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June 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Help - What is this worth?

I found a listing on Craig's list for an original 1984 Mac that I might be interested in. When I asked about the condition I got this response.…

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Added by Birddog10 on June 26, 2010 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Learn 6502 Assembly from Sheppy at A2Central

Eric "Sheppy" Sheppard has just started a series are articles over at A2Central teaching 6502 family assembly language. These aren't simply a repost of old magazine articles but newly written articles about teaching the process of writing code for these processors in their "native" language. Please check them out as they are really well done. You could easily spend less than an hour following along and have a great… Continue

Added by Wholly Mindless on June 21, 2010 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Retro Challenge Only Two Weeks Away!

Retro Challenge 2010 starts in less than two weeks! Get your projects planned for the July 1st start where you to can retro it up and get "crap prizes". (That's what the site says!)

Break out the old boxes and DO SOMETHING!

http://www.retrochallenge.org/RC2010/index.html

You can even follow them on twitter at @retrochallenge

Added by Wholly Mindless on June 18, 2010 at 9:14am — No Comments

New Mac in the family...

Picked up a 5500 my brother wasn't using. It has a 500 mhz G3 l2 Cache upgrade. Sadly the speaker covers broke during shipment. anybody know where I can get a replacement?

Added by Mark Frischknecht on June 16, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Photo Zeitgeist

The number of available gigabytes on my Mac keeps dwindling thanks to how easy it is to process photos on a Mac. I had to spring for an external NAS (1 terabyte mirrored RAID), but I still hover around 20gb on my main machine.

Anyway, here are some highlights from the past three months.