1Bit Fever Dreams

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Vintage compact black and white Macs enthusiast, sitting on the line between software and hardware! Also very nostalgic of ms-dos gaming golden era 1991-1994. New adopter of a Wildbits/K2

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1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· 1d

FUN new synth app from fellow wildbits owner jbaker8935. I'm testing it out. MIDI in VS1053b output in dac mode 2 oscillators with LFOs

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· 3d

most cursed Mac thing you've heard all day, a midi file dispatched to the four-tone synth of the Macintosh Sound Driver #macintosh #programming #clanguage

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· 7d

I just launched my new video: "Wildbits BAREBONES C game project tutorial" to get people going with this platform (fmr. known as F256). youtu.be/3afAJUqeyeE

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· 15d

Master of Orion, 1993 MSDOS game from my favorite era of PC gaming. I love the 2d pixel art in 320x240 much more than the early, awkward 3d era that followed a few years later. Just got the box in the mail today. The disks unfortunately no longer work.

CRT monitor showing the main galactic view of Master of Orion. The main square view is of the galaxy with named star systems. There's a right panel tab with planet info. There are menu tabs in the bottom such as GAME, FLEET.

master of orion front box art showing a sci-fi drawing. top half shows planetside with a building with columns to represent some form of civilization. bottom half shows spaceships in front of a planet.

back of the box art with gameplay screenshot and tantalizing description.

the contents of the box. a manual with a color front, a pink sheet for a calling tip service, 4 HD 3.5 inch disks

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jul 11

Small update for my MIDI file player I made in C for the 6502 based wildbits/K2 - I added a playlist mode and some bouncing MIDI logo sweetness (think DVD logo and those rare corner bounces!!!)

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jul 3

my new video review on the Snow Macintosh emulator! youtu.be/sMdRzK9dBSw

thumbnail of a video with the snow emulator icon, which is a classic beige compact mac with a smiling face and a mouse, but there's a bit of snow accumulated at the base and some snowflakes are falling down in a light blue background. The yellow text on black background on the right side says: "is it good?"

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 30

The absolutely unbelievable art from Trici Venola, found in the 'Mac the Knife' art disk from Miles Computing, circa 1987

gorgeous b&w high detailed bitmap of the Taj Mahal

gorgeous b&w high detailed bitmap the Notre Dame cathedral facade seen from the front at ground level, looking up. The top half of the image is of a charging knight in armor with a sword mounted on a horse. there's also several frames of animation of the humpback

gorgeous b&w high detailed bitmap of Albert Einstein playing the violin

gorgeous b&w high detailed bitmap of many musical instruments: trumpet, trombone, French horn, saxophone, guitar, banjo, violin, cello, drums, etc.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 30

Superpaint 2.0 tool sampler image, from the b&w mac days

a full page b&w bitmap graphic with 10 rectangular section showcasing graphic effects for superpaint, such as "paintbrushes", "block text", "centered horizon special effect" with explainer paragraphs for each.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 27

finally made a video on my MIDI file player coding started 2 years ago and worked on and off www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Uh...

video thumbnail showing a black and white lounge in pixelated macintosh graphics. There's a big view of outside with mountains and pine trees. There's a table inside with a Macintosh Plus. There's a big aquarium with a couple of fish, some bubbles and algae. There's a couch and a speaker showing a musical note symbol indicating it's active with a turntable besides.
The words "new app for b&w Macs in C" is shown on the right side in cyan.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 25

It is 2026. A kid coded this superbasic program for hours for father's day, on a Wildbits/K2 (6502/816 based wedge computers) The father is the owner of the #Wildbits line. It's think it's fair to call this wholesome!

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 19

2/2 quick capture of playback, showing animations. the Mac Plus is struggling a bit during this dense passage of onestop.mid, but a SE/30 doesn't have trouble here.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 19

cozyMIDI: my brand new 68k mac application coded in C (and sweat). Plays standard MIDI files assuming you have an external module plugged on the modem port. Runs on a Mac Plus, speed is perfect on a SE/30 and up. Has fun animations during playback (see the 2/2 post in this thread) #macintosh 1/2

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 15

of all the bugs I've encounted in my C coding projects, this is...the most posessed, cursed bug of all time. demonic Mac Plus MIDI signals from another dimension

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Jun 5

I made a Tinker Different thread explaining how to hook up a MIDI device on your host computer and have it communicate with Snow emulator. Both #MIDI in and MIDI out works #Macintosh #retrocomputing tinkerdifferent.com/threads/how-...

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· May 15

this was my childhood CRT

old CRT tv inside a dark wood grain frame with feet and ornamental details. A NES sits on top. We can see piles of books in the background, wood panneling on the wood and Battle of Olympus is the NES game featured on the lit screen. A person is masked by a bright yellow shadow.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· May 13

Mike C wrote a superbasic for a #wildbits computer (fmr. known as foenix retro) that's very easy to learn from, using connectivity with the wifi chip, fetching data from NASA and displaying the ISS coordinates in real time. I've let it run for about 30+ hours

map of the world with a black background and green outline of the continents. Many curves made by blue dots are representing the passages of the ISS over the map. The words "S.P.O.T. Satellite Position and Orbital Tracking" is at the top and the latitude and longitude of the current position of the ISS is on the bottom.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· May 3

Finally some MIDI pitch bending added to my Firejam (own C coded app), for all platforms: #macintosh, #wildbits K2. I'll make it work for SID, PSG and OPL3 and the Mac sound Driver output as well in their respective ways.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Apr 19

someone (thanks, furan) did this pixel animation on a LED matrix wall which looked so cool I had to reverse engineer it on my #wildbits K2 using 2 layers of smooth scrolling tiles. I added a fm synth menu music from System Shock, I felt it fit the vibes.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Apr 17

If you're visiting #VCF #VCFEast this weekend, consider checking out this amazing Wildbits classroom, where you're learn the ins and outs of this new retro platform (fmr. known as Foenix F256). Workshops happening on all 3 days, all day long on various topics surrounding its basic, sprites sound etc

photo of a classroom with rows of table having a SBC wildbits jr2 unit hooked to a LCD monitor, a classic C64 style joystick, a ps/2 keyboard. All the machines have various programs running, such as a port of Lode Runer, a balloon sprite from superbasic, a tile/sprite editor, pitfall, etc.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Mar 31

New Video Released on my channel: youtu.be/gliJVwzRifA

Picture of a Mac SE, piano keytar in a kitchen running the program Firejam

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Mar 28

The 3x3 MIDI selector and the PC Gameport party's stocks were runing low, so some fresh new batch (batch #3!) were just added to Joe's Computer Museum store https://www.jcm-1.com

3 small PCBs, the 2x2 MIDI selector, the 3x3 MIDI selector for general MIDI usage with old DIN5 cables and the PC Gameport Party breakout board for vintage PCs.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Mar 11

my BlueSCSI uSD card glitched and I lost everything lovingly dropped into my #globaltalk drop folder for 2026. I'm back in the saddle of course, but it's gonna be tough getting back a fraction of all these treasures. Thank you if you spend a few minutes putting back a file! #MARCHintosh

video screen capture of a SE/30 running System 7.1
we see an almost empty 2026 dropbox folder for MARCHintosh greet files, but one friendly RToD fellow did drop his shared file already, what a trooper!

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Mar 10

my 9 games https://my9games.com/

9 computet video game box art in a 3x3 grid. From top left to bottom right:

Dark Castle, Master of Magic, Ultima VII
Uninvited, Star Wars X-Wing, System Shock
Star Control II, Starcraft Brood Wars, Unreal Tournament

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Mar 3

In less than 3 hours, Return to Dark Castle makes a "return" to Steam, launches TODAY. I'm a rabid fan of the original DC and Beyond DC from the b&w mac days. I'm excited to play this entry - never had the platform for it when it released Precision platform with cartoon humor! 14.99 USD 1st 2 weeks!

gameplay screenshot where we can see the hero standing in the exterior of the castle, a tower, some ropes, an entry to a cavern and some enemy birds in the sky

gameplay screenshot of an outside level, where we can see an automated sentry, a small mutant, some platforms, some doors, spikes and ropes.

nocturnal gameplay screenshot where we see the hero swinging between ropes. We see little huts and forest tress

interior gameplay screenshot where we see a series of doors, some are closed, the bigger main one is opened, one is barred with planks. A knight armor statue decorates the scene.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Mar 1

#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk this new (non-hypercard, fast, low ram footprint) app "GlobalTalk Chat" released a couple days ago just got an update. It's fantastic to have a landing where you can be active and shoot the breeze with others, gives something else to do apart from stomping around in afps

black and white system 7 environment, showing an opened drive with the GlobalTalk Chat apps 1.0.1 and 1.0.5 highlighted

the apple menu about screen for GlobalTalk Chat, showing text information about how it was written, year and author.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Feb 21

TODAY I kept up with the Commodore! I got a pi1541 disk emulator so I can run those crazy european PAL demos on my 1983 NA C64 with a Vic II kawari small board. It was getting old writing to real floppies with a ZoomFloppy board.

a raspberry pi zero with a pi1541 hat showing a set of tactile buttons, a small oled screen indicating a disk being loaded, a rotary encoder knob held by a hand in front of a c64 CRT monitor showing graphics from a popular c64 demo, called 'Mojo', from 2023.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Feb 15

1/2

still from an old timey documentary where "01 BIT" is written on screen with large characters.

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Feb 3

3d rotations going as fast as it can in 12.29MHz

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Feb 3

more 6502 based programming using floating point calcs 3d transformations, thanks to linear algebra *sound up (MIDI)* done in C on a Wildbits/K2 wildbitscomputing.com

1Bit Fever Dreams@1bit· Feb 3

First foray into using fpga accelerated floating point operations (thanks to jbaker's routines) trigger warning: buzzing sounds