Recent content by Garrett

Replaced the original 40 MB Quantum ProDrive in my 1991 Classic with a BlueSCSI. https://personal.garrettfuller.org/blog/2023/05/04/bluescsi-the-ultimate-classic-mac-hard-drive-replacement/

The BlueSCSI came out around the time I took a hiatus from vintage computing. Still uncertain of all the differences and advantages/disadvantages to the BlueSCSI, ZuluSCSI and other solid state replacements. I mainly use my FloppyEmu for transferring files, so I'm just looking for an...

Today I flipped on my 1991 Macintosh Classic just to discover its original 40MB Quantum ProDrive finally bit the dust. :( It's been a couple years since I've been really into vintage Macs and following along with developments. I knew about SCSI2SD (I purchased an external one for my SuperSE)...

The original 1991 Quantum ProDrive in my Classic finally died.

@Garrett Did you try GraphicConverter? I've tried "Save As" in GraphicConverter 11, but didn't have any luck. Maybe I should try going from JPG to TIFF (as I think I was going from a TIFF to TIFF) or maybe SVG to EPS?

As a follow up to my last thread about modern TrueType fonts in System 7 (which I actually wrote a blog post about), I have another related issue: How can I get modern TIFF, EPS, or other image formats (PICT?) into a format that most software can recognize in System 6 and System 7. When I had...

I not only got it working in Mini vMac, but on my Classic as well. In fact, the Classic did a bulk of the work on converting the TTF files. Doing it on the Classic probably didn't take considerably longer than converting everything in Mini vMac, all things considered. I've noticed some TrueType...

Finally! Got the converter up and running, and after that it was smooth sailing (finally.) Now I got to try it out on actual hardware, but it's cool seeing my favorite modern/unusual fonts (outside of the standard system fonts) in System 7.

Much farther, but still not perfect. Did you open the archive with BinHex or some other way? When I try to load your disk image (from the regular ZIP archive) it says the disk is unrecognizable and asks me if I want to initialize it?

Since the original installer came in a .hqx file, should I import that and expand using BinHex? I tried to expand the .cpt file I expanded out of the .hqx file, but StuffIt Lite 3.5 wasn't doing the job. (StuffIt Expander 5.5 might, but I'd need to upgrade to System 7.1.1.)

That worked! I've never heard of it before, but I'm happy to find something that works like a charm expanding the .sit and .hqx/hex archives. Now that I've expanded the archive, another problem. I see the image I need to load into Mini vMac, but Mini vMac will not open it? (I drag it onto the...

I've been OK, just got into another hobby and with work haven't had much time to tinker around with the old Macs except turn them on and use them for writing. I was thinking it probably had something to do "deeper down" than the file info, and I know the resource forks can cause headaches...

That got me a little bit closer to what I want to do. It changed the thumbnail in the Finder to the font logo, but I wasn't able to use it, even after placing in the Fonts folder. It wouldn't show up in any of the programs I tried (Word 4.0 and MacWrite.)

Lately I've been wanting to install newer custom TrueType fonts on my Macintosh Classic under System 7.1. However, I'm not sure how to get the font files onto the computer or into a format the computer can install. I thought it was as simple as dragging the TTF files into the Fonts folder in...

In my case, there were extra control panels installed for the accelerator card. Another dead giveaway might be more than 4 MB of memory, which was how I first found out about the 030 accelerator in my SuperSE. (Besides all of the 50+ extensions and the strange "custom" boot screen.) With that...