Colin Leroy-Mira's SixForty Offers Social Photo Sharing — On Your Apple II
Vintage computing enthusiast Colin Leroy-Mira is taking on the like of Instragram and Flickr with a new photo-sharing package — for the Apple II eight-bit personal computer.
"SixForty is an Apple II client for 640by480.com, a picture sharing website with a focus on vintage digital cameras [created] by Brian Benchoff," Leroy-Mira explains of the software. "It is an addition I wanted to make since a while to my Quicktake for Apple II project. I have chatted and exchanged ideas with Brian during the development of this client."
Is your Apple II feeling left out of the photo-sharing boom? SixForty can fix that. (📷: Colin Leroy-Mira)
Photo-sharing sites are, of course, a relatively modern invention — requiring first the invention of some way to digitize images, whether that be a scanner or a camera that natively captures to digital files, followed by the invention of suitable digital file formats, broad adoption...
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