1Bit Fever Dreams

Dunno if you're aware of 1986 Studio Session running on Mac Plus and software mixing 6 freeform waves on the fly. A few years later, it was revised to 8 channels in the follow up Super Studio Session but offered 11 kHz and 22 kHz depending on your machine. The audio engine by legend Steve Capps

YouTube video by 1Bit Fever Dreams MOD file player test on a Mac Plus (experimental)

If you thought mod players needed a 68020 or 68030 (ie SoundTrecker), you thought wrong just like me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeTB...

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picture of a Mac Plus with a file dialog that shows 3 items: the program NanoMacTracker, NIRVANA.MOD and spacedeb.mod the buttons on the dialog say: Eject, Drive, Open and Cancel. the first item is highlighted in black

I checked out this MOD player on a Mac Plus and modified it to have a standard file picker. The project is from 'MIST' who ported mod tracker playing code from Atari to the Mac (makes sense, both 68000 cpus!).

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3x3 MIDI Selector - Joe's Computer Museum Connect multiple MIDI generating devices to multiple MIDI consuming devices without all the cable swapping or expensive "MIDI THRU" boxes! Just supply your own MIDI devices and MIDI cables, select th...

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get them at jcm-1:

jcm-1.com/product/3x3-...

3d rendering of a small PCB board for the 3x3 midi selector. We can see 6 MIDI din5 sockets on the left and right sides. 2 switches near the middle and the text '3x3 MIDI Selector v1.1 (2025)', a small piano graphic and the MIDI logo

underside of the PCB showing 'This selector connects one MIDI device from the ABC side to one MIDI device on the 123 side. Only one path stays active'. near the bottom, we see a circular 1Bit bitmap logo and the URL 1BitFeverDreams.com

DESPAIR NOT, FRIENDOS:

the inital stock of 15 MIDI selectors (3x3) sold down to 1 unit, but 15 more are arriving shortly.
Your national nightmare is over.

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Demoscene prod for i486 DX2 66 MHz, 4Mb RAM, MS-DOS. Released on Assembly 2025 (Summer). Made by 7dUMP & SandS. download: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=104607 captured on a IBM DX2/66 ValuePoint 425SX/S (cpu upgraded) video capability: S3 805 vlb onboard sound capability: PicoGUS bad VGA to [MSDOS] Demoded (2025)

cool demo that made 1st place in Assembly 2025 that I captured from my 486 with picogus youtu.be/-bryr2NkruU

THEtechknight is so appreciated, watching this atm

1Bit Fever Dreams in front of the black and white title screen of Titan, a Macintosh video game. the word Titan is written in angular special font with stars and horizontal lines. The main part of the screen shows abstract distanced cubes in various gray patterns. There's a shiny black ball in the bottom left. There's a fox-like cartoon character in the bottom right.

check out my gameplay video of Titan (1989) for Macintosh in black and white, 60 fps.

youtu.be/W7ZIj2uOsaQ

OpL3 is really fun to code, and wham! Here it is, incoming into nubus retro Macs? V cool!

a beige CRT is showing Borland C++ 3.1 running in msdos with its classic blue and gray user interface. Some C code is showing on screen.

part 2 of MIDI IN to PC SPEAKER, now with 6 note polyphony boogaloo:
youtube.com/shorts/M...

a beige CRT is showing Borland C++ 3.1 running in msdos with its classic blue and gray user interface. Some C code is showing on screen.

part 2 of MIDI IN to PC SPEAKER, now with 6 note polyphony boogaloo:
youtube.com/shorts/M...

YouTube wont let me post a link to this with out sending them a photo of my government ID (bruh), so look up on GitHub "Chip4Mac68000" by the account "KenDesigns" for a link to the disk image. Chapters: 00:00 Emulator/Chip8 Showcase 05:41 Inside the Macintosh 07:11 The Big Reveal 09:06 The SDK 10:0 I Wrote a Chip8 Emulator for the First Mac

Bare metal 68000 Mac programming in 2025, why not???
www.youtube.com/watc...

go check this creative idea from KenDesigns

the video section of a new retro computer is the altar of broken dreams it seems 😑
it takes genius and sacrifice. so much to master and so little time

Yes, if I bring it to my 486 that has PicoGUS that can set itself as a Tandy sound card. Just need to know the port number and its mode of operation.

a beige CRT is showing Borland C++ 3.1 running in msdos with its classic blue and gray user interface. Some C code is showing on screen.

Not a single human being asked for it, but I coded a small C program in msdos Borland C++ 3.1 to take in MIDI signals and reroute it to the PC speaker. Some sort of polyphony is next on the docket!

youtube.com/shorts/u...

I want to write something that explains to non retro types why retrocomputing is so important to me. It’s hard to put into words.

Top down angled view of SuperPaint's software box showing a definitely 80's pastel design on the front. We can see a ring binder's side that can slide out of the box frame.

Picture of SuperPaint running from a Macintosh Plus, the blue hue of the CRT shows SuperPaint opened and a graphic of a shaded 3d ball is being worked on. A zoomed out and zoomed in view are side by side on screen. We can see the classic user interface with paint tools that were established in this era on the left side, like paintbrush, lasso select, eraser, etc.

Top down angled view of the binder that's been taken out and opened at a certain page. We see that there are hundreds of pages in this binder. There's also a plastic page made to contain the 2 3.5 inch disks that it comes in.

Zoom in of a specific page of the manual that tells you how to use the software with captured graphics to illustrate the examples. On this page, we can see multiple variants of a robed wizard character being filled in with different black and white patterns

Silicon Beach Software were the hottest Macintosh software company in the 80's. They got me with 'Airborne!', slayed me with Dark Castle and kept me engaged with World Builder. I try to stop myself from getting boxed software, but can't resist with beefy manuals.

None of this is easy when there's no API. It took a week to add that in fully.

made it so it was portable to other projects, number of files at once on screen is a parameter, and you can switch "pages" of your folder 3/3

I'm now happy it takes in up to 4 filtered file extensions (just like the Macintosh toolbox standard get file dialog!), will scan a folder for them and sort them alphabetically, while still forcing a '..' move up a level option, display folders in the beginning and also sorted among themselves.2/3

I worked my BUTT off for this revision of my C coded program: F256Amp that runs on the F256K2 and uses its VS1053b sound chip to its limits.

The main thing I added was a file picker in text mode, that was a bit of a heinous part.
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There were already 64 "hardware sprites" in the F256 platform, but now, there are 128 for this new extra F256K2 core that also doubles the MHz from 6 to 12.

I completed it last year on a stream! I just did Uninvited yesterday as well. Gotta move on to the last two!

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Here's the aftermath of my live stream on a playthrough of Uninvited, this classic adventure game for #Macintosh from 1986. #vintage #apple #retro youtube.com/shorts/0...

a youtube thumbnail with the title "Uninvited." in purple at the top, the box artwork showing a haunted mansion in the background in a dark cloudy sky and a pixelated black and white bitmap of a character from the game which appears to be a lady in an old school dress seen from the back, she is holding a classy umbrella, adding to the classic horror genre. There's a red triangle at the bottom left corner with the word "LIVE" in yellow letters.

Join me tonight at 9:30 PM EST as I try to go as far as possible on a fresh game of Uninvited, the original version for Macintosh in glorious black and white. Live, directly fed from my hardware Mac Plus!
youtube.com/live/d7I...

Release v2025.07.07 · BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2 NOTE: Docs and release notes are currently being updated. Please be patient while everything is updated. NOTE: Build updated to fix accidental under clock on Pico2/2W Please use 2025-07-07_e5990048...

New #BlueSCSI release github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...

Highlights:
USB<>SCSI Bridge
USB Thumb Drive Mode
SD Bootloader
200MHz default
Auto Buttons on all HW
FAST20 speed
Interactive console

I'll highlight a few of them in this thread 🧵

26 years as a professional Windows dude and I'm just -now- learning this?

Man, what else has the world kept from me?

a watch sized LCD screen embedded into the F256K2 case, showing a logo of the program cozy MIDI. it's a cartoon 1 person couch in blue, upon which a big black note is sitting. The words 'cozy MIDI' are shown at the top in yellow.

a view of the program while it's running. All 16 MIDI channels are listed with their current instrument. Some asterisks are displayed in various shades of yellow to red at the corresponding place according to their channel from top to bottom, and according to their pitch from left to right.

F256K2, I finally mastered playback type 1 MIDI files convincingly with my C programming. I relaunched my midplayer program as 'cozy MIDI' and added a file picker text UI. No more need to exit out and go back in to play more files!

I was obsessed with World Builder in the late 80's!

W.C.A.T. (Wing Commander AllTinker) Overhaul Mod by AllTinker An extensive overhaul mod for Wing Commander for DOS. Available for Windows

If you use a vintage PC to run games, keep reading. A notorious game that has an impact over what vintage PC you pick since it wants a 386SX25-DX33. Or you use a CPU limiter or cache disabler. No longer! since a patch was released a few weeks ago. alltinker.itch.io/wcat

I get a Shufflepuck Café vibe out of it