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I want to get a sense of which PC category was at the same time as which Mac categories There's no general enough forum section to post this, so maybe it can work here! There's a big chunk of mac history that's opaque to me, when I switched away from B&W computers and into DOS around 1992...

Just nabbed those this morning. I told myself I wouldn't dive deep in box collecting. I failed. I couldn't pass up Ancient Art of war, Ultima Underworld and Might and Magic III. I already started a playthrough of EotB1 a few months ago so why not. The rest is known by reputation or are games...

This black and white port of 'The Ancient Art of War' from Brøderbund was released in 1985, one year after the IBM PC release of 1984. Video footage here: It was probably released with the Mac 512k in mind. Considered the grand daddy of real-time-strategy games, this featured unit condition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5a_0grWpr8 I just got a Kawai XC-3 GMega LX (a midi module I knew absolutely nothing about) so I took it for a spin and compared it to my Roland Sound Canvas-88ST and a SB pro clone chip from Cirrus Logic, the crystal CS4237B-KQ (running inside my weecee). 3...

At home: *Weecee (small silver box on top) running as a Pentium 233 MHz x86 machine and a 8gb microSD in 2gb partitions *Kawai XC-3 GMega LX midi module *Roland SC-88ST midi module *Roland MT-32 midi module *Passive sound mixer allowing SB Pro output and midi sound simultaneously (running...

Anyone familiar with Mac-a-Mug Pro? This was a commercially available MS Basic 2.0 program (!!!) made by James E. Haynor (Shaherazam) which let you do mugshots out of a selection of options for face parts and a few accessories (glasses, hats, etc). Some were very limited, some were more...

I have two of those, the original one from my childhood, and a platinum style one that I bought used from around 2005 or so. The latter works flawlessly while the former has some problematic keys. Here's a direct screenshot (thanks RGB2HDMI) of the full alphabet and numbers test (top: working...

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...

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 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...

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...

Goals of the project: -Have a small raspberry pi3 deal with MIDI data and playback sound for both Roland MT-32 and Roland Sound Canvas-55 (bonus: other sounds with general midi sound fonts) -Not set it as a pi hat -Put it in a small and cute very transportable custom case Use cases: Many...

Thanks to @Stephen who acted as an american facilitator, I was able to purchase Super Studio Session from ebay from a seller who refused to sell to Canadians. After paying for all costs involved, it found me at my home today! Composer Ed Bogas teamed up with the likes of Steve Capps (which you...

Finally got this classic back in my fold. If I recall, this was our 2nd boxed PC game bought for our late 1991 386SX/25, probably around its time of release in 1992. This RPG series is revered among C64 (for the early ones at least) and PC users alike. This was the first entry into VGA and broke...

A covox was a pre-adlib/sound blaster, cheap device that plugged in the parallel port and was released around at the end of 1987, before people massively adopted the adlib at first, then the sound blaster for their sound and music gaming needs. It provided low quality audio signals that occupied...

I wanted to do this for last winter, but I got sidetracked. Right now, I haven't even completed the proof-of-concept, but my goals are: phase 1: -Have a nice little demo program with a winter snowfall theme in the same vein as the famous C64 christmas demo, possibly with music out of the 4-tone...

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...

...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...