Sorry for the late reply! I’ve been busy and haven’t had time to watch the video yet. I’ll watch it and get back to you, so please hang tight!”
MARCHintosh 2026 Projects
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Haha that video was awesome. I love all the little details you added.
By the way — what was that robot voice?? Are you actually making the MacClock talk? It totally sounded like Speak & Spell or Kraftwerk style speech synth. I love that stuff.
And when it said something like “…Dave” and then “stupid” during shutdown — that was such a cool touch. That’s a HAL9000 reference right?
Honestly this feels like way more than just an emulator. You really went all in on the details and it shows — there’s a lot of love in this build.
Also thanks for offering the STL files, that’s incredibly generous. I’d love to see them. Did you design the internal mounts yourself?
If you're cool with it, can you DM them to me?
That’s the Talking Moose. Uses MacinTalk. You can get it on Macintosh garden or Macintosh repository. It’s a control panel. I had it on my Mac’s back in the 80s. Another good one is the Oscar’s the grouch one that pops out of the trash can when you empty the trash.
yes I designed everything they are very simple little parts. That hard part was all the measuring to get everything aligned right.
theres really two ways to go about aligning the LCD. One is to actually get the screen area aligned to the opening physically. This would involve cutting the plastic up and centering the lcd.
i didnt do it that way. On mine i drop it in and shift it as far as i can and then in software i move the mac screen offset over and scale it until its centered with the margins.
did you see the late night last minute mod I did to the floppy disk sound? Hilarious.
I swear the code so instead of the musical tones it now sounds like a motor
(or as close as I could get it to with pwm haha).
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Back from the beach and dropped the grlf off at the airport. Took a day off to crash and went a bit nuts with the grinder and wet tile saw today. 
Looking a bit better, but what crazy metal removal required. Remember, this friggin' tanks' rear armor plate is 14 Gauge/1.5mm thick!
Hogged out the slot section with the grinder. had to lower the assembly alongside the rip fence of the wet tile saw to begin the cut as there wasn't enough width for the diamond blade. It's set at a fixed height on a tile saw. Not as "bad" as lowering the entire plate across the punched in slot cover sockets, but still fun!
Got the top of the cutout done with full length support across the rip fence and then completed the bottom slot.
Pic from update #1 for comparison:
Looking a bit better, but what crazy metal removal required. Remember, this friggin' tanks' rear armor plate is 14 Gauge/1.5mm thick!
Hogged out the slot section with the grinder. had to lower the assembly alongside the rip fence of the wet tile saw to begin the cut as there wasn't enough width for the diamond blade. It's set at a fixed height on a tile saw. Not as "bad" as lowering the entire plate across the punched in slot cover sockets, but still fun!
Got the top of the cutout done with full length support across the rip fence and then completed the bottom slot.
Pic from update #1 for comparison:
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Oh, I can now sleep easy at night knowing the answer to the mystery of the big six colour cross
Gonna print my own, too
I’m STILL messing with this thing. I came up with a way to programmatically mute the bluetooth module and “hide” chimes it makes when connecting / disconnecting and I added more floppy disk sounds. It’s almost just like a real mac now!
In the photos you can see the 2222 transistor connected to a pin on the BT audio amp chip and blue wire goes back to the ATTiny. Another blue wire goes from gpio pin on the pi to the ATTiny. The ATTiny can then trigger the transistor and pull the pin low on the amp and mute the sound during startup and shutdown. No more Bluetooth alert chimes
In the photos you can see the 2222 transistor connected to a pin on the BT audio amp chip and blue wire goes back to the ATTiny. Another blue wire goes from gpio pin on the pi to the ATTiny. The ATTiny can then trigger the transistor and pull the pin low on the amp and mute the sound during startup and shutdown. No more Bluetooth alert chimes
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Apple Internet Router Administrator’s Guide—Addendum (Second Edition) – RFI
Hello everyone, it’s time to turn my attention to updating the Addendum to the AIR manual I released last year (along with the scanned and OCRed original manual).
This is a GlobalTalk-specific “request for input” on modifications and additions people might like to see, pretty well in line with the sections already present. Please DM me here with suggestions.
I’ll then work on what I can include and release near the end of the month.
Alongside this work, I’ll be releasing some updates to my emulation-based setup files (disk images can be used on real hardware).
These will remain 7.1-focussed (there are 7.6 images elsewhere).
Currently all these files are on Google Drive, but in parallel to the release of the next edition of the Addendum and setup files, they will all move to my (Unofficial) GlobalTalk Wiki (feel free to sign up for a sub-wiki there if you run a GlobalTalk node/network/zone – it works via http in Classical, too).
There’s been lots of exciting changes and announcements since last year (including my Wiki!), so I’m really looking forward to documenting the continued development of GlobalTalk, which doesn’t stop on 31 March each year.
Hope you’re all having fun on the network!
Sean
Hello everyone, it’s time to turn my attention to updating the Addendum to the AIR manual I released last year (along with the scanned and OCRed original manual).
This is a GlobalTalk-specific “request for input” on modifications and additions people might like to see, pretty well in line with the sections already present. Please DM me here with suggestions.
I’ll then work on what I can include and release near the end of the month.
Alongside this work, I’ll be releasing some updates to my emulation-based setup files (disk images can be used on real hardware).
These will remain 7.1-focussed (there are 7.6 images elsewhere).
Currently all these files are on Google Drive, but in parallel to the release of the next edition of the Addendum and setup files, they will all move to my (Unofficial) GlobalTalk Wiki (feel free to sign up for a sub-wiki there if you run a GlobalTalk node/network/zone – it works via http in Classical, too).
There’s been lots of exciting changes and announcements since last year (including my Wiki!), so I’m really looking forward to documenting the continued development of GlobalTalk, which doesn’t stop on 31 March each year.
Hope you’re all having fun on the network!
Sean
This is a pretty interesting use of an LLM on a G4 (and maybe even Mac Plus?!)
I Put Modern LLMs on a 2002 Macintosh - No Internet Required
I Put Modern LLMs on a 2002 Macintosh - No Internet Required
Old Apple Stuff | Blog | MacinAI Local: Building a Model-Agnostic LLM Inference Engine for Mac OS 9
How I built a complete AI platform (custom C89 inference engine, BPE tokenizer, AltiVec SIMD optimization, and a Python export pipeline) that runs GPT-2, TinyLlama, Qwen, and any HuggingFace model on a 2002 PowerBook G4.
oldapplestuff.com
I posted in the Software Development section, but I thought I would cross-post here, this is my little #MARCHintosh project:
