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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...

I know CodeWarrior is supposed to be better than Think C - but I have Think C and I have the manuals. But… …I have an odd problem that I haven’t seen before, and it’s been a while since I last used Think C and I’m clearly forgetting something… …When I try to build my application, the MENU ids...

Why is it that I find myself getting part way through a project, getting distracted, and then scooting off to do something else? I will finish working on PETSCII Robots one day. Maybe. In the meantime though, I've written a tool which might be useful for people going the other way - updating...

Yes! 1980! I have a very, very, original ZX81. I bought it to break for spares - but this one is a keeper. It's one of the OGs, and it's entirely working, right down to its horrible, horrible, keyboard. So that's the good news. The bad news is that it's entirely working - I was hoping that...

ChipWits is a fascinating game, and possibly the game most missed from any Mac newer than one built in 1985. Wouldn't it be nice if you could run it on your Mac SE, LC475 or PowerMac? I think so too. So, a while back, I started faffing around with porting it to C (it sprang into life when I...

I bought my first Mac in 1992 at University in order to learn 68000 assembly language. Some of you may know this. I chose the Mac over the ST or the Amiga because I wanted a hard drive, and because I saw a second hand Mac SE for the same price as a new Amiga or ST. The Mac seemed to be the...

I got my MacSD! And I‘ve managed to fit it to my LC475, inside the case, with a BlueSCSI (which I prefer for its CD selection method - I know the MacSD can read CDs, it just doesn’t do it quite as elegantly from my perspective.) But MIDI! That’s the real party trick. I want to use the MacSD for...

I installed MacX, using the muscle memory from twenty years ago when I used to connect to VMS, and tried to open Evolution (running on my Raspberry Pi) on my Mac. I got an randr error - `Xlib: extension “RANDR” missing on display “:1.0”` Any thoughts at the real Genius Bar (68kmla!)

My 1.8GHz Dual G5 (the late model, with a memory ceiling of 4GB) quietly died this afternoon. No bad smells. No bangs. No drama. It just turned off, mid way through doing a CPU intensive render. Why use the G5 instead of something more modern? Well why not? In any event. It died. I thought...

I have a few Zip drives. A couple of USB drives (still working), an IDE drive in my beige G3 (still working), and a SCSI Zip drive - the most used because it connects to my 68k Macs, which failed with the dreaded click of death last year. Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't fail sooner -...

For no good reason at all other than "because it's there", I was pondering the AST Mac 86 PDS card for the Mac SE, and it got me wondering whether it would be feasible to implement on a Raspberry Pi card, slotted into the PDS card of a Mac SE. Presumably, once a PDS to Pi had been developed...

I was pondering the possibility of installing a MacSD and BlueSCSI in the same Mac at the same time. The BlueSCSI support for CD ROM drives seems to be the best in the business, but at the same time the MacSD has Midi emulation. It seems to me that if they could happily co-exist on the same...

I have a Laserwriter 8500 which produces very dirty output. Once printed, the pages don't smudge when rubbed with my finger - so I don't think there's a fault with the fuser, and turning the contrast dial doesn't make that much difference. It's just that too much toner is deposited in the...

I was talking to a friend who has just replaced their Pismo (with Tiger) with a new MacBook Air. Talk about a speed rush! He loves it - except for one thing. And it's a big one. He doesn't like Microsoft Office. He doesn't like Apple iWork. What he wants is a properly integrated package...

Does anyone know what the circuit diagram for the NewTechnology PowerClip is? Would there be any particular difficulty in creating one - I wouldn’t mind giving my Quadra a bit of pep, but I can’t find an original anywhere!

So I got an Ethernet card for my Mac SE. A properly cheap Ethernet card - £20 all in - which looks to be in good condition. It's an Asante Maccon, which is the same family of card as I have in my SE/30. But why so cheap? Erm - because it's missing a key part. There's no daughterboard. The...

Every year, my wife and I make advent calendars for the children and for ourselves. The kids are getting more interested in code and electronics, so they got advent calendars from The PiHut. My wife is really crafty, so I made her a calendar containing calligraphy nibs, sealing kits, inks and...

I have a Racal Interlan Nubus Ethernet card - but no drivers for it. Does anyone have any experience of these cards? Do they even need a driver? I can't test right now, because my IIci is in need of a re-cap.

I'm a menace and an idiot. I'm sorry, but it's true. I have a hard drive, from the early nineties, that was used in a store demo Mac in the UK (back then they were called Apple Centres). It worked, I moved it into another Mac, I used the wrong screw, and I popped the oscillator on the...

I think that I might have partially broken my LCIII. I was trying out a 'new' hard drive in it (9GB, with a 68 to 50 pin adaptor) and now it won't recognise or boot from the old hard drive (APD shows "The Hard Drive test cannot be run because there are no drives available". If I disconnect the...