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Not sure if this helps you, but if you know someone who can perform the actual translation of the words for you (i.e. speaks English and Japanese), you can just use ResEdit on that application to change all the 'STR#', 'STR ', 'MENU', 'DITL' and 'DLOG' resources. Depending on how old it is...

Hold Command+Option+P+R during startup. I think you'll get a second reboot chime and then you can let go. But it's been abou 20 years, so I might be mis-remembering that bit.

I think there were some others ... I remember having some software from CDs refuse to launch on my LC back when. Might have been drawing apps? Was Painter already around on 68k, or did that start with PPC? I'd expect it was likely a drawing/audio editing app or a game, as that's the majority of...

Nobody said Apple folks didn't like to install appearance modification INITs occasionally :D

Run HyperCard stacks on it, of course. Ideally under MacOS 9. Myst will run mighty fine on these as well, I'd expect (if reduced to a tiny rectangle on the screen).

Can you check whether that Platinum UI is its native UI? I've seen some System 7 Macs in computer museums that were around that numeric range and people thought it was a System 8 prototype, and when I browsed around a bit it turned out someone had just installed Aaron to override the icons and...

Just wondering: Could one maybe cross-fade (maybe in the style of HyperCard's "dissolve" effect, replacing seemingly random pixels from source with those from dest, i.e. not with alpha) from the image with windows to the one without windows? Maybe leaving rectangles for the outline of the...

Yeah, I may have simplified too much here. MacDraw II (or maybe it was already ClarisDraw at the time?) had an option to make a bitmap transparent. I don't remember if it just used a pen mode that wouldn't draw white pixels, or if it actually generated a mask internally using some seed fill...

It's like software development. Miss one small thing and the symptoms are very surprising. Great work!

Full text and the script from this stack for the curious: Sample “Fat” XCMD compiled by CompileIt The script of this field (click “See Script” button below) contains the source HyperTalk for the XCMD in this stack, which was compiled by CompileIt with a developmental binary recompiler module...

I think you have things mixed up a bit. CompileIt! was never made to output anything beyond 680x0 code. However, Heizer shipped a demo of a stack that could be used on those XCMDs and recompile the 680x0 code to PowerPC (!). I'm not sure if they ever actually shipped that stack or if the demo...

By the way: Apple's displays back then had quite a lot of black bezel on the CRT. So if you made the display's case a tad larger, you could probably keep the unmodified proportions by adding (or exposing?) more of a black bezel around the picture.

Yeah, the article makes that clear enough, but when I first read about the trick in a Mac magazine back then, it sounded easier. I'm glad I didn't attempt it at the time, because SMDs were beyond my skill at the time. And a Turbo button to switch between the two resistor positions would mean if...

There was a color version of that mouse tutorial, but AFAIR it used the B/W version for everything except 256 colors. (and probably thousands and millions when that became an option). I ran on 16 greys, which was actually good enough to show most color as nice shading, and many apps of the time...

HyperCard had types of animation, but they were a bit limited. The two most common approaches (that were fully supported) were page-flip animations and icon animations. Page-flip animations: Drawing each frame on a new page (card) and then just doing "go next" to flip through them (pretty sure...