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3rd annual Cursed Boot Disk 03 released! I pushed the enveloppe by loading quite a few gfx art assets into a Handle to a bunch of Sprites that I coded some 16 years ago. The code still held up, but the Draw routines had to be slightly modified to take into account the special quickdraw...

Mac SE/30: Geometry: Setup Mode: normal H Offset: 176 V Offset: 28 Min H Width: 512 Min V Height: 342 Max H Width: 512 Max V Height: 342 H Pixel Aspect: 2 V Pixel Aspect: 2 FB Size: Normal FB Bits/Pixel: 8 Clock Frequency: 15667200 Line Length: 704 Clock Tolerance: 5000 Lines per Frame: 370 Sync...

Ok I'm an idiot. wire colors are hard to get right past midnight. I inverted hsync and vsync on the J12 because I thought I could match colors between the SE/30 and my stuff. Still have to tweak some stuff but I'll post my results when I'm done!

I've been successfully using a RGBtoHDMI for close to 2 years now on my Mac Classic first, then Mac Plus, noting some differences in the settings, mostly around H, V offset and the H & V polarity. I want to recreate this success with my SE/30 now. I have 2 self-bought, self-assembled RGBtoHDMI...

I lived through the hard disk-less era of the Mac Plus and while System 6 wasn't available back then, I would still not have used it anyway. We had an external disk drive and we squeezed every bit of space we could on our 2 possible 800kb disks that we could use at any one time. System 4.2 was a...

That's super cool. As a frequent user of MSDOS games from the 1990-1997 era, I live through the pain of deciding whether to launch a game in: 1) MS-DOS with only .iso support, forgetting about redbook cd audio support, using SHSUCD to mount them 2) Win98se with .bin/.cue support using Daemon...

I'm surprised no one made a thread about this huge bit of mac gaming news. John Calhoun (of Soft Dorothy fame, Glider, the original Glypha I, II and III, etc.) released on May 15 a modern-day version of Glypha called Glypha: Vintage. Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Rather than just creating...

ha! It's already winnable with the keyboard - I did it back then around 1988-1989 during xmas eve while family was over! and can more or less redo it at will now. But only on beginner difficulty. I haven't grinded the XP needed for the higher levels yet, but those are my next attempts.

The USBV4C project, which launched last year, is a neat raspberry pi hat that allows modular protocol cards that talk to your vintage computer and sends it modern input controller signals processed right for your old machines. Most modern USB input devices (mice, keyboard) and a few popular...

Today, I released a 2nd cursed boot disk. watch what happens - if you want to try what I coded as the INIT that I used, go here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/init-fakes-a-ms-dos-33-startup

This is a magical thread. The popping sound solve is pure joy. Do you mind if your solution is heavily inspired from and adapted?

posting to compare notes later, I also have issues with my CCII AB.

It still freezes if I go back to the boot mode menu. I assume it means I'll have to do the same song and dance with the manual edition of the config file every time I want to switch modes, which makes it a much higher pain than the feature leads you to believe.

Has anyone been having problems with their HD20 mode on their floppyemu since the December firmware patches? There was one around Dec 2nd, and another on Dec 21st: https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/#firmware Whenever I attempted to switch out 3.5 disk emulation mode to HD20, I got a...

I bought one of those in 2019. I spent a whole lot of time for what turned out to be a very minor issue. Long story short, the movement sensing is built on sending infrared LED lights across a rotary encoder that involves a plastic film sliding on another film, and they get microscratches that...

I'm based in Canada and sending non-paper correspondance across to the US has shot up in price and has to be sent as a package now since early 2021. Anyone in Canada with an AppleSauce?

I'm extremely grateful for this and have tried it out this morning. This marks the end of a very long journey of mine which started in 2004 when the nostalgia bug hit me hard and I fired up the old family mac plus and discovered Mac emulation. My Winter Games disk was lost and I wanted to try it...

It is entirely possible if you're willing to code in THINK C or equivalent. I have done it in the past. A Mac Classic was used to send a data signal to an electric circuit, specifically to a relay. The circuit then activated a nail shooter (using a coil). Fun student project time.

Did you code a heinous disk copy protection with self-modifying code?

My dad is a boomer and the Mac Plus was his daily driver for years so it's technically correct. However, I also grew up with it and you can't classify me exactly between X and millenial so take that as you will.