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Was playing Escape Velocity (1996) on the weekend and thought I would be clever and trade commodities for credits. Unfortunately the game spawns pirates whenever your cargo space increases above a set amount, so this strategy is a huge pain in the ass.

#retro #macos9 #emulation

Bad Fonts.

Illustration by Lloyd Dangle, MacAddict #2.

Got a "Rejecting public key chain for domain" error message on MacOS?

Maybe remove stale certificates from your *local* keychain in Keychain Access to fix it.

Got to see the first web server today at CERN.

@openfirmware also seen on spooky street. What the hell is going on

Travelling abroad and I now understand “Americans are asleep” meme

NO, I won’t take it easy.

YES, I will let the sound of my own wheels drive me crazy.

Mastodon web colours bot is probably half done

@WebColoursBot

https://glitch.com/~thoughtful-pond

Kinda unsettling

my_perplexed_response_0_1

#bug

Kinda spooky when windows update changes your boot device priority

your mailing list sucks and you will never get me to subscribe, take your pop-up and beat it

Another Mac OS 9 Emulation Stream? Yes!

This time I have 256 colours working, and a few games that work better than you think (and a few that don't)!

Starts in under 3 hours: 8 PM MST, 3 AM UTC.

https://twitch.tv/openfirmware

#twitch #emulation #macos9 #retro

I know I don't open you often, Outlook, but you don't need to remind me about every holiday in the past six months

New blog post:

Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU with working audio

https://jamesbadger.ca/2018/11/07/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu/

#emulation #macos #qemu #brushedmetal

Here are instructions for building QEMU with experimental audio support and running Mac OS 9:

https://gist.github.com/openfirmware/a78141366efc81421228e40bd39d695d

#emulation #mac #qemu

And here are the discs, if you want to download and try them yourself:

https://archive.org/details/macaddict_coverdiscs?&sort=-downloads&page=2

Also you absolutely must check out the crazy magazine covers for MacAddict:

https://archive.org/details/macaddict?&sort=date&page=2