Recent content by adespoton

Now I'm really confused. The content I was replying to definitely says Forth now. Anyway, Forth makes sense to me :)

You might want to post something about this on https://www.emaculation.com/ . We've already fully documented the limitations of all these emulators over there, and track the features available in various versions. However, I'd like to point out that your emulation ranges are a bit off...

I just checked; the drive's been active for 20832 hours, 2 minutes and 13 seconds. I had it set to park when not active for a number of years :) Surprised that total uptime over 21 years is only 2.38 years; that probably explains why it's still fully functional with no errors.

<looks down> Mine's still running and acting as a network file server? It's even still using the stock Fujitsu HDD; everything about it is stock from 2005, running perfectly fine for 21 years. Because I've got it running as a file server, it's always on; it's been running for the last 18 years...

Congratulations on getting Windows to work as designed! :D I remember getting that BSOD on actual hardware back in the day. It's caused by a kernel driver or hardware component causing invalid memory access while processing interrupts. Which version of Win 95 is that? A, B or C?

I used to have a set of 800k System 7 disks for the Mac Plus that included a bootable Utilities disk. However, it didn't include Appleshare because the Finder and System files had been stripped back to just enough to boot the device and run the utilities. I do seem to recall a network boot...

Funny; I've always used the karate chop method, and never had it not work: Place the Mac face down Unscrew the Torx screws (back in the day, I used a jeweller's flat head screwdriver that perfectly fit across the Torx star, wedged into a socket on a long-necked socket set) with the top of the...

1991 was the year I really got into extensions and control panels (formerly INITs and CDEVs under System 6 and earlier). That does, of course track with it being the year it became much easier to develop powerful ones, due to System 7. Generally, I went by the rule of thumb that if it was...

So Mike, what was your reason for switching to FORTRAN? I'm sure there must have been one?

For those willing to do it, this sounds like the perfect place to apply an LLM coding assistant. Current models can probably take a THINK Pascal external and port it to its FORTRAN equivalent with very few interventions needed. An LLM could probably also assist in porting the THINK...

keep the connector; I picked up a couple of fans that look to have the same screw hole locations, but they come with USB connectors on the end.

I sure hope those aren't famous last words -- you're probably right due to the fact that it was a limited run and people already had to be paying attention to get them in the first place. But after having to deal with decades of tech support escalations... no sane person will EVER foresee some...

All in all, it looks like it turned out to be a fruitful and educational experience! I know a number of people who started a kickstarter project and... it did not go as well. Warning: producing consumable hardware can be addictive.

Well yeah; it rolled bug fixes already available as individual patches into the OS: 54xx/64xx Update 7.5.5 SCSI Server Assistant Toolbox PCI Network Legacy PowerBook 1400 ATA PowerBook 1400 PMU Updater PowerBook VM Tuner for OS 7.6 PowerMac Format Patch PowerPC Interrupt Extension So if you...

7.6.1 didn't really add anything from 7.6 for most Macs, so they're synonymous. IMO, for anything other than Classic mode, 8.6 is preferable to 9.x until you hit 9.2.1, where 9.x finally gained some improvements (speed, memory) bringing it back up to pseudo-parity with 8.6. 7.5.3/7.5.5 are...