𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 '𝚗' 𝙶𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚜
From a series of 3D tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
As there were no voxel editors yet, I made them by extruding polygons in 3ds Max.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 '𝚗' 𝙶𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚜
From a series of 3D tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
As there were no voxel editors yet, I made them by extruding polygons in 3ds Max.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
10 Things We've Lost on Macs
—Schvabek
𝙰𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒 𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚐𝚒𝚊
From a series of voxel art tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
As there were no voxel editors yet, I made them by extruding polygons in 3ds Max.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
The gibberish on screen is not actually garbage -- it's the data loaded from a file, transferred into the REU, then transferred back to screen memory. This proves that it will work to use the REU this way.
“Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found”
This is a fascinating deep-dive into a classic recovery partition that existed nearly twenty years before Apple stopped shipping physical install media. Originally seen on r/VintageApple #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroMac #RetroComputing #MARCHintosh https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/apples-long-lost-hidden-recovery-partition-from-1994-has-been-found/
Home computers that used cartridges were all the rage in the '80s. I'm surprised there was no third party company that sold a replacement lid for the #AppleII that had a hole cut over slot 7, and made self-booting cartridges the user would plug in through the hole.
<insert mockup photo of Apple II with cartridge poking out of the lid>
𝙱𝚞𝚋 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙱𝚞𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝙱𝚞𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜
From a series of tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
More Bubble Bobble fan art:
https://graphics.social/@metin/114148830864338068
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝙺𝚘𝚗𝚐 (level 3)
From a series of voxel art tributes to childhood game nostalgia I made in the 2000s.
As there were no voxel editors yet, I made them by extruding polygons in 3ds Max.
Some high-res images from this series are available here…
Glider for Apple II's first beta release is available at https://www.colino.net/wordpress/glider-for-apple-ii/
I hope you'll enjoy it, and be sure to report issues if you find some!
Azrael's Tear? More like Azrael's Screen Tear! Nah it's fine, I just have trouble trying to get a consistent speed! (also a little bit of F.Godmom to warm up) Streaming now! https://twitch.tv/sonneveld #DOSGaming #Twitch #Streaming #Retrogaming #retro #Retrocomputing #DOS #MSDOS
OK sheesh, THIS was a super-sweet spot in my (admittedly ancient) computing platform history: DESQView and QEMM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
I mistakenly remembered it as OS/2, which I did run around that time (88, 89, 90) but no, it was desqview.
I'm fine without a mouse, it turns out. I've been writing a bunch of CP/M sofware and old workflows came back (hint: its barbaric, I don't fully recommend it).
Gonna put a web page up about the CP/M thing soon. Got my version 2 boards from JLCPCB, awaiting a delayed delivery from Digikey.
I ran into a few issues with Windows 2.x and later versions of MS-DOS, so I figured I should simply install an older version of MS-DOS. Version 3.31 seemed appropriate, because it supports harddisks larger than 32MB.
Easier said than done, because - as a surprise to me - this version of DOS apparently didn't even have a setup program. You have to do everything yourself: FDISK, FORMAT, SYS,... you even have to copy COMMAND.COM from A: to C: by hand. Simpler times!
Wow! Windows 386 is so much more usable now in 1024x768 SVGA resolution with 256 colors. Yes, I finally found a working graphics driver! And also "yes", I have nothing better to do at 3am!
@NanoRaptor Heck, the VAXstation was a very cute, little, and *real* #VAX
So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!
Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.
Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.
Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.
(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)
I got the project skeleton working pretty fast, but don't expect that to continue. I've forgotten a lot of stuff. But I'll get up to speed eventually.
I recommend using Tribosys for lubricating keyswitches as well as the key stems. With the keyboard apart, I was able to easily apply the lubricant using a thin brush. #retrobrite #retrocomputing #appleextendedkeyboard #vintageapple #MARCHintosh