As of February 15th, 2024, Steam officially stopped supporting the macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and 10.14 (Mojave) operating systems.

Remember that Steam Games are not your games. You can get cut off whenever they want, for any reason they want, so retro gaming is a bit harder on older macs unless you’re willing to sail the high seas.

Yar! 🏴‍☠️

As I promised in the first week’s post for the #MARCHintosh challenge, there’s a new theme I coded for the website. Because it’s based on System 6 of the Macintosh Plus, it’s going to be very simple, rudimentary, but most of all, colorless.

I’ve managed to get and serve the Chicago/Sysfont pixelated font, made by Alina Sava.

Additionally, I’ve used this neat CSS hack from Quinn Keaveney on stackoverflow to make the photos look more old school. I also made all the photos black and white, but if you click them to see them zoomed in the lightbox, they will appear in their full colour.

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img {
	filter: saturate(0) url("#pixelateAni");
	image-rendering: pixelated;
    animation: pixelAni 5s;
}
@keyframes pixelAni {
	99.9% {
		filter: saturate(0) url("#pixelateAni");
	}
}

There are also some other easter eggs, maybe you’ll find them! :D

Thank you for the nice people at #MARCHintosh for the initiative!

#MARCHintosh Event Logo concept and design by Javier Rivera | YouTube: JavMaster | Twitter: @javmast3r

Although a bit late to the party, I wanted to participate in the #MARCHintosh challenge of 2025

I set up a nice spot on my desk for my Macintosh Plus and my idea was to write some Macintosh-related articles directly on it, take them out and publish them on my blog.

The Macintosh Plus is using only DD floppy disks, both single-sided and double-sided, at 360 and 720KB, and it cannot read or write the commonly used HD floppies (the 1.4MB ones), thus making it hard to move files in and out of the Macintosh Plus. And because trouble never comes alone, the laptop I was using to easily transfer files between the Macintosh Plus and the modern computers (a 1995 Powerbook 5300cs) has officially died. So until then, I have no other ability to take the articles I write on the Macintosh and publish them on my site. Additionally, keeping in mind that the Rodime Systems Hard Disk is also about 40 years old, I am very afraid that sooner or later it will fatally crash and I will lose all the data on it. It’s only 20 Megabytes, but some time ago, it meant a lot.

So if you see more posts about #MARCHintosh, it means I found out a way to pull the files out of the 40 year old desktop. If not, just enjoy some of the photos below.

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Heart over mind, yes I’m
My father’s son
I live my life, just like
My father’s done
If he’d’ve told me, one day
That somebody’d have my heart in chains
Would I believe it? No way
Made up my mind I’d never fall that way.

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My dear friend Marius Matache released his fifth (!) album and it’s absolutely lovely! Since he’s going to release it only online for a while, I decided to take the matter into my own hands and make a physical version of the album, on a cassette. Get the original digital version from bandcamp!

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Even Scotty doesn’t know

Rane // The Wounds (1998)

I’ve added my Technics gear to my Players subsection of the Gadgets page.

• SU-A600 Stereo Integrated Amplifier
• RS-TR575 Stereo Cassette Deck
• SL-PG490 Compact Disc Player
• SJ-MD100 Minidisc Deck
• ST-GT550 Stereo Synthesizer Tuner
• RS-AZ7 Stereo Cassette Deck

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A te che sei l’unica al mondo
L’unica ragione per arrivare fino in fondo
Ad ogni mio respiro
Quando ti guardo
Dopo un giorno pieno di parole
Senza che tu mi dica niente
Tutto si fa chiaro
A te che mi hai trovato

Michael Jordan playing ping pong. Larry Bird lying on the ground, drunk, with beer bottles and children’s toys around him.

This photo was taken during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the year of the legendary “Dream Team.”

It seems that this photo dates back to the night before the USA-Germany game, the third match of the group stage. Michael Jordan was challenging Charles Barkley to a ping pong match, with several dollars at stake. They played for over an hour until Barkley, exhausted and frustrated from losing too much money, gave up. Larry Bird, on the other hand, had been drinking with Patrick Ewing. Ewing later revealed that throughout his career he had disliked Bird, but they became great friends during that Olympics. Bird, who had essentially retired due to his back issues, treated the Olympics as “a vacation with 18-year-old friends,” spending every evening drinking together.

The next day, the USA-Germany game took place: final score, 111-68. Larry Bird scored 19 points in 21 minutes with 70% shooting (the other 19 minutes spent lying face down on the bench, as it was the only position that didn’t hurt his back). Jordan finished with 15 points and 12 assists, shooting 70%, without breaking a sweat. Barkley scored 14 points in just a few minutes. Ewing managed 4 points on 2/7 shooting.

Regarding this, Larry Bird said, “Well, Pat couldn’t keep up with my pace. And I’m not talking about basketball.”

The best music show is starting this evening and will last until the 15th. Enjoy! Watch here live.

I have laid my hands on some Chinese Chuwi HiBook CWI514 tablet and somehow I cannot install the drivers for the touchscreen under Windows, after trying about 15 variants. I eventually found a driver that installs, but the touches are way off. The funny part is that the touchscreen works just fine in the bootloader. And while we’re at it, fuck Windows as well, Win10 is such a fucking bloated over engineered underoptimized piece of shit.

I didn’t care too much about this, but I was more curious to have it as a low powered and handy tool for Windows-related tasks or debugging, but it seems it’s just junk, no matter how much paid articles try to make it look good.

For the sake of what’s saint, please stop buying shit just because it’s cheap.