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Avelino Herrera MoralesProgramación de la Sega Mega Drive en C++, desde cero.<a href="https://avelinoherrera.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry250809-100925" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://avelinoherrera.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry250809-100925</a><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/megadrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#megadrive</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/sega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sega</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/cpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cpp</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

Jason ThorpeFinal board layout. Passes the DRC. I suppose I should double-check the schematic one more time and then send the first round of boards for fabrication! <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/homebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homebrew</a>

Stylusooh interesting. Someone else is working on MicroPython for m68k.I just discovered <a href="https://github.com/yunkya2/micropython-x68k/tree/port-x68k/ports/x68k" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/yunkya2/micropython-x68k/tree/port-x68k/ports/x68k</a> The documentation is all in Japanese and I haven't plugged it into a translator yet to find out the details except that possibly this version is for Sharp X680x0.<a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>-micropython <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a>

zwangseinweisungtrying to figure out what type of timeline looks best for my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> cpu framing project <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atari</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Stylussome progress on <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68kMicroPython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68kMicroPython</a> finally? I'm still not proud of my "mkapi" program for wrapping Mac APIs into MicroPython, but I have worked out some of the bugs. This is the return of a demo from some weeks ago, but now it also successfully calls <code>DisposeRgn</code> and can print the bounding box size of the region as well.In other testing, accessing the quick draw globals also seems to be working better.Finally, I have added some basic functionality tests for the wrapper generator to the compile-time tests (running on a modern computer, not in an emulator).This is in yet-to-be-merged <a href="https://github.com/m68k-micropython/micropython/pull/16" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/m68k-micropython/micropython/pull/16</a><a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

RetroBytes<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Presentacion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Presentacion</a> Yo he venido aquí a hablar sobre la informática de verdad, retroinformática que la llaman ahora ;-) Para aprender y hablar sobre mis inquietudes con los ordenadores de 8 bits (principalmente MSX), de 16 bits y 32 bits (principalmente Commodore Amiga) pero también de sistemas DOS, Win9x/XP, UNIX,...Si te interesan estos temas dame un toque.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retroinformatica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroinformatica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#msx</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zxspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zxspectrum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#z80</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#asm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commodore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amiga</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atari</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#msdos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a>

BernieI purchased a real Motorola 68060 CPU at 50 MHz for my recently restored Amiga 3000.Happy 40th birthday to all Amigas out there! 🎂<a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commodore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amiga</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

Götz Hoffart<a href="https://23.social/@leyrer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@leyrer</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/@Exilsarahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Exilsarahl</a> <bildgenauanguck>Hab ich dir schon vom Parceiro II für die Amiga 1000 erzählt? • 8 MB Autoconfig Fast RAM • Uhrmodul • SD-Card-Leser, als Festplattenersatz • Wird an die Side Expansion angesteckt, fertig.<a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amiga</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Pyrzout :vm:MR Browser is the Package Manager Classic Macs Never Had <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/18/mr-browser-is-the-package-manager-classic-macs-never-had/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/07/18/mr-browser-is-the-package-manager-classic-macs-never-had/</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/softwarerepositories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarerepositories</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/classicmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classicmac</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/MacHacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacHacks</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/ppc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ppc</a>

IT NewsMR Browser is the Package Manager Classic Macs Never Had - Homebrew bills itself as the package manager MacOS never had (conveniently ignorin... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/18/mr-browser-is-the-package-manager-classic-macs-never-had/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/07/18/mr-browser-is-the-package-manager-classic-macs-never-had/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwarerepositories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarerepositories</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/classicmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classicmac</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#machacks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ppc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ppc</a>

Paolo AmorosoAsm Editor is a web app IDE for learning, developing, and running x86, M68K, RISC-V, and MIPS Assembly code. It features an editor, assembler, and debugger, as well as other tools and learning resources.<a href="https://asm-editor.specy.app" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asm-editor.specy.app</a><a href="https://github.com/Specy/asm-editor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/Specy/asm-editor</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/x86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#x86</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/mips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mips</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#assembly</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/riscv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#riscv</a>

StylusDoing a little iterative code development in micropython on an emulated m68k mac... I might not be so happy with the loading time if a real floppy was involved, but in an emulator it's heckin' snappy.Clearly I need to tackle the issue that you can't REALLY draw to the same window as the terminal....<a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

StylusNow you can witness one of the first quickdraw calls from MicroPython on mac... 🎉 ⬛ <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

BernieI'm testing a freshly assembled <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/PiStorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PiStorm</a> on a real Amiga 500.I have no prior experience with the PiStorm, so I followed the README to install the system image onto a RaspberryPi 3, compile the emulator from git head and... run it!The <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amiga</a> started right away and loaded my SysInfo disk image. However, there are text rendering glitches, and the m68k emulator runs even slower than the original hardware running at 7 MHz 😕<a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/emulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emulation</a>

Stylusasyncio is working on mac micropython!also (not shown here) the "sys.stdin" object is pollable, and you can double-click a python file to run it as the main code file.<a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

Jason ThorpeScheming… <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

StylusAre there any folks with vintage Mac programming experience who'd like to collaborate on figuring out what's next with Micropython on Mac?I think that might be: What's the minimal set of APIs to do a fun graphical demo.Pointers to "how to"-ish documentation in Pascal and C would be great as well, I have failed at finding this kind of stuff. (I do have Inside Macintosh but it is not a great tutorial)<a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

Stylusoh my yay, it now works well enough to save and edit a file, then import and run that file.you could basically use an old m68k mac as a python3 (well, micropython) development system now.don't mind the debug messages, they're as scared of you as you are of them.<a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

StylusWhee! Now we can import files from the filesystem, as well as reading and writing files. Still haven't wrapped my head around how folders work, still can't enumerate files .. as usual, work pushed to my micropython fork on github (which is called circuitpython, because you can't have two different forks of the "same" original project, argh).<a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

Stylusyay, successfully wrote & read back file contents with micropython on macos 6. <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/micropython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#micropython</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/retro68" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro68</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#m68k</a>

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