Huxley
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So I've recently found, cleaned and resurrected my trusty old Newton 2100. It's such a cool gadget, and makes a great companion to my Color Classic II. However, it's been ages since I spent any time really playing with a Newton, so there's some stuff I'm totally confused by. In no particular order:
1. I downloaded the UNNA Archives and Mirror files and I'm trying to get some of the .pkg's installed into my Newton. I downloaded the files on my PC, used DropBox to move some of the specific packages I want onto my MacBook Pro where I have a simple FTP server running, and then pulled them into the Color Classic II via FTP. That whole process went super smoothly, but the Newton Connection Utilities simply doesn't acknowledge any of the plain .pkg files I transferred this way. A few .sit files worked fine on the CCII once I UnStuff'd them - the NCU sees the packages and installed them without issue, but since 99% of the UNNA Archive is plain PKG files, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here and would love any suggestions. Feels like something is getting scrambled - maybe I'm breaking their resource forks or something?
2. As with every other Newton owner in 2020, I'd love for my Newt to have the correct date/time. I see this patch - is it a good/working option, or is this gonna brick my Newton?
3. I bought my Newton ~13 years ago when I lived in Albuquerque, and it still uses ABQ as my default city/time-zone. How to I change that to reflect where I live now?
4. Lastly, does anyone know how I could turn a simple logo graphic on my modern Mac / PC into a suitable file (I guess a PKG?) to use as a backdrop image for Avi's Backdrop?
Thanks for any tips!
Huxley
1. I downloaded the UNNA Archives and Mirror files and I'm trying to get some of the .pkg's installed into my Newton. I downloaded the files on my PC, used DropBox to move some of the specific packages I want onto my MacBook Pro where I have a simple FTP server running, and then pulled them into the Color Classic II via FTP. That whole process went super smoothly, but the Newton Connection Utilities simply doesn't acknowledge any of the plain .pkg files I transferred this way. A few .sit files worked fine on the CCII once I UnStuff'd them - the NCU sees the packages and installed them without issue, but since 99% of the UNNA Archive is plain PKG files, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here and would love any suggestions. Feels like something is getting scrambled - maybe I'm breaking their resource forks or something?
2. As with every other Newton owner in 2020, I'd love for my Newt to have the correct date/time. I see this patch - is it a good/working option, or is this gonna brick my Newton?
3. I bought my Newton ~13 years ago when I lived in Albuquerque, and it still uses ABQ as my default city/time-zone. How to I change that to reflect where I live now?
4. Lastly, does anyone know how I could turn a simple logo graphic on my modern Mac / PC into a suitable file (I guess a PKG?) to use as a backdrop image for Avi's Backdrop?
Thanks for any tips!
Huxley