MARCHintosh 2026 Projects

[JDW]

New PowerBook project series posted, just in time for the tail end of MARCHintosh.

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/powerbook-repair-series-trackball-repairs-battery-door-removal.5195/

 

[luminescentsimian]

I haven't tested whether I can do FireWire networking with a Mac, or use the Pi as a Target Disk Mode disk or something like that—would be awesome to make a Pi a little FireWire swiss army knife for G3-G5 era PowerPC Macs (and even a few early Intel models...).

OMG, a "Blue1394" could be really useful for PPC era Macs. Linux looks like is has the support in the kernel to do it but the config interface isn't there.
Time to dive into the PiSCSI rabbit hole....

 

[joevt]

A Mac in FireWire Target Disk Mode should look like a FireWire mass storage device to Linux?

The FireWire mass storage device that the Mac in FireWire Target Disk Mode is pretending to be should have a LUN for each disk (block device) in the Mac (only the block devices that are usable by Open Firmware).

 

[eric]

New World Builder game

Transfer Point for Macintosh

An adventure game about regret, forgiveness, and email, created in World Builder. Made almost entirely live on twitch.tv/robotspacer, from March 2023 through June 2024, with the help of many wonderful people.

robotspacer.software

Mike Piontek (@robotspacer.online)

Transfer Point is now available! It’s a point-and-click adventure game about regret, forgiveness, and email. It was made in World Builder, a Mac app from 1986. You can play it free in your web browser. InvisiClues are available if you need a hint! https://robotspacer.software/transfer-point.html...

bsky.app

 

[Mu0n]

Big update on my new Mac Plus custom C application Firejam, I just enabled a key feature with the mouse

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/digesting-midi-in-with-c-on-68k-macs-video.5134/post-45969

 

[Mr_Anomalya]

Just so I get to participate for the first time, I got wireless postscript printing working on my Classic II.

I also managed to get Netscape Navigator 2.0's e-mail management function to work, both send and receive, albeit that was back in late February.

 

[Mu0n]

new milestone reached for Firejam, good to be called a beta v0.5.

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/digesting-midi-in-with-c-on-68k-macs-video.5134/post-46010

hopefully, I can release the first official youtube video on it on the very last day of MARCHintosh Tuesday.