I'm having fun with this antiquity like it's 1989*!
The Apple //c was my first computer and I loved it dearly for years, but to be honest, it served little purpose these last years, only decorating the office. But then my wife woke up a monster by suggesting we do the Advent of Code, and we started, and then I thought
"I should do it with the Apple //c!"
One thing led to another and there are now quite a few things here:
- a full featured Mastodon client
- a media player (mp3, video, webradios, ...)
- a Peertube and Youtube client
- an FTP client
- a Telnet client
- an HomeAssistant frontend to control switches, heating, and view sensors' graphs.
Install cc65:
git clone https://github.com/cc65/cc65.git
cd cc65
make
sudo make install
Build my things:
make
Create floppy images:
make dist
You can then transfer the images in dist/ using ADTPro.
To build only the proxy, you can skip installing cc65. Install the build dependancies, then compile the proxy:
The Apple 2 serial port is port 2 by default.
For convenience, a pre-built surl-server is configured in the Raspberry image file, surl-server-bullseye-YYYY-MM-DD-lite.img.gz , available in the releases.
Copy it to a microSD card:
gunzip surl-server-bullseye-YYYY-MM-DD-lite.img.gz
dd if=surl-server-bullseye-YYYY-MM-DD-lite.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress
sync
Install the SD card into a Raspberry, connect Ethernet, connect USB/serial adapter and boot. Everything should be up and running if you have a DHCP server.
You can ssh into the pi with the default Raspbian login, pi/raspberry. The Pi should get on the network as surl-server.local.
If you already have a running Raspberry that you'd want to use for this, you can instead add the following source and packages:
echo "deb https://apt-rpi.colino.net/debian bullseye main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/apt-rpi-colino-net.list
curl https://apt-rpi.colino.net/gpg.key | apt-key add -
apt update
apt install surl-server
*Yes, I know it's older than that. But I got mine in 1989, when I was nine.