Teaching an Old Mac New Tricks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ต.ค. 2024
- Browse the modern web on vintage hardware with MacProxy Plus! (available now on GitHub: github.com/hun... ). Even though it was developed with early Macs in mind, it should work to get other computers online, too...
You can follow me on Gobbler ( hunterirving.c... ) and Huntergram ( hunterirving.c... ).
They say no one reads video descriptions, but clearly you're the exception. Long time no see! To me, there's something inherently comedic about a computer this old interacting with the modern day Internet. It shouldn't be possible, but, improbably, here it is, chugging along - happily browsing reddit, facilitating chats with artificial intelligences, and even playing Shrek (at least, its best attempt at Shrek) on just 4MB of RAM.
Part of why I put so much effort into into making this outlandish piece of software a reality is that I want you to know that even your most outlandish ideas can become real if you keep taking small steps towards your goal. That's what I mean when I say "You can do a lot". This video helps to remind me of that, too.
If you're looking to break a big idea down into smaller, more achievable tasks, I invite you to try matryoshka ( github.com/hun... ), a tool I developed alongside this video to help me stay organized and chart progress towards my goals. Looks like it worked! :o)
Thanks so much for tuning in,
- Hunter
PS: Have you tried "regobbling" a gobble yet?
Shoutout / Greetz to:
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Jen, Josh, Jim, Di, David, Tony, Braeden, Dan, Nick, The Person Reading This Right Now, Hacksburg, Fred, Daniel, Jeff, Tyler, Justin, JJ, Olivia, Susan, Minh, Mr. Burson, Mister Rogers, Will Powers, Mom and Dad, Juneyo, Claude, and Rilakkuma.
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Remember to donate to the Internet Archive. They really, really need it.
I couldn't agree more.
Hopefully they'll come back up soon
@@duplicake4054 I am pretty confident this attack is connected to the lawsuits. Corporations don't want the internet archive to exist. They want to be able to bury the truth and pretend all their past mistakes and feelings never happened. It's sad :(
@@duplicake4054same, I want to get a minecraft mod, but guess what, the modpack is only available on a certain site, and that site is down
@@duplicake4054 wait what happend? Why is it down? :(
"Practicality is *not* one of my interests."10/10
What can I say? Sometimes I like to do things the hard way.
This is really really impressive and important for “smol web”. This is a much bigger deal than the title and thumbnail of this video portray
Okay this channel is gonna blow up (not that 10k isn’t impressive already). The production value of this video is fabulous, not to mention the actual technical prowess on display in the extensions for macproxy.
Thanks for the kind words! It was definitely challenging, but also incredibly fun. I'm glad the effort shows through.
@@HunterIrving in particular I was really impressed by your chroma keying (or was it rotoscoping?) to cut the subjects out, and the filming of the CRT
Amazing work! I'm the maintainer of BlueSCSI - it always amazes me to see what people do with it! Keep making cool/weird things!
This is so incredibly cool. Reminds me of a hacky fix I made to our player piano from 1997, which uses floppy discs in a special encoding to play music. I figured out how the encoding worked and was able to convert my own midi files into that encoding to use them on the piano. This was many years ago, but you've actually inspired me to revisit it. There might be a way to get audio streaming to work on the piano. It'll be hacky as hell but it has to be possible.
insanely amazing. rewatched your waveform vid in prep for this and damn you've still got it, i really appreciate the laid back-ness in an internet full of crazy dopamine inducing edits
Thanks for following along! Happy to hear the style resonates with you.
@@HunterIrving we got rickrolled!
After 4 years later, this was worth the wait! Awosome!
Glad you enjoyed it! The wait for the next one should be shorter :-)
5:31 TALLY HALL SPOTTED WTF IS A THIRD ALBUM
unsure if the reference was intentional, but the overall presentation in this video makes me think it is
Impressive patience, well done! I was a kid (Gen X) when the Mac Plus arrived, and there was a test drive promo where you would get to try it out at home overnight, and that was spectacular. My parents saved up money and bought it for $2,600 in 1984, well over $5,000 in today's inflation-adjusted price.
I hope Action Retro does a video on this
The dedication to put together so many tools to make that scope of a project come together is incredible, and the final product is made all the better from each individual piece. Kudos man, that is impressive as hell.
Nah dawg, it was nothing.
Lol, good to hear from you, man. Hope you're doing well.
Hey, this is awesome!! I was scared I was the only young person still screwing around with old Macs, and you completely knocked it out of the park!! If I ever find myself with a Mac Plus I'll be sure to do this!
Thanks so much for watching! Despite the name, MacProxy Plus isn't Macintosh Plus (or even Macintosh) specific. As long as your web browser can set a proxy server, it should work. I recently got a similar setup working with Windows XP!
Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I love what you did with the thing.
So glad i subbed when you first posted the waveform vids. And I'll continue to be here because this video was great as well.
Wow, thanks for sticking around! Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Oh helllll yeah i was so happy to see this in my feed. Love your stuff glad to see more!
Thanks for sticking around! More is on the way :-)
9:30 you made the Dead Internet Theory real
So glad the algo brought me here
Welcome! Thanks for stopping by :-)
This is so well made. You wrote a program that simplifies webpages? And that was just one section of the video like it was nothing?? I’m excited for whatever you have next.
unrelated: Cool to see you also own a google daydream. I thought everyone forgot about it
It's currently on loan from a friend. I also have an Oculus Rift DK1, Epson Moverio, and Nintendo Virtual Boy! Maybe I'll find a way to work them all into a video... someday.
@@HunterIrving The last time i heard of epson our school's projector started making popping sounds during class
Frogfind?
This is awesome! I gotta get a bluescsi for my Mac SE to try all of this!
I highly recommend them! I've also tried a PiSCSI (aka RaSCSI), but it seems to have compatibility issues with the Plus.
Very neat stuff! Mac Plus users of the world, unite!
Thanks for watching! It's a fun little machine, isn't it?
This is absolutely wonderful!
0:47 Definitely not a mistake, you'd have had to remove that epoxy-encased thing anyway.
True, but I wish I hadn't let the smoke out. I can still smell it....
This is a fantastic video, it deserves so much more views. Great job!
This is actually amazing and to not see millions views on this yet is a shock lmao
Ur brother sent me 👋 but staying for the early 90’s worker video manual music
Wow, what a good brother. Glad you enjoyed the instructional video ambiance.
3:35 The Try Again jingle from Rhythm Tengoku! I know it! Finally someone used music from Rhythm Tengoku while not talking about Rhythm Tengoku!
found your channel thru the yt algorithm, and great video, you got a new subscriber outta me, keep up the good work
That was crazy cool, who knew you could do that lol
Thanks for watching, Tony!
Incredible, great fork and amazing work. You have so idea how badly I wish I could find a mac at any local thrift stores lol
I think it may have been a once in a lifetime thing, lol. A while back I saw an iMac G4 at a thrift store, but they were asking wayyy too much for it, so I had to pass...
TALLY HALL REFERENCE 5:31
welcome back buddy! - goopy :)
Hey goopy!! Good to hear from you again. Hope all is well with you :-)
awesome video! It's sitting at 4.4K views right now but I think you deserve more views
This tells me that emulators like Mini vMac have so much potential!
This is awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was such a treat to watch.
This comment was a treat to read.
Unexpected Limmy at 11:50 😆
Don’t stop making videos this time.
Who said I stopped? This one just took me a while :)
Mac Plus with Mac Plus Wallpaper,is the most /roots thing that i see....
I got one of these for super cheap recently, sadly it did not come with its keyboard. I tried making an adapter, but it's not working great right now. I do have a working BlueSCSI, so here's to hoping I can get the keyboard figured out soon so I can do... exactly this :P
i've got a mac se 30 with a blue scsi i'm going to check this out! very cool thanks for making mac proxy plus! i'll star your repo!
Nice! I imagine it would work even better on an SE/30. Happy hacking!
My guy uses elebits ost, subbed instantly
But... Science is Amazing... Intant New Sub: Dryden, Mich.
Well Done Sir
ommggggg who's that cutie??? 😘😘 this is insane !!!! loved every minute !! 💛💛💛
Haha, glad you enjoyed it!!
Those old capacitors are notorious for "exploding".
I love macflim. It works super duper fast on an HDD like a Macintosh SE. My plus the SD Card can handle some things OK. Trying to get the perfect video conversion rate I always struggled doing lol. Those c libraries I could only import on older Linux distros
Really well made video. Very enjoyable!
Good to see the Cardiff Giant make an appearance :)
Kind of a fascinating story, isn't it? I'd never head of it until sitting down to film this video!
You didn't need to recap it. The one that blew is a Class X RF suppressor, which connects directly across the 110V from the wall so as to stop any interference from blenders or whatever coming up the cord. Because it's attached to wall power directly, it's under an extraordinary amount of stress and is pretty much a consumable. The rest of them will have all still been fine.
Hell, you could've just ran it with the class X removed, they're basically useless.
Awesome stuff. Any chance you could share a disk image of your blueSCSI setup? Saw a few other applications on there that looked fun to check out!
how much was the Nintendo GameCube keyboard controller at 4:04
Enough to make me question my life choices; not enough to regret it.
@@HunterIrving I see
The big issue on older computers with SSL is the processing is far too advanced. Decrypting the info on a modern cpu takes pretty much no time. It may take a couple minutes on an 8 mhz computer
Ahh, yes that has to be that new feature!1 it burns itself when idling XD
Oh man,this looks so cool
I'll bet the Wikipedia extension could be adapted to fit anything MediaWiki. Pretty much anything under Fandom, for example.
Absolutely! Here's the Wikipedia extension if you (or anyone else) would like to take a crack at it: github.com/hunterirving/macproxy_plus/blob/master/extensions/wikipedia/wikipedia.py
welcome back!
Good to be back! Thanks for sticking around.
Just found your channel. Subbed, Liked, and clicked the bell. I'm doing my part! Loved it!
would be cool if we get this on windows. it would be interesting to see the barebone websites without needing a vintage pc
Oh shit, welcome back!
Thanks! It's good to be back :-)
this video is earthbound coded ❤
This is great. Thank you!
I was missing your videos!
You should make this for other browsers like ie 3, Netscape or even moisac
bro has an old google vr
Google Daydream. I wish they had done more with it, it's actually pretty nice.
Amazing work
Ok. This was BADASS!! 💯
Subbed
This is super awesome.
I NEED IT
This is super exciting! Once you choose a year or generate a site, how do you disable that?
11:58 I WANNA BE
YOUR SLEDGEHAMMER
12:21 oh you have TASTE
Ah, a fellow connoisseur. The sad thing is, these references will go over most peoples' heads... Thanks for watching!
@@HunterIrving the white dress video too… a man of culture!
"So im at the thrift store" YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
4:10 Please don't take this the wrong way Hunter but you kind of look like Brady Hartsfield from Mr. Mercedes in that hoodie
I wish my loval thrift stores had computers
They might have some right now! Better go check before they get snatched up.
I was waiting for someone to make a Mac Plus video player. Can you play them off the hdd?
Gold.
Thanks.
Cavestory music!
It's one of my favorites! I've probably played through it a dozen times (most recently on Sega Dreamcast).
Hey could you do a little update of Macproxyplus in which The Macintosh can run Websites like Character ai please?
awesome sauce
love this
Luckiest thing to ever happen to you
do u think a project like this could work to get a Palm Os device online?
this guy is like mattkc but if his name was hunter
Why? Because you can!
Exactly!
TALKLYT TYHAL TATALLY YHT TALLY HALL TALLY HALL TALLY HALL TALLY HALL TALLY HALL AFLYA YEA A YES EYES TALLY YAL
I am neither sticky nor old.
i’m a big stupid dumb dumb so are you actually able to put the extensions onto floppy disks? i like having everything be physical
the only thing why i clicked the video is the yt floppy
5:28 why do i hear tally hall start playing help
tally hall spotted 5:31
You can run Macintosh OS on a ds
You are so right describing the modern internet css java https as useless !!
bro plays earthbound
Brilliant content. Happy to have found you in a sea of mediocrity
4:38 sRawbeRRy?
Can it run doom?
Hmmm... Can it? Let me get back to you on that.
what about phub?
cool video and I use AI
but every time someone says they had AI write code for them I cringe a little