Which resources did you copy/paste?Actually, being the simple person I am, I followed your GitHub notes and realized that all that was needed was a cut and paste job from one System to the other in ResEdit. Much easier for me to do than fool around with scripts and command line stuff. Got it to work from the 8.1 System onto 7.6.1. Thanks!
Hey LaPorta! It's easier than you think.If someone was able to write something that could patch these resources at startup before they were loaded, presumably so. I’ll rope in @cheesestraws and @Crutch since they seem to know a lot about this sort of thing.
It’s been tested working on System 7.5.5.What's the earliest version of System 7 this could work on?
We need to do some ‘gtbl hacks’ (and adding in the ‘boot 3’ resource on 7.5.5) to get this working on 68k, although I couldn’t find any more detail on this on the GitHub.Regarding 68k machines you mentioned that there is a limitation
I wonder why nobody investigated at the time.One thought I had: could you imagine how big this would have been when 8.1 came out? It would have made headlines in Macworld that you could just do this to have compatibility.
I noticed this too (does formatting work?), and also you can’t tell if I drive is HFS+ formatted or not in the Get Info window.One thing that doesn’t work exactly right: if you try to format a drive, there are two choices for format type, but they say the same thing. In 8.1 and up the choices are Mac OS and Mac OS Extended. Maybe there is an STR resource or something for that.