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This is the comment I came here for :)

That was my immediate thought....

Scrubbing means quickly moving the current playback position back and forward

I'm with you. I read it a year ago and found a lot of it dull as dishwater. And the ending very predictable. It was ok. I, like you, just don't understand the hype.

For more fun, do a booktube search for "do audiobooks count".

Currently reading Quicksilver - this ties in nicely

Neil Stephenson really brought this to life. The amount of research that must have gone into the series!

OpenEmulator has fantastic monitor emulation if you want to get as close an experience as possible to the feel of the time.

I've ported the GPU code that OpenEmulator uses to WebGL. You can view a demo here: https://zellyn.com/apple2shader/ (source is on github).

I also ported it to Javascript, in an Observable notebook, with some attempt at explaining what was going on, here: https://observablehq.com/@zellyn/apple-ii-ntsc-emulation-ope...

This was my attempt to understand what the code was doing, but I went down the “I should learn signal processing” rabbit hole for a while and eventually got distracted.

This notebook is great, kudos for sort of "thinking out loud" as you figured it out. I'd forgotten about Observable notebooks and makes me want to try them again.

Always love seeing Apple II related stuff on HN.

The first game I got with my Apple //c was Championship LodeRunner - http://www.oldcomputerstuff.com/championship-lode-runner-cer...

20/24 - some of the choices near the end were tricky. Have read Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle Earth 1-3