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@MacKillRoy: I've never used Timbuktu. It appears that it requires System 8.x at least, so it will not perform on a Mac Plus for sure!

I tried patching Button, and that did not work -- but I did not try patching StillDown and WaitMouseUp, as I was not aware of those (are they available on the Plus?). So it turns out the VIA interrupt deglitches the mouse button by waiting three ticks before updating the MBState global. It...

Does anyone know whether all 68k Macs support 2bpp, 4bpp and 8bbp color modes? I know some later Macs only supports the true color modes. And do all color Macs support 512x384 and 640x480? I could probably try supporting something like 2bbp at 512x384, then maybe work my way up to 4bbp.

It seems easy, doesn't it? I thought so too, but it actually took me three months to get the remote control to work. Moving the mouse is relatively straightforward, it involves writing some low-memory global. Clicking is easy too -- just post an event. But click and drag -- that consumed three...

@LaPorta: It wouldn't be hard to make a VNC client for the Mac Plus that was compatible with the VNC server. However, step 1 is to make it reliable enough for day-to-day use.

I'm not sure why you would need Mini vMac for this, but on that topic, it would be amazing if Mini vMac, or some other Mac Plus emulator were to borrow the DaynaPort SCSI emulation code from the RaSCSI project to add Ethernet support to a virtual Mac Plus. I did submit that as a suggestion in...

Color conversions tend to be expensive because they rely on the CPU doing a lot of bit-shifting, the 68000 is very slow at this and I do not know if the 68030 is any better. I suspect that it is this, combined with the fact that MacTCP is slow to begin with, that makes any remote desktop...

Interesting. Part of the reason may simply be that transmitting color images requires at least eight times as much bandwidth for 8-bit color, and possibly up to twenty-four times as much bandwidth for 24-bit color. In my server, I use a trick to transmit 1-bit images without color conversion...

You also won't see the cursor in the remote client. This is because on color Macs I am asking Mac OS to copy a portion of the screen to an offscreen B&W buffer that simulates a B&W display and MacOS will not copy the cursor. On a real B&W Mac, I read directly from video memory and you do get the...

Also, curious how you connect your LC III to the Internet. I did not think those machines had built-in Ethernet.

You use the Macintosh Repository to transfer files to your LC III? What's special about the Macintosh Repository that you can download files from it and not from here? Even if this site doesn't render, can't you just manually type the URL to the attachment on your LC III?

I rather not see it in the Macintosh repository -- it's way, way too alpha for that. It may run on your LC III, as I've been developing it on Basillisk II and I added some code to make it work, but because it is meant for B&W Macs, on a color Mac it will only show the upper-right corner of the...

I mean, I know it works poorly and the keyboard isn't implemented yet, but if you're a glutton for punishment, I've attached the file 😛 I'd be more curious to see how well it does on a faster machine, like an SE/30...

This is what I feared. While I can fix bugs in my own code, if MacTCP has bugs in it too, there is less I can do about that. I've done my best to implement my code in an interrupt-safe manner and even wrote parts of it in assembly for efficiency, but even a very simple test case causes MacTCP to...

Hello everyone, I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on since last year. It is a remote desktop server I wrote from scratch using MacTCP. To my knowledge, it is the first VNC server that can run on a Macintosh computer with a 68000 processor (there was at one point...

I don't know how many people use Iomega Zip or Jaz drives with their vintage Macs, but my latest project has been to port Steve Gibson's amazing Windows 95 Zip drive and cartridge testing utility, Trouble in Paradise, to the Macintosh. I now have a way to test the health of my Zip drives and...

I don't know how many people use Iomega Zip or Jaz drives with their vintage Macs, but my latest project has been to port Steve Gibson's amazing Windows 95 Zip drive and cartridge testing utility, Trouble in Paradise, to the Macintosh. I now have a way to test the health of my Zip drives and...