Recent content by Xero

Ah, that old adage. Pay by the hour, spend 4 hours sharpening the axe, vs paid by the job, get rushed jobs. lmfao. AI should just mean you have more time to review the results - but if you're gonna follow the old adage, you could still choose to extend it (artificially? lol) or rush it...

Ohh...I swear you keep reading my mind - I had similar character issues when trying to use claude through it (...to work on itself? lol). This is definitely on my TODO. I was hoping it wasn't something too difficult to tackle, I know when I was doing my retro websites for mac browsers, i had to...

One of the reasons I hated AI initially was because I had people (in a professional setting, none the less) saying they wanted to make an AI version of ME, because I was apparently perceived as someone to emulate/copy. Once I actually dove in, it became a force multiplier for me. It doesn't have...

the same reason you're not over there destroying cotton mills. Time, velocity. (also, no one ever said I couldn't?)

the issue with adding proper unix shell support is that none of the unix subsystem really exists - no /dev/tty, etc. Instead, I tried to create "equivalents" but they are really more just conversions of mac functions into a shell-like experience. It would be kind of cool to make shell scripts...

I'd been playing with ssheven for a little while now, however it'd always been a bit buggy, the preferences file was getting corrupted, support for colors was pretty minimal and half broken, etc. After my recent adventure using claude + retro68 to hack up a system extension, I decided I'd try to...

For the supermac firmware - it used python with the capstone disassembly engine — specifically CS_ARCH_M68K with CS_MODE_M68K_020 for 68020 instruction support. I had it try to use whatever it could find in pacman/aur on my linux machine. It also had to figure out the checksum that nubus...

I definitely plan to try to write more mac os7-9 apps this way in general, though a system extension being the first thing I did with retro68 is still blowing my mind, I was not expecting this to work out so easily. It's still not 100% perfect, I've noticed that if you have redraws happening...

Yup, QEMU's Q800 emulation gives it 4mb vram, so it's technically not true-to-reality, but it seemingly recreated the same exact bug. I still need to do a lot more testing on this machine. I did a "full os8.1 install", literally checked every box on the installer, including a bunch of PPC crap I...

You're not gonna believe this, but I think I just fixed a 30 year old Apple Bug with Claude. That little tip ended up being crucial. I setup qemu m68k for quadra 800 and confirmed it was the exact same problem. I'd been debugging this in a chat session already, so I fed it this information - all...

I guess I take this for granted, my other two machines are both later G3 / PCI era (g3 desktop & B/W), and I'm a bit spoiled by those, they can both drive 1600x1200 at high res. I'm actually waiting for a thunder II nubus card to arrive, it's "untested" but hopefully works and should be able to...

i recently acquired a quadra 700 that I upgraded with 68mb ram, 2mb vram and a zuluscsi compact, and i'm having a strange issue under 7.6 or 8.1 when running at 640x480 or 832x624 @ 24-bit/"millions of colors", where some icons on the desktop seem to get corrupted - especially the imagewriter...