Notices by 1Bit (1bit@bitbang.social)

Today, the Macintosh Plus turns 40.
Here is my tribute video for it.
https://youtu.be/fxjG1yWYF44

I designed the PC Gameport Party for vintage PCs that have a DB15 game port last year to allow 2 joysticks splitting the axes and buttons, or 1 joystick getting everything (switch), midi in and midi out. You can order it at Joe's computer museum https://jcm-1.com/product/pc-gameport-party/

Just playing a few rounds of Star Control II Melee mode in 2025 with my 8 year old daughter, a typical Saturday morning activity of #msdos of gaming. We are both use Gravis gamepad pros thanks to a PC Gameport Party

World Builder (1986 Silicon Beach) support coming to ScummVM. Old Mac gaming heads rejoice! That wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, let me tell you.

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20250822/

I've archived these 4 disks from 1991 from Passport Designs containing midi files at the start of the General #Midi Mania. Best hear with a proper hardware midi synths, but I guess software render GM is not too shabby nowadays. dl#5 is a straight zip with all of them inside. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/midi-hits-collection

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/

#MARCHintosh #globaltalk
I made a video of my impressions of the first 4-5 days I spent getting my Mac SE/30 on #globaltalk

https://youtu.be/cIMmz0EWWi0

@mac84tv it'll fit perfectly in a recent ... "clearing" made on my board ;)

@mac84tv 😂 ❤️ silly running gag is silly! love you Steve!

aaah @mac84tv is offline at this hour, but I would have sent this to his imagewriter! #globaltalk tomorrow it is!

#dosgaming #retro #pc #vga I finished Lost Vikings - starts boringly easy, gets fiendish and makes you throw out your model of a level solution multiple times before you settle on the winning one. Great gem that I'm glad I finally tried out in 2023 for the first time.