I was asked to do a revision with through-hole only components for the PC Gameport Party, I obliged. Exact same functionality, and today I made extra crispy sure it would work by assembling a unit. All tests pass! 1/2

Guys. I have one left. Just got it back from Adrian Black. One last time. If you’re interested in one, we’ll be listing it soon on our new storefront!

I made a new MSDOS utility, the MIDI Sniffer: * takes in MIDI in * reroutes to: MIDI out, PC Speaker, or OPL2 * supports polyphony 1/2

NEW VIDEO IS OUT: it explains everything about my PC Gameport Party PCB I designed last year. All the use cases scenarios I had in mind, including the ones that combo with the MIDI selectors I also designed. Links to gerbers in the description youtu.be/SGnbr5O1Wa0

Want to support my vintage Mac channel and get a cool shirt based on your favorite game, Dark Castle? There's a 35% off promo right now at threadless: 1bitfeverdreams.thre...

I started a repo for the Megaroids source code. it's not clear how to use megamax C or how the files are ultimately chopped down into, but it doesn't hurt to try. Copy pasting mostly works, but it has a few issues. it's a process of copying chunks by chunks and keeping an eye on it 1/2

Thanks to all my followers who made this little experiment of a second, general purpose retro channel a thing. 500 followers and growing. Topics: MSDOS gaming, Foenix Retro Systems, C64 and everything non-Mac youtube.com/@anybitf...

Spaceship Warlock, Creepy Castle, Total Distortion AND Radiskull & Devil Doll?!? What a resume! Let's Chat with Joe Sparks of Reactor / Pop Rocket, Inc! youtu.be/sTUG28QUxi0

"Guys, if anybody here has been on the edge of wanting to purchase a F256K2, Now would be a great time to do so, so you can secure a spot in the next batch, because after that I don't know when I am going to make more. -Stef" translation: decide today or miss out for an indeterminate time! links...

Sometimes you just gotta hack your own solution! 📺 In this video I mod this TV remote to make it more accessible for my father-in-law. ❤️ If you want to make your own, a guide and 3D models are in the video description. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_dx...

it's time for a Foenix Game Jam again. The theme is "polish" and make an effort to make a complete game, at least a notch or 2 above tech demo! With 2 months, the odds improve quite a lot. Here's the itch io link: itch.io/jam/foenix-bfg discord: discord.gg/9vjUEGgcUS

bing bong finally got a VGM file playing engine in C on the F256K2, with my file picker of course that's a LONG LONG LONG TIME coming holy grail for me, finally had the chops to understand it all. took less than 24 hours. It still has minor bugs ofc.

I just put out a very specialized tutorial for changing FPGA core on the F256K2 that will serve a specific tranche of the population, but I won't mind if you're curious to check out how easy it is to make this retro computer act differently at the flip of some dip switches

The Chenjesu is another excellent zone denying, slow moving sniper ship with helper bubbles that gnaw at your opponent. A strong workhorse in your Melee fleet. Star Control II, melee mode (1992 Accolade, Inc.)

New shirt design on my store "Hang in there, you got this" 1bitfeverdreams.thre...

Disk Jockey for Windows has been updated! Version 1.6 adds support for the Snow emulator and lets you inject HFS and ProDOS partitions from other Mac disk images into your own (you're no longer limited to simple .img or .image files).

Tip for using the Kohr Ah - Your weapon is half a slow cannon ball, half a mine laying field. Use this to your advantage by making the terrain in front of your opponent as deadly as possible. Star Control II, melee mode (1992 Accolade, Inc.)

The Pkunk is one of the most interesting ships to fly with its random count resurrection. Make those jousts count before it's definitely down. Star Control II, melee mode (1992 Accolade, Inc.)

It's been a while, I overhauled my link.tree with categories to my web stuff, w/ my coding projects repo (Macintosh and F256K2). I also launched a merch threadless store, there's a brand t-shirt and that silly Ultima VII t-shirt I always wanted, haha. linktr.ee/1bitfeverd...

I got a little lucky with the Arilou here, but its ability to be unaffected by the gravity of the planet comes in handy Star Control II, melee mode (1992 Accolade, Inc.)

The second printing of the Adventure! The Quack of Dawn game editor and survival guide manuals have been ordered. And the digital download edition is available from my shop! ko-fi.com/ericsedge/shop #Adventure #game #HyperCard

Just playing a few rounds of Star Control II Melee mode in 2025 with my 8 year old daughter, a typical Saturday morning activity of #msdos of gaming. We are both use Gravis gamepad pros thanks to a PC Gameport Party

One of these 3 recent big box PC games recent acquisitions is not as well known as the 2 others...

Big box PC game feelings are unequal across the MSDOS gaming eras youtube.com/shorts/3...

Has @jewettg.bsky.social been kidnapped by a #pirate?🏴‍☠️ Will @8bitshack.bsky.social's latest game for the Apple II save him?☠️ Tune in Thursday, September 25th at 8E/7C/6M/5P to find out!🦜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUg...

My new video is up. I coded a SID file player in C for the F256 line of computers. Tens of thousands of music files can now be ported to it! youtu.be/kQNqQyVOVnY

If you're at VCF MW and are looking for great products for Mac, PC, Apple II, check this booth out. Joe even brought a handful of my own PCBS I designed: PC Gameport Party and 3x3 MIDI switch

you can't attend VCFMW like me for so many reasons? These extended peeks are going to have to do it!

that's a pretty funny watch! very good game selection for this weird device

Will you be attending #VCFMW next weekend? I hope so! Stop by my booth, and LET'S CHAT about #Macintosh PowerBooks... because I love talking about them!

Hey everyone! I'll be at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest this year (VCF MW), on September 13 and 14, 2025. Come find me at table I 12!

Boom, Minstrel Dragon adds the feature of MIDI music to his port of Ultima III for F256 computers, the gen2 that supports onboard MIDI. It already has ultima V sprites, so it's a FUNKY augmented port even more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3n...

Some board games I’m going to be selling. Literally played once on half of these, and maybe thrice on the others. It’s sat in my closet for many years. Turns out The Expanse one is no longer in print and worth a ton more than thought.

oh wow, I have no idea how to use this. 6809 core for the F256K2 running NitrOS-9. This is brand new from today for the K2, months after being developped and used on the Jr2.

After much iterations, Ron's Computer Videos, GutBomb and Joe's Computer Museum have put together the CatMac Mini Plus Edition. If you have an old Mac Plus that's seen better days, you can rehab it with this kit and get your machine back!

2 projects colliding: -20 year old Sound Driver Macintosh code (pre System 6.0.3) doing sound the old way -My code in summer 2025: MIDI input driving the previous youtube.com/shorts/U...

Thanks to everyone out there sticking around and trusting I'll continue to put out interesting bits about old compact Macintoshes, a good chunk of it about programming them! www.youtube.com/@1bi...

Ron's Computer Videos has been doing very important interviews of people involved with the education wing of Apple in the early 80's. Here's the latest with John Couch (father of Lisa and VP edu): youtu.be/Vhj-stBgUtM... The previous one with Barbara Neslon (sol manager) www.youtube.com/watc...

Finally, the "Musical Foenix" presentation done at VCF East back in April 2025 has been put up online. youtu.be/k1Waei4MKW4... Bit of history at first but it comes together at the end with lessons learned and better focus Reminder: there are back to school deals until Labor Day weekend active now.

World Builder (1986 Silicon Beach) support coming to ScummVM. That wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, let me tell you. www.scummvm.org/news/20250822/

My friend Ian Scott (polpo - the PicoGUS guy!) has a YouTube Channel. Maybe go subscribe to him and he might make some more videos.

just passing along some Foenix special deals valid until Sunday of the labor day weekend. c256foenix.com/shop/?v=5435... F256K2: 495 USD (down from 545) <-- my current choice A2560M: 525 USD (down from 599) a 68060 based SBC, releasing pending

You might think of me as 'the MIDI guy', but I've obsessed over how to code the MOS Sid chip, the TI SN76489, the Yamaha YMF262, the SAM2695 and the VS1053b for the past year. All these side quests have been successful. Video tutorial of all these chips on the F256K2

exactly 0 person asked for this in 2025, but I unlocked MIDI In for old macs with my C program youtube.com/shorts/O...

new video: Let's code MIDI in C on old Macs! youtu.be/MToGjFoWsFU

scopes are cool. and decoding MIDI is cool. This was today's announcement. Thank you.

DESPAIR NOT, FELLOW VINTAGE PC NERDS: the inital stock of 20 PC Gameport Party sold down to 3 units, but 20 more are arriving shortly. Your national nightmare is over. What can it do? Keep reading. 1/4

I checked out this MOD player on a Mac Plus and modified it to have a standard file picker. The project is from 'MIST' who ported mod tracker playing code from Atari to the Mac (makes sense, both 68000 cpus!). 1/2

DESPAIR NOT, FRIENDOS: the inital stock of 15 MIDI selectors (3x3) sold down to 1 unit, but 15 more are arriving shortly. Your national nightmare is over. 1/2