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Try dedicated burning software like imgburn. Windows itself will be expecting a filesystem it can use directly, imgburn will write whatever you feed it more or less without question. imgburn is also one of the better ways to image mac discs, Disk Utility on modern Macs tries to be too smart...

So, to pull back from being a little severe and flippant for a moment: Modern computers do genuinely do a lot. It's up to you to decide whether or not that's a good thing, but most of this has been true for a long time. Windows 10 isn't really any bigger on disk than 7 or Vista are, if your...

Bad take. "human time" has been more expensive than "machine time" for a very long time. I genuinely question if there was literally ever a moment where this wasn't true. (maybe An Single Year in like 1962?) It's infinitely more cost-effective for the vast majority of programming that occurs on...

So, on a more serious and effort note: Without getting "too far" into it - there were "several" massive shifts in "what the average new computer could do" between 1993 and 2013 or so. I've been using the term "The Plateau" for a number of years and I largely mean it to codify/group all the...

The short version is: "computers do more in 2023 than they did in 1993" - hope that helps!

So with regard to the concept of Classic Mac OS booting on any newer/faster hardware: Mac OS 9.2.2 already sucks on the fastest computers it can run on. It makes poor use of the resources on the fastest computers where it runs, it's nowhere near as stable as OS X, and if you have a duallie...

Mirroring what everyone else said: "it depends". I use 8.x on my 040 Macs, because access to bigger disks and network volumes is more convenient on it. Though, OpenTransport and AppleShare upgrades can, as has been mentioned, be added to 7.x, so that's less of an imperative today than it was...

In terms of other software: What's been listed here covers it. I also have another ISO/image mounter utility. I don't bother with the disk copy 6.5 beta because mounting DMGs on Mac OS 9 isn't valuable to me, I have OS X Macs for that. I do have an OS X system with Classic Mode available so I...

So, just by way of opinions: I actually run a public ASIP6 server and I heartily recommend against the idea of running AppleShare IP unless your goal is explicitly to experience what it would've been like being a workgroup or education sysadmin in 1998. Unless you need over ten concurrent...

Looks fun! w/re NUMA: Right tech, wrong name: NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) was the architecture used on big SGIs (think: "supercomputer" and "a full rack or more"), based on some tech they bought from Cray. It's also sometimes seen on large-ish single-box platforms, for example some dual...

Looks like a fun setup! AKIIs are fine, in my experience. The AK (M0116) would "match" better, but it's arguable whether or not that's important at all. Most stuff in the Classic Mac OS never used the functionality on extended keyboards. They were only really ever important for terminal...

Sorry for the delay on this! I keep thinking I'm going to go look and never do. My guess is that the rule file is somwhere, either with the OE5 application config or with the user profile data - so it could be in liek HD:Documents: or HD:SYstem Folder: - basically find that file, delete it, and...

+1 Speed Doubler 8 is a nice boost even on the PCI PowerMacs. It may well make an even earlier system than the 533MHz G4 match the Quadra 700 at floating point. :P

Hmm. The general rule is if it'll run on a 630 it'll run on a 6200 or any of its descendants, of which the 1400 is one. The serial controller Apple had always been using was implemented as part of a larger package but per the notes you shared (love the Taylor Design analysis on the 6200/6300...

The best OSes for this group of early PPC Macs are 7.6.1 and 8.1. I'll give you 9.1 on anything whose "tiptop" configuration can include over a hundred megs of RAM or like a 90MHz or more CPU. So, 6100, 6200, 7100, slow 7200s, 5200, PM-Perf 5200, PB5300, 1400, 2300, and most 8100s will fall into...

Oh, I missed this! I know the answer to this one! No. There is no NetMD software for Mac. In 2005, Sony released HiMD software for the RH/DH710. RH910/10, and 1 for the Mac, but it only works with LPCM recordings and MP3s on those devices. (*Should work on previous HiMD recorders but only with...

That looks like a great example! You shouldn't have to use resedit, it'll either be saved as a [thing] Preferences file somewhere in the system folder, or what you may be seeing is the calibration of the display - check out the monitors control panel and look at the color preferences, there...

At this point, a modern SCSI drive replacer is much more convenient as they're typically built to slot right in where the stock drives on machines from this era started. The other thing they do is let you simulate an Apple drive. Apple's own utilities only format drives with Apple's firmware or...

When possible, we are no longer pinning new threads. I did a big clean-up of old pins earlier in the year. I would rather not go down that path again, as it makes the forum more difficult to use. We have a wiki - here's the ideas/wishlist thread for articles for it...

Wild. It's my genuine understanding the AppleTalk portion of the file server in 10.4 is literally removed, so the button in SharePoints should do literally nothing. However, it's possible that that button was an "enable AppleTalk and also do these three other things" button, and one of those...