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I realized I hadn't made a post directly on the topic, but here goes. I started a series on using THINK C (technically Symantec THINK C++ 6.0) where the dev platform is Basilisk II running on my PC but the target machine is the Macintosh Plus, often for System 6, sometimes earlier, sometimes...

MIDI has been on my mind since at least May of 2024. Here's a recap of the timeline of things I've accomplished: Why am I doing all this? -Fun programming challenge -A very potent path to add rich music to game programming; no need to invent a format, piggy-back on this well-established one...

After the classic Mac game Glypha got a remake on steam recently, here's Chipwits (1984)'s turn: Its first version could only run on the Mac 128 or 512 and it took the v1.2 update (that I never knew about back in 80's, 90's, 00's and most of the '10s...) to run on a Plus. I wanted to get my...

I made a PCB recently using EasyEDA and ordering from JLCPCB. It can be purchased from here: https://jcm-1.com/product/pc-gameport-party/ The PC Gameport Party allows you to use your vintage PC’s gameport to its maximum use case scenario. Instead of having separate cabling solutions that would...

so this video made the rounds, and in it, Hunter Irving exposes how a linux flask server can act as a proxy for his Mac Plus using the very old MacWeb2.0c browser (but any old computer that can set up a http proxy is fair game, ie a SE/30, a windows xp machine, etc) Places that work with it...

This is my own MIDI cover of the piano solo from "Clubbed to death" by Rob Dougan, famously part of the Matrix motion picture soundtrack. This was captured from a vintage PC using a VGA to HDMI converter, and audio line in from the Roland SC-88ST. Software used: Cakewalk 5, MS-DOS version...

I used EasyEDA to design a small board that takes in a number* of MIDI producing devices (Mac, PC, Atari ST, F256K2, keyboard controller, keytar, etc) and pairs exactly one of those to another device among a number* of MIDI consuming devices (sound canvas, MT-32, modules, another computer with...

Let's get what I'm using as gear out of the way: Dev Machine: modern PC with Basilisk II set with System 7.5.5, Symantec C++ 6.0 Target Machine: SE/30 with System 7.5.3, no Apple MIDI Manager (prefer not to use it since I want to target 6.0.8 and a Mac Plus as well) PocketMac MIDI interface...

I'm using a 486 playing a game that uses MIDI signals (Ultima Underworld 1). it sends them out its joystick port pin12 (so far, nothing special). This gets converted with my custom cables into a midi cable, that I send into a modern MIDI USB interface, plugged on my 2024 PC. I then intercept...

Goals: understand the MIDI file format specs program a parser that detects every type of MIDI command, including the System Extension ones program a player that digests the previous information and sends it out to a serial port so it can be consumed by an external midi device (ie a sound...

I made a resource here: https://tinkerdifferent.com/resources/midi-out-setter-for-modern-windows.134/ You're running Windows beyond Vista? You miss being able to set the MIDI mapper output like we used to nearly 17 years ago? If you can't, you're stuck with the software rendering of MIDI that...

I'm a bit late to the party, but so must a lot of you people as well, I'm guessing! There was a massive December 11th firmware update for the Mac side of the FloppyEmu project: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/12/11/floppy-emu-update-stuffit-file-support-cd-rom-and-scsi-image-support-more/...

Keeping up with this annual tradition, this is the 3rd entry, right in time for the end of #MARCHintosh 2024 2022 thread: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/i-made-my-own-cursed-init.1664/ 2023 thread: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/i-made-my-own-cursed-init-part-2.2517/

I have 3 MIDI producing "controller" "things" Mac SE/30 sending out MIDI data through a serial port, through an Anatek Pocket Mac box using stuff like Cubase WeeCee (486/pentium industrial compatible vintage PC) sending MIDI data through the regular pin12 of the game port Keytar from Xbox 360...

This is me jotting down notes in this forum thread because I don't want this info to live and die off in a discord server. Gear used: Mac SE/30 BlueSCSI v2 Pocket Mac adapter from Anatek (1in, 2 out, 1 mac serial bidirectional) Roland Canvas-88ST M-Audio ProKeys Sono 88 (not the flashiest...

I coded my own 40th birthday card for my Mac Plus in C - the goal is to make it work on a Mac 128 eventually! It is *NOT* easy to do after trying it out in emulation for a few hours last night. In terms of data, I'm only using a full screen PICT (so about 22kb) and my YT channel logo which has...

Link: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html vogons thread with author participating: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=97743 From the creator of the mTCP suite of tools which lets MS-DOS vintage PCs connect to the internet, have a DHCP dispensed ip address, host a FTP server...

Perifractic (of RetroRecipes youtube channel) is about to release a video (on Dec 2nd or 3rd 2023) where he shows his experience with the F256K from Foenix Retro Systems. https://www.youtube.com/@RetroRecipes Combined with this showing, there's a $75 USD rebate for all purchases of that machine...

This is the fruits on my struggle with video making and/or live with a vintage comp feeding audio and video into my modern PC and trying to make my mic sound nice. In 4 increasingly difficult steps. No expensive hw faders/mixers, all controlled with the free Voicemeeter Banana. IF YOU FIND...

Investigating a static related behavior with my weeCee (tiny 486/pentium like PC based on the Vortex86DX system-on-module, I hand soldered it myself back in June 2021 and it's usually rock solid mostly under MSDOS): sometimes, they'll get under a mode where no matter what, there's some heavy...