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PPC/OS X users: has anyone come across successful builds of *recent* love2d (sdl2) binaries for PPC?
i'm fascinated by the possibility that exigy could be backported to the iMac G4/G5 and OS X 10.4 if i could just figure out a good way of distributing binaries.
Rupesin miettimään että milloin sitä tuli hankittua ensimmäinen oma tietokone. 1980-luvun alussa tuli vietettyä paljon aikaa oppilaitosten tietokoneluokissa. Ohjelmakoodia kirjoittelin kynällä paperille. Mutta vissiin se oli 1987 kun hankin Mac Plussan.
I need #ADVICE from people smarter than me about backup drives for my MacBook Pro (Chip Apple M1, MacOs Sequoia 15.4) My ancient WD external hard drive is completely full and won't take any more of my files.
I bought a Samsung SSD T9 and it won't recognize Time Machine, so I'm returning it. (I spent way too much time trying to figure it out.)
What backup drive do you recommend that is compatible with Time Machine and will just plug-and-play like the good ol' days? 
I am very disappointed to discover I cannot use the "Multimedia Extras" on the second hand #CD I bought, even though my computer is clearly "#Macintosh System OS8 or later, has 32MB of available RAM, with QuickTime 3 or later installed", plus I have the pre-requisite soundcard and CD drive.
Who do I complain to about this?!
John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales
Set Side B · John Calhoun's Lost Mac GamesWhile the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic
Got some new books…
These turned up cheap on AU eBay and I had recently been using the 'Text' book online while writing my font suitcase parser. That was the only one I was looking for, but couldn't pass up acquiring the whole set. The seller was the original buyer in the 90s.
Reading rumors that Apple is planning a significant resdesign for the 20th anniversary iPhone.
All I'm saying is that they already have a high bar set for 20th anniversary product designs.
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the interior of the cisco 2500 series is particularly interesting as it’s full of 90s era hardware. those are two 8mb and one 16mb 72-pin simms
rarely mentioned is the cpu that powers this little mighty mite: a motorola mc68ec030 - a 25 mhz embedded variant of the mc68030 cpu in a preponderance of macintosh 68k systems in the 90s.
this router is effectively more powerful than my mac LC 475
i picked this particular router for one reason: it supports AppleTalk right out of the box!
A Look Inside MacPaint - Usually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/a-look-inside-macpaint/ #retrocomputing #macintosh #macpaint
Hackaday · A Look Inside MacPaintUsually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old hardware. But [Z→Z] has a different approach: dissecting MacPaint, the Apple drawing program from the 1…
A great new article by Jeffrey Starr, Investigating MacPaint's Source Code: https://ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-source-code/
ztoz.blogInvestigating MacPaint's Source Code | ℤ→ℤ
I couldn't enjoy the last #marchintosh because I couldn't fix the #powerbook 170 in time, so I wanted to retrieve my #MacintoshLC that was in storage at my parent's. I got it yesterday and drove it to my home in #tuscany on my 1985 #fiat #panda 4x4, so at least it was a period-correct ride 
Unfortunately the box was a little wet and I spotted some condense inside, so it goes to the terrace for a little sun bath...
No corrosion inside, fortunately, and I was nice and removed the battery years ago. I'm relieved!
#macintosh
Unfortunately the box was a little wet and I spotted some condense inside, so it goes to the terrace for a little sun bath...
No corrosion inside, fortunately, and I was nice and removed the battery years ago. I'm relieved!
#macintosh
I wonder how much of an advantage it was for #Apple that the #m68k #Macintosh had a bunch of its operating system in a separate ROM chip.
#Microsoft #Windows didn't have that. The whole thing had to be loaded from disk into RAM.
Windows 1.0 required no less than 256kB of RAM—twice as much as the first #Mac model had.
I am proud to announce that my Macintosh Magazine Media project has surpassed my self-imposed goal of 1 MILLION FILES, an achievement that fills me with both immense satisfaction and slight bewilderment. #marchintosh #macintosh #preservation #cdrom #files
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/28/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files/
@tomjennings i had no idea he wrote this manual. it is one of the best technical manuals i’ve ever used - and recently!
rest in peace scot. your contributions won’t be forgotten in this house.
️ By designing the icons for the 1984 #macintosh Susan Kare added a much needed personal touch to the computer industry.
Her icons were incredibly descriptive given they were just 32 × 32 pixels, and at that resolution she may also have been paid the most money-per-pixel of any digital artist in history! (I hear apple did pay her well)
Happy #MARCHintosh
Designing a Portable Mac Mini - When Apple first launched the Macintosh, it created a new sort of “Lunchbox” form ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/designing-a-portable-mac-mini/ #macintoshmini #macintosh #machacks #macmini
Hackaday · Designing A Portable Mac MiniWhen Apple first launched the Macintosh, it created a new sort of “Lunchbox” form factor that was relatively portable and very, very cool. Reminiscent of that is this neat portable Maci…