Retro68 projects
https://github.com/antscode/MacPlayer
https://github.com/antscode/MacWifi
https://github.com/clehner/Browsy
https://github.com/antscode/MacAuthLib
cy384/ssheven
https://github.com/clehner/Retro68Test
https://github.com/DrJosh9000/humbletwitter
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When moving Nuklear to Macintosh, it became apparent that there would be a lot of performance optimization work necessary to provide a usable GUI experience on an 8MHz Macintosh. To make the situation worse, there is no profiling tooling available for Retro68, and no way as far as I could tell to run some kind of code profiler against the pce-macplus emulator, so I came up with a simple library for profiling code over a serial port via simple function calls.
So let’s say you’re wanting to profile a Retro68 application that you’re working on. Here’s how you might go about...
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Finally after building up lots of tooling for classic Macintosh, we can develop a full application.
If you’re stumbling on this article without context, you might want to start with these to get up to speed:
Ultimately I want to use a Macintosh Classic all day, every day, for useful things and have it be a major part of my workflow.
To that end, I want to create an iMessage client to send and receive messages with my friends,...
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GUI programming on old Macs can be pretty painful.
For some background, I am relatively new to Mac programming but experienced with programming in general. I have been doing a fair amount of programming using the Retro68 console recently, but now I’m looking to create some more GUI-based applications, so they can feel more “Mac-like”.
I’ve been pouring through the books “Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials” and “Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh Toolbox” along with some other resources online, and have been playing around a bit manipulating the “MenuSample” test app from this blog post: http://www.toughdev.com/content/2018/12/developing-68k-mac-apps-with-codelite-ide-retro68-and-pce-macplus-emulator/.
I...
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I’ve listed out everything that I used on this project on amazon.
Let’s lay out everything that we need to make sure we have all the necessary tools that we need to get started first.
Again, you should have:
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One of my dreams is to create a modern piece of software that allows programmers on any old machine to hand off work loads off to a modern machine over the serial port and get a response back that they can then interact with. This software will provide a standard interface for serial-connected devices to provide code to execute.
For my first approach, I am going to have workloads all be in modern nodejs. I like nodejs because it has a vast ecosystem of easy to use packages via npm, and if you are using an old computer, should be “fast enough” to do whatever it is you are trying to do. I have built a C-based package aimed at...
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I started playing around using Retro68 on a modern Linux-based machine to do development work for old Macintosh computers in the spirit of one of my previous posts. In doing so, I ran into many problems while getting started and coming up with my own workflow. I hope that others can find this guide helpful in getting up and running with their own classic Macintosh dev stories.
Who can use this guide? Anyone who wants to get up and running with Mac development being cross compiled from a modern Linux environment as quickly as possible. I’ve laid out the commands and explanations in the most straightforward way I could with the simple goal of running a hello world application. I do not go very in depth as to what I am laying out here but link out to other resources for you to learn more.
I used a few other guides to build up to what I...
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If I had unlimited time on my hands I would work on software to make old computers more useful.
My ultimate goal is that I would like to be able to use a Macintosh Plus running System 7.x to:
I would achieve this by using a combination of:
The general idea is that...
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here is my budget turbo miata parts formula.
Parts listed are for a 1.8L build, adjust parts for 1.6 as needed. Should be capable of more power than what the rods are good for and should do so for less than $2,000. Dyno tune to 220whp and stop. Only missing parts here are downpipe and exhaust. Take to exhaust shop for finalization. I would do everything but the turbo, turbo manifold, and boost controller on a supercharged build.
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So you want to build a sucker or fan car.
Here are some background info links
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