Thread for true Pippin fans

[jojo2k]

Welcome to a thread for TRUE PIPPIN FREAKS. I had the pleasure of being able to fiddle around with one at a convention I helped at last year. Unfortunately the only game we had for it was that Gundam strategy game which requires a lot of reading Japanese that I don't know how to do. I didn't get a ton of time to mess around with it, but let's just say if I won $10 million in the lottery, the twelfth thing I would buy might be an Apple/Atmark Pippin, so we would never be separated again B)

We were running a little game museum and on the wall pictured below, we had a "failed consoles museum" with things like the Phillips CD-I, Virtual Boy, 3DO, etc., set up for people to play.

But man is that hardware fascinating. It's literally just an Apple computer with a different boot sequence lol. You can hear the proverbial gears of QuickTime grinding away to play some short little videos.

Anyone else been in the awesome presence of a Pippin before?

 

[Gial Ackbar]

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Anyone else been in the awesome presence of a Pippin before?

Thanks for starting this section. I am looking at my Pippin now sitting on the shelf (hoping there are no angry capacitors in it). I have one controller and the keyboard/stylus pad. Pippin units were on eBay in 2008 or so for very cheap (as usually happens with hardware "just past its prime"), and I managed to find a source with CDR images. My kid played and won Gus goes to Kooky Carnival (he won an adventure game far younger than I ever did ha), muddled through some of the Power Rangers and Dragonball apps, but they had a lot of Japanese language so we were mostly lost. Overall, it is a great example of how Apple could have dominated a segment if it had the will.

 

[Nitram78]

@Dandu

 

[Dandu]

 

[macdowndunder]

Thanks for the new thread. I had a couple of Pippins running at recent shows here in Victoria, Australia. I'll probably have them with me at the MAC Museum in Melbourne at their next Open Day this Saturday.

Question for the group - I've been trying to network them using an Apple serial cable between the printer ports to run a network session of Racing Days, but can't seem to get the 'client' to see the host machine in game. Anyone got any tricks to make this work?

Edit: I probably should have added a photo of one to the expos - so here it is!

 

[Gial Ackbar]

Thanks for starting this section. I am looking at my Pippin now sitting on the shelf (hoping there are no angry capacitors in it). I have one controller and the keyboard/stylus pad. Pippin units were on eBay in 2008 or so for very cheap (as usually happens with hardware "just past its prime"), and I managed to find a source with CDR images. My kid played and won Gus goes to Kooky Carnival (he won an adventure game far younger than I ever did ha), muddled through some of the Power Rangers and Dragonball apps, but they had a lot of Japanese language so we were mostly lost. Overall, it is a great example of how Apple could have dominated a segment if it had the will.

 

[Dandu]

Thanks for the new thread. I had a couple of Pippins running at recent shows here in Victoria, Australia. I'll probably have them with me at the MAC Museum in Melbourne at their next Open Day this Saturday.

Question for the group - I've been trying to network them using an Apple serial cable between the printer ports to run a network session of Racing Days, but can't seem to get the 'client' to see the host machine in game. Anyone got any tricks to make this work?

Edit: I probably should have added a photo of one to the expos - so here it is!

I have tried that many years ago. But you must use the modem connector for the link : https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/03/13/pippin-racing-days-2/

 

[macdowndunder]

I have tried that many years ago. But you must use the modem connector for the link : https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/03/13/pippin-racing-days-2/

Thanks so much Dandu! That seems so simple. Everything I'd read suggested the AppleTalk protocol was limited to the printer port (clearly wrong). As a result I never even considered using the modem port. Having read the article, I'm now keen to set them up over modem as well just to see how it worked. Thanks again!