I had several C-64's and two C-128's
Handle was Wildfyre and later Mirage
ran City of Illusion BBS in Wisconsin - 414 area code
20 Meg Lt. Kernel HD
3.5 floppy
ran C-Net and Image BBS
Programmed a C-64 to hack things for me during that day (written in BASIC and POKE and PEEK Memory addresses with a MODEM).
It was right after Jobs and Woz created their Blue Box and Capt. Crunch was a legend
At that time, I did not know even what Jobs and Woz did. I was much younger.
We hacked just about anything we could get our mitts on. Brute force or random attempts from computers. There was not much security back then. If you could imagine what was on the other side of the wall that you were trying to break into, you could pretty much get in with just a personal computer.
Love the movie Wars Games, btw. I want to do a nuclear end game simulation one day.
I gave up the Commodore hacking when I went to off to College and sold all my equipment. lost my source code.
There is one C-64 game I made that is still online called Laser Eagle V2. I have a few games in the the works for iOS.
And then got into the Mac from H.S., to College (my college had a Mac II), My first Mac at my job was a Quadra 700 (expensive as hell). And I bought a Mac SE in College in the parking lot of a Red Roof Inn Hotel from the owner for $800 bucks. Did internships on the Mac while in school. Needless to save after the Commodore, I was really into Macs. Never really knew it would be my life.
Commodore had a chance to buy Apple early and passed. A friend of my had a Vic-20. Amazing machines. Never got an Amiga, but that was pretty much the cousin to the Mac.
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If you had a 2012, you'd be in good company. Even though its graphics compared to a 680 is slow.
[doublepost=1560311751][/doublepost]I got everything working on the MP3,1 except for Sound. I installed the Audio Kext's and no dice.\
I do have two USB sound ports and those work fine. I'll see if my electric guitar can hook up to one of them cuz other than a Mic with the USB Sound, and sometimes I use head phones, I'm good. Don't have digital audio in or out right now, but I am can live with that for the time being.
I did a bunch of local snapshots.
It looks like the system keeps the last six.
APFS snapshots are a lifesaver. Can't believe I did not come across them sooner. Again, I did not like APFS at all for a long time. Guess when something is new and you don't quite understand it and the old HFS+ was the standard for a very long time.
Code:
Mac-Pro ~ % tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-06-11-194219.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-06-11-194619.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-06-11-194632.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-06-11-195947.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-06-11-201158.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-06-11-203042.local
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If the machines support Metal, I don't see Apple cutting them off next year. I think we will see the next cutoff when Apple changes chips and that might not happen since the 2019 Mac Pro is Intel.
You'd think Apple would use AMD processors in future Macs since they are so into AMD on the Graphics side. I know it would mean new MOBOs too, just you'd think they'd a package deal.