One of the biggest pain points of working with vintage Macs, in my opinion, is getting files to it. Here is the scenario: you've just download a file from Macintosh Garden and now you want to get it to your vintage Mac. Depending on the age of your Mac and your environment, the process might be...
So I am developing 68k applications under MacOS 8.1 and I recently decided to upgrade from MetroWerks 8 Gold to MetroWerks 10 Gold. At first, I found that nothing at all would link. I would always get this error:
I tried everything I could think of to resolve the problem:
Tried creating...
I have recently been doing some rather extensive assembly development on the Mac related to my MiniVNC project. One frustration is that while CodeWarrior Gold 8 supports the 68020 processor, it does not support the 68020 addressing modes. Does anyone know whether there is a version of...
Hi everyone,
I have a recently restored LC II to play around with. I've been poking around the schematics and have learned that the PDS slot is basically a giant breadboard that gives you access to all the processor pins. This got me thinking about what kind of interesting hacks could be done...
Hello,
I have made the first official release of a new remote desktop server for Vintage Macs!
https://github.com/marciot/mac-minivnc
This has already been discussed in this thread, but I've finally polished it up enough that I feel it is more than a "hack" and deserves a shout out here...
Hello everyone,
I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on since last year. It is a remote desktop server I wrote from scratch using MacTCP.
To my knowledge, it is the first VNC server that can run on a Macintosh computer with a 68000 processor (there was at one point...
I don't know how many people use Iomega Zip or Jaz drives with their vintage Macs, but my latest project has been to port Steve Gibson's amazing Windows 95 Zip drive and cartridge testing utility, Trouble in Paradise, to the Macintosh.
I now have a way to test the health of my Zip drives and...
I don't know how many people use Iomega Zip or Jaz drives with their vintage Macs, but my latest project has been to port Steve Gibson's amazing Windows 95 Zip drive and cartridge testing utility, Trouble in Paradise, to the Macintosh.
I now have a way to test the health of my Zip drives and...