#classicmacintosh — Public Fediverse posts

@golemwire @1Bit

Yeah, it would have to be its own GUI subsystem, but you're right, I don't really want to reimplement all the basic UNIXy syscalls and such.

Maybe do my own kind of #uxn, but with baked-in graphics primitives, pure monochrome, a little higher resolution by default, and maybe something like Pascal???

Basically, I'm talking about re-inventing the #ClassicMacintosh, aren't I. 😄

@golemwire @1Bit

Yeah, it would have to be its own GUI subsystem, but you're right, I don't really want to reimplement all the basic UNIXy syscalls and such.

Maybe do my own kind of #uxn, but with baked-in graphics primitives, pure monochrome, a little higher resolution by default, and maybe something like Pascal???

Basically, I'm talking about re-inventing the #ClassicMacintosh, aren't I. 😄

'SCUSE me, little endians, 68000 coming through! 🤣

#68000 #MC68000 #16Bit #32bit #m68k #ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #Amiga #AtariST

'SCUSE me, little endians, 68000 coming through! 🤣

#68000 #MC68000 #16Bit #32bit #m68k #ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #Amiga #AtariST

'SCUSE me, little endians, 68000 coming through! 🤣

#68000 #MC68000 #16Bit #32bit #m68k #ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #Amiga #AtariST

'SCUSE me, little endians, 68000 coming through! 🤣

#68000 #MC68000 #16Bit #32bit #m68k #ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #Amiga #AtariST

'SCUSE me, little endians, 68000 coming through! 🤣

#68000 #MC68000 #16Bit #32bit #m68k #ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #Amiga #AtariST

Found the very first #3D Modeling program I ever used circa 1992, "3D-Edit."
It came with a bunch of shareware on a 105MB hard disk I got from my parents that year. The program itself was released in 1986.

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/3d-edit

#ReadTheAltText

#ClassicMac #ClassicMacintosh #RetroComputing #3dGraphics #Modeler

Found the very first #3D Modeling program I ever used circa 1992, "3D-Edit."
It came with a bunch of shareware on a 105MB hard disk I got from my parents that year. The program itself was released in 1986.

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/3d-edit

#ReadTheAltText

#ClassicMac #ClassicMacintosh #RetroComputing #3dGraphics #Modeler

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

@morgant

Funny enough, I only ever saw a handful of examples of it back in the 90s, all in stock photos within HyperCard. I don't recall seeing a single #ClassicMacintosh application that supported it at the time.

Fortunately there's plenty of support for it today, both on mobile and desktop.

@morgant

Funny enough, I only ever saw a handful of examples of it back in the 90s, all in stock photos within HyperCard. I don't recall seeing a single #ClassicMacintosh application that supported it at the time.

Fortunately there's plenty of support for it today, both on mobile and desktop.

@morgant

The SE/30 was one of my grail machines, because I had a regular SE, and I always dreamed about having a machine that would be ~3+ times faster ;)

The color classic was so adorkable. I remember seeing 10" trinitrons on fancy pay phones in the early 90s and thinking, "Why can't Apple make a classic mac with THIS screen??" Surely enough, they did!

It's funny now that I so fondly reminisce about #monochrome interfaces like #ClassicMacintosh and #OpenLook / #OpenWindows, because back then, I literally dreamed of having color, especially the #Amiga! ;)

@morgant

The SE/30 was one of my grail machines, because I had a regular SE, and I always dreamed about having a machine that would be ~3+ times faster ;)

The color classic was so adorkable. I remember seeing 10" trinitrons on fancy pay phones in the early 90s and thinking, "Why can't Apple make a classic mac with THIS screen??" Surely enough, they did!

It's funny now that I so fondly reminisce about #monochrome interfaces like #ClassicMacintosh and #OpenLook / #OpenWindows, because back then, I literally dreamed of having color, especially the #Amiga! ;)

#Chai me, brosef!!!

#LossyPNG #tea #ClassicMacintosh

#Chai me, brosef!!!

#LossyPNG #tea #ClassicMacintosh

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL

#HackerNews #MbedTLS #ClassicMacintosh #OS7 #OS8 #OS9 #RetroTech #Cybersecurity

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL

#HackerNews #MbedTLS #ClassicMacintosh #OS7 #OS8 #OS9 #RetroTech #Cybersecurity

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL

#HackerNews #MbedTLS #ClassicMacintosh #OS7 #OS8 #OS9 #RetroTech #Cybersecurity

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL

#HackerNews #MbedTLS #ClassicMacintosh #OS7 #OS8 #OS9 #RetroTech #Cybersecurity

#Programming project #PipeDream: come up with my own #SerenityOS-like project, but instead of a love letter to 32-bit windows machines, make it a love letter to 16/24-bit #ClassicMacintosh and other monochrome machines like early Unix workstations. ;)

#Programming project #PipeDream: come up with my own #SerenityOS-like project, but instead of a love letter to 32-bit windows machines, make it a love letter to 16/24-bit #ClassicMacintosh and other monochrome machines like early Unix workstations. ;)

35 years ago today, this beautiful machine came into my life.
This photo was taken in 2011, two years before I sadly gave it away (due to a rushed interstate move).

#ClassicMac #RetroComputing #ClassicMacintosh #Macintosh #MacSE #MacintoshSE

35 years ago today, this beautiful machine came into my life.
This photo was taken in 2011, two years before I sadly gave it away (due to a rushed interstate move).

#ClassicMac #RetroComputing #ClassicMacintosh #Macintosh #MacSE #MacintoshSE

Yo, this donkey is selling Macintosh SE BOXES (JUST THE BOXES) for $249.99 plus $225 shipping.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335684049217

#ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #MacintoshSE #eBayRipoff #scam

Yo, this donkey is selling Macintosh SE BOXES (JUST THE BOXES) for $249.99 plus $225 shipping.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335684049217

#ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #MacintoshSE #eBayRipoff #scam

Hey #ClassicMacintosh officionados!

Does anyone remember the name of (or have a photo of) the cooler addon for #ClassicMacs (128, 512, Plus) that inserted a fan in the handle slot to suck air up and out of the passively-cooled macs?

I remember seeing one at university circa 1992, but I can't find any pictures of it.

I'm trying to find it for @[email protected], who wants to develop the equivalent for the iMac G3

#AskFedi #ClassicMac #Macintosh

cc: @NanoRaptor @DosFox

Hey #ClassicMacintosh officionados!

Does anyone remember the name of (or have a photo of) the cooler addon for #ClassicMacs (128, 512, Plus) that inserted a fan in the handle slot to suck air up and out of the passively-cooled macs?

I remember seeing one at university circa 1992, but I can't find any pictures of it.

I'm trying to find it for @libreivan, who wants to develop the equivalent for the iMac G3

#AskFedi #ClassicMac #Macintosh

cc: @NanoRaptor @DosFox

Last weekend I spent fixing the analog board of this #Apple #Macintosh #ColorClassic I have recently purchased. Its display was unstable.
I feel like I finally "figured out" desoldering, which honestly was my biggest weakness.
It was mildly terrifying to turn it on afterwards, but it works!
While a great many folk have done this before, it was my biggest restoration project yet. I'm happy that I was able to pull it off and not kill it — or myself 😅
#ClassicMacintosh #ClassicMac #RetroComputing

@thedoctor @amin @paul

lol... pats the millennial on his head and sends him on his happy way

#ClassicMacintosh #GenXersBeingCrochety #iGuessImOldNow

@thedoctor @amin @paul

lol... pats the millennial on his head and sends him on his happy way

#ClassicMacintosh #GenXersBeingCrochety #iGuessImOldNow

@paul @amin

Also, did any #ClassicMacintosh guys ever use Stepping Out? It was a program which gave you a larger virtual display that would scroll, or would let you scale it down to fit more stuff on your physical display.

REMEMBER that we're talking about 8MHz processors and monochrome graphics back then. It did NOT look great, lol, but it was *something*!!

@paul @amin

Also, did any #ClassicMacintosh guys ever use Stepping Out? It was a program which gave you a larger virtual display that would scroll, or would let you scale it down to fit more stuff on your physical display.

REMEMBER that we're talking about 8MHz processors and monochrome graphics back then. It did NOT look great, lol, but it was *something*!!

Anyone of the #ClassicMac wizards out there that knows why a Connectix QuickCam does this? I was hoping for some retro grayscale fun this #marchintosh but all I got was this static noise pattern.
#macintosh #retrocomputing #classicmac #classicmacintosh

Anyone of the #ClassicMac wizards out there that knows why a Connectix QuickCam does this? I was hoping for some retro grayscale fun this #marchintosh but all I got was this static noise pattern.
#macintosh #retrocomputing #classicmac #classicmacintosh

Of course I just recreated the default System 7 desktop patterns with SVGs. #ClassicMacintosh #Macintosh #System7

Of course I just recreated the default System 7 desktop patterns with SVGs. #ClassicMacintosh #Macintosh #System7

So I added basic printing support to my QuickDraw viewer app. This was harder than I initially thought as the documentation is severely lacking. In the end, I generated the PDF, created a PDFDocument with PDF kit, and printed from there.

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

#retrocomputing #swift #quickdraw #macintosh #classicmacintosh #imageprocessing #pdf

Does anyone remember how you created QuickTime compressed QuickDraw pict files under Classic Mac 7.x #quickdraw #quicktime #classicmac #classicmacintosh

Random #ClassicMacintosh memory: I'm watching Action Retro install Linux on his TAM*, and looking at him create an alias in MacOS 9 reminded me of the days before System 7:
There were no aliases (and obviously no symlinks), so files could only be in one place at a time. That was a bit of a bummer if you wanted to have all of your applications in one easy-to-access spot, because some applications really wanted to live in their own folders, and not share space with others *cough* MS Word.

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Random #ClassicMacintosh memory: I'm watching Action Retro install Linux on his TAM*, and looking at him create an alias in MacOS 9 reminded me of the days before System 7:
There were no aliases (and obviously no symlinks), so files could only be in one place at a time. That was a bit of a bummer if you wanted to have all of your applications in one easy-to-access spot, because some applications really wanted to live in their own folders, and not share space with others *cough* MS Word.

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