Recent content by CC_333

I wish you were ~5,000 miles closer, because I have maybe a half dozen or so of these that could be rebuilt. c

Tell me about it. I recently retired an iPhone 6 Plus after more than 8 years of continuous service, and that's considered extraordinary for a modern smartphone. The average lifespan, I believe, is 2-4, maybe 5 years for Android and 5-7 for Apple, so 8 and change isn't a huge stretch, I guess...

The best portable 68k machine, in my mind, would probably be one whose plastics aren't crumbling and whose hinges (if a laptop) haven't failed. Does such a model exist? I don't know. I sort of doubt it.... c

I suppose it likely would if there's an ARM64 Linux binary available? If not, I would think it's possible to compile such a binary form source, but I don't know how straight forward that would be. c

Well, sure. I didn't necessarily mean it literally, of course! We can still enjoy many of the technological improvements we've had in the years since, but I just wish that GUIs in general could've stayed more or less as they were (i.e., modern MacOS that still looks like Classic). But most...

If we lived in a SANE world, everything would be as it was in the mid 90s, but faster (none of this bloated nonsense we've been getting over the past ~20 years). c

And for the LC, the limitation is particularly bad, since it has an '020, and thus can't use virtual memory. As a result, it's really only practical for System 6 or a slimmed down 7.0 or 7.1; 7.5.x is a bit too RAM hungry. c

This is very interesting! But, how does it compare to emulators like SheepShaver, and, for 68k, Basilisk, Mini vMac, QEMU and, what is it, MAME or MESS? If I'm not mistaken, it seems to be an attempt to create a new, more accurate emulator from scratch, yes? c

Apple Corps is one of those infamously litigious companies that will sue you if you look at it wrong. EA is (was?) another one, if I'm not mistaken. It's a shame, really, as early Apples and Macs had much sound-making potential (as the copious amount of third-party hardware and software...

Given that System 7.5.5 was being released at just about the time that the Copland project was imploding (according to Wikipedia, Copland was cancelled in late August 1996, and 7.5.5 was released just about a month later), it's entirely plausible that the team in charge of 7.5.5 simply had no...

Maybe so. c

I know almost nothing on this subject, but perhaps the ROMs are different? Apple, then as much as now, was very keen on building in artificial blocks that prevent otherwise compatible SSW versions from installing and/or booting on certain machines, often for no apparent reason (beyond...

I suspect it probably wouldn't have made too much of a difference, as Apple likely still would've made their own GUI for it. Or maybe not, since Steve Jobs probably wouldn't have come back? It's interesting to imagine what might've been.... One way I could see it is that Apple probably...

Back when I had a place to put it, I ended up putting System 6 on my IIsi, because I couldn't get System 7 to run as well (there was some video choppiness in After Dark and elsewhere that I couldn't get rid of under 7, but it was mostly nonexistent under 6). This was with the full 65 MB of RAM...

I like @mg.man 's idea, as it's probably more or less in line with what was done with many of the older adapters, as I'm sure they had the same problem? c