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eduo Apr 22

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Steve Troughton-Smith Apr 22

This is what the 40th anniversary Mac should be; a complete recreation on FPGA 🤪

(image via ChatGPT)

eduo Apr 21

@atpfm How mortifying must it be to have this written about you and how much might it make you question the decisions you took.

eduo Apr 21

@atpfm Re: Pay-to-unlock hardware: In the 90s I supported a few hundred 3D workstations. SUN, SGI and HP (some with Itanium!).

It was common practice to have to pay extra for built-in-but-locked hardware. $5K if you purchased the option pre-enabled, or $16K after the fact, for a proprietary dongle to unlock the built-in hardware. 50% of it would go forever locked and unused, I was told.

eduo Apr 20

Alex Barredo 📉Apr 20

El Dr. Frankenstein de los Macs | Cupertino 239 #podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVYXO2E82E

El Dr. Frankenstein de los Macs | Cupertino 239 #podcast

YouTube

eduo Apr 20

Louie Mantia, Jr.Apr 20

How about the EU makes their own phone to demonstrate how easy it is to make one to their specifications that people actually want to buy.

eduo Mar 27

mmu_man Mar 26

I'll be streaming a bit of #OpenSCAD modeling of a #MacPortable part right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86GecrV7B8E

https://www.twitch.tv/mmu_man

#Mac68k #RetroComputing #3DModeling #3DPrinting #Marchintosh

OpenSCAD modeling of the Mac Portable battery plate

YouTube

eduo Mar 27

Dgar Mar 27

Them: Would you like to hear today’s special?

Me: Yes, please.

Them: Today is special.

eduo Mar 27

Aaron Giles Mar 27

Heh, so yeah it's finally been officially revealed that the Mac port of Day of the Tentacle I did also contained a stealth Mac port of the original Maniac Mansion to the Mac.

In the PC version of DoTT you can just use Weird Ed's computer and it dumps you into Maniac, and I had thought (after all these years) I made it work the same way on the Mac. But it turns out my memory had some faulty bits and, while it did work, it only works after you try it five times.

This was a concession to our Mac QA department, which was small, and a bit overwhelmed with the unanticipated ports of DoTT and Sam & Max. They didn't really have the bandwidth to stress test the Maniac Mansion port, so I made it a bit more of an Easter egg than it was on the PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5AZY3tNFW4&t=1s