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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...

I guess a color classic compact mac with acceleration, but I'm not going out of my way to find it, especially not at the current prices. I'm less keen on finding one compared to others, since this period of Macintosh isn't nostalgic for me, I was moving on to PCs by that time. I like to maintain...

**** One Must Fall 2097: surprisingly engaging upgradeable giant fighting robots (think street Fighter /mortal kombat) with enthralling pumpin' music and a thin story layer that's just enough to make you want to see it though the end.

The first measurement I did with an oscilloscope borrowed from my work place was to check the signals output by the photoresistors: I probed here: and I was able to get a sinus signal going - the instability you're seeing is because this is driven by a piece of paper held with my hand...

Back in 2019, I bought this iconic piece of gaming history with the hopes of using a passive converter (spoiler: doesn't work, it would need a microcontroller solution) to the old serial connect of a Mac Plus since of course, it doesn't have an ADB port. Still, I have plenty of machines that...

After the last 4 intense years of using Intellij for Java and enjoying intellisense, go-to-method-definition-shortcut, navigate-back-shortcuts, etc., yes it's hard going back to my olden 68k C project. Just deciding how I want my source files to receive information that's supposed to be tied to...

My favorite environment is: Symantec THINK C++ v6 running on System 7.5.3 (through Basilisk II v1.1 running on Windows, but that's besides the point) accompanied with THINK Reference to easily look up library functions, data definitions, globals, etc. Acceptable alt choices: Symantec THINK...

I'll watch this thread. I'd like all of these: -cheap -good triggers -some standard character signal recognition -enough bandwitdth Dunno if it's realistic to expect all of these in 2021 yet. I haven't dug deep yet.

A few months ago, I saw this video from Adrian's Digital Basement, where he added HDMI output to his Mac Classic 1: It's something I'd like to do - both for the immediate payoff of the geek factor, but also to future proof my Mac Plus (computer I kept from my childhood) should its CRT ever...