Recent content by Frobozz

Huh. This is actually kind of a nutso project (in a good sense). One thing that's interesting, is that the CPU is configurable via software apparently, including the ability to control the speed, control whether the onboard 32 byte RAM is available to the host computer, etc.  Take a look at the...

I'm working on a system 6/7 serial tool. I'd like to use Basilisk II for testing. I have most recent versions of BII and BII GUI, but I can't figure out how to get a connection going between the basilisk II emulated mac's serial ports and my modern, host Mac. I've tried various tty paths (eg...

Yes, it's the same concept. I did look at the resedit path, but I wanted something like Forward Delete, an extension I (or others) could simply remove if they didn't want it, and add it back if they did. Also wanted to learn how to make an INIT. The same exact code, with a few more conditions...

I suppose that sentence would have been better without the "good". A debugger, period, is worth a bit. And yeah, Eclipse is a bit of an 'acquired taste', shall we say. I actually have a pretty good feeling about visual studio code (I just wish I could make it work for Retro68).  back in the...

nice! and can I say that I love the Big Sur desktop background on the olde Macs? 

That's a legit question. For me, not speaking for anyone else, part of the answer is usually "because I can". So, partly about the journey, if you will.  But on a practical level, here are some of the reasons I prefer cross-compiling to native-on-retro-hardware (even if virtual):  version...

Well, since I made that comment about BBEdit, I thought I might as well add that configuration as well. It was painless, and I think I like it better at this point. I am going to miss Eclipse catching dumb typos and mistakes for me before I even build, but there's a lot to be said for a fast UI...

I'm trying to get a good cross-compile environment set up to write 68K Mac apps from my modern Mac (OS: Big Sur). I've tried 3 IDEs so far, with mixed, but distinct results. Curious about others using Retro68, and their experiences. Hopefully this will be helpful to me, and also anyone coming...

Very interesting. I bet with some tuning you could get the contents display to be even more friendly to classic Macs. maybe options to remove all images, convert unicode curly quotes, bullets, etc, to MacRoman code points, etc. Not all sites will be great of course, but just being able to view...

There's a Total Systems 68030 accelerator for the Plus up right now on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mac-Plus-Logic-Board-w-Quesse-68030-Accelerator-incl-68882/333855393411 Doesn't say how much RAM is installed, and it looks like the Mercury version, which I believe is only 16mhz. is it like...

Yeah, the resource fork is going to be fun. I would also like to build in an option to translate the charset when it made sense. I haven't thought this out in any detail, but maybe something like this:  On 68K Mac side: raw folder: contains raw Mac apps, text files, etc. ...

ha, I don't actually have an ST either, but I like the idea of it being a more general retrotool (set).  I have an Asante SCSI adapter I've used in the past (looks to be same idea as the DayPort SCSI/Link?), and an old ethernet hub that it could access, but I don't have a good way to connect...

Let me try to describe it a bit better: User wants to have a common folder synced between TWO computers (this wouldn't work well for more than 2). Any combination of 2 below: Modern Mac (or PC, or Linux) 68K Mac (or probably more accurately: System 6.x ~ 9.0 Mac). I don't...

Can you describe a bit more how you use FreeFileSync with your classic Macs? Does it require a TCP/IP stack running on the old Macs? 

Ah... AppleTalk Remote Access. I vaguely remember that.  manual for 3.0: https://vintageapple.org/macbooks/pdf/AppleTalk_Remote_Access_3.0_Users_Manual_199x.pdf Links to what I think are older versions: https://macgui.com/downloads/?cat_id=234 ------- Apple Remote Access 3.0...