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

simpler times

Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (2003)

i'm seeing more and more "cyberdecks" that 15 years ago would've just been called netbooks

i used to be more creative. wonder what happened to that

i also bought picotron and i am probably not going to make anything with it 😔

i wanna do pico8 stuff... it just feels quite daunting with how many impressive stuff has already been done with it. i tried making a little sunset scene a few years ago and it looks like crap! i know you shouldn't compare yourself to others but my circuits are just wired that way.

i actually found two roms, one larger than the other, but so far i can only get the second one to do this

development documents. this mentions the rom is for both models ("Mac512/Unitron 1024") but i don't think the sources in them are complete

the source i found has several floppy images, but also some folders that seem to be from different floppy images destructively extracted into a FAT type system so some of it might be lost

i can only find the "Unitron 1024" mentioned online in two places:

one is in a posthumous legal study of the Mac 512 case in which it's mentioned as an addendum

the other is a supposed MAME driver for which any rom i've found are just... mac plus roms.

this is a screenshot that i believe to be from the Mac 512 retail ROM (it says "Insert the initialization disk" in Portuguese). in trying to locate this ROM (the only known dumped Mac 512 ROM is actually the Mac Plus copy) i accidentally found the Unitron 1024's instead.

the Mac 512 was shut down not because the case looked like a mac, not because the analog board was a carbon copy, but because the unit that Apple somehow managed to investigate for themselves during development contained a copied Mac Plus ROM. however, Unitron's argument was that that was only being used for development purposes and the retail version would contain a reverse engineered rom. at the time, there was no law against that in brazil

this seems to be a ROM for a later Unitron clone, the "Unitron 1024" which work was started on after the US govt threatened and forced the shutdown of the "Mac 512" project. supposedly the Unitron 1024 wasn't going to look like a macintosh, in an attempt to appease the government, but it also got shut down regardless

dated April 8 1988

i may have found previously undocumented clone mac roms

this rules, actually. this is direct action https://wandering.shop/@johnpettigrew/112172716984340737

i am good enough.

every time surprising myself whenever i re-realize everything that people have branded me as an "evil abuser" for was simply me setting boundaries and pointing out when others were breaking them

fuck yeah NOW we're gaming

anyway just wasted several hours trying to cross-compile something that i could probably have waited for the tiny 1ghz pocketchip compile itself

i really wish cross-compiling was possible. you'd think we should be able to use multiple-ghz machines to compile for smaller ones. oh well