MARCHintosh 2026 Projects

[eric]

It's (almost) that time again for #MARCHintosh!

Use this thread to capture and share them! If you see something or are working on something just reply below as well. If your project is bigger please feel free to make your own thread and tag it with MARCHintosh & MARCHintosh2026!

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2025 thread: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/marchintosh-2025-projects.4174/

 

[Mu0n]

Fresh C code for my old Mac Plus:

I did a proof of concept back in August 2025 or so:

I'll:

* Revisit and improve that code
* Establish a link between MIDI in and various sound destinations: spit back in MIDI out as low hanging fruit, but also send to the Sound Driver: square wave synth, 4 tone synth, free form synth
* Attempt polyphony when applicable (midi, 4 tone and freeform)
* Drive Studio Session instrument files
* Drive arbitrary aiff sound files (high shenanigan potential here)

**** Finally use Snow to code and immediately test all this in emulation, this saves so much program transfer time to real hardware after every compilation

When the code gets mature it'll pop there as an example app and a reusable library file:

GitHub - Mu0n/1bitdreammachine: Game programming API for 68000 Macintoshes, in particular the Mac Plus

Game programming API for 68000 Macintoshes, in particular the Mac Plus - Mu0n/1bitdreammachine

github.com

 

[eric]

I've updated Snow to support LToUDP better (in nightly now). LToUDP allows you to bridge (with appropriate modern device as it's a modern protocol, such as a TashTalk) your emulator to a real network. I've also been adding LToUDP bridge to my fork of jrouter (a modern Apple Internet Router) - what this means is with these two items you can now get on GlobalTalk with Snow and bridge to a real Image Writer with a TashTalk, no retro hardware needed.

Some purists would say this is sacrilege but it's also fun.

Also Snow supports TCP/IP anyways using a DaynaPORT bridge now too so really LToUDP isn't nessisarily needed, but I needed something to test with for jrouter.

Also have one more Appletalk goodie coming soon.

 

[tom_B]

maybe this is the marchintosh i'll finally button up my g3 molar mac

upgraded the CPU to a G4(thanks to Ryan/Everything Is Broken Garage)
upgraded RAM
PCI firewire/USB card
SSD
zip drive(thanks to @Ron's Computer Videos )
new flyback a couple of years ago

everything seems to be working smoothly with it, just needs to be tidied up and closed up

 

[thecloud]

My #MARCHintosh project this year is called Simple Spooler -- think of it as the Simple Text of print spoolers. It's an application that runs on old Macs (System 6.0 up to 9.2.2) and lets you share your serial ImageWriter printer over the network, without needing an AppleTalk Option Card.

Currently it's working for printing to both the ImageWriter I and II, and should also work with an LQ though it's not yet been tested with a real one.

LaserWriter spooling support is partially done and working only with a specific version of the LW driver; will be striving to have it working well with all driver versions in March.

You can grab a pre-release copy on #GlobalTalk, from Puppet Head:Ken's Stuff:Simple Spooler 0.2: in the Cloudbusting zone.