It'sa mee, Marioo! 🔊 sm64-IRIX now also plays sound FX, not just music!
Have yet to adjust the ROM hexdump to run properly during build on IRIX, but with a sound sequence file generated on x86 it already plays sound samples on IRIX!

@Keldrim That video is icing on the cake of a fascinating song!!

> The whole thing is just a conversation overheard in a department store

> Sting recorded the line "I want my MTV", because he just happened to be at the studio that day. That line is sung to the tune of "Don't Stand so Close to Me" by the Police, and they are credited for it.

> The riff is played without a pick, and in style is closer to banjo music than guitar.

If I had a penny for every @foone Tumblr post I've seen in an Instagram reel today, I'd have 3 cents.

Which isn't much, but still more than I expected!

It also seems to have a very forgiving depth of field. Here's a fully populated motherboard plopped right on top of the glass platen. The PCB itself is about 14-17mm away from the glass (depending on which corner you measure).

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

When your backpack predates the ISO9660 CD-ROM format

@skylark13 You might be on to something!

@dosnostalgic That's kind of what I assume too.

People have strong opinions about it though, so I'm curious to know!

We're used to thinking of processors and systems as being 8-bit, 16-bit and so on. But on what basis?

Width of data bus? Pentium, regarded as a 32-bit platform, has a 64-bit memory interface so no.

Size of address space? 8088/8086 is regarded as a 16-bit platform, but has a 20-bit physical space, so no. Likewise the 32-bit Pentium Pro can address 48 bits with PAE

Size of registers? Pentium 3 is regarded as 32-bit, but has 128-bit SSE registers, so no.

I have no conclusion. What do you think?

@vaelen Welcome to the Jurassic Mac owners club 😎

I paid way too much for it, but check out my new Quadra 700! This will hopefully be my new A/UX machine. #retrocomputing #mac #quadra #quadra700

SISYPHUS FM
NON STOP CLASSIC ROCK'N'ROLL

@vga256 Lordy!!!

@foone For some systems (looking at you, Apple II), you may even have to fiddle with the NTSC phase/hue to display some flags by "expanding" the pallette. Bug or feature?

I wonder if you could even have one flag that becomes another, just by adjusting the phase??

Seems like a fun project!

@vga256 I can't see any angle where it's not at least a little bit tongue-in-cheek, am I missing something? 🤣

@foone I've never had much success attacking real mode stuff with Ghidra.

I have yet to examine the bus req/ack pins, which a fellow Amiga/68000 buff informs me is "step 2" if the CPU ceases activity.

Which makes sense, if one of the co-processors is stuck, and there are several, she'll wait forever!

So!! Any X68000 nerds on here? I need schematics for X68000 ACE HD, such information for this particular model seems hard to come by! 2/2

Seeing @kalleboo 's O² effort unfold reminds me that I need my lab re-established to tackle my X68000.

Symptoms are that from "cold and dark", the soft power will cause the PSU to come on, but from then on, nothing elicits any kind of response. Cutting mains power and re-applying immediately results in the PSU being "on" regardless of switch state. Leaving it for a while gets back to the initial condition.

Also, the 68000 has a short burst of activity, then quiet with RST and HLT high. 1/2

@kalleboo I wish you luck!!

I've heard horror stories about SGI power supplies, particularly that if/when the caps go bad, they take other components with them in difficult to diagnose ways.

The advice seems to be that pre-emptive re-capping is prudent.

If you do get yours up and running, be sure to share your findings!

@kalleboo Ah Famichiki, In the west they called it Poultry Entertainment System. 🙃

Chocolate Quake:
A minimalist source port of Quake focused on preserving the original experience of version 1.09 and earlier DOS releases. Inspired by the philosophy of Chocolate Doom, this project aims for accuracy and authenticity over modern enhancements.
https://github.com/Henrique194/chocolate-quake