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    IIci hangs early during boot

    I have a IIci that has been an old friend for decades.  I recapped it a few years back and it has been working great, until now.  Now it hangs while booting. It starts from the keyboard power key, chimes nice and loud, then the raster appears and looks good, but no happy mac face, no Welcome to...
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    Problem with InitGraf in MPW 3.2.3 (assembly)

    Probably, you have figured this out by now, but... The MDS linker placed the application globals 256 bytes below the a5 boundary. The MPW linker put the application globals right below the a5 boundary, without any cushion.  The ROM call InitGraf expects a pointer to the 203rd byte of a 206...
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    Auto-login and A/UX 3.0.1

    Maybe this helps.  It's from the A/UX Basic Skills" manual, chapter 2, "Getting Started with A/UX 3.0.1, page 26. "When it is shipped, the Apple Workgroup Server 95 is set up so that you do not need to log in to A/UX. When the server starts up, you are automatically placed in the Finder...
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    hello world in C on OS 6.0.8 in MPW 3.1

    Yes, the option-d is the continuation character.   Your original error is caused by not linking with Runtime.o.  That is where %__MAIN (the entry point) is defined. Did you select the entire thing (all the lines containing the commands to build the program), and then type enter to execute the...
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    hello world in C on OS 6.0.8 in MPW 3.1

    link -d -c 'MPS ' -t MPST ∂ hello.c.o ∂ "{CLibraries}"StdClib.o ∂ "{Libraries}"Stubs.o ∂ "{Libraries}"Runtime.o ∂ "{Libraries}"Interface.o ∂ -o helloapp Or, you could just select Create Make Commands... from the build menu, and fill out the dialog, selecting source files, target...
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    Replacing Powerbook 180 PRAM battery

    I had to replace the PRAM battery on my Powerbook 180.  It started out just failing the remember the date and time when I would remove the main battery.  I knew the PRAM battery was bad, but it seemed like a hassle to replace it and I let it go.  Then a few weeks ago, it got worse. It started...
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    TAM dump screen extension?

    You have TMON installed.  It's a debugger.  That's it's icon that is the last icon you see in your startup screen.  If everything is ok, you should be able to get out of it and back to the Finder by clicking on the words ExitToShell in the second screen you show.  I don't know why you are...
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    SE + MPW?

    I routinely use MPW version 3.2.3 under system 6.0.8 with no issues on a Mac Plus, a IIci and in Mini vMac.
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    68k ASM - Little Question

    Your filter function will be called by the dialog manager.  You don't really have to declare it to be anything in particular, you just have to make the function you want and pass its address into ModalDialog.   The Pascal declaration you have written tells us about how the stack will be set up...
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    Moving files from OSX to Mac Plus 6.0.8 via FTP

    The original solution to this was BinHex. It hex-encodes a file so it is ASCII and can be transmitted over practically any protocol. I think you could use an old version of Stuffit in your emulator to encode your .sit file as binhex. You get a file with the .hqx extension as a result that can...
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    Help Needed

    Very cool that you are using a Quadra to control a CNC machine. Would be great to see a picture.
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    PDP-8e Emulators

    Have you looked at this one? http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/pdp8e/pdp8e.html
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    System 6 on a Performa 475

    I think the biggest problem with this is not the difference in instruction sets, but operating system support for the hardware, which was embedded directly into system file. One of the tricks to the powerbook 170 hack was realizing that hardware support was partly in the linked patch resources...
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    Quiting the Finder

    Here is an outline for making and sending a quit apple event to the finder. I haven't tried to compile or execute this, and it may have errors, but it is the basic outline. Executing a script in a file is about the same amount of code. Here is the function that will quit the finder OSErr...
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    Quiting the Finder

    Send the finder the quit apple event? You can do it by executing a script, or you can just build the event procedurally and send it.
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