Top of a wooden cabinet with various stacked tech boxes, including Apple packaging, a translucent green iMac G3, and a beige Macintosh Classic, all arranged against a plain wall.
There's some retrocomputing among these boxes...
#RetroComputing #IT #Vintage #VintageApple
A tractor feed printout of "68000 Assembly" laying on a McD iced coffee cup in the grass with cherry bloosom trees bokehed in the background
Some good reads for cherry blossom viewing 🌸
#VintageApple #RetroComputing
The antique mall Newton MessagePad 100 is alive. The audio cap seems to have destroyed things, and there’s one row of dead pixels, but otherwise it’s functioning. #vintageapple
A dot matrix printout of "MacOS Runtime Architectures" in a park
Some light Easter reading in the park before the Kids' Egg hunt
#VintageApple #RetroComputing
One thing I've learned is that Inside Macintosh is just the primer. It may look like all you need - it lists all the Toolbox functions and how they work, and walks you through how things ought to fit together!
But in reality to make anything beyond TeachText you need to read: every Technote […]
A screenshot of the file listing and Readme for the source code for SimpleText 1.4d16
TIL that Apple actually released the source code to SimpleText! I don't know how I missed this for so long...
#VintageApple #RetroComputing #AprilTosh #mb
Apple Lisa 2, Lisa OS binder, and original iPod
Happy 50th, Apple.
#Apple #AppleComputerInc #AppleInc #apple50 #Apple50thAnniversary #Macintosh #AppleII #Lisa #SteveJobs #iPod #iPhone #iPad #Mac #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #tech #technews #technology #vintageApple #photo #ByteCellar
Atari 520ST with dual monitors running Pinball Construction Set for the Mac under emulation/translation via Spectre
Pinball Construction Set for Mac running on an Atari ST's SM124 640x400 monochrome 71Hz monitor
An odd "Mac" for this year's #MARCHintosh.
My Atari 520ST running Spectre, a Mac emulator w/ actual Mac ROMs (user provided). Its creator called it 20% faster than Mac Plus, 30% larger desktop.
#Macintosh #Mac #Apple #vintageApple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputers #Atari #AtariST
I want a "HyperCard 2.3 plus Color drawing tools" for my kid to play with.
Basically just draw colorful cards and link between them to make an kid adventure game.
From what I've seen, SuperCard and HyperStudio both pivoted to "more advanced HyperCard for people who outgrew it" to handle things […]
A diagram labeled “Sample Dialog with Color Dialog Items (see page V-282)” showing a classic MacOS print dialog with wild colors and fonts for all the different items
1986 HIG went wild
#VintageApple #MARCHintosh
Look, I made another loop for #loops! #powermac #powermacg4 #powerpc #vintagemac #retromac #retrocomputer #retrocomputing #retropc #vintageapple #retroapple #oldcomputer #oldmac #mac #apple #tiktok
loops.video/v/eHbgZYcSgi
For anyone debugging memory issues in your Classic Mac OS program, I can recommend Metrowerks ZoneRanger, which shows a live view of memory allocations.
In this demo video, you can see how the old version allocates memory and leaks it, but the fixed version […]
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This is how I like it 🥰 The combination of PowerBook G4 12” and iPod nano is amazing! Just bought these from the local guy and they are both in a great condition 😎 Even the batteries work 😀🔋 #apple #powerbook #ipod #vintageapple
A clear, round mouse with pink sides and an apple logo embossed in the middle. It is sat on a mouse page with ray traced balls and rainbow apple logos.
All my #MARCHintosh projects this year have been developed exclusively using this guy here, the iMac "puck mouse”. Countless hours put on it
This guy has seen a lot of vitriol over the years and been berated for being "a terrible design" but honestly it's […]
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A screenshot of After Dark running in MacOS 9 showing a Module named “TalkCrawler AD” with options for style, speed and screen size.
A folder containing a program named TalkCrawler AD Demo 1.0 and an After Dark module named TalkCrawler AD
A screenshot of a screensaver with a network diagram in icon form that is scrolling into the distance in the style of a Star Wars movie intro crawl
A screenshot of a screensaver of a network scrolling up the screen over grass with flowers
And it’s time for my fourth and final #MARCHintosh project for 2026, TalkCrawler AD. It’s an After Dark Module for TalkCrawler that will let you watch #GlobalTalk leisurely scroll past in one of two different styles
There is a standalone version as well if […]
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A Macintosh System 7 chat window with 19 users online
When I first laid out this chat window I seriously thought to myself “I need to figure out how to hide the scroll bar in the List Manager since that scroll bar will never be needed and is just taking up space”. But here we are with nearly 20 users online!
All […]
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Oh, neat!
#VintageApple #MARCHintosh #ImageWriter
A screenshot of Macintosh System 7 showing a window called “Canvas” that is mostly black except for a doodle of a Mac in the corner with the text “kalleboo wuz here”. There is a second window called FatBits with big chunky pixels in it.
Announcing my third #MARCHintosh 2026 project - the MARCHintosh canvas.
If you're familiar with Reddit's /r/place, pxls space, or Wplace, you’ll know what this is - a shared canvas anyone can place pixels onto in real-time!
Only this time, it's over […]
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System 7 about this Macintosh screen This bar represents the amount of memory reserved for the program listed to the left. The dark part of the bar shows how much memory the program is using. This program is currently using 377K out of the 384K reserved for it.
People were having out of memory errors and crashes after using the client for 24 hours+ idling and chatting heavily (the default scrollback grows to 500 lines) so for 1.1.8 I’ve fixed a handful of small memory leaks, rewritten some of the data structures to […]
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Early Apple Macintosh (likely System 1) screenshot showing the Control Panel and several Desk Accessories: Calculator, Puzzle, and Clock. The desktop contains icons labeled System Disk and Trash.
Real widgets, also looking pretty.
#Marchintosh #MacOS #VintageMac #VintageApple https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/116200323758746070
Screenshots of a 9 inch black and white Mac running Norton Disk Doctor 2.0, with the 6 stages of scanning with the doctor himself in various poses looking through portions of the disk
(I have to admit I've had an obsession with progress animations every since this guy battled his way through or family Mac Classic hard disk back in like 1992)
#VintageApple #MARCHintosh
A MacOS 9 screenshot, showing: - App icons - diamond share with a planet and a little spider - Scanning window : An icon shows a magnifying glass over a planet of old Apple hardware icons - Scan results window - a list of GlobalTalk zones, with the BaroNet zone expanded. In the columns are printers and file shares, some with green checks on them.
Here's my second #MARCHintosh project for 2026 - TalkCrawler Lite! A little app to keep track of which #GlobalTalk printers and shares you've visited or left a greeting on!
I rushed this one out so I can get to using it, so it's less polished than Chat, and […]
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Link error: Couldn't get file information from IDE.
Any idea what could cause "Link error: Couldn't get file information from IDE." when trying to build a FAT target in CodeWarrior 6?
The base project was duplicated from a other one which works fine, and the other duplicate (GlobalTalk Chat) also works fine […]
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Does anyone have a license key for DragThing 4.6.1? The upgrade license I can find in Surfers Serials works until I reboot when it gets unlicensed again.
#MARCHintosh #VintageApple
Pinging @jamesthomson because I'm naughty like that
Debating which is more or less painful: separately compiling and embedding an LDEF, or just not using the List Manager and doing everything manually.
Want to do columns with controls in them so I'm thinking the latter.
#MARCHintosh #VintageApple
Error Type: OSErr AppleTalk ATP Decimal -1101 MacOS Errors Find Results noRelErr Hex FBB3 No release received Find
What the heck does "No release received" mean? I was doing local testing on my G4 and it was failing with this error. Then I looked over to the G3 running the live chat server and it's showing the same error.
What does "No release received" mean?
#GlobalTalk […]
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If anyone knows where I can source a working rebuilt or knockoff iBook G4 battery let me know. I'd love to take this shit-show on the road. #powerpc #ppc #linux #retrocomputing #vintageapple #ibookg4
1.0.5 is out:
• “Reveal Mentions" feature to see if you were mentioned while away
• More options for the chat sounds/background notifications
• Tab-complete is now case-insensitive
• Much faster connect on older devices
• Copy/Paste to/from other programs is fixed
• Message character limit is […]
