Nostr notes by 1Bit

The absolutely unbelievable art from Trici Venola, found in the ...

2026-06-30T01:20:07Z

The absolutely unbelievable art from Trici Venola, found in the 'Mac the Knife' art disk from Miles Computing, circa 1987

Batch no.2 of prints received through #globaltalk #marchintosh on ...

2026-03-05T13:06:14Z

Batch no.2 of prints received through #globaltalk #marchintosh on my image writer II
from:
Ian Scott (npub1keh…9hlq) Retro Tech or Die (npub17ph…zay4) [@_the_cloud](https://mastodon.social/@_the_cloud ) and enzozone

Batch no.1 of prints received through #globaltalk #marchintosh on ...

2026-03-05T13:00:54Z

Batch no.1 of prints received through #globaltalk #marchintosh on my image writer II
from:
Nigel Wadsworth (npub1pae…8meh) Nanoraptor (npub1hp6…raya) and unknown origin

oh absolutely. Point still stands generally.

2025-09-26T18:29:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…3td8
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oh absolutely. Point still stands generally.

Big box PC game feelings are unequal across the MSDOS gaming eras ...

2025-09-26T18:22:02Z

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

Silicon Beach Software were the hottest Macintosh software ...

2025-07-16T14:19:59Z

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.

If you weren't at VCF East 2025 like me, you missed Ian ...

2025-06-14T00:15:44Z

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

it pays off to comment on my youtube videos sometimes! someone ...

2025-06-02T15:21:28Z

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

So I coded a new After Dark 3.0 screen module in May 2025, based ...

2025-05-03T14:49:20Z

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

I wasn't able to scan anything beyond just 1 zone with 1.3.1. ...

2025-04-01T16:22:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…tg02
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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.

Reunited with one after 30 years or so #MARCHintosh ...

2025-03-02T22:30:12Z

Reunited with one after 30 years or so
#MARCHintosh

After a solid fight, I did it! MP3 playback with my C source code ...

2025-03-02T19:12:46Z

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

My body is getting ready for 2025 #Marchintosh #vintageapple ...

2025-02-23T15:43:28Z

My body is getting ready for 2025 #Marchintosh #vintageapple #imagewriter #dotmatrix #globaltalk

Do you want to join in #globaltalk in time for this year's ...

2025-02-23T12:46:40Z

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

thanks to @npub1c38…v622 , I was able to make my QEMU ...

2025-02-23T12:38:43Z

thanks to RetroTech Chris (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

I continue my long awaited next entry video of my THINK C series ...

2025-02-01T16:35:03Z

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

full screen scroll programming test in C, captured on my Mac ...

2024-12-29T16:01:16Z

full screen scroll programming test in C, captured on my Mac Plus, CopyBits was used
#vintageapple #vintageprogramming #macplus #macintosh

The retro hobby grows and stays vibrant if we welcome new folks ...

2024-11-21T13:53:10Z

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!

PicoGUS v2 can be bought here: ...

2024-11-15T17:29:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…s6rl
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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/

Cubic player in msdos on my 486DX2/66 playing tracker music (.MOD ...

2024-11-15T17:28:18Z

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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A weekend Game Jam is happening for the Retro Foenix System ...

2024-10-26T12:56:50Z

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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2024-10-15T05:12:19Z

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Totally normal web browsing on my Mac Plus, running the popular ...

2024-10-15T04:53:40Z

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).

John Calhoun of Glider, Glypha fame (Soft Dorothy) has a huge ...

2024-09-29T23:52:51Z

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/

Here's a cheat sheet of nice youtube content creators in the ...

2024-09-10T17:55:26Z

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

I remember my dad dropping the box in my lap one evening, ...

2024-09-09T22:02:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…lv29
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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!

Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas. The last entry in the ...

2024-09-09T21:47:20Z

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!

The F256K2 is coming! It will be showcased at VCF Mid West this ...

2024-08-26T12:54:45Z

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

How I roll with msdos' fondly remembered Descent 1 (1995) in ...

2024-08-25T13:00:24Z

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

#introduction Hi, my name is Michaël Juneau. I often go by the ...

2022-11-14T16:52:50Z

#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