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  1. Mu0n

    RGBtoHDMI for a SE/30 (settings from Plus and Classic 1 won't work)

    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...
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    Glypha: Vintage

    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...
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    USB4VC adds support to early Macs (use USB and bluetooth devices through a rpi)

    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...
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    FloppyEMU December 2022 firmware updates - problem

    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...
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    [C Programming] Cursed INIT making

    I'm reading this extensive mactech article: http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.05/05.10/INITinC/index.html in the hopes of doing a cursed booting INIT. This time, I'm targeting ease of use and focusing on System 6 only, maybe add System 7 later. But my idea would be slightly...
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    [C programming] Gracefully force 1-bit graphics in a wide ranging selection of 68k macs

    Black and white compact macs targetting mostly 512x342 in 1-bit color depth field BUT -must not crash if a more recent machine is used -System 7.5.5 is the most recent that I target -When possible and not too feature rich, System 1.1 on a 400k MFS disk should run my stuff -must gracefully...
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    Color Classic power issues

    I recently posted a thread over at the conquests section, where I detailed my purchase of a CC1 from Yahoo Auctions Japan, which turned out to be a effectively upgraded to CCII with a LC550 logic board. It featured a cracked case thanks to the shipping and the sting out of the ordeal is greatly...
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    'Boing!' demo remake on Macintosh - such fluid animation

    I came across this demo I had forgotten in some nondescript collection of graphics applications folders I had laying around. Some people in the Boston Computer Society took it upon themselves to recreate (in 1986) the 'boing!' demo from the Amiga which features a fake 3d bouncing ball animation...
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    A Color Classic saga

    After fretting over the onslaught of available color classics over at Yahoo Auctions Japan and seeing amazing prices from time to time, I attempted to nab one, fully prepared to have to put in some serious rework on the logic and possibly analog pcbs if I ever won an auction. I've read multiple...
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    Ancient Art of War (1985)

    I went back down memory lane and revisited this game that I had back in the day in the halcyon years of having so few choices (a handful) of software that you would have time to turn every stone in each of them. AAoW was one of those. I was inspired to capture the gaming session straight...
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    Mac-a-Mug Pro, from Shaherazam (1986-87)

    Anyone familiar with Mac-a-Mug Pro? This was a commercially available MS Basic 2.0 program (!!!) made by James E. Haynor (Shaherazam) which let you do mugshots out of a selection of options for face parts and a few accessories (glasses, hats, etc). Some were very limited, some were more...
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    Super Studio Session - got the boxed version!

    Thanks to someone who acted as an american facilitator, I was able to purchase Super Studio Session from ebay from a seller who refused to sell to Canadians. After paying for all costs involved, it found me at my home today! Composer Ed Bogas teamed up with the likes of Steve Capps (which you...
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    MacSnow - project in THINK C

    I wanted to do this for last winter, but I got sidetracked. Right now, I haven't even completed the proof-of-concept, but my goals are: phase 1: -Have a nice little demo program with a winter snowfall theme in the same vein as the famous C64 christmas demo, possibly with music out of the 4-tone...
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    Mac Plus reflow success - looking to SE next

    My childhood Mac Plus (2.5 mb) from 1986 was recapped back in 2019 as I was re-learning soldering and wanted to future proof my collection. I was maybe too enthusiastic with the electrolytic + RIFA ones on the analog board and ended up replacing them all for good measure - it's hard knowing how...
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    October 2021 Project: reverse-engineering Studio Session song format

    My project is not new, it's a continuation of something I pushed forward in 2019 back in another thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/studio-session-file-format-reverse-engineer.33512/ The goal of retrochallenge is to advance and/or complete projects, right and talk about some...
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    Retro68, the missing link for me

    Hey all, I've subscribed to the retrochallenge of next month (in a mere 2 days) and before I get started, the lure of using retro68 has made itself manifest to me again. Caveat: I'm not a professional programmer, but I started around 8 years old and I'm 43 now, to give you a vague idea of where...
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    Repairing external Hyperdrive FX/20 by General Computing

    My father had this since 86 and it was in regular use for at least 3 years, then in semi-regular up to around 93. Then, it got stored, to be digged up as well as the family Mac Plus around 2004 when the vintage bug bit me. I operated it every 1-3 years until 2017 when it finally dawned on me I...
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    New game release: Flappy Mac

    From youtuber gruz (aka insanely gruz aka killgruz) https://gruz.itch.io/flappymac runs fine in both emulation environment all the way down to a real Mac Plus.
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    What's your recollection of Mac Plus offscreen CopyBits refresh rate?

    Context: I'm trying to refresh a Mac Plus' whole screen 512x342 (for starters..., I will reduce that size going forward) by installing a VBL Task whose purpose is to CopyBits the contents of an offscreen bitmap to the screen bits of what is shown. Of course, the best way to do this is to limit...
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    How to link a default icon resource to your built app from Symantec C++ 6 (THINK C)

    I'd like for my built C application to have a custom icon polled from a resource file during the building step. I successfully did it some 15 years ago for a mock project I was doing, but I don't remember how I did it or what I'm missing. Here's what I'm using: 1) System 7.5.3 under Basilisk...
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