MacMusic — music playing program running natively on 4MB #Macintosh Plus
#retrocomputung #vintagemac #vintageapple
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During my Denver trip last week I stopped by Mac Outlet, an independent Apple repair and resell shop, to see to their sizable collection of vintage Apple products.
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Neuromancer for 68K #Macintosh — monochrome and color editions
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagemac #vintageapple
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Neuromancer for 68K #Macintosh — monochrome and color editions
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagemac #vintageapple
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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
(This is a guest post by Rairii)
So today I reached a nice milestone in one of my projects: my work porting classic Mac OS to PowerPC systems with what I affectionately call ArtX chipsets (Nintendo GameCube, Wii, eventually Wii U; the GameCube’s Flipper integrated chipset was very much designed by ArtX as it was effectively finished when ATI acquired the company, and the Wii’s Vegas (and its later revision Bollywood) and Wii U’s Latte are effectively straight successors) reached the desktop for the first time, most likely the first time since the CHRP clone era that someone outside of Apple brought up classic Mac OS on a new system to the desktop. Despite still being nowhere near ready for a public release, I want to talk about the challenges I faced with this project so far.
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The ImageWriter II with the sheet feeder attachment. Dot matrix printer or space ship?
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It's clear Frog Design intended the plotter and printer to be stackable.
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MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
By now regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with my affection for the 1996 Apple Network Server, Apple’s Unix-through-and-through $10,000+ server that only shipped with, and only officially ran, Harpoon, its unique superset of IBM AIX. An ANS 500, the lower tier of this dorm fridge-sized computer, was the first server I ever personally owned, a nearly-new hand-me-down after Steve Jobs convinced Gil Amelio to cancel the machine and the bookstore’s vendor at the University I worked for wouldn’t support it anymore. There are several fascinating features present in Harpoon that were never implemented in any other Apple product. Currently I have three, that original ANS 500, this ANS 700 here which I use for testing, and a battery-bombed EVT prototype (a so-called “Shiner ESB” that used to be at Netscape).
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me in full nerd mom mode in these pics
mac boot rom cardigan coded into knitwear by me https://knityak.com/collections/powermac-9700
the happy mac / sad macs are hard coded into the rom. in the third pic is binary, maybe a lookup table, that i outlined in purple. the inside of the knits/back of the blanket is knit in birds eye jacquard, a smooth reverse side with a cross hatch of the colors on the outside. this series of vintage mac boot rom knits comes with source code to reproduce your part of your rom.
#vintagemac #powermac #blackandwhite #sweater #knit #mac #computerhistory #bootrom
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I had a dream where I went to a garage sale that had several vintage all-in-one Macs for sale, and one of them was “Macintosh SE FireWire/Ethernet”. #RetroComputing #RetroApple #VintageApple #VintageComputing #VintageMac #VintageMacintosh
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Castle – a new platform game for the 1984 #Macintosh 512K
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagemac
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Castle – a new platform game for the 1984 #Macintosh 512K
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Old selfie of sorts I ran across looking for something from the iPad 2 Apple Special Event in March 2011, San Francisco.
#Apple #AppleEvent #March2011 #SanFrancisco #iPad2 #tshirt #geekshirt #MILF #Mac #classicMac #vintageMac #vintageApple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #photo #selfie #funny
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it looks like some of the first orders since i relaunched https://knityak.com have arrived with folks. so that is 16 to 20 calendar day lead times for individual orders in the usa with my new manufacturer. here is one of my vintage mac boot rom cardigans in navy with a custom dithered background fade in three shades of pink. this is an actual vintage mac boot rom from archive dot org converted to an image and coded by me to knit strip by strip. i think the numbers are scsi drive numbers and the little chip hardcoded on a floppy was for the firmware loading or not loading. here are the items with this code pattern https://knityak.com/collections/quadra-660av-numerals
#vintagemac #bootrom #sweater #knit #code #codeart #pixelart
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Fun fact: You actually _can_ boot System 7.5.0/7.5.1 as a guest OS on the Radius Rocket, if you first remove the “SCSI Manager 4.3” extension from the Rocket's System Folder (having it installed results in a bus error on boot).
You can't boot 7.5.3+ though, since that extension got merged into the System file.
#VintageMac #68k #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117345404394800591
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Widow's Bay (superb island mystery my wife and I are deeply addicted to) has a Mac with the original ADB mouse on the desk.
#widowsbay #Apple #Mac #ADB #vintagemac #retorcomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputers #mouse #HID #video
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I may have made a _very_ expensive impulse buy... merry early Xmas to myself I guess 😅
Crazy story though, this Rocket popped up on eBay this morning, I saw it was from a Canadian seller and so I decided to spring for it. The seller messaged me 5 minutes later, turns out he lives two blocks away from me… I didn't even notice the city when I bought it 🤣 So…he just walked it over, and now I have a Radius Rocket for my IIfx!
(and yes, I have a massive and ever-growing #retrocomputing project backlog to get through, but this immediately gets bumped to the top of the list!)
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Pararena classic retro game ported to Playdate
tamvodopad.itch.io/pararena-for...
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Apple、Intelの第8世代CoreプロセッサやAMD Radeon Proグラフィックを搭載した「iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5インチ, 2019)」をビンテージ製品に追加。
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Picked up this official Apple DB9 <-> Mini-DIN8 adapter from eBay the other day, so that I can have a serial cable for my vintage Macs, in the hope of using it for TechStep diagnostics among other things.
Unfortunately, it's not wired correctly, according to the guide at https://recon-68k.github.io/#serial-adapters-and-cables. And I didn't check the pinout first because my multimeter died (see: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117193190601081442) and I figured it would be fine anyway, after all it's an official part right?
But with it connected to my serial cable (this guy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0759HSLP1) between my MacBook Pro and my Power Mac 6500, the serial cable got hot - scalding hot - needed-oven-mitts-to-unplug-it hot 🥵 Hopefully nothing got damaged.
(I'd also tried earlier with my IIfx and it did not get hot but it didn't work either)
cc: @jack68k
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I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/-zvet5a9AaA?feature=share
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I had a dream last night that I was at an estate sale with a bunch of old computer stuff. There was a Mac that was essentially this form factor but the plastic was black and there was a DVD changer stacked on top. The label in front said “Power Macintosh Media Server”. My wife approved buying it because it was so novel, but sadly I woke up before getting to use it. 😆 #RetroMacintosh #RetroApple #VintageMac #VintageApple #RetroComputing
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Belated birthday present to myself: gonna turn my PowerMac 6500 into an AV model 😁
Picked this up super cheap on eBay the other day, managed to squeeze it into the country a couple days before the tariffs landed. The box itself is open but everything inside is still sealed, it's new old stock!
Yes an analog TV tuner isn't much good in this day and age but honestly I just want to fill all the extra slots on the 6500 🤣
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#RetroComputing #VintageMac friends: I’m giving my old MacBook Air 2013 away to my seven-year-old autistic nephew, which will be his first proper computer (not counting devices like iPhones/iPads which he does have experience with).
What's some good software I should put on it for him to play with?
I'm looking for things like:
- a simple drawing/painting program (like MacPaint/KidPix)
- a typing tutor
- edutainment games (like Oregon Trail, Gizmos&Gadgets, Reader Rabbit)
- maybe some kind of simple graphical programming environment (like HyperCard)I've already installed:
- MS Office
- BasiliskII with At Ease and a bunch of games from _my_ childhood :)
- Native ports of a few games I'm familiar with like Maelstrom and Aerofoil(Glider)Things I don't want:
- stuff that throws ads in your face (most of the games on the App Store)
- ideally nothing from the App Store at all as there is no Apple Account set up on the machine
- anything that requires setting up an account to play or use
- anything that requires macOS 12 or greater, this machine is stuck on macOS 11
- anything that's only available as a 32-bit app, this machine is running macOS 11Thanks in advance for your recommendations (and please boost for visibility!)
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Release with a lot of new bug fixes and features - check it out!
https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/releases/tag/v2026.08.17
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat/117034269794678628
#RetroComputing #VintageMac enthusiasts: this would make for a great #HyperCard stack idea!