Obviously, this is breaking news! Sure you could like read the official press release, or any of the dozens (hundreds?) of ‘reputable news’ sites, along with thousands of vloggers, but naturally I of course check out 65scribe, and yep there indeed is a new video!
Kind of disappointed there is no planned Mac version, despite what apple says about ARM gaming.
Well this was unexpected find! Thanks to hyenasky over on discord.
While the platform had a few mentions here and there but it’s great to have found a talk about the product with video of it running.
Interestingly enough Compaq was apparently in charge of the ARC specifications? Also kind of funny how the do touch on that maybe one day it could be available for the Dec Alpha, but as we know DEC pivoted away from the MIPS entirely to focus on the Alpha.
The other part being how the Pentium/Pentium Pro was entirely unexpected from the wider RISC market that thought they had the migration point out of 386/486 based machines.
Unfortunately, like the platform, Alexandre Bronstein exited DEC to go onto other ventures, oddly enough at Veritas being pulled back into dealing with Microsoft with the disk manager.
Not sure why it took 27 years, but the full launch video is online!
First up, a friend of the blog, NCommander has his 8.5 hour marathon ‘Porting 16-bit Windows 1.0 Applications to 64-Bit Windows 11‘
I was so tired I ended up sleeping through the whole thing. Sometimes it’s hard being on the other side of the planet. But for anyone interested in Windows programming it’ll be super interesting in how much has changed, and yet how much things haven’t changed.
As an added bonus, 65scribe has also blessed us with not only another great retrospective on iMacs, but also our favorite museum in Ontario, but left us with a cliff hanger (minor spoiler!).
I never knew about the artic blue ice thing before. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but who knows?!
This video is from a friend of mine NCommander. For anyone interested in early 64bit versions of Windows, floating point precision or what happened to pinball check out this video!
Totally worth the watch!
You can find more From NCommander on his YouTube channel, and support him on Patreon.
Seriously, I’ve been living under a rock, but 2MMUSD for Super Mario Brothers? Yeah no.
The only nice thing is that eventually there will be a population report, either by the grader, or the ‘investors’ and the prices will absolutely crash.
Remember coins? Sports Cards? Yeah. Pity anyone who legit bought anything for more than $500.
I honestly didn’t think anything like this existed
Stay 2'ned. Can't help but think of 2ine.
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This is beyond super cool! Video has always been something of the realm of ‘high end’ machines, back when QuickTime became a thing it was lauded at running in a postage stamp sized window with absolutely incredible artifacting. And that was running with a Quadra (68040) back in the day, the transition from 68000 to PowerPC really helped with video on the desktop with much faster clocks and better caching.
The idea of video on any of the compact black & white Macs, even the ultra high end SE/30 68030 based Mac seemed something out of fantasy. But thanks to modern processors, massive storage and the ability to front process the video, it is now possible to do playback on a B&W mac!
Enter MacFilm 1.0 by Fred!
This is some super cool ‘impossible’ tech for the low end macs!
This is nothing short of incredible!
Of course the ‘downside’ is there is no audio.. And it’s directly blitting to the 512×342 B&W display so if you are not running on a 1 bit original display it’s not going to work or just blast seemingly junk to the screen.
Maybe if big 80’s media wasn’t so slow, or massive SCSI disks didn’t cost as much as a car we could have been enjoying an almost Brazilian future of black and white movies on tiny CRT’s.