waso nytpu

Very cute floppy disk commission by @Pheebs! Drawing just small enough to fit on a floppy, and then an imitation of it on the label!

Also see: https://tilde.zone/@nytpu/114587584578441490

May 28 at 9:28pmWeb
Show threadwaso nytpuMay 28

Also have to demonstrate on at least some old hardware, and at the moment this is all I have that has any actual graphics. And might as well crank some of the tunes @Pheebs included while I'm at it :P

(I may or may not have cheated and pre-downscaled and dithered it because otherwise it would take three minutes to load lol)

Show threadwaso nytpuMay 28

It definitely did not take me like four hours to get an image viewer and MIDI player set up and working XD. Mostly because I had to find ones that work on System 7.1 (rather than 7.5 which supposedly doesn't run well on the Classic II) and then very tediously split the files to fit on floppies on my modern computer (since I don't have a SCSI CD drive or emulator), copy the split archives to floppies, copy them to the Mac, rejoin and extract the archive, and then see if this particular program would work or not

@Pheebs

Show threadDemon Queen Pheebs!! 💙May 29
@nytpu That is such a cool setup! Definitely worth the effort to do all that if you ask me ;P
Show threadwaso nytpuMay 29
@Pheebs Thanks! And yeah, I think it was. And a good excuse to experience the sorta misery of working with image files on a home computer prior to like 2005, just barely enough memory or storage; and while compression could save space, CPUs were too slow to make any nontrivial compression pretty impractical
Show threadA Reptile Dysfunction May 28
@nytpu @Pheebs listening to it struggle to play e1m1 while browsing a floppy and loading a gif is just such a good encapsulation of using old hardware
Show threadwaso nytpuMay 28

@dragonminded Gotta love single-core machines lol

@Pheebs

Show threadA Reptile Dysfunction May 28
@nytpu @Pheebs not even that, but the cooperative multitasking model of classic macs.
Show threadwaso nytpuMay 28

@dragonminded Hmm, I swore QuickTime (which is what's actually doing the MIDI playback) used preemptive multitasking since it recommended installing the Thread Manager extension, but I guess probably still cooperative (or maybe preemptive but with limitations, dunno, I've never programmed for classic Mac OS)

@Pheebs

Show threadFellwing🇪🇺May 28
@nytpu Oh I have this exact one too I believe, and working as well!
Show threadwaso nytpuMay 28
@Lingondraken Mine needed new RAM and a recap but works fine, and I got it for free too!
Show threadFellwing🇪🇺May 29
@nytpu Mine is actually all original, even a printer included with it! I got it from my grandmother who had bought it all new way back when
Show threadXantheMay 28
@nytpu @Pheebs I love this! It's such a cool idea!
I'd toyed with doing Deluxe Paint III (Amiga) commissions & offering the option to mail out the floppy with the save file on it, but I figured it'd be too niche. XD;
Show threadDemon Queen Pheebs!! 💙May 29
@xanthe @nytpu I've had about 8 people interested even if they don't have a floppy drive to read the data off of, I do wonder about printing labels and people could use it as a con badge instead x3
Show threadXantheMay 29
@Pheebs @nytpu I love this. XD There's gonna be a little uptick in people looking for USB Floppy drives, haha.
Tbf, if you've got any dead disks, you could probably make them into a badge (I couldn't do it to a healthy disk, the guilt!)!
Show threadDemon Queen Pheebs!! 💙May 29
@xanthe @nytpu That is truuue, but I think they would be resilient enough! I'd also only be using the holes that are on the diskettes already like the write protect one