I have an old Mac Classic from 1990-1991 or so sitting in my basement collecting dust. I need to clean it up and crack it open to do a full recap soon. I’m going to grab a BlueSCSI to replace the internal hard drive with a fast SD card. These old machines absolutely FLY when you get them on solid state storage. It’s pretty amazing how nice they feel to use when everything loads instantly!

Just follow it up with “the food baby! They got some great food at this party! I’mma go get some!”

There absolutely is a vintage Mac 68K and PowerPC development community, if you allow me to be loose with the word community. To my knowledge, there isn’t a single, centralized space for people discussing and sharing tips and projects for vintage Macs. Instead, there are a lot of different people and mini communities spread all over the place, not all of which are specific to development.

First of all, there’s MARCHintosh and the wider community of vintage Mac retrocomputing enthusiasts, including Ron’s Computer Videos and Mac84.

Next there’s the 68KMLA forums which, despite the name, also include PowerPC Macs for discussion. There’s also the MacRumors forums which have numerous sections for earlier Macs.

Now, for cross-compiling, the main project I’m aware of is Retro68 which supports 68K and PowerPC targets. I’ve never used it though so I can’t vouch for it.

If you’ve never developed software for Mac before, you’re going to want some documentation. Thankfully, there’s a nice library over at Vintage Apple! Also be sure to check out the various collections over at Internet Archive (the filtering options on the left are extremely powerful).

To get more specific you’ll have to provide more specifics about the type of development you’re interested in. Is it Mac OS 9 or X? I assume you have an iMac G3 and you’ll want to run software on it. Have you serviced the machine to avoid damaging it with leaky capacitors or batteries? Have you replaced the mechanical hard drive with an SSD using an IDE/SATA converter?

These are all things to consider if you want to keep your iMac going as a long term hobby!

Yes, though at least with C you have the compiler to optimize the cruft out of your binary and end up with a nice, clean program.

With JavaScript this is going to incur some runtime cost everywhere this library is used, even if it only happens once when getting optimized out by the JIT compiler.

Good riddance!

If a car costs more to repair than it’s worth, it’s called a write-off. If a category of anything (doesn’t have to be cars) regularly ends up written off, it’s non-repairable and disposable. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to repair, just that it’s not worth repairing. Anything can be repaired if you’re willing to spend unlimited money on it.

They’re selling them at deep discounts. The loss in resale values makes people wary of buying new ones. People want cars that hold their value, otherwise they won’t buy.

Here you go. It’s not factually incorrect. EVs are too expensive to repair!

Yet nobody is buying used electric cars. The resale price is abysmal. US adoption of electric cars has stalled as a result.

You wanted an explanation of what’s going on and then when you don’t like the answer you react negatively.

Not used ones! There’s a whole market out there of used cars that are cheap and easy to repair.

It’s the parts, stupid! EVs use proprietary parts that cost a fortune to replace. We’re talking thousands of dollars for proprietary headlights, whereas an old gas car you can buy new headlights for $30 at an auto parts store.

It didn’t have to be this way. But manufacturers saw an opportunity for maximum greed and they took it!

Blame the manufacturers for making disposable, non-repairable crap EVs.

Look at the resale market for 5+ year old EVs. They’re practically worthless. Turns out they’re full of proprietary parts that can’t be replaced with after market alternatives, so people are forced to buy from the manufacturer who charges more than the car is worth.

For some reason, the car companies thought they could get away with forcing people into the buy-discard-rebuy cycles that we have for smartphones. That hasn’t worked so far. Americans believe that cars should be a long term investment, not a disposable commodity.

Last bit of evidence is look at the fleet vehicle market. Rental car companies have dumped their EV fleets due to the cost of repairs and replacements.

How does it poison their data to share your honest preferences with them? Doesn’t that give them the most accurate dossier possible so they can hit you with ads that micro-target your interests?

Yes! Go Bills!

It’s not even an apology. When you apologize you take full accountability for what you did, you don’t make excuses!

Nintendo has never sold their consoles at a loss. They sell them at a small profit which then grows to a larger profit as the cost of making them decreases.

Home video game sales peaked at $3.2 billion then fell to $100 million, a drop of nearly 97%. This collapse, largely blamed on Atari shoving out low quality games, lasted for 2 years until Nintendo released the NES in North America.

Definitely a shrinking audience for AAA games, but I don’t think it will be too bad gamers overall. Consoles will keep marching forward, as will Valve with the Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

I think the highest of the high end graphics stuff has long since hit diminishing returns. You can do a hell of a lot with yesterday’s hardware and less-than-bleeding-edge process nodes for newer hardware. Consoles have never used bleeding edge GPUs and they’ve always done fine with sales (across the whole market, if not always individually). I think we’re highly unlikely to see a repeat of the 1983 gaming crash.

Well I think employed 21-year olds are a lot less likely to have any savings at all (mostly student loans) and also more likely to be working in a job with no retirement plan (working at Subway or Starbucks). Combining their situation to a 64-year old in an office job or a skilled trade is still pretty misleading.

Yes, it’s a huge problem that young people have all this student debt and lack of savings and high living expenses. But we’re not going to be able to analyze that by lumping all their numbers together with older people. If we want to make comparisons we need separate numbers.

Very misleading stats. What’s the breakdown by age group? A 21-year old with <$1000 in savings is very different from a 64-year old. Talking about the “average worker” across that wide of an age range is totally meaningless. What’s the median age?