@thias any thoughts on what might have created such a beast? #MARCHintosh looped in for good measure!

@MuseumJoe @OnceUponAGoblin +1 Definitely.

In a way, it always is. 😊 Folks keep developing the most awesome things in HyperCard, like the network crawler or the game that was around this year! There’s just no way HyperCard isn’t an important presence during #MARCHintosh.

@OnceUponAGoblin As a founder of #MARCHintosh, I wouldn't be opposed to this.

Should the next #MARCHintosh be dedicated to Bill Atkinson? His work—MacPaint, HyperCard, and a visionary approach to software—defined the soul of early Macintosh. Every retro Mac celebrates him in spirit, but perhaps this time we could make it official.

#billatkinson #macintosh #retromacintosh #hypercard #vintagemac #retrocomputing

Found a rather dusty SE FDHD that is going to donate its ROM and SWIM chips and floppy to my Green SE and it’s tube and power supply to my up coming SE/30 reloaded project. Getting ready early for #MARCHintosh

#retrocomputing

@billgoats Way down from #MARCHintosh though...

Just a word of warning—from experience! If you’re thinking about getting a Power Mac or anything in that modular/tower format… don’t do it. For your own good. It will become a slippery slope. I thought I was safe when I picked up an old Power Mac Graphite during #marchintosh 2024, and now here I am, somehow at my 10th Macintosh tower. I never even had a Mac tower growing up—only all-in-ones like the Performa, later iMacs, and PowerBooks. You’ve been warned!

#macintosh #apple #retrocomputing

Sorry for being so out of touch lately. I even had to skip #Marchintosh this year. Work and global politics have kept me busy. On the bright side, I bought a Localtalk option board (one of the recreations) for my ImageWriter II, so hopefully I will have it online and available for next Marchintosh. I've also been working on a 68k motherboard of my own design, which just arrived from the PCB fab. The goal is to learn more about hardware and OS design and get UNIX running on it. #retrocomputing

This is a pixel-perfect vector (as a png here) of the very early System 1.1 and Finder v1.1g “about” screen. It is pretty hard to find on the internet, generally. Again, thanks to the Infinite Mac website for allowing me to to take a screenshot!

I recreated every pixel as a 1x1 px vector and merged them where possible. As an svg or it will render perfectly at any size. I have two versions—this one with the words and shadow as the original and a second one without the words and shadow. #marchintosh #vintagecomputers #macOS

I added actual menus below the , Tools, Services, and Home recently. Then overrode the stock scroll bar and implemented my own System 7.0 ones on this modal.

I had to crack open a System file using ResEdit so I could get a screenshot of the Macintosh Portable icon. God I love the Infinite Mac emulator website!

Ali, I needed a calculator to convert 16 GB RAM into K, as it was reported in 1990. #vintagecomputing #marchintosh #macos

30 April and already the rhubarb is going crazy. Macintosh 512 for scale.
#RetroComputing #MARCHintosh #rhubarb

To access the @BlueSCSI microSD inside my PowerBook 170 I had to disassemble it and pull the card from below the metal shielding.
After I cut my finger doing it, I decided I needed a better solution:
A 48cm microSD “extension cable” turned out perfect to move the microSD slot to the battery door (attached with hot glue).
It works! And I highly recommend it if you don’t have a battery.
#MARCHintosh #BlueSCSI

The official snack of Classic Macintosh enthusiasts - Monochrome Sweets

#VintageApple #MARCHintosh

@mroach @kalleboo I managed to bring up a Microsoft Mail 3.0 server in the Digitopolis zone. The server is a faceless background extension; all configuration happens in the client by logging into the magic "Network Manager" account with a magic default password (which I changed, obviously.) When new mail comes in, you get a big notification alert.

#GlobalTalk #AppleTalk #MARCHintosh

Any QEMU #globaltalk users experience terrible mouse lag? It's nearly unusable. Doesn't seem to be an overall OS lag, but difficult to tell. #MARCHintosh

One thing I have in mind is keeping it simple enough to make a series of videos for next #MARCHintosh using it to introduce the very basics of Classic Mac OS Toolbox C programming - walking through what the framework does, and then showing some examples of adding buttons to windows that play sounds or show dialogs, and then opening up a Projector (version control system) database (repository) on #GlobalTalk for anyone else to add stuff in a collaborative project.

I've setup a public read-only Grafana instance for #globaltalk and my stats dashboard:

https://globaltalk.doofnet.uk

I'll add in more stats over time, once I start expanding my scraping scripts.

#marchintosh

At some point i'll get a public Grafana instance to show off a running dashboard of these metrics, but i'm burning through a backlog of monitoring issues on my homelab first.

#netatalk #globaltalk #marchintosh

Spent some time playing with #netatalk and #globaltalk and built out some more Prometheus metrics to track zones, devices, AFP shares, and printers.

Also as a bonus see the migration of jrouter versions on the network.

#marchintosh

Then i used dfontSplitter to crack that file and extract the bitmaps as .bdf files.

THEN I used FontLab 8 to export the .bdf as .ttf

A final step to make them web-ready was to run the .ttf files through transfonter(dot)org.

I'm hosting a ton of my work now in a separate GitHub repo. https://github.com/danmorgandesigns/classic-mac-elements
#marchintosh #retrocomputing #macos