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Also a Mac OS X terminal command? I thought it was just the location of the boot file from the Open Firmware command line. xxd creates a hex dump of a file, OK got that. Aaaah, a BBEdit command line tool. -cheers from Julz

I guess my earliest setup was similar, I had a PowerCD, which could play to external speakers (as it's an external, portable CD drive) with or without the Mac (so there was a CD application, not the normal Apple CD one which could play music and a remote control and it had more buttons than...

Ha! You're soooo wrong, mine's 1.0a3 ;-) ! Actually I hadn't properly checked the version :-) !

Has anyone disassembled the ROMs?

There's a whole pile of encoders here: https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/programs.php Including DropMP3, but I'm not sure if it works with a humble PPC603(e) owing to the ALTIVEC reference. https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/dropmp3.php

It might be worth checking out BladeEnc https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/bladeenc

Hi folks, Bulk reply! It's in an attachment on my earlier post :) ! Getting closer :-) ! Great! I believe that a 68040? MP3 player needs to perform a number of tricks to play back MP3s. Did you have an encoder that ran on the PB 540c? Thanks! I wonder if MacAmp is based on it (besides the...

Here's a minor update. I've been reading some of the BitSavers BlueBook documentation, which covers, amongst many interesting things, documentation on 32-bit QuickDraw; the Universal ROM and MacVM. https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/blue/Apple_Blue_Book_vol1_1989.pdf...

Cool! I found movie player would copy a cd track to disk as an aiff file (that’s what my instructions say). I’m still hoping a PPC5200/6100/6200 owner will check it out!

I'm curious too - I wonder if there's also a Performa 6200/5200 or PMac 6100 user willing to test it out!

Yes. In my "MakingMp3sOnAMac.txt" document I remarked that a Performa 5200 was the minimum MP3 spec, but isn't the PPC upgraded PB 520c even slower? Anyway, here's MPecker and MacAmp as cpt.hqx archive.

Obviously an interesting exercise for retro Macs is to recreate the experience of doing more modern computing using old technology. In this case, how did we create MP3s at the beginning of the streaming era? On an old CD archive of stuff I had from 1998, I found a folder containing a freeware...

There's the utility SetDate: http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/macapps.html I found it via this thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/y2k2020-date-problem-system-7.36514/ I think I tried it on my PowerBook 1400 under Mac OS 8.1, but it didn't seem to work, but it'd be interesting to...

At first I wondered what the lie was ;-) .

In the late 90s Brits had a lower income; $1=£1 and keen memories of doing everything on a 1K ZX81 ;-) !

Personally, I'd go with my 'Generations' approach to collecting Macs. That is, you want to be able to transfer data and run most applications across all of your systems via not-too-dissimilar Macs, because otherwise there's a bit of a brick wall. e.g. if you go from an SE (1989) to an iMac G3...

'in sig' is a term I'm not familiar with, but given the emoji, I'm sure it's great :-) !