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One of my pandemic projects that's ongoing is putting a 5x86 PC compatibility card and a "Radius Rocket" 68040 card (basically a Quadra 900 on a Nubus card) int
by im_down_w_otp 6y ago
One of my pandemic projects that's ongoing is putting a 5x86 PC compatibility card and a "Radius Rocket" 68040 card (basically a Quadra 900 on a Nubus card) into a first-gen PowerPC Macintosh, so that I can have each running their era appropriate OSes in parallel and communicating with each other over IPX networking... to play DOOM II against one another all at the same time.
I'd hoped it would be a nice little stress-release valve from startup CEOing occasionally, but you really get an appreciation for how much more flexible, interoperable, and stable modern computers are. The old hardware and software is incredibly fiddly, though to be fair PC compatibility cards and Radius Rockets are themselves magnificent hacks for the most part, so it's not all that surprising that they're fiddly. That said, while just differently stressful, it's still fun and rewarding when some piece of the pie fits in place.
- seany 6y agoHave to bust out the Bolo on that setup
- birdyrooster 6y agoI miss bolo. This dev made a spiritual successor and it didn’t take off :( https://store.steampowered.com/app/955410/Armoured_Alliance/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/955410/Armoured_Alliance/
- im_down_w_otp 6y agoI was always terrible at Bolo. Though I always had fun playing it nonetheless. If I could get my hands on a faster Radius Rocket (mine is only 25 Mhz), I wondered about getting Marathon 2 up and running.
- lostlogin 6y ago> Marathon 2 It feels like I only recently stopped hearing the rocket launcher and the alien chatter in daily life and in dreams. It was probably 20 years ago I last played it.
- cortesoft 6y agoOh man Bolo. My dad was an elementary school principal and I had a birthday party at the computer lab so my friends and I could play bolo on the Mac LCs in the lab. So much fun. Going to have to bust out Sheepshaver.
- patates 6y ago> I had a birthday party at the computer lab It can't get nerdier than that, I love it! I had celebrated one of my birthdays when I was at high school in an internet café. 4 hours of multiplayer Age of Empires 2, all paid for by my parents. That was the dream right there :)
- joshspankit 6y agoSomething I’ve been really curious about: Crystal Quest responsiveness. I remember specifically feeling like it had an extremely low mouse to pixel delay, possibly even better than current computers, but I have no idea whether that’s romanticizing. The tools exist now to objectively measure it on those macs if you’re up for that sort of thing.