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(p.63) "In order to encourage more registrations, Buckland had promised to send the sequel, Crystal Quest, to anyone who paid for Crystal Raider. 'I had absolutely no idea what Crystal Quest was going to be,' he admits. When people started paying money he thought he'd better get to work on it...

LGR (lazy game reviews) the popular youtuber did a bit on this machine and released a video yesterday or today, since theRasteri sent him a unit:

I bought a cable off Aliexpress with the hopes of having a working connector to the PC gameport (check) and a split into MIDI in, MIDI out and another joystick gameport. The cable was atrociously wired inside, almost nothing worked (especially MIDI, absolutely no signal). I remade it myself and...

16.95 GBP so around 28.50 $CAD Still haven't got it, the shipment was sent later than predicted and on par to get here mid next-week.

A very useful alternative while using a modern Windows machine (applicable from Windows XP to at least Win10 and in all probability, Win11 as well) is: HFVExplorer - a standalone virtual HFS disk image creator/editor. It also loads and interacts with 1.44 mb real physical disks just fine...

My rationale is: the b&w macs get very little attention in the homebrew community and I'd spend my efforts propping them up first and foremost. Can't start targeting a common denominator that only few own, but they can certainly have a slightly adapted version as an afterthought.

Made a pixel perfect mock full screen test with the regular 24x24 tiles: As you can see, there's way too much room, but not enough room that you can just pixel double your way to a solution. I'm wondering if they encountered this problem in other ports and went with 32x32 tiles (occupying 45%...

Well done! In retrospect, the 512k I got with water damage (but very strong moldy smell) was less far gone than this, and I didn't keep it. I was at the start of building my career in education though, so I didn't have the necessary skillset required at the time. This would be a prime candidate...

WILD GrafPort activity!

I know I'll have to splurge and make a custom case. There are some wildly impressive ideas in this vogons thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=80237&hilit=custom+case+mt+mt32+mt-32+32 This is probably my favorite one of the bunch: I'm thinking of 3d printing that, somehow tie...

If you're not already familiar with it, I heartily recommend the youtube channel 'Classic Mac Gaming'. The man behind the channel has restructured his youtube content recently and is picking up momentum in 2 channels rather than one big unfocused one. AKA 'gruz' or 'insanely gruz', he's...

In 2005, I got these for FREE from someone looking to offload his vintage stuff: -Mac 512k (had water damage and a horrible mold stench, I didn't keep it) -Mac SE/30 (kept) -Mac iifx (kept it for years but it completely ceased functioning, I brought it to an eco-center - I didn't have any...

...makes for a very strange reunion of tech! In my video (which I filmed after a succesful connection of MIDI IN and MIDI OUT of all this gear together as a test), it's not extremely clear, but I'm layering the default percussion instrument over a playthrough of Canyon.mid, played with...

So far, unless I've missed it, there's no information on how he plans to release the upcoming NES port. You can venture a guess in how he released his previous game, Planet X3, the MS-DOS port which I'm familiar with. The physical box contained a 1.44 mb diskette formatted properly for the era...

Ebay prices were too rich for my blood as well for the MT-32, but then I caved for a very local facebook marketplace ad; a retired-age couple met me and the gentleman was using it back in the day for music (nothing gaming related!). It was $200 CAD (sale face to face = no shipping + no anxiety...

I don't have a billion machines like some of you, but I have enough to cause some concern about time limits and the unreacheable level of perfection that exists out there. In a nutshell, it'd be: function over form. Which is ironic considering we're talking about Apple machines, but here we are...

I own real, physical Roland units: -Roland MT-32 (North American version) -Roland SC-88ST (Japanese version that came with a 100 V power brick, I just use the MT-32's just fine). But I've been meaning to buy/make my own MT-32 PI so that I don't have to shuttle my Mt-32 to work whenever I want...

It's shipped from the Great Britain today! I expect it already on Thursday! Nice speed to Canada.

David Murray, aka 'The 8-bit guy' is building an EMPIRE of ports for his latest game 'Attack of the Petscii Robots', originally released and sold as physical media for C64 + Vic-20 + PET (all 3 together) computers. Check out the current progress chart posted over this weekend. The x16 platform...