Recent content by adespoton

QuickDraw GX exchanged one nightmare for another. It was too overengineered and at the end of the day provided minimal benefit for what people actually wanted to do.

In that case, go with my last suggestion, and for your debug code version, keep a loop counter and a pre-populated A9F4 that your exception handler can call.

If you can't successfully force quit, the solution is to hit the interrupt key (or programmer's key combo, depending on the device), and do: SM FA700 A9F4 PC FA700 G First line sets the memory at address FA700 (usually a safe range to overwrite) to A9F4 ("exit to shell" trap). Second line sets...

I've stuck with the Perfection line of scanners for the past 25 years or so, so it's neat to see the comparison!

Try the Macintosh Garden ZBasic page; it's got what looks like the original, plus 3.0.3, 5.0 and 5.0.1. Not sure how many of those MR mirrored, or how much of the associated documentation got mirrored.

@Arbee, are you interested in this at all? Could be a useful MAME peripheral.

I'm pretty sure the digital signature option is only available for specific modes in Disk Copy. To use it, you need to use one of the following formats: NDIF read/write, NDIF compressed, or NDIF encrypted. Disk Copy 4.2 format isn't compatible with signatures, nor are raw images, NDIF...

It's funny; back in the day, I dispensed with protectors altogether, and just popped the shutters on a few sacrificial floppies and used those floppies instead. In some cases, I used head cleaner floppies instead. Never had an issue. Probably more useful today, when real floppies are more of...

Ooh, nice! Because of the way stacks work, you could even make discrete self-training objects, or have the entire stack bootstrap itself from a single line of HyperTalk!

How do you do video output from a Plus? Back in the day, I recall using something that you could see through that sat in front of the monitor and digitized the output to one of those overhead projector displays (although most people just printed to acetate and slapped the slides directly on the...

Could be; it doesn't appear to be in my dev cd indexes.

Doesn't look like it. The image is "Bill the Cat" - an "iconic" cartoon image from the Sunday comics in 1980s US. I seem to recall SCSI Cloner being on one of the dev tools CDs, but I'm not sure which one. I've kicked off a search to see if I can find it.

If you really want to use Think C, I'd recommend booting directly into Mac OS 9 instead of using Classic; under Classic, you'll have debugger issues, sample build scripts might not work, and anything with timing issues will have problems. You'll want to ensure you're using Think C 5 or 6; 6...

I do this with a C2D Mini and a miniITX generic running Linux Mint. The Mini runs Lion Server and is purely a file server; it hosts on AppleShare IP, SMB, FTP and NFS. The Mint server runs JellyFin and NextCloud. NextCloud manages my contacts and calendars across my entire family -- instead...

This lines up much better with my own recollection (I know, two anecdotes does not constitute evidence). I can definitely see Windows 95 getting its taskbar inspiration from Arthur OS, but the NeXTStep bar can draw a direct development line back to Accent. And, of course, similar panels were...