1Bit

Vintage compact black and white Macs enthusiast, sitting on the line between software and hardware! Also very nostalgic of ms-dos gaming golden era 1991-1994.
Recent adopter of a Wildbits/K2.
BlueSky: @1bit.blusky.social

Youtube '1Bit Fever Dreams': https://www.youtube.com/@1bitfeverdreams
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Youtube 'AnyBit Fever Dreams': https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUn0Dp6PM8DBTF-5g0nvcw

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2026-06-30 01:20:07 UTC

The absolutely unbelievable art from Trici Venola, found in the 'Mac the Knife' art disk from Miles Computing, circa 1987
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2026-03-05 13:06:14 UTC

Batch no.2 of prints received through #globaltalk #marchintosh on my image writer II
from:
@npub1keh…9hlq @npub17ph…zay4 [@_the_cloud](https://mastodon.social/@_the_cloud ) and enzozone
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2026-03-05 13:00:54 UTC

Batch no.1 of prints received through #globaltalk #marchintosh on my image writer II
from:
@npub1pae…8meh @npub1hp6…raya and unknown origin
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2025-09-26 18:29:42 UTC

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oh absolutely. Point still stands generally.

2025-09-26 18:22:02 UTC

Big box PC game feelings are unequal across the MSDOS gaming eras https://youtube.com/shorts/3tleQG85-tc?feature=share

2025-07-16 14:19:59 UTC

Silicon Beach Software were the hottest Macintosh software company in the 80's. They got me with 'Airborne!', slayed me with Dark Castle and kept me engaged with World Builder. I try to stop myself from getting boxed software, but can't resist with beefy manuals.
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2025-06-14 00:15:44 UTC

If you weren't at VCF East 2025 like me, you missed Ian Scott's presentation on his behemoth project PicoGUS sound card for old PCs with ISA slots. Here it is, his path, and the wonderful open source community around it. Also, plans for future revisions https://youtu.be/gTLAhIkmUl0?si=IaC9JQjiUZIwMHYZ

2025-06-02 15:21:28 UTC

it pays off to comment on my youtube videos sometimes!
someone asked in this video about the Archon graphics, so I went ahead and coded a simple C program to display the raw binary data in the right resource as 32-bit wide bitmaps.
https://youtu.be/blV9jOmmHSQ
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2025-05-03 14:49:20 UTC

So I coded a new After Dark 3.0 screen module in May 2025, based on a concept and artwork from Japhy Riddle. After Dark had this THINK C SDK, perfectly matching my experience.
It's called the "Screen Shaver"
See it in action for a spell, running under Basilisk II.
https://www.youtube.com/live/07Dhl8O-z5E?si=n53QLUYUDwZxIvh2
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2025-04-01 16:22:04 UTC

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I wasn't able to scan anything beyond just 1 zone with 1.3.1. I stuck with 1.3, but I'll give this 1.3.2 a try.

2025-03-02 22:30:12 UTC

Reunited with one after 30 years or so
#MARCHintosh
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2025-03-02 19:12:46 UTC

After a solid fight, I did it! MP3 playback with my C source code running on a 8bit 6502 machine with 512kb of RAM, the #F256K2 which has a VS1053b chip. I don't do this for a living so I'll call it an achievement for me!
2 tunes playing in this video https://youtu.be/-F37krzXX_M?si=gmboZkEZT3JN-0Qi

2025-02-23 15:43:28 UTC

My body is getting ready for 2025 #Marchintosh #vintageapple #imagewriter #dotmatrix #globaltalk
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2025-02-23 12:46:40 UTC

Do you want to join in #globaltalk in time for this year's #Marchintosh ? Do you have a windows 10/11 install and don't have a vintage mac or unsure about its state? Look no further, use this guide and get yourself QEMU and get in with trading files and smiles with the rest of us.
Massive thanks for Chris for totally revamping my guide from last year, this will avoid many pitfalls that I overlooked and has many more screengrabs to steer you to victory!
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/globaltalk-global-appletalk-network-for-marchintosh-2024-and-beyond.3392/post-35819
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2025-02-23 12:38:43 UTC

thanks to @npub1c38…v622 , I was able to make my QEMU globaltalk connection work again after a 10 month hiatus. Massive revised guide coming up thanks to him!
People are already dumping stuff in my new 'greets and gifts' folder I have up in my '1Bit' globaltalk zone!
feel free to add to it, it's up!
#globaltalk #marchintosh #vintageapple
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2025-02-01 16:35:03 UTC

I continue my long awaited next entry video of my THINK C series for old black and white Macintosh programming. Today's topic: flickering and tearing, why? and how to fight it!
https://youtu.be/3SUgT83VTWU
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2024-12-29 16:01:16 UTC

full screen scroll programming test in C, captured on my Mac Plus, CopyBits was used
#vintageapple #vintageprogramming #macplus #macintosh
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2024-11-21 13:53:10 UTC

The retro hobby grows and stays vibrant if we welcome new folks to it.
Behold this new channel I stumbled upon: https://www.youtube.com/@MacLegacyLabs
black and white mac programming: uhhhhh....yes please!

2024-11-15 17:29:40 UTC

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PicoGUS v2 can be bought here: https://jcm-1.com/product/picogus-v2/
Mbrutman's mtcp suite including netdrive: http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/mTCP.html
cubic player for msdos: https://demozoo.org/productions/174330/

2024-11-15 17:28:18 UTC

Cubic player in msdos on my 486DX2/66 playing tracker music (.MOD .S3M, etc) from hosted on a remote netdrive hard disk image, playing on a picogus v2. Thankful for so many in the community that made all of this possible.
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2024-10-26 12:56:50 UTC

A weekend Game Jam is happening for the Retro Foenix System #F256K, #F256Jr and #F256K2. Double the participants as the one last April. Here's some progress screens ATM. All are using the 65816 as their cpu of choice. I'll be doing an entry as well, stay "tuned"....
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2024-10-15 05:12:19 UTC

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2024-10-15 04:53:40 UTC

Totally normal web browsing on my Mac Plus, running the popular browser MacWeb2.0c through my BlueSCSI v2, fetching Zophar's Domain through the waybackmachine as it was around 2000, via the new macproxy_plus (a python flask server).
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2024-09-29 23:52:51 UTC

John Calhoun of Glider, Glypha fame (Soft Dorothy) has a huge GitHub with C and Pascal code to tons of shareware games (most in b&w) and the readme reads like a well structured blog. Several repo under that account. gold mine for would be retro programmers (ie me)
https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-SharewareProjects/
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2024-09-10 17:55:26 UTC

Here's a cheat sheet of nice youtube content creators in the vintage mac/pc/apple/etc #retrocomputing world. In case the image compression doesn't play nice, here's the One Link to Rule them All [...] and in the Darkness, Bind Them.
(made for my friends' tables at VCFMW)
https://linktr.ee/VintageMacYTChannels
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2024-09-09 22:02:23 UTC

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I remember my dad dropping the box in my lap one evening, surprising me and my brother (we were deep fans of the series and rivals to try to complete them) and I was...phased by the box design at first sight. It would have worked so much better with a kind of blue colored translucent face superimposed on the Vegas strip instead of that white plastic horror. And cost way less!

2024-09-09 21:47:20 UTC

Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas. The last entry in the MacVentures series for the b&w macs. The best crafted and imo, the hardest, especially for someone young with English as a 2nd language. You have to create a conflict between crime factions by placing the right docs at the right places! Wild ride!
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2024-08-26 12:54:45 UTC

The F256K2 is coming!
It will be showcased at VCF Mid West this coming September 7-8 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
#RETROGAMING #retrocomputing #vcfmw #F256K2 #FoenixRetroSystems
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2024-08-25 13:00:24 UTC

How I roll with msdos' fondly remembered Descent 1 (1995) in 2024 with a dualshock (ps4) controller
https://youtu.be/TacmlloABqs
#msdos #gaming #retro #usb4vc #midi
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2022-11-14 16:52:50 UTC

#introduction Hi, my name is Michaël Juneau. I often go by the alias Mu0n in general, and with 1BitFeverDreams for my youtube channel and twitter. My focus is on the earlier vintage 68k macs, equally with hardware and software. I love figuring out the Mac toolbox in C and I'd love to program tools and games, focusing on extracting as much juice from the cpu and avoiding flickering in this limited environment. I've upped my hardware chops as well as I maintain my handful of macs! DOS games r coo2
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