Andrew Young

@vaelen@bitbang.social
129 Followers
76 Following
399 Posts

I grew up on 8bit and 16bit machines, starting with an IBM AT at home and an Apple IIe at school. Later I ran DOS, Windows 3.1, OS/2, Windows 95/98, and Linux at home on various PC machines and 68k Macs at school. I also worked with various UNIX flavors over the years. These days I manage a software team.

My interests include: embedded software, electronics, retro computing, old macs, and ham radio (JJ1OKA / NU8W).

I live in Tokyo, Japan.

Websitehttps://vaelen.org
Githubhttps://github.com/vaelen
Andrew Young19h ago
Thanks to @BlueSCSI and @KayKoba my new #Mac #Quadra 700 is booting up! I transferred my A/UX image from the emulator, and it appears to be booting up ok, but I'm sure there are bound to be some hiccups. #retrocomputing #A/UX
Andrew Young1d ago
Scott Small 🇨🇦3d ago

A brand new 68k Mac emulator quietly dropped last night!!

“Snow” can emulate the Mac 128k, 512k, Plus, SE, Classic, and II. It supports reading disks from bitstream and flux-floppy images, and offers full execution control and debugging features for the emulated CPU. Written using Rust, it doesn't do any ROM patching or system call interception, instead aiming for accurate hardware-level emulation.

Download link (Mac, Windows, Linux): https://snowemu.com
Documentation link: https://docs.snowemu.com
Source link: https://github.com/twvd/snow
Release announcement: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12509

(Edit: I'm not the author - just spotted this on the Emaculation forum and had to share it!)

(Edit #2: Snow's author, Thomas “twvd" has joined the Fediverse now! Give him a follow at @twvd 👋)

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac #68k #emulation

Andrew Young2d ago
1Bit2d ago

hey, it's not every day that a new Mac 128/512/Plus/etc emulator is released! I tried it a bit and I'm impressed so far.

Snow (windows, linux, macos)
https://snowemu.com/

img, dsk, moof, hda support, very good sound, register + peripheral status, RAM map, boatload of stuff for programmers!

Andrew Young2d ago
Wesley Moore2d ago

This UI is a masterpiece. (see alt text for more details)

http://www.madcapps.com/bogas_productions.htm

Originally seen in https://bitbang.social/@1Bit/114752566187678808 @1Bit

#Macintosh #RetroComputing #UI #StudioSession

Andrew Young2d ago
Minor update on the Quadra 700: No battery damage from the 27 year old battery and a full 64MB of RAM! #retrocomputing #mac #quadra #quadra700
Andrew Young2d ago
I paid way too much for it, but check out my new Quadra 700! This will hopefully be my new A/UX machine. #retrocomputing #mac #quadra #quadra700
Andrew YoungJun 21
Unfortunately, it looks like I can't enable AppleTalk file sharing on A/UX, or at least not through the GUI.
Show threadAndrew YoungJun 21
Also, I'm really glad that I ran Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD for some many years and really took the time to learn how UNIX-like operating systems work from the ground up. It demystified a lot of things and has made this experiment much easier.
Andrew YoungJun 21
Although I used SunOS, Linux, and to a lesser extent FreeBSD a bit in the late 90s, it wasn't until '99 that I really got into Linux and other flavors of UNIX like AIX (while working at IBM). Compared to what I'm familiar with, A/UX is amazingly simple. You can really see how the entire UNIX ecosystem was still in flux in the late 80s. ANSI C wasn't even standardized yet. Adding bash, gcc, and less has made A/UX much more usable for me. I can't believe how much tab completion makes life easier!
Andrew YoungJun 19
I've been playing with A/UX running in a VM. I'm quite liking it so far. I plan to move this to real hardware when I get a chance to, but thanks to my previous work the A/UX VM already sees all the #Globaltalk hosts. #retrocomputing #unix #mac