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A photo of an old PowerBook G3 sitting on my desk, with windows for Hotline and Internet Explorer 5 (with macintoshrepository.org loaded) open. I also have the "About This Computer" window visible in front of everything, showing that the computer has 512MB RAM in total, with the entirety of the OS taking up 43MB.

Talking to @fsvo@old.mermaid.town about my old websites got me right in the nostalgia and missing the time when computers and the internet were simpler, so I've booted up the old Pismo and am bathing in the Mac OS 9. 😁

Posted on 22 March 2025, 20:48

A photo of a black PowerBook G3 sitting on a desk, booted to the Mac OS 9 desktop. The machine is big and chunky, but also has subtle curves to it, and the trackpad is HILARIOUSLY tiny compared to modern Macs.

It's aliiiiive!

And even though I know my current MacBook Pro is UTTERLY silent at all times, it's still very weird to have an OLD computer also being completely silent too. I'm subconsciously used to hearing all the clicking of the hard disk.

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Posted on 13 April 2023, 17:17

A screenshot from Bungie's Forge Marathon map editor showing a window with a grid background, and some white polygons in it showing where the bounds of the level are.

Same as the last screenshot except the polyons are a couple of different shades of red now, indicating the different ceiling heights of the various polygons.

A screenshot from the first-person perspective inside the bounds of the polygons from the previous screenshots, looking down a hallway with tall ceilings and two panels of light on the right side casting sharp lighting across to the left.

Current status: Enjoying how easy it was to make maps back in the day with Marathon Infinity and the included map editor Forge. The Marathon games weren't true 3D but 2.5D, so the map-making process was really simple! You'd start with a top-down view, put the outlines in of where the polyons should go, then fill them, set the ceiling and floor heights, and then go into Visual Mode for texturing and light levels.

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Posted on 22 December 2019, 16:18