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I have an LCIII+ that I bought from new and played Doom and Duke Nukem 3D on. At postage stamp sized resolution. I love that machine - but it seldom sees use these days - although it's been recapped and upgraded as far as it will go. Because… Now I also have an LC475. And, as my son would...

You have my sympathies. I think there’s an ointment you can get for that though.

Civilization. Every version. Although given that they play differently, and run on different machines, I'm not sure they count as the same software. The same concept, perhaps. It's like claiming that VW have made 37 million Golfs. The original, 1974, car is so different from the car of...

Back in the dark ages of the 1990s, before I became a full time software developer, I used to work for an Apple Centre* as their PowerBook repair geezer. I went to Apple's training centre in Uxbridge to learn how to service a PowerBook (although quite a lot of the time seemed to have been spent...

Well, if they're anything like me, maybe they are the source - I have my own floppy discs for Think C (and the manuals) - and I used my own media to install it. If my media were infected then only I could fix it. That said, I have scanned my computer - and it's all clean. And I scanned my...

It's a good idea to scan everything on your computer with the most up to date virus checker it can handle. I use Virex on my '030 and '040 Macs, and Disinfectant on my 68000 Macs. On my OS X Macs I use ClamXAV. Be paranoid. They are out to get you.

So much about those early sierra games was vile. I’ve prettied them up some using ResEdit so that I could enjoy them without wanting to gouge my eyes out - but I’m not sure that I should upload my tweaked versions to the garden. It wouldn’t be authentic. If you’re interested, PM me and I’ll bung...

So, I've done a quick test on my Mac SE (no upgrades bar 4MB RAM). Lemmings runs well with music on it.

Okay. It's not perfect - but it'll do for now. There may be a future version, depending on the feedback I receive. I'm going to upload to the Garden - and look at Itch or other sites, if nothing else to see if I can raise the profile of the Mac there. It's been tested on a Mac SE (System...

I don't think so. The Innecto engine is just for Innecto. Maybe bits of the buffering, I don't know. But we can see with a future game. I just need someone to do the graphics for me. It's not that I can't do them - it's that I can't be bothered to do them!

I think it might be ready for a v1 release this week. I'm getting excited. It's even playing with extra fanciness on the 512ke. Still no sound there though - but you can't have everything!

No need to bother the doctor - I think that I might have this under control. I nearly have a full release with everything playable, beautiful and in place. We'll have that leg off in a jiffy!

Debugging and optimising the graphics so that they're more like the graphics of modern Innecto, and yet still work on original Macs, is turning out to be very difficult. I may give up. But it's not helped by the debugging tools offered for vintage Mac. So I've come up with a wee bit of code...

Yes. I know about those. But I want to have my cake and eat it - I want this functionality to be part of Finder!

I know that this is a bit controversial but I wish that there was a an extension for Finder that gave it a Finder similar to MacOS X. Double clicking on a folder shouldn't open a new window, and column view would be nice too. I suspect that the reason this doesn't exist (except as a separate...

Yes. Which is to say, No. But I'll happily work with anyone who wants to create such a beast - especially if they want to make it work on Newton. Or someone who wants to create graphic assets for some of my other games that I'm thinking of for Vintage Macs. Right now though, the new version...

Tetris Max was great. But Wesleyan Tetris was greater!

Oh - and I really need to add this to the documentation for Innecto - if you press the option key then the rotation direction reverses.

That version still has a bunch of debug in it, and some sloppy wet code for formatting text. There’s still some functionality missing / broken - but I think that I can fix that and bring the size down further. I had a vague idea that I’d like to get it running on every Apple device capable of...

Is this a first? Have any other games been ported from modern macOS (iOS, iPad OS etc) to vintage systems? Even if it isn't a first, it can't have been done all that often! In any event, here it is - my game Innecto (which you can read more about here) ported to my system of choice (a Mac SE...