Kate - Mac Librarian (@maccy.me)

@jeffgeerling.com Oct 3, 2026, 1:21 PMReposted by @maccy.me

45 minutes until the annual livestream! Let's upgrade the SE/30 to the gills! www.youtube.com/live/-vtFNuP...

@maccy.me Oct 2, 2026, 10:45 PM

No. This is for a game server machine at home. 🏠. Real computing still needs a Mac ;)

@maccy.me Oct 2, 2026, 10:43 PM

Hahaha 😂

@maccy.me Oct 2, 2026, 3:48 PM

Oh no! what am I doing with my life 😮

@maccy.me Oct 2, 2026, 2:54 AM

OMG I remember this game!!!

@thisweekinretro.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:58 PMReposted by @maccy.me

Jason and Chris have very different views of the Amiga as a productivity computer. Special guest Veronica Explains your chair umpire for This Week in Retro episode 288, arriving Saturday!

@maccy.me Sep 29, 2026, 2:40 PM

Everyone was getting on the internet in the 90s, even pigeons !

@maccy.me Sep 29, 2026, 2:35 PM

hmmmmmm this Mac is very Sus - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23709553...

@eric.scsi.blue Sep 27, 2026, 2:26 PMReposted by @maccy.me

Get them while the gettin's good tinkerdifferent.com/threads/newl...

@sgerstacker.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 1:04 AMReposted by @maccy.me

Maccy on a #quicktake 150.

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@maccy.me Sep 19, 2026, 4:05 PM

kateandveronica.net - RSS Feed for audio listening !

@maccy.me Sep 19, 2026, 3:09 PM

New Podcast Episode ! This time we explore Vintage Computer Festival Midwest! youtu.be/LamG412IQgA

@maccy.me Sep 15, 2026, 11:54 PM

aww yes! thanks for stopping by!

@maccy.me Sep 15, 2026, 11:52 PM

Whoa! this is cool!

@kenfager.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 5:07 PMReposted by @maccy.me

It's Maccy!

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@maccy.me Sep 15, 2026, 3:51 PM

Claurs is back! Easter Eggs are back in iOS! www.macrumors.com/2026/09/15/a...

@kenfager.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 1:11 AMReposted by @maccy.me

Veronica explains why Kate joined her in crashing Ron and Steve’s ugly Mac presentation.

#vcfmw @maccy.me

@blitter.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 1:47 AMReposted by @maccy.me

Spotted not one, not two, but *three* playable Bandai Pippin AtMark consoles at #VCFMW this weekend. Bonus: a Pippin Concept Prototype on exhibit courtesy of @mac84.bsky.social and @maccy.me

A Pippin AtMark booted into Pippin Kickstart 1.1, indicating its 1.0 ROM and 13312K of RAM. Displayed on a Sony PVM.

A Pippin AtMark booted into Pippin Kickstart 1.1, indicating its 1.0 ROM and 5120K of RAM (thanks Kyle and Danielle!). Displayed on an NEC AccuSync LCD71v and flanked by a pair of Altec Lansing Multimedia speakers.

Macintosh Librarian’s placard describing their Pippin setup. Text:

Introducing the Pippin Disk Emulator & Game Changer!
The Pippin is back, in BlueSCSI Form!
by Kate Fox, Macintosh Librarian & Eric Helgeson, creator of BlueSCSI

Now you can hold the Pippins entire software library on one SD card. With the new Game Changer menu, you can play any game from the comfort of your sofa.

The Game Changer
• Written in C, built with Retro68 as one fat binary: 68k and PowerPC in the same file.
• It started as Eric’s BlueSCSI Toolbox CD changer. I added the Pippin calls, the AppleJack pad, menu and box art.
• Pick an image and the BlueSCSI swaps it in. The console restarts straight into it, CD or HD image!
• Power cycle and you are back at the menu thanks to the Keith K. Bootloader!

What is on the menu
• Pippin CDs: Tamagotchi, Dazzeloids, Ultraman Action Designer, Power Rangers Zeo!
• Mac adventures rebuilt on writable disk images: Myst, Dust, The 7th Guest, Iron Helix, Jump Raven, Gadget, Spaceship Warlock

The Arcade disk! Load this one!
• One hard-disk image w/ 35 Mac games
• It runs under PEASE, Bandai’s own big-button Pippin shell. The menus were Japanese, so I patched the strings to English by hand.
• Crystal Quest, Glypha III, Power Pete, Prince of Persia, Another World, Flashback, Monkey Island, Loom, SimCity 2000, Tetris Max, Snood, Oregon Trail, and two pinball games!

Controller (Apple Jack Pad)
• Trackpad is the mouse. D-pad is arrows.
• I wrote a small pad-mapper program that swaps in a per-game layout the moment a game opens. Glypha III starts a new game on yellow. Power Pete switches weapons on blue.
• Glypha III on this pad is, honestly, the best thing on the table. Try it!

Bootloader: a fork of the BlueSCSI Toolbox CD changer. Shell: PEASE (Bandai). Boot: Pippin Kickstart (blitter.net). Debugging: DingusPPC.

A Pippin Concept Prototype being exhibited under a clear acrylic cover at the Vintage Computer Festival MidWest 2026 Macintosh Librarian table. Guarded above by an army of tiny Maccys.

@maccy.me Sep 9, 2026, 3:21 AM

My friend Veronica Explains and I started a podcast! It's called Kate & Veronica - the first episode just came out :) ! Listen / watch now! www.kateandveronica.net

@maccy.me Aug 28, 2026, 3:10 PM

yes!!!! I saw it 😮 !! UFO?! haha it was zooming sooo fast!