someone (thanks, furan) did this pixel animation on a LED matrix wall which looked so cool I had to reverse engineer it on my #wildbits K2 using 2 layers of smooth scrolling tiles. I added a fm synth menu music from System Shock, I felt it fit the vibes.
Mac84’s table at VCF East with a lot of Macs on the table.
Come stop by and say hi if you’re at VCF East! We’re in room C. 🍏
to learn more about the platform, this is the wildbits computing company website: wildbitscomputing.com
a playful logo of an orange cat and the title wildbits jr2 classroom
photo of a classroom with rows of table having a SBC wildbits jr2 unit hooked to a LCD monitor, a classic C64 style joystick, a ps/2 keyboard. All the machines have various programs running, such as a port of Lode Runer, a balloon sprite from superbasic, a tile/sprite editor, pitfall, etc.
If you're visiting #VCF #VCFEast this weekend, consider checking out this amazing Wildbits classroom, where you're learn the ins and outs of this new retro platform (fmr. known as Foenix F256). Workshops happening on all 3 days, all day long on various topics surrounding its basic, sprites sound etc
Major update for the PicoGUS
.... (2/2)
-automatic sequencing
-drum beat editor
-more wave shape choices
-Enveloppe filtering
-Pitch Bend (was already planned)
This is a good initial response to my new video where I show "FireJam", my new C application that makes old compact macs a synth, including its in-house Sound Driver and also external MIDI hooks, both IN and OUT.
Keep the suggestions for improvements coming, I got..... (1/2)
Picture of a Mac SE, piano keytar in a kitchen running the program Firejam
New Video Released on my channel:
youtu.be/gliJVwzRifA
3 small PCBs, the 2x2 MIDI selector, the 3x3 MIDI selector for general MIDI usage with old DIN5 cables and the PC Gameport Party breakout board for vintage PCs.
The 3x3 MIDI selector and the PC Gameport party's stocks were runing low, so some fresh new batch (batch #3!) were just added to Joe's Computer Museum store
https://www.jcm-1.com
that's what I'm using! thanks for getting back to me
what did you use to play tracker playlists on the 486? I use one but I'm always wondering if there are less annoying ones out there
video screen capture of a SE/30 running System 7.1 we see an almost empty 2026 dropbox folder for MARCHintosh greet files, but one friendly RToD fellow did drop his shared file already, what a trooper!
my BlueSCSI uSD card glitched and I lost everything lovingly dropped into my #globaltalk drop folder for 2026.
I'm back in the saddle of course, but it's gonna be tough getting back a fraction of all these treasures. Thank you if you spend a few minutes putting back a file!
#MARCHintosh
Project update: a Mac-like C application with menus, a window and a starter piano graphic is done. Here's a short video testing out the freeform wave synth driven by a MIDI controller on my Mac Plus, as well as MIDI out driven by MIDI in.
9 computet video game box art in a 3x3 grid. From top left to bottom right: Dark Castle, Master of Magic, Ultima VII Uninvited, Star Wars X-Wing, System Shock Star Control II, Starcraft Brood Wars, Unreal Tournament
my 9 games
https://my9games.com/
I'm about to start streaming my playing of Return to Dark Castle, released on Steam on March 3rd!
in....1 minute....
amazing
It's launch day for the newly remastered Return to Dark Castle! Check out my interview with the game's creative team, and learn how the new compares to the old!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCZN...
store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/...
gameplay screenshot where we can see the hero standing in the exterior of the castle, a tower, some ropes, an entry to a cavern and some enemy birds in the sky
gameplay screenshot of an outside level, where we can see an automated sentry, a small mutant, some platforms, some doors, spikes and ropes.
nocturnal gameplay screenshot where we see the hero swinging between ropes. We see little huts and forest tress
interior gameplay screenshot where we see a series of doors, some are closed, the bigger main one is opened, one is barred with planks. A knight armor statue decorates the scene.
In less than 3 hours, Return to Dark Castle makes a "return" to Steam, launches TODAY.
I'm a rabid fan of the original DC and Beyond DC from the b&w mac days. I'm excited to play this entry - never had the platform for it when it released
Precision platform with cartoon humor!
14.99 USD 1st 2 weeks!
John Calhoun (Glider, Glypha, Pararena, etc), one of the greats for classic mac game programming from the late 80's and 90's, is once again interviewed on Ron's Computer Videos.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#MARCHintosh is starting with a bang!
black and white system 7 environment, showing an opened drive with the GlobalTalk Chat apps 1.0.1 and 1.0.5 highlighted
the apple menu about screen for GlobalTalk Chat, showing text information about how it was written, year and author.
#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk
this new (non-hypercard, fast, low ram footprint) app "GlobalTalk Chat" released a couple days ago just got an update. It's fantastic to have a landing where you can be active and shoot the breeze with others, gives something else to do apart from stomping around in afps
#globaltalk
anyone can help me kick the tires and send a print job to my imagewriter ii in globaltalk? Gotta make sure my connections are ok.
zone 99, "1 Bit"
#MARCHintosh starts early for me this year...
New video up showcasing a programming project
One week from today...
marchintosh.com
a raspberry pi zero with a pi1541 hat showing a set of tactile buttons, a small oled screen indicating a disk being loaded, a rotary encoder knob held by a hand in front of a c64 CRT monitor showing graphics from a popular c64 demo, called 'Mojo', from 2023.
TODAY I kept up with the Commodore!
I got a pi1541 disk emulator so I can run those crazy european PAL demos on my 1983 NA C64 with a Vic II kawari small board.
It was getting old writing to real floppies with a ZoomFloppy board.
![Memory Devices [Bell System 1959, 4K]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ut776x6nid3zdo7sktrmgrqu/bafkreibj4nvobkt5vylu2icsc5b5ekltl3ddtpriv4zd3l27xwjuh2zpw4)
www.youtube.com/watc...
2/2
still from an old timey documentary where "01 BIT" is written on screen with large characters.
1/2
#VCF #Montreal #VCFMTL cool pictures that I'm glad other people (these, from the showrunner) took because I didn't have time as an exhibitor with a table!
3d rotations going as fast as it can in 12.29MHz
more 6502 based programming using floating point calcs
3d transformations, thanks to linear algebra
*sound up (MIDI)*
done in C on a Wildbits/K2 wildbitscomputing.com
