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On this, the last day of #MARCHintosh, we say goodbye with some After Dark Flying Toasters on my #AmigaCDTV pretending to be a #Macintosh.

#CommodoreAmiga #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #FlyingToasters

@smallsco Hi Scott. Just wanted to let you know I've been using Macstodon 1.0.1 and it's been smooth as butter and I'm really enjoying the new features! Really hope others give it a try, they are fantastic! #Macstodon #classicmac #68kmac #Marchintosh

@smallsco Hi Scott. Just wanted to let you know I've been using Macstodon 1.0.1 and it's been smooth as butter and I'm really enjoying the new features! Really hope others give it a try, they are fantastic! #Macstodon #classicmac #68kmac #Marchintosh

@smallsco Hi Scott. Just wanted to let you know I've been using Macstodon 1.0.1 and it's been smooth as butter and I'm really enjoying the new features! Really hope others give it a try, they are fantastic! #Macstodon #classicmac #68kmac #Marchintosh

@smallsco Hi Scott. Just wanted to let you know I've been using Macstodon 1.0.1 and it's been smooth as butter and I'm really enjoying the new features! Really hope others give it a try, they are fantastic! #Macstodon #classicmac #68kmac #Marchintosh

@smallsco Hi Scott. Just wanted to let you know I've been using Macstodon 1.0.1 and it's been smooth as butter and I'm really enjoying the new features! Really hope others give it a try, they are fantastic! #Macstodon #classicmac #68kmac #Marchintosh

Some Susan Kare originals in Mac Paint on System 6.0.8 in A-Max 2.5 on an Amiga CDTV.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageMac #MARCHintosh #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MacPaint

This composite of two pictures of the same screen beautifully illustrates interlaced video from the Amiga CDTV. They show the screen displaying different fields (in this case 1/50 second). Together, these two fields make up the image you see on the CRT. There is a very noticeable flicker, especially when there’s sharp horizontal color differences between fields.

#CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh

“It’s always flow control.” I printed again but instead of the ImageWriter II, I sent it over RS-232 and captured it with CoolTerm. I then sent that file (400K) to the ImageWriter II over serial. The flow control gods were smiling because it worked that time! So, I just need an external print buffer/spooler for CDTV and A-Max 😅

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh #PageMaker #VintageMac

Printing from PageMaker starts off fine but quickly turns into garbage and starts ejecting pages from the ImageWriter II. I suspect there’s some hardware flow control problems with longer prints.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #MARCHintosh #PageMaker #ImageWriterII

ZOOM AND ENHANCE ✨ Having this larger display was certainly an upgrade over the built in display of a classic Mac, but then again, lots of flicker! 😵‍💫

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #PageMaker

More CDTV pretending to be a Mac printing shenanigans: PageMaker 1.2! Ahh the logo alone takes me back. There’s a sample document on the disk so let’s try printing that!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh #VintageMac #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #PageMaker

But can we print from the Amiga CDTV pretending to be a Mac Plus with AMax? Yes! Here’s a MacWrite document (in San Francisco font, natch) printing over the “modem port” (Amiga serial) to an ImageWriter II.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #MacWrite #MacPlus

Hey so I got the A-Max cartridge working somehow. I removed and tested three chips, all good. Tried it again and now it’s working! I can plug in the #FloppyEmu into it and access native Mac disk images now. Here’s #MacWrite!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageMac #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh

System 6.0.5 booted on my 1MB Amiga CDTV using A-Max 2.5 emulator! Not much on this disk. One thing you can’t see is the incredible amount of flicker from the interlaced mode (especially the Finder window stripes). I’m used to it after years of using an Amiga 😅

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh

I have just the one Amiga floppy drive but luckily I have some converted Mac disks that work with A-Max. System 6 coming up! Amazing that this is all in software! I also have the Mac floppy drive adapter dongle somewhere.. Looks wild to see this on a TV monitor!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh

We’ll that’s a good sign! The Mac successfully came up this time asking for a boot disk.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh

Spending today tricking this #AmigaCDTV to be a Macintosh 😅 So far I had to trick it into thinking it’s just an #Amiga500 by disabling the extended ROM (disable J15) so A-Max works. This also disables the SCSI controller so we’re all on floppy today.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #ComodoreAmiga #MARCHintosh