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Re: MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs

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Post by thudson » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:04 PM UTC

A few years ago I built an adapter to allow classic Mac CRT's to be used with BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi systems ( https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_video). X11 has supported 1-bit mono displays since forever, so it mostly worked out of the box with well written programs.

Watching youtube videos in 1-bit is an amazing aesthetic. Unfortunately all of my videos of it were on vine, so this Muybridge-esque cat video seems to be the only one that I cross-posted to twitter: https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1045272076750401536

Re: MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs

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Post by tyingq » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:16 PM UTC

chizhik-pyzhik wrote: post #57

tyingq wrote: post #22

Ah, full justification for me to now upgrade my Mac Plus with an accelerator board: https://www.micromac.com/products/multispeed.html Surprised these are still ~$100-200 ... that's a bargain.

i'm skeptical this link actually works... googling around, it looks like no one might be watching this site: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/6svp32/any_ac... I've been looking for an accelerator board for my mac SE, but can't find anything reasonably priced anywhere...

Ah, well, that's too bad. And you're right, what can be found is expensive.

Re: MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs

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Post by fstark » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:55 PM UTC

samat wrote: post #55

fstark wrote: post #7

Hi. I am the author of macflim. This is the old video, I am finishing the techdemo that have sound, there is a video on youtube ( https://youtu.be/YRe6I5AICJ0 ). I'll update the macflim.com website later today. And yes, diskspace is one of the reason why it is impractical, but with a SCSI2SD, one can get 4 2Gb partitions on you mac for around $100. And yes, it is bizarre and useles, hence absolutely necessary. If you…

Do you have patreon or something? This is a project I can wholeheartedly support with my hard earned money.

That's kind of you, but no, I don't have a patreon nor need financial support. Having enthousiats users/lurkers if all that I need.

However, if anyone can help me getting my hands on some vintage hardware, that would be awesome (mac or non-mac, I have a few nasty software projects involving weird hardware).

[I'm ready to pay "normal" prices for those items, of course]

In particular, I am looking for a network card (for the next couple of years) for the SE/30, as I see streaming could be useful to a late 80's computer... :-) . I did found one, once, but the seller didn't ship outside of the US, and the time to organize, it went poof :-(

I also try to get my hands on a Performa/LC 575 motherboard to perform a Mystic upgrade of my Color Classic -- the goal being to see what kind of crazyness we could get on a top-of-the line color compact mac. Again, those things seems to be made of unobtainium, and probably hoarded by collectors...

A Turbo NeXT Cube would be awesome, but again, nowhere to be found...

Re: MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs

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Post by fstark » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:57 PM UTC

thudson wrote: post #61

A few years ago I built an adapter to allow classic Mac CRT's to be used with BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi systems ( https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_video ). X11 has supported 1-bit mono displays since forever, so it mostly worked out of the box with well written programs. Watching youtube videos in 1-bit is an amazing aesthetic. Unfortunately all of my videos of it were on vine, so this Muybridge-esque cat video seems to be t…

Hey that's cool, awesome, and completely outside of area of expertise! I love it!