Kabootie Computie!
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After 81 runs I escaped the underworld, therefore winning the game “Hades”. I will not be taking questions at this time.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
After 81 runs I escaped the underworld, therefore winning the game “Hades”. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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We have an important message to share: RE-PC Tukwila is moving to Kent! It will be roughly 2 blocks east of the Home Depot on the Tukwila side of the river. We will have more details to share soon.
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We have an important message to share: RE-PC Tukwila is moving to Kent! It will be roughly 2 blocks east of the Home Depot on the Tukwila side of the river. We will have more details to share soon.
Found this just in time.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Found this just in time.
I just discovered that id released a Macintosh single-player demo for Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001. The only place I've ever seen it is on a cover CD for the French computer magazine SVM Mac. [1/2]
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I just discovered that id released a Macintosh single-player demo for Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001. The only place I've ever seen it is on a cover CD for the French computer magazine SVM Mac. [1/2]
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October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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BattleNet's original website is still live if you want to grab original StarCraft desktop wallpapers. classic.battle.net/scc/wall.shtml
October 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
BattleNet's original website is still live if you want to grab original StarCraft desktop wallpapers. classic.battle.net/scc/wall.shtml
If you're in the market for Sun Microsystems stuff, and you're in or can get to the Seattle area, the University of Washington's surplus store is auctioning off a bunch of it right now. https://www.govdeals.com/en/asset/6709/6794
August 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you're in the market for Sun Microsystems stuff, and you're in or can get to the Seattle area, the University of Washington's surplus store is auctioning off a bunch of it right now. https://www.govdeals.com/en/asset/6709/6794
Seattle Capitol Hill garage sale FTW. There’s only one missing piece…
August 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Seattle Capitol Hill garage sale FTW. There’s only one missing piece…
I’ve wanted a tangerine clamshell iBook since, well, 1999. I finally came across one cheap enough to impulse-buy. This poor fella has seen some stuff: lots of cracked plastic, kaput battery and trackpad, weird black goo either on or coming out of it. [1/2]
August 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’ve wanted a tangerine clamshell iBook since, well, 1999. I finally came across one cheap enough to impulse-buy. This poor fella has seen some stuff: lots of cracked plastic, kaput battery and trackpad, weird black goo either on or coming out of it. [1/2]
The promotional movie from the Zork Nemesis DOS/Windows demo CD is a corny delight.
Video: https://oldbytes.space/@kabootie/115030694648107828
Video: https://oldbytes.space/@kabootie/115030694648107828
August 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The promotional movie from the Zork Nemesis DOS/Windows demo CD is a corny delight.
Video: https://oldbytes.space/@kabootie/115030694648107828
Video: https://oldbytes.space/@kabootie/115030694648107828
I've run across this Zork Nemesis demo on maybe a half-dozen magazine cover CDs, and it fails to install - with the same error message - on every Mac OS version, emulator, or physical computer I try. [1/2]
August 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I've run across this Zork Nemesis demo on maybe a half-dozen magazine cover CDs, and it fails to install - with the same error message - on every Mac OS version, emulator, or physical computer I try. [1/2]
Macintosh Cover CDs at classicmacdemos.com can now link to their respective DiscMaster entries, so you can browse their contents either in an Infinite Mac emulator or at DiscMaster, whichever you prefer. E.g., https://classicmacdemos.com/disc/macformat-disc-97/
July 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Macintosh Cover CDs at classicmacdemos.com can now link to their respective DiscMaster entries, so you can browse their contents either in an Infinite Mac emulator or at DiscMaster, whichever you prefer. E.g., https://classicmacdemos.com/disc/macformat-disc-97/
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FYI I’ve a moderation list of accounts who promote their own Substack newsletter. Handy to mass-mute. bsky.app/profile/did:...
July 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
FYI I’ve a moderation list of accounts who promote their own Substack newsletter. Handy to mass-mute. bsky.app/profile/did:...
For the moment, the integration I added is quite basic and doesn’t take advantage of functionality described in the developer documentation ( https://infinitemac.org/embed-docs ) to support a variety of screen sizes, pausing and unpausing the VM, and other conveniences. I’ll try to fold some [1/2]
Infinite Mac
A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.
infinitemac.org
July 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
For the moment, the integration I added is quite basic and doesn’t take advantage of functionality described in the developer documentation ( https://infinitemac.org/embed-docs ) to support a variety of screen sizes, pausing and unpausing the VM, and other conveniences. I’ll try to fold some [1/2]
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We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
Home | Commodore
www.commodore.net
July 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
Maybe this will work? 🤞
July 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Maybe this will work? 🤞
Here's a two-node #RabbitMQ cluster, where one node is a PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger host, and the other is Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Intel.
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
July 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here's a two-node #RabbitMQ cluster, where one node is a PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger host, and the other is Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Intel.
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
I pointed a VM of the old Google Search Appliance at one of my retrocomputing project websites, and... remember when Google search results looked like this?
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I pointed a VM of the old Google Search Appliance at one of my retrocomputing project websites, and... remember when Google search results looked like this?
I left my job today, and one side benefit is that now I don’t need formal preclearance from my employer to do open source work. To celebrate, here’s the source code to classicmacdemos.com. It’s a little bit of a mess at the moment, but I’ll clean it up. I certainly have time to now! [1/2]
Classic Macintosh Game Demos
A collection of game demos for vintage Macintosh computers with operating systems through Mac OS 9, especially games from the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
classicmacdemos.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I left my job today, and one side benefit is that now I don’t need formal preclearance from my employer to do open source work. To celebrate, here’s the source code to classicmacdemos.com. It’s a little bit of a mess at the moment, but I’ll clean it up. I certainly have time to now! [1/2]
The venerable text adventure engine Frotz has a Tigerbrew package now, so vintage Mac OS X users are three terminal commands and fewer than ten seconds away from playing almost anything in the amazing collection at Internet Fiction Archive.
May 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The venerable text adventure engine Frotz has a Tigerbrew package now, so vintage Mac OS X users are three terminal commands and fewer than ten seconds away from playing almost anything in the amazing collection at Internet Fiction Archive.
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Optimized the desk setup a lil’ bit
May 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Optimized the desk setup a lil’ bit
CW: Alcohol
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
May 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
CW: Alcohol
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.
May 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.
I hadn’t remembered just how physically large external FireWire DVD drives were.
May 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I hadn’t remembered just how physically large external FireWire DVD drives were.