I really enjoy this channel, it's so much potential! Please consider getting old magazine shareware CD's and going through their strange offerings, i think you'd be great at it!
It was a little more complicated, moving the knob only jostled it enough to display a picture temporarily. Needed to re-solder a few places on the analog board to keep the display on!
That's how Beyond Dark Castle played for me on a Mac Plus back in the day. The title screen and the intro animation always chugged. You've been spoiled by Mini vMac ;)
Great work on that Macintosh Plus, and great video! You playing Beyond Dark Castle just took me back to the late 1980s, when I played it on my Dad’s Macintosh 512K! It still looks and sounds fantastic! I played a lot of Arkanoid on it too. I don’t know if you’ve heard of a UA-cam channel called Adrian’s Digital Basement, but I know that he said that Macintosh Pluses don’t (usually) have bad capacitors, unlike other old black and white Macs. I don’t know why that is; maybe Apple switched to a different company or something.
yeah it doesn't use those pesky surface mount ones that leak all over. Been replacing some of those lately... Thank goodness Mac Plus / SE have solid caps from before the cap plague, they are pretty easy computers to repair!
The mac classic was my computer back in the days, it went with me from boarding school, back home and vice versa. We had a 'newspaper' about the going around in the school, i wrote the columns at the last page, and those were the most popular. I wrote them all on my mac classic, i learned about hypercard, typing, managing documents and play some old games! My favorite is called ShufflePuck, a quick reaction game, lot of fun to see all the characters ;)
Awesome! I just picked up a SE/30 compact mac from a local seller yesterday and I'm super excited to check it out over the weekend. I haven't owned a compact mac since my family swapped our old Mac Plus out for a pizza-box Centris 610 in the mid-90s, and I've been feeling pretty nostalgic for it lately. Your channel has been a great resource in rediscovering some of my old favorite games from that era. Kudos!
Might need to lube that keyboard and maybe even some damping foam to quiet it down. Loved the video though! I would love to own one of these, but I know I should just stick with the MiSTer.
This vid inspired me to get the old minty Mac plus out, hook up a blue scsi and play some flappy Mac. I also got one of those new meeeses off eBay a few months ago. Just tried it out for the first time. Guess there’s no chance getting one of those special Flappy Mac disks with source et? Would love to check it out in THINK C.
I'll put Flappy Mac source online in the future. I wrote so many comments to explain what everything does, it would be a good learning tool for someone starting out programming vintage Mac. Need time to sort it out first though so probably won't be till after my next game...
@@insanelygruz cool yeah that’s why I’d like to take a look. I used to write apps in THINK back in 1991. Just got it back on my Mac’s and was going to refresh my memory.
I really enjoy this channel, it's so much potential! Please consider getting old magazine shareware CD's and going through their strange offerings, i think you'd be great at it!
Mad Dark Castle skills! If you ever did a full playthrough of the game, I'd watch it all.
Heck yeah! I totally knew that the brightness knob was down at the beginning lol.
It was a little more complicated, moving the knob only jostled it enough to display a picture temporarily. Needed to re-solder a few places on the analog board to keep the display on!
@@insanelygruz classic cracked solder joints
newfangled fork-resistant tape
I’m so jealous. Maybe I need to become resourceful like you, pull my 512k Fat Mac and Mac SE out and fix them.
Yeah get them fixed up, don't keep broken computers around!
Nice video. Nothing beats gaming on a vintage Mac. These games are so unique, you can't really compare them to anything on other platforms.
That's how Beyond Dark Castle played for me on a Mac Plus back in the day. The title screen and the intro animation always chugged. You've been spoiled by Mini vMac ;)
The music seemed a bit choppy too, caught me by surprise!
Great work on that Macintosh Plus, and great video! You playing Beyond Dark Castle just took me back to the late 1980s, when I played it on my Dad’s Macintosh 512K! It still looks and sounds fantastic! I played a lot of Arkanoid on it too. I don’t know if you’ve heard of a UA-cam channel called Adrian’s Digital Basement, but I know that he said that Macintosh Pluses don’t (usually) have bad capacitors, unlike other old black and white Macs. I don’t know why that is; maybe Apple switched to a different company or something.
yeah it doesn't use those pesky surface mount ones that leak all over. Been replacing some of those lately... Thank goodness Mac Plus / SE have solid caps from before the cap plague, they are pretty easy computers to repair!
@@insanelygruz That’s good to know.
Nice pickup! My first Mac was a Mac Plus with an external 800 Kb drive. I loved that thing. I had Oscar the Grouch in the Trash. Good times.
The mac classic was my computer back in the days, it went with me from boarding school, back home and vice versa. We had a 'newspaper' about the going around in the school, i wrote the columns at the last page, and those were the most popular. I wrote them all on my mac classic, i learned about hypercard, typing, managing documents and play some old games! My favorite is called ShufflePuck, a quick reaction game, lot of fun to see all the characters ;)
The Mac Plus is about 10% slower than the SE and Classic.
I thought only the SCSI was slower
This Mac is so clean. It looks brand new. Very beautiful!
Another great video. Thank you.
Awesome! I just picked up a SE/30 compact mac from a local seller yesterday and I'm super excited to check it out over the weekend. I haven't owned a compact mac since my family swapped our old Mac Plus out for a pizza-box Centris 610 in the mid-90s, and I've been feeling pretty nostalgic for it lately. Your channel has been a great resource in rediscovering some of my old favorite games from that era. Kudos!
Hope you enjoy it! Had an SE/30 back in the day and it's the ultimate compact Mac for games!
Thanks! Great video!
I remember buying one brand new in 1989. With an ImageWriter. Paid $4000 bucks for the whole setup.
That is a very nice platinum Mac Plus... Looks like the one we got in 1988.
Might need to lube that keyboard and maybe even some damping foam to quiet it down. Loved the video though! I would love to own one of these, but I know I should just stick with the MiSTer.
AWSOME!!!
Very cool video
This vid inspired me to get the old minty Mac plus out, hook up a blue scsi and play some flappy Mac. I also got one of those new meeeses off eBay a few months ago. Just tried it out for the first time. Guess there’s no chance getting one of those special Flappy Mac disks with source et? Would love to check it out in THINK C.
I'll put Flappy Mac source online in the future. I wrote so many comments to explain what everything does, it would be a good learning tool for someone starting out programming vintage Mac. Need time to sort it out first though so probably won't be till after my next game...
@@insanelygruz cool yeah that’s why I’d like to take a look. I used to write apps in THINK back in 1991. Just got it back on my Mac’s and was going to refresh my memory.
you must be from big city sir