Woo-hoo, the channel has reached 25,000 YouTube subscribers! 🥳 Huge thanks to YOU! ...to all my subscribers, friends, and any of you kind folks who've shared my links and stories over the years. Here's to 25k more! 🎉 📺 www.youtube.com/Mac84 ...not subscribed yet? ☝️😅

The 5k SNES giveaway prize FINALLY made its way to France - and it couldn't have gone to a better recipient! @cabridiy.bsky.social does restoration and video game streaming! Excited to see what he does with it :)

New video is out! Watch as I re-discover the joys of flex cables and somehow restore a Game Boy DMG in the process. Huge thanks to @thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social for the guest-appearance, and @mac84.bsky.social for the guest-guest-appearance! youtu.be/9dEZEnxdiOQ?... #retrogaming #restoration

A new episode drops tomorrow, but it's out NOW - early and ad-free for Patreon supporters here: www.patreon.com/posts/decemb...

Can you guess what Saturday's video will be about? #vintagecomputing #retrogaming #retrocomputing

THANK YOU to everyone that has subscribed to this little channel! We've passed the 6,500 mark! All of your comments, likes, and shares are super encouraging - it all keeps me motivated to make these fun videos! :) Love the positive community we've got in the vintage computing world! #restoration

New video! A reasonable person would've thrown this out. I am not a reasonable person! Full Restoration of a rusty Commodore 1702: youtu.be/SQE4ViGvLes #commodore #restoration #vintagecomputing #retrogaming #retrocomputing #commodore1702 #electronicsrepair

Can you guess the subject of tomorrow's video? #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

New video is coming this Saturday, and it's up early and ad-free for Patreon supporters here! www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

This summer I took a ZX Spectrum across Ontario and Quebec. Of course I made a buddy-road-trip video about it! You can own this little slice of computing history during @morefunmakingit.bsky.social's charity auction later this year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yh... #roamingspectrum #vintagecomputing

New video! Was the Performa / Quadra / LC 630 Crummy? youtu.be/ZstO5iREEOw

I build a real working Alien Motion Tracker youtu.be/KpUjXUSlkbU

Happy to report that we've passed another important milestone! Thank you to everyone watching & sharing my work! Now, only 600 more subscribers to go before I giveaway an SNES 🎮 #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer #retrogaming #restoration #vintagemac

I wrote a long behind the scenes update over on Patreon, but the TLDR is: I'm really frustrated with my current project. Switching gears, pausing membership fees, and another video will be ready whenever it's ready. Thanks for your continued viewership and support! www.patreon.com/posts/update...

#PicoGUS is now an ODE! I've just released firmware v3.0.0, which adds Panasonic CD-ROM drive emulation. Put some ISOs or BIN/CUE files on a USB stick, plug it into your PicoGUS, and you've got a virtual CD-ROM drive that works in DOS and Windows 9x and supports CD audio. github.com/polpo/picogu...

My unfinished projects are haunting me, even as I try to enjoy a work-trip to Belgium 👀🖥️

The video from my talk at VCF East 2025, "Making a Hardware Emulator for a Legendary PC Sound Card" is now on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLA...

MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS SET FOR DELETION! If you or anyone you know works at Google/YouTube, please get in contact at [email protected] A more detailed series of events can be found in the video below this post

We hit another milestone! Thanks to everyone watching, subscribing, and sharing my videos!! ❤️ It’s a lot of fun making these things and sharing my hobby with 3400 like-minded people. Here’s to many more :) #retrocomputing #retrogaming #restoration

Watch LIVE as @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social discovers the joy of a Macintosh Classic in real-time! Starting at noon EST, I give John until 1:00PM before he admits out loud that they are sleek, beautiful machines that just need a little love

Progress?

New video! Saving a Sad SNES - restoring the legendary 90s game console. Something a bit different this time :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbb... #Nintendo #SNES #Famicom #SuperFamicom #90s #retrogaming

I continue to have issues with commercial music licensing, so I'm not sure when my new video will be available to the public (hopefully soon!). In the meantime, Patreon subscribers can enjoy ad-free early access here: www.patreon.com/posts/may-31...

VCFMW call for presentations now open: www.vcfmw.org/talks/ If you are coming to #vcfmw this year and wanted to give a talk, our submission form is now open until the end of July.

Wrapped filming of my next video... can you guess what it's about? 🔍 #restoration #retro #vintage #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Make sure to stop by the “Vintage Video Capture” table at #vcfeast to guess how many caps are in the Erlenmeyer flask to win a #bluescsi v2!

A calm, methodical refurbishment of a nice old inkjet from Ron ❤️

Making a top-quality rip of @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social 's stream, helping prep for his VCF East exhibit. Check your torrent feed for BBBBBBStream_20250329_ENG_240p_CAM_39MB_Lossless_VCFE[iiiDIY].mov 👀 #vintagecomputing #vintageAV #HighRes

New video! Restoring the LC630 DOS - a Macintosh hiding a PC inside! youtu.be/YFKG-6O0EC8?... Happy #Marchintosh everyone! :) #VintageComputer #VintrageComputing #Restoration #Marchintosh2025 #RetroComputers #90s

My Marchintosh video is now up ad-free and early for Patreon subscribers! 👀 Public release incoming tomorrow morning! www.patreon.com/posts/marchi... #VintageComputing #Restoration

Trust me, I totally have a Quadra 700… #marchintosh #jank

Can you guess the subject of this weekend's video? 🤔 #VintageComputing #Restoration

When I was doing MacOS ports of LucasArts games back in the 90s, I needed to provide appropriate "About" screens from the Apple menu, so I got to exercise my Programmer Art skills. Recently a kind MacOS fan extracted them for posterity.

I recently received a PowerBook 170 with a dead drive that potentially have some unarchived drivers software on it. Does anyone have a Conner CP2045 that they might be willing to part with in the interest of software preservation?

Fitting with this year's theme of "The Sound of Vintage", I will be giving a talk about developing PicoGUS at VCF East this year! I hope to see some of you there!

I *think* I have finally found and repaired all of the bad traces / pads on @iiidiy.bsky.social ‘s Cursed LC575. Time to start putting chips back on. Hoping for a #marchintosh miracle!

⚡☎️ If you’re in the NYC area, please consider seeing my partner's play: “U ARE THE DREAM” playing now through February 1st in Brooklyn! 💾💿 It has everything - AOL chat rooms, ewaste from my garage and amazing actors! Tickets available here: ci.ovationtix.com/122/producti... 🔗 Please share! 😍

An Apple prototype (1995) from MacWorld

Reverse engineering something

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is back for their 20th year! NOTE: Book your hotel TODAY. vcfmw.org

Post a photo of yourself from another era:

HUGE ANNOUCEMENT for BlueSCSI users! tinkerdifferent.com/threads/anno...

Want to test your 1990s Macintosh knowledge? I made a quick 3-question holiday quiz for the "Big Red Arrow Club" yesterday, and have opened it up for YOU here: www.patreon.com/posts/holida... (hosted on Patreon, but free to the public) #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #VintageMac #Quiz

Need entertained? Dave hosted a #bigredarrow Christmas Quiz and it was hilarious! youtu.be/yFzrZ2WH3Ao

The Macintosh Classic, released in 1990. Objectively the best Macintosh ever made. #vintagecomputers #BigBadBiologistsFavoriteComputer #VintageMac

Welcome to all the new folks who found the channel from the PM5400 and LC475 videos! THANK YOU for watching, sharing, liking, subscribing, and supporting the channel! Everything really add up, and helps a TINY channel like mine reach people! You all are awesome :) youtube.com/@iiidiy

The slim, sleek LC series slid into family homes and hearts with a low-cost entry point into color computing. The last of the lovable wedge-Macs is the LC475. Today, we try to give my uncle's old LC475 a new lease on life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbp... #VintageComputers #RetroComputers #LC475

Tune in TOMORROW AT NOON (EST) to get the first bench look at The Cursed LC575! 🗑️

The Pentium Overdrive Processor (PODP) was designed to give 486 computers a new lease on life… This one can’t though, as it has one broken and many bent pins. Let’s fix it and explore this upgrade for 25MHz systems tonight, live starting at 9PM EST! www.youtube.com/live/G9--Pm5...