Post- #MARCHintosh , I thought it would be nice to contribute the game demos from my #GlobalTalk game demo library to Macintosh Garden, in any cases where I have something they don't.
After uploading the first three games, I'm blocked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll be enjoying all these new discoveries for quite a while. Thanks, everyone! [2/2]
A Macintosh System 7 folder window showing greetings and notes dropped into a #GlobalTalk dropbox.
A Macintosh System 7 finder window labeled "Finds" showing a list of files that I picked up while exploring #GlobalTalk this year.
By the end of my first #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh , visitors had dropped off 25 greetings, I discovered a dozen or so new retrocomputing folks to follow on Mastodon, and I picked up a little over 100 little icon packs, games, and utilities that people were sharing in their zones. [1/2]
Mac OS X Cheetah installer
Let’s get some Cheetah on this lil blue boy.
Power Macintosh G3, G4, and G5 towers
3-4-5
With my #GlobalTalk Mac running on an isolated network, getting a screenshot onto Mastodon took some creative problem solving. A floppy disk was involved.
Eight classic Macintosh hard drive icons.
With some editorial decisions and BlueSCSCI shenanigans, I was able to make my entire library of 422 commercial game demos for Classic Macintosh systems available via #GlobalTalk . Come grab one!
Screenshot of a Quadra 610 desktop showing shared #GlobalTalk drives & stuff.
Drop by and visit me on #GlobalTalk ! I've added 300 or so game demos to shared folders to grab and play, and I'll hopefully add more over the course of #MARCHintosh
But for now it's fun to connect a physical Quadra to the network and use classic Mac OS built-in file sharing, with the achingly slow performance that entails. [2/2]
Some #GlobalTalk zones I've visited have impressively robust setups backed by modern Linux software. I'm sure I'll eventually do something similar. [1/2]
I'm having a great time with #GlobalTalk . It's giving old-time campus-wide computer network, where everyone's freely swapping apps, chatting, playing games, and having community fun in a low-stakes environment.
Running from now until Friday, March 13th, I need your help with some research I'm conducting. Full explanation in the survey. Let's have fun with this!
forms.gle/cqrzW7sZ3Aje...
(Please share this link. The more responses, the better the data collection.)
Well, lots of things. For starters, you can use the HyperCard® software to organize all that information that takes up precious space on your desk and in your mind. Addresses. Telephone numbers. Birthdays.
Limited software license agreement number 1 of 31.
Before playing Marathon, I just real quick need to accept these 31 license agreements.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free.
...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...
Histogram of publication dates for the discs I uploaded, showing dates primarily in 2002-2008.
That stack of Macworld CDs is all uploaded to Internet Archive now. 85 discs resulting in 68 new pages, after removing duplicates and combining multiple discs onto single pages where it made sense. Enjoy! archive.org/details/@jcgraybill/list...
Here's a list I'm making of these CDs as I archive them. It's going a bit slowly, because Internet Archive rate-limited me for making too many contributions. 🤪 archive.org/details/@jcgraybill/list...
A LOT of Macworld coverdiscs.
I just found a LOT of Macworld coverdiscs. Going to upload these to Internet Archive this weekend.
Concept art of a Ghôl and Soulless, two monsters from the Bungie computer game Myth: The Fallen Lords.
Just came across this concept art for Myth: The Fallen Lords, one of my late-90s faves.
It's been a fun project to hunt for these and compile them in one place, a few every few days. I enjoy looking through these old artifacts of the Macintosh experience, and I hope this collection makes it easy for folks to have the same kind of retro experience.
There are discs from 33 magazines, with the largest collections being:
MacAddict: 125
MacFormat: 105
SVM Mac: 93
Macworld UK: 71
MACup: 69
Univers Macworld: 59
Mac Magazin and Mac Easy: 52
Inside Mac Games: 47
Macworld: |38
Univers Mac: 32
As it stands today, the collection includes coverdiscs from 8 countries:
🇺🇸 326
🇫🇷 220
🇬🇧 204
🇩🇪 162
🇪🇸 27
🇸🇪 13
🇳🇱 6
🇦🇺 2
Milestone moment: I just cataloged the 1,000th Mac magazine coverdisc on Classic Mac Demos: https://classicmacdemos.com/disc/machome-august-1999/
If you haven't experienced it, it's worth trying out. An interesting and (mostly) well-crafted experience that will probably disappear sometime in the near future and never become a mass-market product.
PSA: Apple still offers free 30-minute Vision Pro demos at Apple Stores, and pretty much any time slot you'd like is probably available. www.apple.com/retail/instore-shopping-...
Even at 720p, I always loved the decayed retro sci-fi look of the Cosmodrome. [2/2]
Screenshot showing spacecraft on launchpads in Destiny 1's Cosmodrome setting.
The servers for Destiny 1 on Xbox 360 are amazingly still running, and there were maybe a half dozen people online when I checked this morning. Props to whoever at Bungie is keeping this version of the game available. [1/2]
By January, pass all of this along to somebody who’s into retro console gaming for real. [2/2]
Intellivision Flashback, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii
Dead Space Extraction (Wii game); The Gunstringer, Fable: The Journey, Wanted: Weapons of Fate (Xbox 360 games)
My December goal: I pulled my old Wii and Xbox 360 out of storage to play the last few games in my backlog that only work on them. I also picked up this Intellivision Flashback at a Goodwill a few weeks ago. [1/2]
