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#TotallyNormalComputing

A productive afternoon/evening in the #8bit world. Switched from coding natively on the #mega65 to setting up a cross platform development environment for #basic.

Then back to creating more #medieval #runes as a character set. Half way done but I need to revisit some. It's hard to make them accurate with blocks and few options for multiple diagonal lines.

Been rather fun writing hexadecimal letters in runes.

#Commodore #retrocomputing #TotallyNormalComputing #C64 #Vikings #Norse #Futhark

This is #TotallyNormalComputing in #8bit

Using my #Mega65 in #C64 mode with a #TeensyROM cartridge to connect using NovaTerm over Swiftlink to a local shell on my #Mac Studio.

With 80 column mode, VT102 and ansi colors.

#Commodore #C65 #retrocomputing #VintageComputing

I just had a delightfully #TotallyNormalComputing thought:

I have a USB ZIP drive, and a few 100MB ZIP disks. It just presents itself as USB mass storage.
My car's retrofitted stereo can play music off USB drives, and because it replaced the car's factory dual slot head unit, I have a storage compartment right above the stereo.

I could probably make myself some delightfully blursed "ZIP mix disks" and use those in my car instead of connecting my modern phone to it via Bluetooth. 🤭

Fantastic! #TotallyNormalComputing

Booting #MacOS9 Installer from USB, and without even touching #OpenFirmware. I really like the community for this kind of service!

'Mac OS 9.2.2 "boot kit" for booting your G3/G4 from an USB stick' by that-ben on Macintosh Repository just works out of the box! On a #powerpc #G3 #ibook with USB1.

And it was kinda fast to boot and install too. My #Powerbook got some company now!.

#Apple #Macintosh #PPC #VintageMac #retrocomputing

Bought myself a #G3 laptop (#ibook 600MHz). Wanted something to run both #MacOS9 and OSX 10.1 #puma again.

Target Disk Mode to my #Powerbook 12" works perfectly but apparently booting the macos9 installer isn't as easy as osx. How do I get #macos installer to boot from a local drive, don't know.

And the CD Drive doesn't work (and it seems my trusty old Powerbook can't calibrate the laser to burn disks any more either)

#TotallyNormalComputing #retrocomputing #VintageMac #PowerPC #PPC #Apple

Spending an evening with an old computer isn't always fun. It can be hours and hours of installations, downloads and just waiting for stuff to happen.

My 2010 #MacbookAir needed partition resizing (for Haiku, fingers crossed) and then #OpenCoreLegacyPatcher to install #macOS monterey
Avoiding newer macos because of non existing USB1.1 for touchpad/keyboard.

And then Appstore only lets me download latest and not compatible Xcode. Always something...

#TotallyNormalComputing #Macintosh