Recent content by commodorejohn

Nifty - though I think by that period in Sierra's history, they'd stopped rolling up custom patches for MT32 and just used a generic conversion-to-GM patch set.

The ports on the CD-ROM drive are direct outs for CD audio. For that, you'll need RCA-to-1/4" TRS adapters/cables to connect to the mixer; for the Mac, you'll need a 3.5mm stereo-to-mono splitter and 3.5mm-to-1/4" TRS adapters/cables. The MT-32 has 1/4" TRS outputs, so you'll just need matching...

Rather than another pair of speakers, just get an inexpensive 4-channel mixer.

There's also VBCC, which is modern-ish (full C89 with a subset of C99 features supported,) specifically targets 68k/Coldfire, and supposed to produce overall better code than GCC according to what I've heard.

Oh, so that's why the keyboard on my IIc feels so surprisingly crappy. I'll have to get around to addressing that.

That's an interesting question, since the history of multiprocessing is so eclectic. The CDC 6600 rolled out in 1964 (half a decade before Unix was even a gleam in Ken Thompson's eye) and sported one or two primary CPUs and ten "peripheral processing units" (smaller, simpler CPUs whose primary...

You might ask classichasclass (he can be found over on VCF or contacted at his personal site.) I think he's primarily interested in actual LISP machine hardware, but he might know a thing or two about this.

My first guess would be that the disk-present sensor on the drive is stuck.

If you get the chance, could you image those CDs and post them to archive.org and/or Macintosh Garden? Old shareware CDs are always interesting, and Mac ones are harder to come by.

General convention is that C in the middle of the keybed equates to middle C on a standard 88-key piano, though of course most smaller keyboards provide some way to transpose up or down a couple octaves.

It sounds like what happens when a monitor that isn't expecting a sync-on-green video signal gets one. Not all of them handle this correctly by separating out the sync signal from the actual green signal, so you get exactly this effect - I had the same thing with my SGI O2 on one monitor and had...

Nothing much, just get a cable that connects the outputs of the MT-32 to whatever the amplifier or powered speaker uses as an input. You can get the relevant cables/converters off eBay or at any local music shop.

I'd strongly recommend just hooking the MT-32 up to a dedicated amplifier and speakers; it'll sound better and be less hassle.

Eh? His forum shenanigans aside, my experience with his recapping service was perfectly satisfactory and I'd ring him up again in a heartbeat if I had need of it.

NT4 actually did run on Alpha. In fact, there's a working release candidate of 2000 that's totally usable for it, but support was dropped before the final release, presumably as part of the "everything but Itanium can just go hang" push around that time.