Jeff Geerling<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.afront.org/@stylus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stylus</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@adafruit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adafruit</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ladyada" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ladyada</span></a></span> what a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marchintosh</span></a> contribution, nice!</p><p>Do you have a guide up for the beep hardware setup? Would like to replicate it as well</p>
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Stylus<p>I have pico-mac playing the system beep on an i2s dac (though when <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@adafruit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adafruit</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ladyada" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ladyada</span></a></span> made a build locally, it didn't work for her, hmmmm, I'll get that sorted tomorrow)</p><p>in the process, I discovered an interesting problem that might be randomly corrputing a certain 740 bytes of RAM when pico-mac or umac is configured for a non-power-of-two memory size! <a href="https://github.com/evansm7/umac/issues/15" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/evansm7/umac/issues</span><span class="invisible">/15</span></a></p><p>the fix seems to be another rom patch:</p><pre><code> /* Fix up the sound buffer as used by BootBeep */<br> ROM_WR32(0x292, RAM_SIZE - 768);<br></code></pre><p>and is also included in <a href="https://github.com/evansm7/umac/pull/14" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/evansm7/umac/pull/14</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>you also avoid the problem if you configure pico-mac for 256kB, 512kB, 1024kB, etc.</p><p><a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marchintosh</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/picoMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>picoMac</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/umac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>umac</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/rp2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rp2</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/rp2350" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rp2350</span></a></p>
europlus :autisminf:<p>The <a href="https://social.europlus.zone/tags/WOzFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WOzFest</span></a> HQ <a href="https://social.europlus.zone/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTalk</span></a> Print Shop night shift elves laboured through the night to get file sharing services back up and running. The morning shift supervisor during handover asked “Have you tried turning it off and back on again?”</p><p>Short version: file services are now back online.</p><p>Overnight we received this colourful print job from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@theirongiant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theirongiant</span></a></span>! It reminds us here in the antipodes that we are about the enter the depths of winter.</p><p><a href="https://social.europlus.zone/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a></p>
Peter Fletcher<p>Welp, my <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTalk</span></a> Quadra 650 is going dark for the rest of the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> due to what I assume is onboard VRAM failure. <br>Turned on the monitor today and the screen was a jumbled mess. Restart didn't help. Removed external VRAM and got a picture, but it is shaky & keeps losing either R, G or B.</p>
BigBadBiologist<p>Do people believe that I have a Macintosh Quadra 700? <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marchintosh</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/jank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jank</span></a></p>
andy diller<p>You know those were just different times when a purchase of essentially a phone connector included the connector, a terminator, an extra resistor, RJ11 cabling _AND_ a 93 page manual that showed you how to set up an entire network of devices.</p><p>Times have changed - maybe that is why <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marchintosh</span></a> seems so magical to many of us.</p>
Dave Diamond<p>I wonder what's happening on the Mac SE in the basement? Now I just need a remote mouse jiggler! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a></p>
SuperBenK<p>Still trying to get netatalk v4 shares to show up in Chooser & just found that running `tcpdump` on the netatalk Linux server magically makes AppleTalk DDP work! Not doing anything else special, just letting `tcpdump` run. When I stop `tcpdump` the netatalk shares disappear from Chooser. I don't get it. <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a></p>
Karl Baron<p>One thing some of us have been playing with on <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTalk</span></a> this <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> is LACS, an AppleTalk chat system</p><p>But LACS isn't just another chat app - it's deep Apple lore. LACS started out at Apple as "RumorMonger", an experiment in decentralized chat. But this was back when Apple was heavily dysfunctional, full of project fiefdoms and yearly layoffs, so an anonymous bullhorn like this could really go crazy, leading to it spreading like wildfire.</p><p>This explains the sternly-worded dialog...</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/mb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mb</span></a></p>
DosFox<p>Many many thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@hkz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hkz</span></a></span> - he figured out a proper implementation for the CAS! We finally have a 100% working full set of working Macintosh Plus PALs! </p><p>Even the Unitron ROMs like it!</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MacintoshPlusClone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacintoshPlusClone</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Unitron1024Clone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unitron1024Clone</span></a></p>
europlus :autisminf:<p>That’s a lotta packets!</p><p><a href="https://social.europlus.zone/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTalk</span></a> <a href="https://social.europlus.zone/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a></p>
Scott Small 🇨🇦<p>Update on the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> Miracle Power Mac 6500:</p><p>The new PRAM battery arrived yesterday! So I pulled out the motherboard, installed the new battery, reinserted the motherboard, and decided to test the system before re-assembling it. And... it worked! 🎉</p><p>I then pulled the motherboard out again, cleaned it off with some compressed air, cleaned out the rest of the case, reinstalled the motherboard, painstakingly re-assembled the case, broke some more plastic, put it all back together and powered it up again... and no video 😡</p><p>Unsure of what to do, I removed and reinstalled the motherboard again. And it worked! 🤯</p><p>So now I'm wondering, maybe the PRAM battery being dead never was the cause of the video issues. Maybe the motherboard just wasn't seated in its slot correctly all this time? In any case, it seems to start up reliably with video now.</p><p>I decided not to bother with a new internal hard drive for now. Instead, I bought a ZuluSCSI* Mini Slim (<a href="https://decromancer.ca/zuluscsi/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">decromancer.ca/zuluscsi/index.</span><span class="invisible">html</span></a>), attached it to the SCSI port on the back of the machine, and am using that as the primary hard drive for now, instead of the giant noisy LaCie drive that this machine came with.</p><p>Lots of stuff I want to do with this thing - but for now I don't want to get too distracted, and continue with my software archiving task instead.</p><p>(* I would have bought a BlueSCSI, but their Canadian manufacturer doesn't have any DB25 models in stock right now.)</p>
data<p>Very strange. I did a clean, basic installation of System 7.5 from floppy (Floppy Emu), and the machine boots without issues. But if I update to 7.5.3, it gets stuck (not frozen, I can still move the cursor) when the desktop is about to load—same with the internal 7.6 drive. If I use the 7.5 image that I normally run on my 460, it also gets stuck at the desktop. However, with the 7.5 installation taken from the 460, it works if I start without extensions. Weird.</p><p><a href="https://slayers.online/tags/Marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marchintosh</span></a></p>
andy diller<p>I am finally back on System 9.2.2 and can send out some <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> Daily News! Moving to PPC Qemu did it once I realized that... 9.2.2 only runs on PPC lol. AppleTalk works finally and I can run it on Apple Silicon.</p>
dan 💾<p>[UPDATE: Entries now closed, stay tuned for the draw!]</p><p>It's the equinox tomorrow, which means that soon it will stop getting dark here for a few months.</p><p>Let's celebrate with a <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> giveway! </p><p>Reply to this toot with ‘toot toot' for a chance to win a few super-shiny <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/LiveLaughLocalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiveLaughLocalTalk</span></a> stickers!</p><p>The hat-o-matic will pick three winners tomorrow, 20 March. Good luck :D</p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>I am so envious of the <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marchintosh</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/globaltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>globaltalk</span></a> folks! So cool!!</p>
data<p>Ok, I take that back. It has some weird boot issues. With certain disk images (using BlueSCSI 1), it only boots if extensions are disabled, otherwise, it gets stuck while loading the desktop. The internal disk only works when the BlueSCSI is connected but still gets stuck at the desktop. Sometimes, the system reboots multiple times when using the internal disk. I need to read up on common issues with this machine.</p><p> <a href="https://slayers.online/tags/Marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marchintosh</span></a></p>
data<p>The new LC 475 is starting up just fine. Nice!</p><p><a href="https://slayers.online/tags/Marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marchintosh</span></a></p>
Eric’s Edge<p>If you are participating in <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23marchintosh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marchintosh</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23globaltalk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globaltalk</a> and like text adventure games, the demo release of Adventure! my mostly text <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23hypercard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> adventure game is available for download from my Eric’s Edge zone. Including a PDF draft of the game manual.</p>
Mike Piontek<p>Tonight I’m playing the first known LGBTQ game, Caper in the Castro by C.M. Ralph! It’s a point-and-click murder mystery made in HyperCard, released in 1989 via BBS. “It’s not just a game… it’s a Gayme!” <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">twitch.tv/robotspacer</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Twitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitch</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a></p>
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