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

cool demo that made 1st place in Assembly 2025 that I captured from my 486 with picogus youtu.be/-bryr2NkruU

THEtechknight is so appreciated, watching this atm

check out my gameplay video of Titan (1989) for Macintosh in black and white, 60 fps. youtu.be/W7ZIj2uOsaQ

OpL3 is really fun to code, and wham! Here it is, incoming into nubus retro Macs? V cool!

part 2 of MIDI IN to PC SPEAKER, now with 6 note polyphony boogaloo: youtube.com/shorts/M...

part 2 of MIDI IN to PC SPEAKER, now with 6 note polyphony boogaloo: youtube.com/shorts/M...

Bare metal 68000 Mac programming in 2025, why not??? www.youtube.com/watc... go check this creative idea from KenDesigns

Not a single human being asked for it, but I coded a small C program in msdos Borland C++ 3.1 to take in MIDI signals and reroute it to the PC speaker. Some sort of polyphony is next on the docket! youtube.com/shorts/u...

I want to write something that explains to non retro types why retrocomputing is so important to me. It’s hard to put into words.

Silicon Beach Software were the hottest Macintosh software company in the 80's. They got me with 'Airborne!', slayed me with Dark Castle and kept me engaged with World Builder. I try to stop myself from getting boxed software, but can't resist with beefy manuals.

I worked my BUTT off for this revision of my C coded program: F256Amp that runs on the F256K2 and uses its VS1053b sound chip to its limits. The main thing I added was a file picker in text mode, that was a bit of a heinous part. 1/3

There were already 64 "hardware sprites" in the F256 platform, but now, there are 128 for this new extra F256K2 core that also doubles the MHz from 6 to 12.

Here's the aftermath of my live stream on a playthrough of Uninvited, this classic adventure game for #Macintosh from 1986. #vintage #apple #retro youtube.com/shorts/0...

Join me tonight at 9:30 PM EST as I try to go as far as possible on a fresh game of Uninvited, the original version for Macintosh in glorious black and white. Live, directly fed from my hardware Mac Plus! youtube.com/live/d7I...

New #BlueSCSI release github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu... Highlights: USB<>SCSI Bridge USB Thumb Drive Mode SD Bootloader 200MHz default Auto Buttons on all HW FAST20 speed Interactive console I'll highlight a few of them in this thread 🧵

26 years as a professional Windows dude and I'm just -now- learning this? Man, what else has the world kept from me?

F256K2, I finally mastered playback type 1 MIDI files convincingly with my C programming. I relaunched my midplayer program as 'cozy MIDI' and added a file picker text UI. No more need to exit out and go back in to play more files!

I was obsessed with World Builder in the late 80's!

If you use a vintage PC to run games, keep reading. A notorious game that has an impact over what vintage PC you pick since it wants a 386SX25-DX33. Or you use a CPU limiter or cache disabler. No longer! since a patch was released a few weeks ago. alltinker.itch.io/wcat

This is my favourite background that I made for "Chance's Lucky Escape". It happened because part of the game design process was @golosogames.bsky.social asking me what kinds of backgrounds I wanted to draw: I said a cafe!! The game's part of @play.date Season 2, out now! play.date/games/season...

Just a heads up that Sean Lee Robinson aka "Geek with Social Skills" has been sniffing around again. Folks who may not know, this is the guy who scammed members of the vintage computer, telecom, arcade and console communities. Made a video about this loser: youtu.be/hRkPCjVhM8c Don't get scammed!

Tune in for this stream in about 3 hours and a half where Rudy from Rudy's Retro Intel will check the status of my "black screen" old C64 board www.youtube.com/live...

hey, it's not every day that a new Mac 128/512/Plus/etc emulator is released! I tried it a bit and I'm impressed so far. Snow (windows, linux, macos) https://snowemu.com/ img, dsk, moof, hda support, very good sound, register + peripheral status, RAM map, boatload of stuff for programmers!

#F256K platform from #Foenix Retro System ✔️I created a huge tutorial videos for users of the platform on all the (14) ways to run a program for beginners to advanced ✔️The $25-$50 price reduction on Foenix products has been extended to July 5th. www.youtube.com/watc...#F256K

This is a major one for all PicoGUS owners!

Maintaining my perfect record of needing a bugfix release immediately after a big feature release, PicoGUS firmware v3.0.1 fixes MPU-401 output in SB and USB modes. github.com/polpo/picogu...