm wondering how games react to key presses when you hold down a key. I have an android emulator I'm working on and I have the emulator fire key repeats as long as you keep a button depressed. But in Prince of Persia, I noticed the character sometimes momentarily stops running.

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u/drollercoaster99 — 10 days ago

▲ 11 r/apple2

Box art database

Is there a known database for box art for the Apple II disks? And do they correspond to some reliable .dsk file names that you can get from the Asimov repository?

I'm building a new AppleII emulator for Android (to scratch my itch), and it would be nice to have that though it's not a deal breaker.

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u/drollercoaster99 — 12 days ago

▲ 1 r/XCOM2

S26 ultra black screen

Hi. Just bought this game yesterday from Google Playstore but quickly applied for a refund.

While I had it, I noticed every time I switched away from the game to go somewhere else (let's say WhatsApp or a web browser) and then come back to the screen, I would only see a black screen (but it looks like there is some graphics drawn there but really really dim? I'm not 100% sure)?

I can still hear music, and it does seem to respond somewhat because if I randomly tap on the screen I can hear some sound effects being played.

Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this?

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u/drollercoaster99 — 2 months ago

▲ 24 r/singaporefi

Have 500k spare cash to invest

Hi all.

As the title says. I have about 500k spare cash just lying around that I would like to invest (no, not illicitly obtained; just that I'm late to the investment game).

I am comfortably earning a good salary and I'm looking for a long term investment strategy for retirement (let's say another 12 year outlook before retiring). Not going to chase hot stocks/crypto bla bla bla. I'm also not super risk adverse.

What suggestions do you have for this? This is something of a nest egg I just want to keep, and don't plan to use until then. Maybe a progressive strategy instead of dumping all 500k into investments overnight? Or it makes no difference? What instruments would you recommend?

Thank you.

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u/drollercoaster99 — 3 months ago