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Written by Sidde on 2025-01-19 at 13:34

[#]MorphOS 3.19 Adventure day 2 on the #MacMiniG4

[#]Wayfarer updated to 9.0 and spent some time with understanding how to change desktop resolution, background etc. to 4:3 so I can easily switch between the mega65 and this on the Capture Card without different settings.

Being without the normal BSD/GNU tools in the shell makes computing a bit more complicated. And without a *nix filesystem structure I don't even know where to put the new browser :D

[#]retrocomputing #PPC #PowerPC

[#]Macintosh

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Written by Sidde on 2025-01-18 at 18:02

Been waiting for this day! The release of #MorphOS 3.19

Never really used MorphOS before. And I was never an #Amiga user either either (I left the #C64 for a 386).

Last year I've started exploring the "alternative universe" of #Commodore with the #Mega65. Now I will explore the #PowerPC Amiga Software on the #MacMiniG4.

Burned a CD and installed it. Quick and easy. Replaced my old "hacked" version of #MacOS9 that was installed on the unsupported #PPC #MacMini.

[#]retrocomputing #Macintosh

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-23 at 11:04

Just finished reading the 29th #Discworld novel Nightwatch and felt like I wanted play some #DiscworldMUD this morning.

The #Mega65 is such a great retro experience for stuff like this. Works great with #C64 Cartridges and software.

[#]VintageComputing #retrogaming #retrocomputing #MUD #Commodore #C65 #Screenshot #novaterm #TeensyROM #Swiftlink #8bit

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-22 at 14:11

[#]Christmas is the time of year for enjoying the classics. And this

Swedish computer game from the mid 90s is one those #classics.

[#]Backpacker:

Buy a plane ticket and travel to a country. Learn about its history and culture, answer questions about it to earn more money to travel to the next destination.

[#]retrocomputing #VintageMac #MacOS9 #Macintosh #PowerPC #PPC #ibook #ibookg3 #retrogaming

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-21 at 13:32

This is #TotallyNormalComputing in #8bit

Using my #Mega65 in #C64 mode with a #TeensyROM cartridge to connect using NovaTerm over Swiftlink to a local shell on my #Mac Studio.

With 80 column mode, VT102 and ansi colors.

[#]Commodore #C65 #retrocomputing #VintageComputing

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-20 at 14:23

Inserted the #TeensyROM cart to the #Mega65, firmware updated it and connected the ethernet cable.

Works right out of the box with with dhcp. I connected to The Oasis #BBS to try out this new toy.

[#]retrocomputing #VintageComputing #Commodore #C64 #C65 #8bit

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-20 at 13:57

Bought myself a #TeensyROM cartridge as a #Christmas gift to myself and It arrived today. But I could not wait until the 24th so I opened it a few days too early.

A friend printed out cases in different colors but I think i'm going with the white and use the button from the red one.

[#]C64 #C65 #Mega65 #Commodore #VintageComputing #retrocomputing #8bit

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-13 at 13:27

Installed Power #MachTen 4.1.4 and upgraded to 5.0.5. After startup I got reminded quickly that backspace didn't erase characters but 'stty erase "^H"' fixed that.

MachTen is bundled with #afterstep but very few other binaries. and compiling OpenSSL might take some time...

Does anyone know any repo of precompiled #ppc binaries for this platform?

[#]VintageMac #MacOS9 #Unix #BSD #ibook #PowerPC #retrocomputing

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Written by Sidde on 2024-12-04 at 19:22

A nice evening with some #Crémant de Bourgogne and #Warcraft on my "new" #ibook G3

I have such memories of this game playing on my old #386. But I also remember the game taking just a few 1.4MB of ARJ compressed floppies and not 80Mb+ as the Mac version seems to be.

But I should have read mission objectives. Because I have explored the map and killed all the enemies and then later found out that was not the mission.

[#]PowerPC #PPC #MacOS9 #retrocomputing #VintageMac #retrogaming #Macintosh

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Written by Sidde on 2024-11-30 at 17:25

HTTPS including TLS 1.3 and SSH2. Configuring #Classilla with Crypto Ancienne (https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/carl.html) to work as HTTPS proxy.

And doing so with the use of #ssheven (https://github.com/cy384/ssheven) to ssh into a local server.

Now I have a #MacOS9 laptop to replace my #MacMIniG4 as my "Classic Mac" so the mini can do new adventures with #MorphOS. But first I will spend some time setting up MachTen.

[#]Mozilla #Netscape #Retrocomputing #VintageMac #Screenshot #PowerPC #PPC #terminal #ibook #Macintosh

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Written by Sidde on 2024-11-30 at 13:54

Now after installing #MacOS9 on an #Apple #iBook G3 600MHz I did some benchmark against my #MacMiniG4 also running MacOS9 (via the ROM hacked image).

The #PowerPC G3 in this iBook surprisingly slow. I expected half of CPU performance, of the G4 not less than a third compared to the 1.2GHz #PPC G4 in the Mini. And it's rather close with the built in reference result of a #Powermac G3 300MHz.

The FPU benchmark looks better though...

[#]Retrocomputing #VintageMac #MacBench #Macintosh #screenshot

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Written by Sidde on 2024-11-28 at 17:32

Fantastic! #TotallyNormalComputing

Booting #MacOS9 Installer from USB, and without even touching #OpenFirmware. I really like the community for this kind of service!

'Mac OS 9.2.2 "boot kit" for booting your G3/G4 from an USB stick' by that-ben on Macintosh Repository just works out of the box! On a #powerpc #G3 #ibook with USB1.

And it was kinda fast to boot and install too. My #Powerbook got some company now!.

[#]Apple #Macintosh #PPC #VintageMac #retrocomputing

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Written by Sidde on 2024-11-15 at 11:35

Tried out the newly released #GUI64 for the #Commodore64 today from https://github.com/WebFritzi/GUI64

Works like a charm on the #Mega65 with the #C64 core!

But I haven't yet connected any SD2IEC-device to try that out though.

It's a simple yet elegant UI.

[#]Commodore #Commodore65 #Retrocomputing

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Written by Sidde on 2024-11-13 at 18:45

Spending an evening with an old computer isn't always fun. It can be hours and hours of installations, downloads and just waiting for stuff to happen.

My 2010 #MacbookAir needed partition resizing (for Haiku, fingers crossed) and then #OpenCoreLegacyPatcher to install #macOS monterey

Avoiding newer macos because of non existing USB1.1 for touchpad/keyboard.

And then Appstore only lets me download latest and not compatible Xcode. Always something...

[#]TotallyNormalComputing #Macintosh

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Written by Sidde on 2024-09-06 at 18:18

Never exposed myself much to IBM OS/2 and maybe it was better before the warp era compared to other operating systems at the time. But it hasn't aged that well like the BeOS/Haiku experience.

I prefer running an OS natively on the hw but in this case I wasn't that committed. Not yet at least. But maybe #ArcaOS is the modern alternative to Win98SE for #DOS and early Windows Gaming and I should install it on some computer as the only OS.

[#]IBM #OS2 #Warp #VintageComputing #Retrocomputing

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Written by Sidde on 2024-08-05 at 15:19

Getting closer to a Mini ITX RISC-V Haiku Desktop with these new boards. Will definitely buy a RISC-V board "soon".

Just want to be sure I buy one that will work with #Haiku so will probably need to wait for a bit more mature platform.

So for now I will continue to use #HaikuOS on my old Intel 9700k Linux Gaming PC as a secondary OS. Works great!

[#]Retrocomputing #TotallyNormalComputing #riscv

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Written by Sidde on 2024-08-01 at 17:24

My #Mega65 got a new badge today. Hope I'm not getting keelhauled by the community now for choosing a #Commodore65 badge ;)

[#]Commodore #Retrocomputing #8bit #8bitcomputing

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Written by Sidde on 2024-07-14 at 11:37

I friend gave me a few hundred 3.5" #floppy disks and a colleague gave me a pack of new old stock.

I've now formatted and verified 50+ of the floppies and still haven't found a single error.

I collected so many floppies because I thought most of them would have gone bad after so many years. But apparently not.

Sticking new blank labels on each newly formatted disk too.

[#]Retrocomputing #VintageComputing #mega65

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Written by Sidde on 2024-07-11 at 17:20

A photo from back in 2005.

It was the last time I saw my #C64, 1541 #floppy disk drive, #cassette drives and games before I gave it away when I moved from Sweden to the UK.

Now with my #Mega65 I want to play all the games I remembered playing as a kid during the days before the 386 and my PC era.

The boxed games is easy to see what I once had. But I can only remember the names of a few of the copied games on 5,25" disks.

[#]Commodore64 #Commodore #Commodore65 #Retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit

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Written by Sidde on 2024-06-22 at 11:13

Having a morning coffee, playing games on the #Mega65 and listening to podcast "The Rest Is History".

Great start of the day!

[#]TheRestIsHistory #Commodore #C64 #C65 #Retrocomputing #retrogaming #Tac2

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