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adafruit.com • 71 days ago

Flap Flap Flying Toasters on Fruit Jam 🕊️🍞💾
https://youtu.be/qoo6TpPjc-g

#retro #retrocomputing #marchintosh

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We grew up with a Mac Plus/512K, so getting the Pico-Mac 68000 emulator https://github.com/evansm7/pico-mac working on Fruit Jam https://www.adafruit.com/product/6200 with 1MB+ of RAM was a high priority for those nostalgic vibes.

adafruit.com•71 days ago

We've got HSTX DVI output plus PSRAM working https://github.com/jepler/pico-mac/tree/rp2350-fruitjam, which means 4MB RAM—that's the most you could get into a Mac Plus and enough to run System 6! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6

adafruit.com•71 days ago

Please note that System 7.1 was the pinnacle of software design, but System 6 was also pretty good. System 6 had some nifty features, such as the "Extensions" and "Control Panel" system programs, like After Dark with the famous Flying Toasters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(software).

adafruit.com•71 days ago

Note that we're still working on audio, so you can see the high byte of the memory space used for audio that we've mapped into the video RAM for visualization. http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/devel/plushw.php has more details on how that works - its 8-bit PWM audio reads "one byte per scanline."

adafruit.com•71 days ago

We'll have that output on the I2S DAC for speaker or headphone output.

What were your favorite extensions from the classic Mac era, and why was it Talking Moose? https://talkingmoose.com

engineersneedart.com•71 days ago

Love to see it running Glider 4.0. (Or Glypha.)

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