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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 29/09/2026

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

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nulleric @eric.scsi.blue · 27/09/2026

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

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 16/09/2026

aww yes! thanks for stopping by!

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Ken @kenfager.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's Maccy! @maccy.me

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Ken @kenfager.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Veronica explains why Kate joined her in crashing Ron and Steve’s ugly Mac presentation. #vcfmw @maccy.me

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Keith Kaisershot @blitter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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.

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 09/09/2026

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

kateandveronica.net

Kate and Veronica (have a podcast lol)

We're gabbing about computers, old and new!

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 28/08/2026

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

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 28/08/2026

I had fun camping out and shooting the moon at a ~ 97 % eclipse! so lucky! Fuji XT-3 with the Fujifilm XF 150-600mm

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 20/08/2026

Would you still love me if I was a worm 🐛?

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 20/08/2026

Omgmmgmg that is so cute !

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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 19/08/2026

The new Liquid Glass Traffic Lights in macOS. 🔴 🟡 🟢

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 16/08/2026

Technight. I have an Outbound Mac clone that I need to get its screen replaced. Even if it’s not an original screen :)

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 16/08/2026

Join me as a refurbished this Apple pPippin controller!

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 13/08/2026

Did you know that Snood (the Mac puzzle bobble clone) has a merch store! Going to get that Snood gangster hat. www.snoodworld.com/product-cate...

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 06/08/2026

CRT TVs and monitors have been FDA-regulated "radiation-emitting products". Importing one requires Form FDA 2877 with a manufacturer accession number. For a discontinued products, that documentation basically doesn't exist. (at least I dont think it does)

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

All shirts (including the new @maccy.me one your kids won't stop begging you to buy) are now on sale for $13! ronscompvids.threadless.com

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 04/08/2026

Omg I used to use this 😱

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 21/07/2026

It looks like PRES' connected in two places

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 21/07/2026

It could be to filter out pulses of noise when plugging something in? Maybe that’s what the PNPs on the right are doing too. Slowly ramping up voltage. I am a hotdog 🌭

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Kate - Mac Librarian @maccy.me · 21/07/2026

From what I recall from school, that press‘ on the left looks like it’s connected to a very short-lived RC circuit where the capacitor is so small it’s time constant is very short, so I’m thinking it is a de bounce circuit of some sort. Or a digital noise circuit filter. Is this for a port? 🔌

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vcfederation.bsky.social @vcfederation.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

VCF Great Britain: www.vintagecomputerfestival.org.uk September 11 @ 7:00 pm - September 13 @ 5:00 pm Aintree Race Course Ormskirk Rd Liverpool, Aintree L9 5AS United Kingdom