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Yeah; Mini vMac, BII and SS all use essentially the same shortcuts for data I/O. MAME, PCE and Snow are the ones to look at if you're trying to reference reasonable emulated IWM/SCSI timings.

JPEGView is probably your best bet, but I think the scan only happens when the slideshow is first built. Your best bet is likely to use an AppleScript in the background to check for new files. The live folder monitoring hadn't been added to AppleScript at this point, but I know I cobbled...

Well, what really got the UK government going on the BBC Micro project was France rolling out Minitel. Which, I have to say, was an awesome, if self-limiting enterprise (They identified and implemented most of the on-line features people commonly use today except computer-intensive stuff like...

I remember discussion at one of the MacHack conferences in the 90s (I think it spawned the Joliet filesystem extension and Mt. Everything?) -- the developer tried to push past the 31 character Finder limit because Joliet stores more data, and he figured he could store more of the filename on the...

I first connected to the Internet on a Mac Plus in 1990. On a 1200 baud modem connected via ZTerm. The Internet was fun back then; the long distance phone bills to connect to the Internet... not so much. Local BBSes weren't as fun :)

He's still around; someone could theoretically ask him ;)

This point is more important than many people give it credit for; not only was insane pipelining introduced at the hardware level, but looking at the precompiler and compiler work done to optimize for later x86 vs RISC like the Acorn chips... a lot of people had sunk a lot of costs into the x86...

I have a mini FM transmitter for my car that pre-dates CarPlay. I can plug my modern-ish phone into it and broadcast to all FM receivers within a 6' radius! I also successfully plugged a Bluetooth audio adapter into it, so now any device can send it Bluetooth audio and have that come out as...

A lot of them have been digitized online now. Oddly, Archive.org seems to have mostly the Spanish ones and not the UK ones (only a handful of those), despite having the full collection of the floppies/CDs.

Hah; you brought back memories of pranks we used to play in the Mac Plus labs, where we'd turn the brightness down on all but one Plus, and then watch people try to figure out what was wrong.

Heh... RealBASIC leaves an odd taste in my mouth because I was one of the beta testers, so I used it for free for a number of years. When he shut down the beta group, I looked at the retail price of the software and immediately moved on to other things, abandoning my RB projects.

One thing I came to appreciate about the 800Kb "floppy shuffle" was how for the most part it "just worked". You could actually use the computer while shuffling the disks, and everything rarely stalled while the OS waited for you to insert some random disk just to make sure it existed. This was...

Mini vMac mostly works; you can enter microbug (or MACSBUG or Jasik's if you've got those installed) but there can be a few surprises, as Mini vMac does still patch various I/O routines. I actually haven't tried dropping to the debugger since Paul implemented Basilisk II's graphics hack, so...

Congratulations!!!

It was crazy at the time, because things were changing so fast that the new computer tech was almost wholly incompatible with the old computer tech within 5 years. I've bought all-in-ones and laptops the entire time solely because I watched how others purchased and assembled components with the...

Here's something I put together just over 25 years ago -- it might help? https://web.archive.org/web/20000902230253/http://free.prohosting.com/~emanon/code_abs.html

Yeah; I'd personally avoid trying to force NMI in BII; better to use QEMU or MAME where the ROM isn't already patched so heavily. On the other hand, BII has its own debugger already (as do QEMU and MAME), so if you don't mind learning yet another debug environment, you could just use that...

A/UX kernel expects certain fixed memory allocations, doesn't it? Are we talking 3.1.1 here, or an earlier version (2.x)? It's possible we may have to get our fingers dirty with some kernel hacking to get this functional... but the result may mean a more usable A/UX less likely to...

That's useful to know; I can't recall ever using more than 512MB RAM with Rhapsody 5.6 -- usually 128MB.

Have you tried with an OS 9 install specifically for the 450 DP? The Mac OS ROM files are not all built equally. So you could be loading the ROM file and then it still can't address the hardware and load the System file, so it loops back. It came with Mac OS 9.0.4 installed though. Have you...