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Thanks @samovog A small 1.0.2 update is out with some user suggested improvements: - A contextual menu for common actions on files/folders - Drag to open disk images on the app icon - A different icon to distinguish apps from documents

There's now a 1.0.1 update live on the Mac App Store that fixes several critical bugs. So if you gave it a chance and had an issue, please try it again.

> If you simply block copy the contents of the partitions it should work fine. Thanks these are helpful ideas. I will need to read the license of the free redistributables and see if it is allowed to copy only parts of the redistributable. Many corporate licenses insist that redistribution be...

For now, no unfortunately. I believe making it bootable would require creating a special partition for the Apple SCSI disk driver and including it in the partition and I don't know the legality around that (distributing Apple's disk drivers). So, not something on the road map for now. Here's...

Thanks for the feedback. It will detect if a disk image has more than one HFS partition and let you select between them. If a disk image has multiple partitions but only one is HFS it will automatically just open the HFS partition. Note that it is not compatible/safe to use with disks that...

Hi All, I released a new little Mac app called Sector for creating and editing HFS disk images on modern macOS (11.5+). This is to make it easier to work with disk images on your modern Mac for emulators like mini vMac and Basilisk II, or virtual disk devices like Blue SCSI, Zulu SCSI, and...

This is kind of random but I developed Can of Worms in 2010. So this is like 10.6 era though, not 10.4 or 10.5. I think it was Intel only unfortunately. Attached.

It's funny you mention that. I have a hobby business restoring Mac mini G4s and reselling them with an SSD with the Mac OS 9 Lives hacked Mac OS 9 pre-installed to customers who still want or need to run Classic programs. I've had some interesting customers: dentists, veterinarians, and even...

Awesome work on this. I enjoyed your writeup. It sounds like it was quite the 5-year journey, including learning to program the Classic Mac OS yourself. It's also interesting to see what a productivity booster an LLM can be to a lone developer in very particular situations (translating 68K ASM)...

If you're in the US and comfortable taking it apart and putting it back together, I can send you the WiFi/Bluetooth module. After refurbishing 80+ of these I have an extra or two. PM me if interested.

It would be interesting, @Trash80toHP_Mini , for you to try MacBench 4 on it and see what PPC machine it is equivalent to. I think @Snial's analysis is correct.

That's interesting. Thanks for posting. For those interested in doing this note that you could also use lids from the first ever Intel mini, A1176, in addition to A1283. A1176 for obvious reasons tends to be even cheaper, but of course is a little older so may be more yellow to begin with. I...

Congrats on the mini acquisition and good luck with the upgrades. Yes, 190 GB is the maximum size for a partition I think in Mac OS 9. I think you could have a larger volume but you need to partition it. I have not tested compact flash. Regardless, we are limited by the ATA bus. Your idea is...

That's fair. It would be cool if a v10 of the Mac OS 9 image for minis comes out, but realistically it is seeming less and less likely as the years go on that one will. For practical purposes, regarding the current state of the image, a 1.25 GHz or 1.42 GHz offers better compatibility than a...

Yes, by logic board I meant motherboard. It certainly sounds like a possibility. Power supply sounds a little unlikely if it's booting at all, but can't be ruled out yet. Anyway, please keep us informed about what you discover.