The Macintosh Classic III, announced for #apple50 #MARCHintosh #parody

The exact moment software went downhill was when #mozilla changed away from this. #retrocomputing

Seriously WTF. I do not care about AI features please just fix the basics.

After bothering @3rz I of course found the one Cisco 1600 IOS version of the 85 (yes, actually) I'd found across the net. It was the only one with Appletalk that would load on my 1601 with its flash (8MB) and RAM (10MB) limits. The strangely named c1600-80154409-11.1-10AA.bin seems to be a […]

According to duck.ai, classic macintosh icons were typically larger than the available screen resolution

The #globaltalk Chat server has been restarted. I think it was just tired after running a week straight

Here's my second #MARCHintosh project for 2026 - TalkCrawler Lite! A little app to keep track of which #GlobalTalk printers and shares you've visited or left a greeting on! I rushed this one out so I can get to using it, so it's less polished than Chat, and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Any idea what could cause "Link error: Couldn't get file information from IDE." when trying to build a FAT target in CodeWarrior 6? The base project was duplicated from a other one which works fine, and the other duplicate (GlobalTalk Chat) also works fine […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

My first #MARCHintosh casualty 🫡 @theirongiant#marchintoshguided me through some percussive maintenance but he's dead, Jim.

Does anyone have a license key for DragThing 4.6.1? The upgrade license I can find in Surfers Serials works until I reboot when it gets unlicensed again. #MARCHintosh #VintageApple Pinging @jamesthomson#VintageApple#marchintoshecause I'm naughty like that

Debating which is more or less painful: separately compiling and embedding an LDEF, or just not using the List Manager and doing everything manually. Want to do columns with controls in them so I'm thinking the latter. #MARCHintosh #VintageApple

Nice video from the Computer History Museum for #marchintosh https://youtu.be/sbCVETsmtoM

Been a crazy busy week for various reasons so apologies that I haven’t kept up with posting #GlobalTalk prints! I appreciate them all! The first picture are the ones who were a bit quick on the gun and sent prints back in February! Then we have a print from […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

I want to do a #MARCHintosh project, but not sure what. I don't have a retro mac. I have an OS 8 and 9 VM in qemu (that runs damned smooth). Can't do #globaltalk because I can't open ports on our Optimum router (don't have the login). Ideas?

After much debugging and rebooting and kicking everyone off the server, #globaltalk Chat is back and better than ever. For performance reasons ersions before 1.0.8 Rev 2 are no longer able to connect, so take this opportunity to update to version 1.1! I'm out of the house for the night so […]

What the heck does "No release received" mean? I was doing local testing on my G4 and it was failing with this error. Then I looked over to the G3 running the live chat server and it's showing the same error. What does "No release received" mean? #GlobalTalk […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

IBM also used some sort of round multipin connector I'm not familiar with for X.21. With some more reading I clarified the coaxial cable bit, as well. Dating back to the 3600, something called "DCA" or "Device Cluster Adapter" was supported. DCA used a coaxial […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Earthquake, nearby so it was quite the kick in the butt

Here in the #globaltalk software mines, we don't use Jira, our bug reports come in in hard copy!

It'd midnight here, happy #marchintosh Look forward to a post in the AM Japan time

Legacynth https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/legacynth Legacynth is a reimplementation of Apple’s Sound Driver API for PowerPC Macs and AV Macs running classic Mac OS. #macgarden #ControlPanelsExtensions #2026 #joshjuran

Getting the #GlobalTalk application server into position for its #MARCHintosh duties. The internal screen has issues (it did last year too), it shows white until it's flexed in just the right position, some ribbon cable has come out of position. Debating […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

I never want to write another linked list in my life #retrocomputing

Damn. Rob Grant died. Smoke him a kipper… #reddwarf https://www.ganymede.tv/2026/02/rob-grant-rip/

HalEdit https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/haledit A self-installing "back-seat-typist" that watches for words or phrases, and when it sees them, deletes them and substitutes other words or phrases #macgarden #ControlPanelsExtensions #NoveltiesFun #1987 #paperclipproducts

Are there any secret tricks to getting MacsBug working on a third-party NuBus video card? On my IIcx whenever I drop in all I get is a completely gray screen (which is impressive when I’ve set my Monitors setting to 1-bit color) Debugging blind is getting really tiring… #VintageApple #marchintosh

this place is like vine boom sound effect for windows development history fans

as a consequence of my driving, here's a bit I've been waiting to do for years windows whistler in whistler, british columbia, its namesake city

My PowerBook G3 Lombard is dying :/ it crashes with random errors within a few minutes after boot. It’s never anything specific or in any specific process (looking in MacsBug) I ran a full TechTool Pro RAM test, it passed all the tests for an hour before the machine just froze Also it doesn’t […]

Bedtime, giving up for today 😵‍💫 #VintageApple

Shiny new ImageWriter ribbon! The previous one was installed in March last year for #MARCHintosh and has already worn down this much from a years worth of printing Interestingly both ribbons seem to be from the same manufacturing run - they both have the […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Our Apple TV died. I am practically unemployed and can't afford a new one. Any recommendations for something else to connect to our TVs HDMI input for US$30 or under? I want something that can play my own media (Plex or just SMB shares or anything). We also want to watch YouTube. If it works […]

"Perfect! A WAP phone!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYW0LngZ7v8

@hp Reminds me of the "Fast Find" guy from Norton Utilities 1.x for Mac

I was vaguely aware of the Monorail Society in the 1990s, but I did not know that it had a newsletter!

When you "Run an update" in #aix it is not kdding! #retrocomputing #unix

Did a little classic Mac OS C coding today, struggled with severe crashes before I realized I was doing this #VintageApple #retrocomputing

Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

Lucky day, snagged an ImageWriter ribbon for 2500 yen shipped ($16). Mine seems to be wearing thin so this is a welcome find! Haven’t seen one for sale in Japan since last year when I bought mine, and the eBay ones from abroad all have shipping that costs […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Love this guy selling a generic floppy disk box that someone has clearly just stuck the Apple stickers that used to be included free with a Mac on for 14,000 yen ($90) as if it’s something rare #VintageApple

I just randomly noticed there was a sheet of paper sticking out of my ImageWriter… weird, had I torn off a sheet and left the extra feed there? Nope, it was a Superb Owl greeting from @RonsCompVids !! When did this arrive??!! Thanks for the #globaltalk surprise!

I fumbled enabling the flashlight on my phone so hard that I got a nakedly “not meant to be user-perceived” error on my lock screen

We're having our one day of snow a year so I'm making the most of it

If you wonder how this witchcraft is achieved: #dvdram disks are "hard sectored" more or less like older style hard disks and floppies were. This essentially turns the DVD-RAM disk into thousands of individually addressable "mini rewritable dvds" The DVD […] [Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]

I'M HACKING THE GIBSON https://hackers-1995.vercel.app

You'll almost always eventually regret having named something you made with a pun.

My bedtime stories tonight #VintageApple https://youtu.be/kqm7ahl2ZYg

So *THAT* is why Apple switched to zsh https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00315849.pdf

MacNTP 1.0.2 https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macntp-102 "MacNTP is the premier network time solution for System 6 users running MacTCP on their 68k Macs. It pretty much just does what it says on the tin - seamlessly updates the system clock of your Mac via […] [Original post on bitbang.social]