Advent of Computing

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It's me, Sean, the host of the Advent of Computing podcast.
Websitehttps://adventofcomputing.com/

For #MARCHintosh this year I’m launching https://infinitemac.org. It features runnable versions of almost every classic System Software/Mac OS release, from 1984’s System 1.0 to 2000’s Mac OS 9.0.4.

This involved porting another emulator to the web (Mini vMac), tracking down 35 install disks, and the usual fighting with file systems. The blog post at https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.html has more details.

Infinite Mac

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.

@vga256 Some interesting Sierra stuff you might dig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43QLh59qFg
An Obnoxious Owl and the Legacy of a Gaming Giant

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Something very special arrived today!

Please consider making a donation of any size to the effort. Tony’s collection must be preserved, and the items he was loaned must be returned to their original enthusiast.

This effort is where the rubber meets the road in terms of preservation and community enrichment.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kansasfest-rescue-tonys-apple-ii-legacy

Heyo, @adventofcomputing my external HDD's showing up like this and loads so slow, it crashes my file explorer. Oh, and says it needs a format - but if I format then podcast is royally screwed as this happened as I was about to make a backup. Any ideas? This is the case of 'I don't care how fucky or expensive the solution, I NEED that data'
It's a slightly well kept secret, but I do have a shoq discord server.
https://discord.gg/GpFNu3DTU2
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Check out the Advent of Computing community on Discord - hang out with 20 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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**The BIG Desktop Environment Battle!**

Poll:
What is your DE of choice, you can select more than one.

Please boost for visibility, we wanna see what the Fesiverse runs on ;)

#DesktopEnvironment

XFCE
25.5%
Gnome
44.8%
KDE
26.8%
LXQt/LXDE
2.9%
Poll ended at .

Kicking off #MARCHintosh with a audio/video capture of Studio Session songs captured in hardware and with oscilloscope view of the 6 channels of this marvelous macintosh technology from the mid-eighties

"Walkbass", Ed Bogas (composer)
Studio Session from Bogas Productions (1986)

https://youtu.be/hhhN8abFhAs

Oscilloscope View - "Walkbass" (Studio Session, 1986, Mac Plus capture)

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@easternborder still can't believe its gone, but it's cool to see a virtualized Mariya. Now if only Microsoft would add an ekranoplan

https://www.flightsimulator.com/famous-flyer-iv/

Famous Flyer IV: Antonov AN-225 Mriya - Microsoft Flight Simulator

As part of Microsoft Flight Simulator’s ongoing digital preservation efforts, we are pleased to introduce the world’s largest aircraft, the Ukrainian-built Antonov An-225 Mriya.

Microsoft Flight Simulator
🧑‍💻 #ux