After 81 runs I escaped the underworld, therefore winning the game “Hades”. I will not be taking questions at this time.

We have an important message to share: RE-PC Tukwila is moving to Kent! It will be roughly 2 blocks east of the Home Depot on the Tukwila side of the river. We will have more details to share soon.

Found this just in time.

I just discovered that id released a Macintosh single-player demo for Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001. The only place I've ever seen it is on a cover CD for the French computer magazine SVM Mac. [1/2]

FOUR FOUR. MORE. DAYS! Get your tickets NOW at tinyurl.com/3km56wbt #prge #prge2025 #retrogaming

BattleNet's original website is still live if you want to grab original StarCraft desktop wallpapers. classic.battle.net/scc/wall.shtml

If you're in the market for Sun Microsystems stuff, and you're in or can get to the Seattle area, the University of Washington's surplus store is auctioning off a bunch of it right now. https://www.govdeals.com/en/asset/6709/6794

Seattle Capitol Hill garage sale FTW. There’s only one missing piece…

I’ve wanted a tangerine clamshell iBook since, well, 1999. I finally came across one cheap enough to impulse-buy. This poor fella has seen some stuff: lots of cracked plastic, kaput battery and trackpad, weird black goo either on or coming out of it. [1/2]

The promotional movie from the Zork Nemesis DOS/Windows demo CD is a corny delight. Video: https://oldbytes.space/@kabootie/115030694648107828

I've run across this Zork Nemesis demo on maybe a half-dozen magazine cover CDs, and it fails to install - with the same error message - on every Mac OS version, emulator, or physical computer I try. [1/2]

Macintosh Cover CDs at classicmacdemos.com can now link to their respective DiscMaster entries, so you can browse their contents either in an Infinite Mac emulator or at DiscMaster, whichever you prefer. E.g., https://classicmacdemos.com/disc/macformat-disc-97/

FYI I’ve a moderation list of accounts who promote their own Substack newsletter. Handy to mass-mute. bsky.app/profile/did:...

For the moment, the integration I added is quite basic and doesn’t take advantage of functionality described in the developer documentation ( https://infinitemac.org/embed-docs ) to support a variety of screen sizes, pausing and unpausing the VM, and other conveniences. I’ll try to fold some [1/2]

We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

Maybe this will work? 🤞

Here's a two-node #RabbitMQ cluster, where one node is a PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger host, and the other is Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Intel. There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it! I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]

I pointed a VM of the old Google Search Appliance at one of my retrocomputing project websites, and... remember when Google search results looked like this?

I left my job today, and one side benefit is that now I don’t need formal preclearance from my employer to do open source work. To celebrate, here’s the source code to classicmacdemos.com. It’s a little bit of a mess at the moment, but I’ll clean it up. I certainly have time to now! [1/2]

The venerable text adventure engine Frotz has a Tigerbrew package now, so vintage Mac OS X users are three terminal commands and fewer than ten seconds away from playing almost anything in the amazing collection at Internet Fiction Archive.

Optimized the desk setup a lil’ bit

CW: Alcohol Vancouver is such a beautiful city.

I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.

I hadn’t remembered just how physically large external FireWire DVD drives were.

Finally shipped this, I've had a lot of fun making a Mac OS 9-styled design for this and keeping it "retro web" while using modern techniques. I have a blog post about the whole thing as well as what I plan to do with the site in the future, read it maybe? damien.zone/introducing-...

So I coded a new After Dark 3.0 screen module in May 2025, based on a concept and artwork from Japhy Riddle. After Dark had this THINK C SDK, perfectly matching my experience. It's called the "Screen Shaver" See it in action for a spell, running under Basilisk II. www.youtube.com/live/07Dhl8O...

New article! lowendmac.com/2025/maximiz...

Let’s test some Tigerbrew builds!

You can run ejabberd on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard again, using a freshly-updated Tigerbrew package.

I've finally gotten around to adding support for #InfiniteMac 's new Mac OS X virtual machines to the collection of magazine cover CDs at https://classicmacdemos.com/discs/ . Should make it easier for people to try out some of the game and app demos that were distributed with 2000's-era [1/2]

I've made it to the big leagues. 🎉

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Does anyone know of a Java 8 JDK that will run on Mac OS X Leopard / PowerPC?

Another project I have going on this weekend is to try to make the classicmacdemos.com http mode less janky on vintage web browsers, and it's taking me back to the Bad Old Days of web development, when every single version of every single browser would render the same html differently, with

With a little bit of tweaking and a lot of waiting, I got the Tigerbrew formula for #Erlang to succeessfully build under Mac OS X Leopard on my eMac. eMac = "erlang Macintosh", amirite?

Microsoft Virtual PC 7 with Windows 2000 https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/microsoft-virtual-pc-7-windows-2000 "Virtual PC is a sophisticated software program that allows you to create one or more virtual machines, each running its own operating system, on a […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

I enjoy the retrocomputing communities on both Bluesky and Mastodon, but at the moment I'm more established and active on Mastodon. I'm going to try using skymoth.app to cross-post here as well for a while. Let's see how it goes.

The RAREST Macintosh Performa Model That Apple Ever Produced? #Money #Magazine youtu.be/9dI6PYuwW-Q?...

Insta-buy.

I just uploaded a free kitchen asset pack on itch.io. If you're interested here's the link: sythpixie.itch.io/a-small-kitc... #isometric #itch.io #gamedev #freeassets #pixelart