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Ian Scott 
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@polpo@bitbang.social
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Blinking LED enthusiast. Lover of old technology. Won't leave anything with electronics alone. Tinkered enough with the Raspberry Pi Pico and the ISA bus to happen to make a retro sound card emulator (https://github.com/polpo/picogus).
Located in Colorado, USA
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FYI I'm going to be migrating to @polpo@chaos.social in a short while. Here's hoping the process goes smoothly 🤞
I just placed a just-under-the-de-minimis-exemption-limit PCBA order on JLCPCB. Man I hope it makes it before May 2 and that no other surprise tariff changes happen. Otherwise this may get real expensive... but this is basically the last chance to get PicoGUS boards into the US
@jalefkowit@vmst.io I worked retail in high school in the mid-late 90s and when the credit card terminals didn't work we had to drag them out. I thought it was kinda fun but my teenaged handwriting on the slip never felt good enough for recording such financial transactions
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@kevin Currently the landscape is not good. It's either buy expired film on eBay for a lot ($80 or more per pack), or get on the waitlist for Supersense's One Instant (https://supersense.com/oneinstant/) for even more than that. I'm using up the hoard I stocked up on when Fujifilm discontinued the film ~10 years ago.
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@hannahpatellis@bitbang.social @CodingItWrong@bitbang.social thirded! I might take this as an opportunity to run my own instance because I'm a glutton for punishment. And I might have a bit more control over migration (maybe that's wishful thinking)...
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@RonsCompVids it’s separate - you can get it here. AFAIK it is needed for Systems 6.x-7.x https://www.macintoshrepository.org/32704-apple-midi-manager-2-0-2
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@RonsCompVids yeah! It just plugs in with a crossover/printer type serial cable, and then depending on if the program needs it, the MIDI Manager extension needs to be installed. I've had the best results with using QMidi for playback, but MidPlay is also pretty good.
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@RonsCompVids this is 7.5.5, I haven't tried 7.1. I first tried on System 6, but couldn't find any plain ol' MIDI players that could run on it, they're all just too new. I got Cubase to run and could play some songs on 6, but the instrument mapping wasn't right.
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@a they do ship through Hong Kong but don’t use Hong Kong Post as far as I know. They use either express couriers (DHL/UPS/FedEx) or a freight consolidation service that enters the postal system after arriving in LA. But I imagine the couriers will be having to deal with more volume due to this…
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@fudgy haha, thanks for noticing it. I figured it was the natural medium for recording MIDIs onto 😅
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@singletona thanks, though I just noticed there's a typo in it, "teal" autocorrected to "real"!
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@cynic2010@mas.to I got a BlueSCSI (https://scsi.blue) and boot off of that instead of a floppy or old hard drive. You could use those old Macs again, but a lot have had their clock batteries explode and leak all over inside. I’ve had to do major work to restore an old SE with major battery damage. And the capacitors can also leak and cause corrosion. Even though it’s the older model of the two, your Mac Plus is more likely to not be damaged due to its battery placement on the back panel.
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@saschasegan@mastodon.online oh wow, that's something I haven't explored. I definitely had to (re-)learn a lot to get this hardware online on my home network! The key for me was installing Open Transport... I wonder if any of the Mac emulators emulate a network card or PPP type connection.