I picked this machine up at the Trenton Computer Festival (New Jersey) for $25. The price was too tempting to ignore. it's in surprisingly good shape. I'm mostly a Mac person, but I have nothing against Windows. I don't care what the system is, as long as it gets the work done. In 2010, I bought an Asus netbook that runs Windows 7 Starter. I'll mostly do writing on it-I installed MS Office 2013 (?) on it. I just need to figure out what some of the ports are-some I know, others I don't. I'm... Read more ..read more

Hi -- newbie here. But an early adopter of the NeXT computer -- it was my first computer back in 1991 and I used it to start my own graphic design company while finishing up university. I've been storing it safely for over 30 years, but it's time to let it go. If anyone here has any knowledge they could share about the approximate worth of this collection -- or wants to make any offers -- I would greatly appreciate your input. Thank-you so much! ++++++++++++++++++++ ... Read more ..read more

As @Mu0n aptly said "Did not have active NeXT development in my 2024 bingo card" There's been a bunch of BlueSCSI NeXT users hanging out on the OpenRetro SCSI Discord and I thought... I wonder how hard it would be to write the BlueSCSI Toolbox apps for NeXT... First - I don't have a NeXT computer. I have some friends who might loan me one but I started looking at Previous - an emulator for NeXT. Luckily it DOES emulate SCSI. Honestly the hardest part was just... Read more ..read more

Hi folks. Programs to encode modern images into Apple II-savvy formats are not new. Digarok released a nifty utility to do so: Buckshot. I recently came to know about it in a YouTube video by @Javmast3r . The application lets you convert images into 4 modes: Low Resolution Double Low Resolution High Resolution Double High Resolution I was able to load the high-resolution ones. High resolution: Code: ? CHR$(4);"BLOADARCHIVE,A$2000 (or 4000... Read more ..read more

This is a cross-post from 68kmla.org, hopefully that is okay. I am hoping for a larger audience by posting a common thread in both forums. - - - For various reasons I won't bore you with, I recently recreated PacMan using JavaScript. Not a port. No copy/paste of somebodys code somewhere, but a complete start-from-scratch coding of the entire game all by myself. It was a wonderful time. Lots of challenges that matched my skill level. I would consider myself to be an intermediate-level... Read more ..read more

We previously only had the French version of MacTest 2.0 on the Garden. And while I certainly have nothing against that language, it's not my native tongue, so I prodded the gang over on FaceBook and one kind soul whipped it out of his collection and uploaded it today. It's DL#3 here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mactest-portable Note that earlier versions of MacTest are for the 5120. Version 2.0 is exclusively for the 5126 Backlit model. I ran the full suite of tests on my... Read more ..read more

I deyellowed my Mac Portable's spacebar using this: • 3% H2O2 (normal drug store kind) • 1 teaspoon Oxiclean (boosts the H2O2 slightly) • Small transparent plastic container. • SaranWrap (as a cover to prevent evaporation) • Aluminum Foil (place shiny side up, under the container) • Two angled metal pieces to hold spacebar in place • Masking Tape to hold down the metal pieces The metal pieces are hooks for hanging things on the wall, which I happened to have in my toolbox. The... Read more ..read more

GitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS github.com ..read more

Hi all, I am not sure where this is meant to go so I will also be adding it into another section, but I am needing to know very soon whether or not a powerbook 170 floppy disk drive, will be able to read and install software from 800 kb floppy diskettes? I have found a listing on ebay for some office programs and maybe even some os related floppy disks, but I need to know if the 800 kb one in the lot will work with my PB170 or not. I and almost certian that the 1.44 mb floppy diskettes will... Read more ..read more

Hi all, I am not sure where this is meant to go so I will also be adding it into another section, but I am needing to know very soon whether or not a powerbook 170 floppy disk drive, will be able to read and install software from 800 kb floppy diskettes? I have found a listing on ebay for some office programs and maybe even some os related floppy disks, but I need to know if the 800 kb one in the lot will work with my PB170 or not. I and almost certian that the 1.44 mb floppy diskettes will... Read more ..read more