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One of the things I love about this forum is that I can find a 2-hour old pretty obscure question about ‘90s Mac tech, and think “oh I know the answer, I will reply” and then realize that 2 people have already answered it. OK cool, nothing further to say here! (If you run an Xceed Grayscale...

Well that’s weird … thanks. Let me try this again …

Thanks @Nixontheknight @LaPorta for the feedback: this small update should nicely disable the “Hide Label menu” checkbox in System 8 and above (and will tell you that this only works under System 7). Also, forgot to mention you can toggle the “Hide Labels” and “Hide Help” checkboxes by just...

That is precisely the type of confirmation I was looking for, thank you @Chopsticks !

Ha yeah that makes sense, without the Label menu in MacOS 8, the Special menu ends up getting that ID. I should just disable the “Hide Label menu” button in System 8+. Will do that in an update soon. Thanks for trying it!

2023 update: TidyMenus improves NoLabel to allow hide/showing the Balloon Help menu and to toggle menu display without a restart, see https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/presenting-tidymenus.45619/

I’m happy to share here TidyMenus (a.k.a. NoLabel 2.0), a simple little Control Panel for System 7 that can: Hide/Show the Label menu in the Finder (no installation or restart required, just open the Control Panel and check the box … though of course you’ll want to install it if you want the...

”Wall slamming enabled” would be a much better name for that option though 😊

I’m sorry about Moose’s arm — ouch! Speedy recovery. But I am pretty sure the best Tetris Max players control the pieces using only their mind.

Understood - OP should be able to fix that distortion by adjusting the perimeter magnets, though, as you noted, but there is no need to shrink the raster size first to make it work (at least, not if is CRT is still in good shape.)

I have used both the linked kits and chopstick (whittle it down slightly with a small knife, it takes 10 seconds) solutions, and both are excellent.

Yeah of course I’ve seen (and fixed) lots of those too - though if it’s caused by “heat cycles” I’m not sure running it more hours a day would exacerbate that so much as multiple power cycles per day (and actually I was told many times as a kid in the ‘80s, possibly by people who had no idea...

Respectfully disagree here — that is indeed the factory setting (actually 7.11” x 4.75”), but there is nothing magical about that other than it happens to be WYSIWYG (72dpi on screen = ImageWriter print resolution). But unless you’re printing documents, you have no particular reason to care...

FWIW I’ve never entertained adding any sort of active cooling to any of my (unaccelerated) 128k/512k going back to the ‘80s and have never had any sort of problems except floppy drive wear and tear. They are amazingly robust machines. I’m really curious what problems are associated with...

Do you have a reason to think your 512KE needs active cooling? I thought the Received Wisdom was that an unaccelerated toaster Mac doesn't really benefit from a fan.

This looks super gorgeous! I am excited to check it out too, and love the idea of creating boxed copies of brand new vintage Mac games. One day I will do the same thing, I hope, if I can ever finish anything …

Sort of true! But I think respectfully irrelevant. .hqx (Binhex 4) is an ASCII format, the whole point of which is to turn Mac files into plain text files (and thereby expands everything by about 50%). MacBinary is a binary format that just combines forks and Finder info and doesn’t waste...

That’s a pretty good reason.

I totally agree - the core problem here (and something I rant about too much) is the lack of a good and reliable upload format standard that’s well-supported across platforms. As I said earlier in the thread, there is no reason to use .hqx for anything ever anymore (the point of it was to allow...

Well moving a “bare” .sit archive around without MacBinary’ing it (.sit.bin) will certainly result in loss of type and creator info if moved off of Mac platforms and probably also if sent via ftp anywhere. You can force it back with ResEdit though, or probably force StuffIt Expander to open the...