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MARCHintosh 2026 Projects
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Hey Guest, MARCHintosh 2026 is upon us. Check out community projects, join GlobalTalk, and have fun!
My MARCHintosh project for this year is the same as the previous year - I am working on my 3D spaceship racing game, tentatively called Viper Race RAVE, inspired by Ambrosia Software's EV: Nova's gambling cutscenes. You can read a bit about it here:
Viper Race RAVE
It builds on the same engine I wrote for Blokz RAVE a couple of years ago, which was also a MARCHintosh project. Recent progress includes:
- Working Rigidbody Physics simulation (Like Half Life 2) Video of that (please ignore the regression in the thruster graphics)
- New improved graphics
- Better framerate than last year
- Lots of under-the-hood framework fixes that accelerates my development, like automatic UI layout and checkboxes (this helps a lot haha)
Planned features this March:
- Level layout following a spline path
- Some sort of rudimentary AI ship controller for the opponents
- Further optimization, the physics engine is quite taxing at the moment, and the graphics can be optimized a lot
It's a quite ambitious project and I will probably not be done with it at the end of this MARCHintosh, but I'm sharing my progress either way!
The game will require a PowerPC Macintosh with a graphics card with at least 4 MB of VRAM, and Mac OS 9.
Tools used:
PowerBook Pismo 400MHz
CodeWarrior Pro 8.3
Photoshop 4
Blender 4 on a modern PC because I can't be arsed to learn how to use Lightwave at this age
I've set up two lo-fi #marchintosh services for 2026:
BadScan
Have your precious images scanned by a 512 and an ImageWriter II!
Send your stuff over this way, either by mail or by printing them to the StyleWriter in my zone. Then through the magic of the ThunderScan and the sheer power of the Fat Mac, the ImageWriter will be transformed into a scanner and you'll get a terrible-quality 1-bit and/or 5-bit greyscale versions of your images back. Can save to your GlobalTalk share, or email, or by post, or whatever inconvenient method works best.
GlobalTalk dial-in
Overwhelmed by all the GlobalTalk setup kerfuffle?
It's probably time to pull out an old modem and dial in instead! I've got an ARA server that will let you have all the fun with less of the hassle. Access numbers available in the UK, Canada and USA — those are available on the spreadsheet in my entry. It's all done over a VoIP line, so the handshake sounds are a bit weird and non-traditional and alllll over the place, but don't let that put you off.
Possible stretch goal
At some stage I might set up a BadScan job or two to do a video and audio livestream using QuickTime Conferencing... we'll see...
BadScan
Have your precious images scanned by a 512 and an ImageWriter II!
Send your stuff over this way, either by mail or by printing them to the StyleWriter in my zone. Then through the magic of the ThunderScan and the sheer power of the Fat Mac, the ImageWriter will be transformed into a scanner and you'll get a terrible-quality 1-bit and/or 5-bit greyscale versions of your images back. Can save to your GlobalTalk share, or email, or by post, or whatever inconvenient method works best.
GlobalTalk dial-in
Overwhelmed by all the GlobalTalk setup kerfuffle?
It's probably time to pull out an old modem and dial in instead! I've got an ARA server that will let you have all the fun with less of the hassle. Access numbers available in the UK, Canada and USA — those are available on the spreadsheet in my entry. It's all done over a VoIP line, so the handshake sounds are a bit weird and non-traditional and alllll over the place, but don't let that put you off.
Possible stretch goal
At some stage I might set up a BadScan job or two to do a video and audio livestream using QuickTime Conferencing... we'll see...