#68k — Public Fediverse posts

Is there an equivalent of DOS for 68K? In thinking about this a bit—considering 68K workstations like Mac, Atari ST, Tektronix 4404—i came to realise that i was probably a bit harsh on DOS (i grew up very much in the DOS period, but never had a DOS machine). Like, i love command line, and DOS is a command line available on a very broad range of machines, all x86 based (right?). Was there any sort of semi-portable command line system that was available on any sort of non-x86 architecture? (i'm thinking small, not like UNIX which could run on 68K, or MVS/TSO which ran on IBM mainframes).

[edit: contenders are CP/M-68K (which isn't vaporware), OS-9, and maybe Human68K]

#Retrocomputing #68K

@kabel42 @OpenComputeDesign

16-bit/early-32-bit was my favorite era. (Basically, the #68k era ;)

Computers were just becoming capable, but not too big for their britches.

Free to a good home: A nine-page booklet HyperCard Version 1.2 Update, a single-page addendum to the Macintosh System Software User's Guide, Version 6.0, and the packing list from a Mac Plus, dated 1988. :apple_inc: 📮

#FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Macintosh #68K

｢ NCR Corporation, in a move to capture an increasing share of the OEM computer market, has announced a new small computer based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. The 16-bit multiuser and multitasking computer is called the Tower 1632. It runs an operating system derived from UNIX III and provides data storage with fixed Winchester disk drives ｣

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ncr-tower-1632

#unix #68k #retrocomputing

#Macstodon now runs in the latest bleeding-edge build of the Snow emulator! And if you use Snow's built-in HTTPS stripping, then you don't have to configure WebOne or another proxy, just install Macstodon and start using it 😎

Thanks @twvd for the FPU fixes and all the other hard work you put into Snow! This is the kick-in-the-pants I need to get the next version of Macstodon out the door 🙂

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

A2560Me Aluminum Case: Foenix Labs Shows Premium and Budget Enclosures
#FoenixLabs #A2560Me #RetroComputing #68k #MiniITX #RetroHardware #ComputerCase #ArcA310 #OpenSourceDrivers #PCIe
https://theoasisbbs.com/a2560me-aluminum-case-foenix-labs-shows-premium-and-budget-enclosures/?fsp_sid=1177

A2000 Accelerator Mystery: Tracking an Amiga 2000 Boot Fault
#Amiga2000 #CommodoreAmiga #RetroComputing #HardwareRepair #LogicAnalyzer #PiPico #AmigaRepair #Electronics #68k #Workbench
https://theoasisbbs.com/a2000-accelerator-mystery-tracking-an-amiga-2000-boot-fault/?fsp_sid=906

A2560Me Board: Foenix Labs’ new 68k Mini-ITX build
#A2560Me #FoenixLabs #Motorola68060 #68k #RetroComputing #MiniITX #FPGA #RetroHardware #HomebrewComputing #VICKYTheFourth
https://theoasisbbs.com/a2560me-board-foenix-labs-new-68k-mini-itx-build/?feed_id=7246&_unique_id=694aaca5513d6

Getting System 7.5 natively booting on a G4 Mac is impressive enough…

...but what truly blows my mind is that on the same hardware, the author managed to get System 6.0.8 as far as a Happy Mac, and Systems 7.0/7.1 to a "not supported on this computer" dialog.

The fact that the ROM manages to get that far at all, instead of a black screen or sad mac is bonkers, considering that the processor architecture (and the rest of the hardware) is completely different from anything that would be understood by that era of OS. It's relying on the 68k emulator built-in to the ROM.

Driver support notwithstanding, I wonder how low could you go if you took the resources from the CHRP system enabler and brought them over into the System file directly? Since 6.x and early 7.x didn't support enablers.

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115637701377779352

Texas Instruments has discontinued the venerable Ti-89 (and titanium) graphing calculator this year after 27 years. Is this the last consumer device to ship with a Motorola 68k processor? #Ti89 #68k #Calculator

🎉 Welcome to the riveting world of #SimpleText patching! 🤯 Navigate a labyrinth of forums and resources just to relive the #90s joy of #editing #text files on a #68K #Mac. Because who needs modern software when you can have endless #assembly #code fun? 🙄💾
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/patching-68k-software-simpletext.4793/ #Patching #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Testing ZigZagJoe's IIsi Booster 2.0 accelerator- Here are some screenshots of the gains. #Macstodon is loading up toots like a boss now 😃 #Mac #VintageMac #68k

GlobalTA/UX’ing tonight!

It's been quite a while since I’ve done something silly with an old Mac so I installed A/UX on my IIfx. It's something I've wanted to do for a while (and tried a few times in the past) but never managed to get it to work until now - turns out A/UX is incompatible with the BMOW ROM-inator - after reinstalling my stock IIfx ROM it works like a charm, even supporting my Interware video card and Asante ethernet card.

Software compatibility is a bit spotty when it comes to network apps - iCab and TurboGopher didn't work, but MacLynx and the Wikipedia app do. And of course #GlobalTalk works like a charm!

Also it's crazy that I can telnet into this thing from my daily driver MacBook Pro 🤣

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #68k #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

These are now the definitive Amiga 40 streaming details from Mönchengladbach for Saturday and Sunday. There may still be minor changes to the stream depending on the previous topic.

Watch at the following URLs:
http://YouTube.com/BBSindex
http://Twitch.TV/BBSindex

May now be officially published everywhere.

#commodore #amiga #amiga40 #event #amigaos #hyperion #icomp #ApolloVampire #augs #68k #retro #vintage #computer #vcf #vcfzh #VCFSO

There is a new #CPM for #68K #Emulator
(I compiled the Source on a RPi3 and also on Windows (via MSYS2_64))
https://github.com/kobolt/cpm68emu

Updated the #Macstodon roadmap today.

It's been a long time since I've touched it, but things slowed down a little bit at my day job this week and I'm getting the itch to do some retro programming again.

I need to tackle the longstanding Mastodon 4.3+ auth issue and I think I'm just going to build a wizard-type interface with screenshots that show you what you need to click (on a modern machine) in order to create an auth token manually.

Also it would be nice to support the new quote posts feature. And polls. And maybe even attachments.

I gave up on the REALBasic/FutureBasic rewrite - it was too difficult to do that and still maintain System 7 & 68K support (and also because someone else is working on a Mac Mastodon client in REALBasic for later OS versions).

I do still want to rewrite it in Micropython but that’ll be a LONG way away and is dependent on Micropython getting all of MacPython's features.

Anyway, hopefully I'll have more to share in a few days/weeks.

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/109436160115100325

Wow, second time in seven days. Another package that's been lost in the post for over two months had turned up unannounced in my mailbox. This time its a #68K assembly language manual 👾

And now I wonder how hard it could be to patch a 68K silicon graphics IRIS 3000 to run classic mac os. I doubt I'll have time in my lifetime to look into that, but still making QuickDraw work with a bitplane graphic adapter would be interesting…

#retrocomputing #68k #classicmac #silicongraphics

@llamasoft_ox I grokked #6809 first and then a fair bit of #68k when I moved to the #atarist and started writing demos. My summer job at Flare technology was a wake up call as I moved from clear opcodes and register naming to x86's implicit targets and much more limited register space. Nowadays I probably spend most of my assembly time between x86 and #arm and at least 64 bit added more registers to use.

@ij

Naturally. That's quite amazing

#RetroComputing #Amiga #68k #Motorolla #Agnus #FatAgnus #FatterFatterAgnus #Denise

When was the last time you went to AmiNet?

Which emu do you use to run your Amiga68K software?

https://aminet.net/

#RetroComputing #Amiga #68k #Motorolla #Agnus #FatAgnus #FatterFatterAgnus #Denise

Updating my system to the newest OS version
#macintosh #68k #retrocomputing

Szülinapomra kéne szereznem egy 040-es pólót #68k

For those not following #m68kMicroPython development, a lot has been happening rather quickly in the last couple of weeks!

There's enough support for the Toolbox now that I've been able to re-create the #Macstodon splash/loading screen with it - see below.

Big thanks to @stylus for all his hard work developing the port and making this possible!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac #68k #Python #MicroPython https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/114889267494614758

The “Looking Inside the Macintosh IIfx” demo that I posted to Macintosh Garden last week has just been cracked by one of the users there, removing the hardware/software checks so that it will now run all the way up through Mac OS 9 (and on BasiliskII/vMac/SheepShaver/QEMU).

(If it throws an error and exits when you click "Inside View”, bump the memory allocation up to 4096k and relaunch).

Download from here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/looking-inside-the-macintosh-iifx

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac #68k https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/114752761266649967

A brand new 68k Mac emulator quietly dropped last night!!

“Snow” can emulate the Mac 128k, 512k, Plus, SE, Classic, and II. It supports reading disks from bitstream and flux-floppy images, and offers full execution control and debugging features for the emulated CPU. Written using Rust, it doesn't do any ROM patching or system call interception, instead aiming for accurate hardware-level emulation.

Download link (Mac, Windows, Linux): https://snowemu.com
Documentation link: https://docs.snowemu.com
Source link: https://github.com/twvd/snow
Release announcement: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12509

(Edit: I'm not the author - just spotted this on the Emaculation forum and had to share it!)

(Edit #2: Snow's author, Thomas “twvd" has joined the Fediverse now! Give him a follow at @twvd 👋)

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac #68k #emulation

Sunday morning recap - Macintosh LC

#retrocomputing #recapping #apple #macintosh #68k

Mouse control in #phaseout prototype...

#amiga #68k #motorola #maxon #dpaint #commodoreamiga #c64 #c64games #c64mini #c64g #c64maxi #commodore64 #commodoreamiga #commodoregames #c128 #commodore128 #c64c #gamedev #8bit #retrogaming

Small steps to animated blitter objects.

#amiga #68k #motorola #maxon #dpaint #commodoreamiga #c64 #c64games #c64mini #c64g #c64maxi #commodore64 #commodoreamiga #commodoregames #c128 #commodore128 #c64c #gamedev #8bit #retrogaming

The Complete #History of the Home Microprocessor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJh4BIujpHA

#Tech #CPU #Microarchitecture #x86 #Processor #ARM #PowerPC #68k

The Complete #History of the Home Microprocessor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJh4BIujpHA

#Tech #CPU #Microarchitecture #x86 #Processor #ARM #PowerPC #68k