maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

happy easter xbox

@clyde yeah same!!!

@clyde i love that i reinvented accordions without knowing and like two people pointed it out. i'm very good at reinventing the wheel without knowing what a wheel is or that it already exists

@clyde reminds me of https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/111263641216664827

new bog post https://maple.pet/blog/my-pocketchip-experience-in-2024

somebody start a podcast with me

@vxo looks like a damn urinal

@burgerbecky i coded this site for a client: https://indigotrance.com/

simpler times

Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (2003)

@DosFox Jecel says it himself in his page they're just copies of the Apple PALs.

@DosFox the technical study of the Mac512 to determine its legality wasn't even ordered until 1987. it never went to market, it would've been illegal for it to do so. Unitron posted ads in early 1988 and SEI shut the project down.

@DosFox or we can rely on the legal study from 2003 which has sources mentioning that the case was stuck with SEI until march 1988 https://www.abphe.org.br/arquivos/2003_ivan_costa_marques_caso-unitron-e-condicoes-de-inovacao-tecnologica-no-brasil.pdf

@DosFox He says himself that in the 1985 fair their clones aren't even functional. We can rely on his memory, sure.

@DosFox I can tell you the Mac512 project was never legally commercially available. SEI never approved the project. And I'm actually in Brazil, so.

@DosFox re-reading Jecel's retelling i can understand how this might be confusing: what he's referring to as the "Turbo Mac project" is just Mac512. they were still developing it and this would improve that project, the less Apple material they could release it with the better. the "Mac with separate monitor" he mentions was likely an early Unitron 1024.

@DosFox for example the Unitron 1024 was brought on because of the Mac512 getting shut down from the lawsuit, and one of the ways they tried to make it work was remaking the whole case into something that didn't resemble the Macintosh. The only source i can find for that is worded to mean that this was already accomplished and presented to SEI, but nobody I've talked to has ever seen such case, some didn't even know about the attempt to save the project

@DosFox The Mac512 never properly released. Unitron offered sales before SEI (the agency that allowed sales of microcomputers at the time) granted them the possibility, landing them in hot waters aside from the whole Apple lawsuit. Production numbers of 200 to 500 have been spoken of but I highly doubt those. By 1988 the "Mac512/Unitron 1024" was still "in development". even a 200 production number would've yielded more surviving units than we have today (which i think are only 2-3 confirmed)

@DosFox Jecel was contracted because he offered to make it faster. This was all one project, not multiple.