Search results

I had a Gravis Gamepad for my Pentium PC and the stick was atrocious. The main problem with this gamepad, under certain games, is that you can't easily and reliably go to purely horizontal or vertical directions. So many badly designed gamepads have that problem and it's very showstopping for...

I'm in the same boat. I have both a Roland MT-32 and a Roland SC-88ST (same as yours, but no screen and only a volume knob + sc-55 map button). If it's anything like vintage PCs, connecting to a serial port would allow you to use it in UART (aka dumb) mode. For intelligent  mode, you'd need an...

This is where it breaks. I was caught in a longish loop before getting to that point, I got impatient and just jumped away from a branch instruction to get it over with, and it quickly got to this:

Oh my, what do we have here? I'm just STEPing until it crashes. I've gone through a few loops, a _TEInit, a _FlushEvents. I went through CODE001+(relative address) for a spell, and now I've reached into this very....very...interesting code block:

I can get TMON going with this without it exploding into a ragequit. I set up an interrupt with the _InitGraf trap. And now, an expert with great debugging strategies should swoop in...

YES! The intent of my website has finally paid off. 

I often get them confused. DiskDup 1.2.3+ Pro does not copy the game, there's an error during the reading phase as there's probably a bad sector. The duplicate I successfully made, which ran flawlessly as well as the original, was with Copy II Mac 5.4. Maybe someone can crack this with Macsbug...

I've NEVER EVER seen "Déjà Vu", the tile memory game from Rubicon Publishing, anywhere online since I started looking in the late 90's for old Mac software. It seems to be a forgotten title. No acknowledgment, no discussion, no download. This is not the Icom Simulations adventure game with the...

Here you go if you want to download it https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-I9SGA7VsFwsOHTijXfzAmz7w5qZL34l/view?usp=sharing I'm gonna try and add it to Mac Garden

PopupFuncs is the correct name. I have no recollection where I got it, but I have a vivid memory of having installed it a few weeks/months after I started using THINK C for my millions of little projects back in 2004-5. Perhaps I got it from the hotline server that was up back then...

You use HLock to lock the handle managing your pointer, so you can't lose access to it. You HUnlock it after.  Your question was spot on, and highlights the cost (small) of using this strategy in memory management.  If I recall correctly, the most frequent use of those pairs of traps I did...

I checked out my modern day options too, on the Windows side and it seems there's a really nifty web solution for this. BatchPhoto Espresso. PICT is right there in the first choices in the pulldown menu!  my steps were: 1) in Gimp, change the image to indexed color, 1-bit black and white...

Would love it if you found Studio Session song files (or from other similar composition software like concertware), or VideoWorks animations, hypercard stacks. Anything that's personal creativity is always fun to discover.

Another vote for THINK C. If you get that, make sure you get the searchable database for standard Mac functions, an absolute time saver (I think it's just called THINK Reference), as well as Popfunc, so you can add a leftmost corner pop-up menu to your window editing a source file, allowing you...

Right after double clicking to launch the game, I tried a 3rd, held click, but it seemed to have no effect. There are several spots where it might do some kind of check. Before the splash screen, during it, after it. after selecting PLAYER 1 from the menu (that's when it tells you it can't...

I'll try those ideas! This is so freaking hard to search for that derelict item either on eBay or just the web. 

do you know what would happen if I just use a jump wire inside the Mac Plus case between pin 2 and 6? Smoke? Is it possible for the Mac to probe pin 6 for special checkups?

This little thing connected to the DB9 mouse port of pre-ADB Macs: and allowed you to play Mac Man using an Atari Joystick. I just tried plugging my custom gamepad and running the game, but it will show that it doesn't recognize its adapter. Perhaps the normally unused pin of the DB9...

I got 4 OTP ICs in the mail (AT27C1024) and burned one of them with the high byte of every word, but I think I have a much larger problem now 1) I wanted to solder legs 11 and 12 of the U36 chip on the back of the logic board but I don't think I have a trace to grab onto. I used a schematic I...

Your question confuses me even more. How am I supposed to write + verify a replacement chip if it can't read that type of chip? Or are you implying that reading off an old chip is a totally independent thing than the verification step after writing to a new chip?  Which begs the question, is...