Put a vintage Mac in your pocket!

Подписаться 401 тыс.

Просмотров 115 тыс.

50% 1

The majority of vintage Mac enthusiasts focus on restoring original hardware. But here's a way to get the classic Mac OS experience in a device you can fit in your pocket!
Instructions overview for installing Mini vMac on PocketCHIP:
Download the .zip file from the GitHub repository and find/make a Mini vMac disk image (links below)
Install SSH server if it isn't already: sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Find the PocketCHIP's IP address: ip addr show wlan0
Connect to PocketCHIP using an SFTP client with credentials chip/chip
Create a folder on PocketCHIP and navigate into it
Upload the minivmac, MacII.ROM and your disk image file
On the PocketCHIP, navigate into the folder you made and make minivmac executable: chmod +x minivmac
Then just run it with ./minivmac (provided that your disk image is named disk1.dsk)
Sources and links:
biosrhythm blog post about MiniVMac on PocketCHIP: biosrhythm.com/?p=2688
Mini vMac project page: www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/
GitHub MiniVMac port for CHIP: github.com/zzxzzk115/Pocketch...
Mini vMac premade disk images: macintoshgarden.org/apps/mini...
"Is This the End for the C.H.I.P.?," Hackaday: hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-th...
Leftover CHIP inventory photos: web.archive.org/web/201809181...
Suspicion about CHIP selling at a loss: www.cnx-software.com/2015/06/...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: / thisdoesnotcompute
Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music by Epidemic Sound (www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (freemusicarchive.org/music/Bo....

Наука

Опубликовано:

22 июн 2023

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 162

@benhofb 11 месяцев назад

Really appreciate the post mortem here. I remember the pocket chip disappearing and always wondering what happened, but now I know. Kind of a bummer, but I feel like they definitely laid the ground work for successful future products from other manufacturers, plus I recall the pocket chip being one of the first major things for pico-8, which is still really popular and impressive in it's own ways.

@CralexKokiri 11 месяцев назад

Surprised is your unit still works, as mine often need to be reflashed after sitting around for too long. For anyone thinking about picking up one of these, it is not easy to get them updated, so you may want to stick with off-line projects like this. The most promising future for CHIP I’ve seen is that a couple people have been developing a port of PostmarketOS for it. Although the primary focus of the distro is bringing back old phones, it offers the promise of someday being able to flash an updated OS to the CHIP directly.

@nikdog419 11 месяцев назад

Is this why I can charge mine, power it on and off, but it doesn't do anything? Not even drive the LCD? EDIT: Yes to all

@quakestream6213 11 месяцев назад

I can't install almost anything on it keep on getting the package unavailable error almost every time are you familiar with the issue. Can't even install the new version of pico- 8 on it or DOOM😓 Would appreciate a lot if you could help me out, thanks.

@Dolinmyster 11 месяцев назад

I bought one of these back in they day after I saw a review of it. It was really awesome and gave me a lot of excitement to have a handheld computer that I could mess around with and wasn't as locked down as a phone. I'm glad to see it getting some love finally. I've searched every few years what to do with it, but it just seemed it had been forgotten about. I will have to dig my old unit and try this out. Thanks for sharing!

@kaitlyn__L 11 месяцев назад

Whoa, I hadn’t been paying attention to the CHIP story at all. I had no idea they went out of business so quickly. I have to wonder why they aggressively went SO low. Anyone would’ve tolerated an increase from the KickStarter sweetener price. I have to assume they wanted a very aggressive lead over RasPi hence not pricing at $35, but even at $25 say would’ve still been very competitive against RaspberryPi but made at least a little profit.

@anupvenkat47 11 месяцев назад

Man its a real shame that NTC went bankrupt, had ordered it years ago via my uncle who stayed in US but never got it. Still nice to see people still finding ways to run old OS on discontinued devices.

@Censorshift 11 месяцев назад

Totally sucks, I loved the product, the company seemed great and the community was flourishing until it all went south. I sold my Pocket Chip which I regret but I still have an OG CHIP with 8Gb storage

@kbhasi 11 месяцев назад

Yep! I wanted to develop a device based on CHIP, but it didn't have enough storage for my use case and I didn't feel like going cheap and integrating a USB memory card reader. Before shelving the project, I would re-base my design notes on the Raspberry Pi CM4 platform (as that had larger storage capacities and more capabilities) paired with an integrated PiJuice.

@tarstarkusz 11 месяцев назад

It may be a "shame" but it was eminently predictable. Personally, I have a rule to *NEVER* back any crowdsourcing project. it is a fundamentally crooked scheme. It has you paying real money to buy something that doesn't yet exist. That's called investing and in investing you earn money if the product succeeds, not a "discounted" product. Investing is very, very risky. High interest rates compensate the investor for the risks of their capital. Imagine if Starbucks was going to open a Starbucks in your area if they could find 1000 people to each put up 1000 dollars. For that thousand dollars, you could get a free cup of coffee with the option to buy more. That is "crowdsourcing"

@Chris-rg6nm 11 месяцев назад

It was really a crap product, very slow for the OS they used.

@turbojjosh 11 месяцев назад

iiiuuuu

@damianvila 11 месяцев назад

Great video, Collin! It was a blast being a part of the CHIP community at the time. The SBC was a great product, and the Pocket CHIP was a really nice little gadget. Cheers!

@BlackRoseCloud 11 месяцев назад

So sad they went under I had so much fun getting things like OpenRCT2 running on the little guy

@richardthunderbay8364 11 месяцев назад

Seeing Mac system 7 always brings on waves of nostalgia for me. It was installed on the first computer I ever owned, a Mac IIvi.

@crims0n.x 11 месяцев назад

Was fortunate enough to have my pre-order fulfilled. Really loved the concept and had some fun with it, but man that keyboard was extremely unpleasant to use!

@RobDimeo 11 месяцев назад

This is amazing!!! Any chance to bring old Mac OS to life is a treat.

@kbhasi 11 месяцев назад

(5:44) Storage, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, AND an integrated battery charge controller! I had a project that I originally designed to be based on a CHIP module with a custom DIP (that's what CHIP's add-on modules were called), but it didn't have enough storage for my needs. Despite shelving the project to work on other projects, I rewrote the design ideas I had written so far to instead be based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 platform on a custom carrier board with an integrated PiJuice alongside newer versions of the other components I originally wanted to use with the CHIP. Actually, come to think of it, I'm sure someone would've made a CM4-based spiritual succesor to the PocketCHIP!

@user-ys6jf9iz9x 11 месяцев назад

I remember ordering one of these (CHIP, case, and VGA adapter) through the presale. I received mine with the first few shippments. It worked great and delivered exactly what it was selling. I played with it for a while then sold it in a garage/rummage sale. Crazy to think it all went downhill so fast after that. Wonder when they'll come back around an get super expensive on eBay.

@dotapark 11 месяцев назад

God, your videos are so good…calm myself, yet very interesting. Good for sleep, but good for when I want to watch something too. Greatly balanced middle ground of interesting videos.

@nicholsliwilson 11 месяцев назад

Wow! I must dig out my Pocket Chip! I installed an amp & speakers in mine using some recovered laptop speakers. Mine, like a lot of them, came with 8GB of storage even though it was documented as 4. It’s a shame it wasn’t a success because honestly I loved my Pocket CHIP, it was a great little device. I know it’s unnecessary but I will be doing this. That resistive touch screen will work much better with a stylus, I have a bunch of them from different devices so it’s not hard to find one. Great video Colin, thanks & thanks for tipping me off about this.

@POVwithRC 11 месяцев назад

Came for the Mac emu, stayed for the neat history lesson

@RyanMercer 11 месяцев назад

Before I went through a lay off 98 days ago, I would always sit down on Fridays and watch this and LGR with a bowl of boneless wings. Here I fire it up on a Wednesday and Pavlovian response engage... start drooling and wanting wings, oof.

@Vostok7 11 месяцев назад

I have a Pocket CHIP somewhere and one still sealed in storage. It was a fun toy but the terrible keyboard kept it from being more useful. I think I've used my ArduBOY more and Pico8 can be had on other platforms. This is the most compelling thing I've seen one used for and even it would probably get boring pretty fast.

@bland9876 11 месяцев назад

This is reminding me of those 486 computers that some other RU-vidrs showed off. If you're watching this video you probably know what I'm talking about.

@fairvalesecondary5883 6 месяцев назад

Pulled out my chip today. Was looking for new projects with it. This looks awesome. Thanks.

@CodyShell 11 месяцев назад

i havnt seen that puzzle game in YEARS!!!! Now that was a memory unlock right there

@theharbingerofconflation 10 месяцев назад

I remember the pocketCHIP from its kickstarter phase, I gave it a minute of thought then decided it’s too limited and I can already do that with a Pi. This is the first useful project I’ve seen for the thing and it makes me wonder what else I missed.

@firejama3 11 месяцев назад

I had one of these. I sold it. This video is making me wish I hadn't. I still have one of the SBC's though.

@Markimark151 11 месяцев назад

Pocket Chip was an epic fail! This is why at least Raspberry Pi was successful, since they have more support from distributors and chip suppliers! I was able to emulate a Mac OS System 7 for the CD-Rom games!

@umiy6299 11 месяцев назад

I am so sad that I lost my pocket chip because that thing was awesome. I mostly used it to make PICO-8 games, and it's extremely fun to use despite the trash keyboard.

@Jadiaz-ev9hm 11 месяцев назад

Nice! Picked up ome of these for like 5 bucks at a garage sale because why not? Def going to do this!

@l255j_3 11 месяцев назад

Someone please send Alan Kay a PocketCHIP. He's been waiting his whole life for a fully functioning Dynabook.

@joemartin5881 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for this video. My Pocket Chip has been collecting dust. I’m going to try this out.

@ExperimentIV 11 месяцев назад

i hope someone makes something comparable as a DIY project with a raspberry pi zero w or something. i loved my pocketchip, but it would be way cooler to have a similar pi handheld

@mingzhezhang2992 11 месяцев назад

I have a pocket chip. Its biggest problem is its rudimental NAND module which has zero controller logic to manage data retention and wearing issues. Basically it loses data in a span of maybe a year and it requires you to reflash the whole thing.

@SteveDrees 9 месяцев назад

Insomnia, this video, and having a pocket chip in a drawer makes for a late night.

@borf42 11 месяцев назад

I may have to dig mine out and do this. I even 3D printed a neat case with proper keyboard buttons! That was a fun project right there....

@MarkEichin 10 месяцев назад

Neat! I had a Pocket CHIP that worked when it arrived, I should dig it out and try this....

@abdelali9279 11 месяцев назад

0:13 Ohmigosh, Dead Or Alive 5+ spotted, man the nostalgia, I want to get a PS Vita again, that port of DOA5 is so impressive for a portable console

@nodeswitch 11 месяцев назад

I loved my Chip. Had two Chips and one Pocket Chip for them to slot into. Both of them burned out eventually. After NTC went bankrupt, there were a couple of community efforts to keep things going, but for something that was connected to the web, I wouldn't have kept it running for much longer. There are some cool alternatives that'll fit various Pi boards out there, Tindie is always a fun browse!

@bghoody5665 11 месяцев назад

Pocket CHIP looks like something, that if Terminator 2 were made today, young John Connor would be using it to hack into bank machines.

@desktorp 11 месяцев назад

I remember when it first launched and I immediately knew it was going to end badly. It would've needed at least a $35 price tag to not lose money.

@brendanhoffmann8402 11 месяцев назад

That is so cool. I ran MacOS 9 on a raspberry pi once (using Action Retro's image of mini v mac)... it was very slow though.

@ExperimentIV 11 месяцев назад

damn i gotta dig out one of my pocketchips now. they’re still so cool

@SuperNicktendo 11 месяцев назад

Great. Now I want one

@thekornreeper 11 месяцев назад

Cool concept

@Kw1161 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the video, and history lesson. I wondered about that $9 board…too good to be true, although $35 still seems like a good deal. I am ordering a Clock Work Uconsole computer containing a PI4 Lite board, and after I put it together and master the OS, this sounds like it would be a good project to try. Have a great day!

@legerdemain 11 месяцев назад

This is a very cool use case that I'm going to have to try. I did receive my PocketChip, several months late, having ordered the moment they appeared on general tech blogs. Pleased with the product, and the excellent documentation they maintained, I pledged for a Dashbot right after it was announced. It was so frustrating over the following months, having seen a demo video, to then watch them post updates about working out basic parts of the product months after promised delivery, "here's our team designing the case!" I wish it'd all worked out, and feel a little betrayed.

@MatteoPascolini 11 месяцев назад

ya, i put in my money also for what they ended up calling Voder. Such a joke that they couldn't get their shit together.

@chrisrios802 3 месяца назад

this will actually be perfect for beat making trackers

@smoguli 5 месяцев назад

Emulating what used to be a 10K$ computer (the Mac II) on a 9$ computer the size of a playing card is insane!

@reggiebenes2916 11 месяцев назад

I got a Pocket Chip when it first came out, and I love it, it's still kicking . I always wondered how they could sell at the price they started with, obviously they couldn't. I would have bought one if it was $40 more, and I think most people would have. Too bad because they made a great product, they really should have started at a price point that allowed them to turn at least a slight profit.

@Robospidera1 11 месяцев назад

Wow looks like it was a cool product I never knew about it sadly.

@asherael 10 месяцев назад

oh, i had a pocket chip!! i SHOULD check that out

@MrNicetux 10 месяцев назад

I own two Pocket C.H.I.P and i'm happy with them.😊

@retr0bits545 11 месяцев назад

Can I upload via floppy disk to this and vice versa?

@volvo09 11 месяцев назад

I forgot about CHIP... I was just thinking of "what was that $9 kickstarter single board computer" like a month or two ago. Always wondered how they got the prive so low, guess it makes sense now.

@danteblake9701 11 месяцев назад

Would love to see anew version or equivalent 720p screen & stereo speakers of course. optional gamepad

@TroyFletcherKeyboards 8 месяцев назад

Excellent video. If you want to update or maintain your CHIP some work has been put into getting it on the latest Debian

@jam3sn 11 месяцев назад

It’s a shame Next Thing went bust. It was a cool product. At the time of preorders a good friend of mine had a horrible accident leaving him in hospital for quite some time. I emailed Next thing asking if there was any way my preorder could be moved up the list and shipped to him, knowing it was the perfect little machine to distract him as he loved to tinker with Raspberry Pis among other things. While they couldn’t expedite my order to be shipped to him, one of Next team shipped their personal Pocket CHIP to him, half way around the world. For that I’m ever so gratefully. He healed up and I in time got my Pocket CHIP, this might be a good excuse to dig it out the draw!

@LdotSdot210 11 месяцев назад

I wanted a pocket CHIP so bad just so I could use sunvox on it but it was already discontinued by the time I became aware of it.

@gordonwelcher9598 11 месяцев назад

The meat of the Blue Kazak camel has a nutty cheesy flavour and is highly prized. It is usually dry aged in the desert buried under the sand for at least 60 days before consumption. Boiled in fermented mare's milk with garlic and honey it is reserved for special occasions. Brutal wars have been fought to gain acquisition of the animal.

@Hex-Mas 11 месяцев назад

Not a big apple fan but this is awesome.

@accountunknown4487 10 месяцев назад

I’d love to see more pocket chip videos/projects mine is a glorified paper weight 😂

@stanleywatson2559 10 месяцев назад

Lost some money to PocketChip after they never delivered my second order. I liked the device but it was probably the only time I really couldn't get my money back from something online because of the time that had passed etc. Finding my cooked old pocketchip now just brings back sour memories.

@ezrareacts3604 10 месяцев назад

i NEED this

@dhariri 11 месяцев назад

It turns out that you can get people pretty excited if you sell a dollar for 50c.

@ruffnutts 11 месяцев назад

Still got my 8GB model lol boxed mint :)

@RoderikvanReekum 11 месяцев назад

Nice computer!

@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim 11 месяцев назад

09:58 should of said *Biting of more than it could Chip* 😂

@balls2bone 10 месяцев назад

The issue I had with the C.H.I.P was that Next Thing Co flatly refused to have resellers outside of USA. You could buy a C.H.I.P. for $9 but the shipping was somewhere around $50 to the UK.

@AutumnRain 11 месяцев назад

i love seeing people be able to do things with the pocket chip, it's a shame what happened to it. i actually have one! i didn't know about what it was until much later, but i received it as a gift from a professor when i was in college. i was never really sure what I wanted to do with it, it was pretty fun to just tinker around with. but these days, something's happened to the battery and it won't turn on again :( i figure it probably wouldn't be too hard to tinker and replace it(and maybe make some other mods... micro-usb to usb-c, eeyy??), but i've never done that sort of thing before and wouldn't know where to start!

@exodous02 11 месяцев назад

I wanted one of these so bad, I didn't back the kickstarter because I found out the DAY AFTER it ended! I remember reading a news article on how successful it was. I ordered sometime after and never got it. I did get a refund though, I had no idea that they had made the boards and just didn't send them out. . .

@willrrrr 11 месяцев назад

Huh did you upload a video about your raspberry pi Mac Plus project? I don’t see it on your channel but maybe I’m bad at binging. Great video thanks!

@rmcdudmk212 11 месяцев назад

Thes pocket chip computers are still super cool. Thank you for sharing this. 👍

@AOClaus 7 месяцев назад

I never did find a good use for the pocket chip. Maybe I have now!

@donatj 11 месяцев назад

Huh, I have my pocket chip and a spare chip board in my desk. I played a ton of Pico 8 games for about a week and haven’t touched it since 2017, I should dig it out.

@tevkaber4604 11 месяцев назад

I have a couple PocketChips and a couple Chips, last time I tried to use one, though, I ran into issues as it gets firmware updates from a site that no longer exists. I’ll have to look into if anyone has a workaround, see if I can get a PoackerChip up and running again to try this.

@MissPlayAndWatch 11 месяцев назад

I got a Pocket CHIP to do Pico8 development and play on the go but the keyboard was just way too stiff to use more than the casual terminal command. I need to dig it up. I remember that when Next Thing went under, their connection to the Pico8 servers went down and you had to manually update it whenever the API updated enough to be incompatible.

@8bitDNA 11 месяцев назад

Please bring back the “Hi how’s it going” intro

@garrykanter5773 11 месяцев назад

Who asks "Why?" when witnessing one of the greatest things ever?

@EricGranata 11 месяцев назад

Oh dang. With this I could have HyperCard on the go!

@expexp562 11 месяцев назад

I did install macos 7.5.3 -->8.1 with basiliskII on a PSP1000 but 8.1 was slow

@remasterzero 4 месяца назад

I have a pocket chip but !! is locked in the logo at boot , what can I do?

@WingDings_666 10 месяцев назад

Hey just so you know those old Pocket Chips and their Chip modules kinda tend to die overtime due to their flash failing like it did with my Pocket Chip. I'm surprised yours still works but you probably didn't try to use yours as much as I did mine as an actual computer on the go lol; Complete with hacks and a custom home screen and scaling programs to fit on the display.

@Jkauppa 11 месяцев назад

you could "emulate" with a

@Jkauppa 11 месяцев назад

no i dont mean the 8k-40k cells chips, but the smaller entry range fpga chips

@theoldtechhandheldtinkerer4092 11 месяцев назад

Ah, installing old Mac OS's on random devices, I've done that plenty of times, heheh. I think my first one, apart from Mac-on-Stick, was my Jailbroken iPod Touch 4th gen if my memory doesn't deceive me. Then I installed it on my super old HTC TyTn II, still have it today, and love that little flip up screen blast from the past. Both previous ones though were not fully installed, I just ran the image of the Mac OS Classic installer, which is in itself a fully functioning system, just without the ability to make changes and keep them on the next launch, image was not writable, but you could still mount images of apps and run them. On my PSP Go though I fully installed Mac OS 7.5.3 because for whatever reason someone decided to port Basilisk II VM to the PSP, so I was able to install a few games and programs, I actually have a game of Monkey Island ongoing, The system runs a little slow, but for a point and click game like Monkey Island it's enough. But even more amazing is that I was able to install Windows 95. I still have a Nintendo DS that I want to fix, I think there's also a classic mac emulator for that. Emulators and VM's have always fascinated me, especially on devices you least expect them to work.

@mattportnoyTLV 10 месяцев назад

One of my friends was involved with CHIP as an embedded software engineer. They basically ran out of $$$ and couldn't raise more money.

@anon_y_mousse 11 месяцев назад

I guess I missed the boat on that, but did you know that Celeste got its start on the Pico-8? You can actually still play that version for free and one of these days I'll beat the third level.

@trumpeter811 11 месяцев назад

was expecting the ending to be "they had too many chips left to eat "

@a-lien 10 месяцев назад

I'm still so sad that my order was among those last batches that were never fulfilled. I'm quite poor and with shipping to Europe and all the Pocket CHIP set me back more than 80 bucks that I would never see again. That was and still is a huge amount of money for me and I will never forgive them for the way they handled orders in those last months.

@ZrixE_69420 10 месяцев назад

Someone needs to 3d print a housing for easier pressing and make a macintosh housing for this to put in as a decoration.

@MotownBatman 11 месяцев назад

I wanted to get one of these, but at the time it was RPi3b+ or that. and I wanted a RPi3 for some reason lol

@TechRunnerW175B 11 месяцев назад

I managed to get like 3 Chips, a Pocket Chip, and the HDMI module before they went under

@obreiroraimundo 11 месяцев назад

Vídeo massa! Legal🇧🇷

@HelloKittyFanMan 11 месяцев назад

OK, because Macs are used to forcing you to wait for _them_ to eject optical disks and floppy disks (which is different from how it treats USB hard disks and flash, obviously -- but back in those early years there was no USB or flash), then show us what it's like on this when you insert a floppy or optical disk emulation and then: 1. issue the eject command on it but it can't eject that, and 2. eject it yourself (as a USB stick plugged into a hub alongside the mouse) without first ejecting it virtually. Does it just treat that floppy or optical disk emulation as a flash card anyway? And actually, what I really want is to watch a Mac emulator on a computer with _actual_ floppy disks that it can't eject, like on the Amiga or Atari ST.