Free to a good home: A nine-page booklet HyperCard Version 1.2 Update, a single-page addendum to the Macintosh System Software User's Guide, Version 6.0, and the packing list from a Mac Plus, dated 1998. :apple_inc: 📮
#FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Macintosh #68K
｢ NCR Corporation, in a move to capture an increasing share of the OEM computer market, has announced a new small computer based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. The 16-bit multiuser and multitasking computer is called the Tower 1632. It runs an operating system derived from UNIX III and provides data storage with fixed Winchester disk drives ｣
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ncr-tower-1632
Usagi’s New Computer is a Gas!
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/usagis-new-computer-is-a-gas/
![<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="385" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/gas0pump-feat.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>[Dave] over at Usagi Electric has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Qw8GrOcp0" target="_blank">a mystery on his hands</a> in the form of a computer. He picked up a Motorola 68000 based machine at a local swap meet. A few boards, a backplane, and a power supply. The only information provided is the machines original purpose: gas station pump control.</p>
<p>The computer in question is an embedded system. It uses a VME backplane, and all the cards are of the 3u variaety. The 68k and associated support chips are on one card. Memory is on another. A third card contains four serial ports. The software lives across three different EPROM chips. Time for a bit of reverse engineering!</p>
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<p>[Dave] quickly dumped the ROMs and looked for strings. Since the 68k is a big endian machine, some byte swapping was required to get things human readable. Once byte swapped, huge tables of human readable strings revealed themselves, including an OS version. The computer runs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSOS_(real-time_operating_system)" target="_blank">pSOS</a>, an older 68k based real time operating system – exactly what one would expect a machine from the 80’s to run.</p>
<p>The next step was to give](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/002/936/333/622/300/original/2d9eb46cd1aeca54.png)
Usagi’s New Computer is a Gas! https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/usagis-new-computer-is-a-gas/
#ReverseEngineering #68k #Embeddedsystem #Gas #Motorola #Pumpitup #Usagielectric
#Macstodon now runs in the latest bleeding-edge build of the Snow emulator! And if you use Snow's built-in HTTPS stripping, then you don't have to configure WebOne or another proxy, just install Macstodon and start using it 😎
Thanks @twvd for the FPU fixes and all the other hard work you put into Snow! This is the kick-in-the-pants I need to get the next version of Macstodon out the door 🙂
#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
#genuary2026 #genuary #genuary11 - Quine with a scanline #p5js #processing #z80 #68k
A2560Me Aluminum Case: Foenix Labs Shows Premium and Budget Enclosures
#FoenixLabs #A2560Me #RetroComputing #68k #MiniITX #RetroHardware #ComputerCase #ArcA310 #OpenSourceDrivers #PCIe
https://theoasisbbs.com/a2560me-aluminum-case-foenix-labs-shows-premium-and-budget-enclosures/?fsp_sid=1177
A2000 Accelerator Mystery: Tracking an Amiga 2000 Boot Fault
#Amiga2000 #CommodoreAmiga #RetroComputing #HardwareRepair #LogicAnalyzer #PiPico #AmigaRepair #Electronics #68k #Workbench
https://theoasisbbs.com/a2000-accelerator-mystery-tracking-an-amiga-2000-boot-fault/?fsp_sid=906
A2560Me Board: Foenix Labs’ new 68k Mini-ITX build
#A2560Me #FoenixLabs #Motorola68060 #68k #RetroComputing #MiniITX #FPGA #RetroHardware #HomebrewComputing #VICKYTheFourth
https://theoasisbbs.com/a2560me-board-foenix-labs-new-68k-mini-itx-build/?feed_id=7246&_unique_id=694aaca5513d6
Getting System 7.5 natively booting on a G4 Mac is impressive enough…
...but what truly blows my mind is that on the same hardware, the author managed to get System 6.0.8 as far as a Happy Mac, and Systems 7.0/7.1 to a "not supported on this computer" dialog.
The fact that the ROM manages to get that far at all, instead of a black screen or sad mac is bonkers, considering that the processor architecture (and the rest of the hardware) is completely different from anything that would be understood by that era of OS. It's relying on the 68k emulator built-in to the ROM.
Driver support notwithstanding, I wonder how low could you go if you took the resources from the CHRP system enabler and brought them over into the System file directly? Since 6.x and early 7.x didn't support enablers.
#RetroComputing #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115637701377779352
Texas Instruments has discontinued the venerable Ti-89 (and titanium) graphing calculator this year after 27 years. Is this the last consumer device to ship with a Motorola 68k processor? #Ti89 #68k #Calculator
🎉 Welcome to the riveting world of #SimpleText patching! 🤯 Navigate a labyrinth of forums and resources just to relive the #90s joy of #editing #text files on a #68K #Mac. Because who needs modern software when you can have endless #assembly #code fun? 🙄💾
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/patching-68k-software-simpletext.4793/ #Patching #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
🌘 為 68K 軟體 SimpleText 注入補丁：客製化視窗大小
➤ 深入淺出：手把手教你修補經典軟體，打造個人化 SimpleText
✤ https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/patching-68k-software-simpletext.4793/
本文詳述作者如何為經典的 Mac OS 應用程式 SimpleText 進行程式碼修改，以實現啟動時開啟較小文字視窗的功能。作者透過反組譯碼、尋找關鍵系統呼叫（如 _SizeWindow），並巧妙地利用程式碼注入技術，在不破壞原程式邏輯的情況下，修改視窗尺寸判斷邏輯。過程中克服了程式碼空間限制、暫存器重用以及資源管理等多項挑戰，最終成功實現了客製化視窗大小，並分享了針對 CodeWarrior 的幾項實用除錯技巧，同時建議儲存額外設定資源以方便未來調整。
+ 這篇文章太專業了！我對 68K 程式碼注入的細節完全看不懂，但看到作者能克服這麼多技術難題，真的很佩服！
+ 作者分享的 CodeWarr
#軟體開發 #程式碼注入 #68K 架構 #Apple II #SimpleText #補丁技術
Testing ZigZagJoe's IIsi Booster 2.0 accelerator- Here are some screenshots of the gains. #Macstodon is loading up toots like a boss now 😃 #Mac #VintageMac #68k
GlobalTA/UX’ing tonight!
It's been quite a while since I’ve done something silly with an old Mac so I installed A/UX on my IIfx. It's something I've wanted to do for a while (and tried a few times in the past) but never managed to get it to work until now - turns out A/UX is incompatible with the BMOW ROM-inator - after reinstalling my stock IIfx ROM it works like a charm, even supporting my Interware video card and Asante ethernet card.
Software compatibility is a bit spotty when it comes to network apps - iCab and TurboGopher didn't work, but MacLynx and the Wikipedia app do. And of course #GlobalTalk works like a charm!
Also it's crazy that I can telnet into this thing from my daily driver MacBook Pro 🤣
#RetroComputing #VintageMac #68k #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
These are now the definitive Amiga 40 streaming details from Mönchengladbach for Saturday and Sunday. There may still be minor changes to the stream depending on the previous topic.
Watch at the following URLs:
http://YouTube.com/BBSindex
http://Twitch.TV/BBSindex
May now be officially published everywhere.
#commodore #amiga #amiga40 #event #amigaos #hyperion #icomp #ApolloVampire #augs #68k #retro #vintage #computer #vcf #vcfzh #VCFSO
There is a new #CPM for #68K #Emulator
(I compiled the Source on a RPi3 and also on Windows (via MSYS2_64))
https://github.com/kobolt/cpm68emu
Updated the #Macstodon roadmap today.
It's been a long time since I've touched it, but things slowed down a little bit at my day job this week and I'm getting the itch to do some retro programming again.
I need to tackle the longstanding Mastodon 4.3+ auth issue and I think I'm just going to build a wizard-type interface with screenshots that show you what you need to click (on a modern machine) in order to create an auth token manually.
Also it would be nice to support the new quote posts feature. And polls. And maybe even attachments.
I gave up on the REALBasic/FutureBasic rewrite - it was too difficult to do that and still maintain System 7 & 68K support (and also because someone else is working on a Mac Mastodon client in REALBasic for later OS versions).
I do still want to rewrite it in Micropython but that’ll be a LONG way away and is dependent on Micropython getting all of MacPython's features.
Anyway, hopefully I'll have more to share in a few days/weeks.
#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/109436160115100325
Wow, second time in seven days. Another package that's been lost in the post for over two months had turned up unannounced in my mailbox. This time its a #68K assembly language manual 👾
And now I wonder how hard it could be to patch a 68K silicon graphics IRIS 3000 to run classic mac os. I doubt I'll have time in my lifetime to look into that, but still making QuickDraw work with a bitplane graphic adapter would be interesting…
