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Just got through this absolute classic. It's the granddaddy of RTSes. One the games of that genre started allowing group select with the mouse and mass orders, queued orders, it became very painful to go back to this by the time Starcraft (1998) rolled. After all that time, the nostalgia factor...

I'm only posting the sides of my desktop area associated with my retro activity. PC side: self-made Weecee (pentium 233 MHz equivalent) sitting atop my mini-midi mountain, along with a IBM 486DX2/66 Mac side, currently hosting the Mac Classic, I regularly switch it out for a Plus or a SE/30

I'm not committing myself to this for the time being, I'm swamped as usual as a college teacher until June and I have other projects to attend first. Who knows in the future, or as an assistant to someone else?

oh, figures he's here: @jcs right?

This guy hits ALL my checkboxes AND made his own repo manager under System 6 AND his own minimalistic streaming + chat program while he streams code sessions. I want to be him when I grow up (although I'm not that far from him as of now...) https://jcs.org/2022/02/21/macplus_streaming

I've started working on the faceplate recreation/adaptation of my front plate, shown here with a side by side comparison with the real thing: I found other people working on a font, this one is called PBIO: but the M and 3 of MT-32 seem wrong, and the multi & sound sentences look too fat...

This week, I got a cheapo USB hdmi capture device (that can reach 1920x1080p @ 30 Hz) which is more than sufficient for capturing gameplay, but not playing off of, so I got... a powered HDMI 1in2out splitter so that the feed also goes in real time on a 2nd monitor. I thus have a direct video +...

(I've successfully completed a similar application with the Mac Classic 1's video signals. It was easy to follow into Adrian's Black footsteps, details in my other thread here https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/macintosh-classic-1-rgb2hdmi-project-complete.832/) However, documentation is a tad...

I just recently was able to install my RGB2HDMI (which uses a Pi Zero) that I had fabricated, soldered by yours truly and wired up all the way to 4 soldered wires on the Macintosh Classic analog board... This week, I got a cheapo USB hdmi capture device (that can reach 1920x1080p @ 30 Hz) which...

My girlfriend surprised me with this, took her a few sessions this week. No patterns used, just freehanded. She can do anything she wants at this point. She did standing Grogus (from Mandalorian, aka baby yoda), in-floating cradle tiny grogu, among us characters, home Simpson, Hermione, name it.

I was able to make it work through perseverance and I'm not sure I'd be able to repeat this easily. Attempt #1, bless and rebless a folder in a hd/folder 1/system folder (2 levels deep). After a reboot or 2, system picker finally lete select it. But it turns out it's a super ancient one with...

UTSource is a good place for deprecated ICs, that's where I sourced my Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4237B-KQ sound chips for my weecee pc project (pentium equivalent that was in need of Sound Blaster + adlib-like capabilities). https://www.utsource.net/

Yes, I use the System picker abundantly in the first volume that I probably got from the example rascsi drives. However, I wasn' t able to make what's probably System 4.2 needed for this game (or even less!). Is there a limit to the oldness of the Systems supported by it? I tried rapidly to...

This case scenario happened this morning on my Mac Classic. It has an internal BlueSCSI it will boot from fairly quickly as most users of it are aware. I also had a game dsk inside my floppyemu which has custom fonts installed which is the basis for its graphics (Déjà Vu tile game from...

RGB2HDMI: an open source project on github that can deal with multiple video signals (from the early to late 80's mostly, sadly, no DOS VGA stuff) and send it to HDMI with lag below 1 frame (around a quarter frame iirc). It has tons of parameters to fine tune the stability and appearance of the...

Congrats! A worthy effort for a worthy machine. I'm curious about the amount of time you spent on the repairs of the old board before you decided to switch to a new one?

I'm about to add diodes to my 2 pluses when I get around to it.

Ben Eater is a fantastic youtuber that produces lengthy content at a pace way slower than the average content creator. He has a patreon set up to collect funds every time he launches a video, instead of every month like most patreon users. Since he has time to release between 4-8 videos per...

Awesome progress and it's pretty funny all this happens as I've just finished soldering/assembling 2 units of RGB2HDMI this week and am about to test it out on a Classic 1.