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is there a definitive write up of radius? That HAD to be a fantastically interesting place the first few years. I don’t suppose anyone has hacked up a recreation of that 16 MHZ card? I love my plus but sometimes it’s nice to use an Se/30 or amiga 3000 with A-Max because the xtra speed does...

I’ve noticed that a lot of retro magic involves many complex incantations and hard to find ingredients some of which have peculiar odors. Your write does nothing to dispel this impression. Sigh. I really need to set up a bridge Mac. I’ve been trying to get various things working with blueSCSi...

I don't have pico, but some BlueSCSI things are probably in common: - did you include the MacPlus thingie in ini file?: [SCSI] System=MacPlus - I had bad luck with getting anything to boot until I formatted drives on the Mac plus with the modified apple SC 753 setup. It's on the bootstrap .hda...

New version, which takes in some ideas from the Software forum: you can now hack your own key combos. https://github.com/WartyMN/68k-mac-custom-cursor-keys

has to be the Portable, if we're talking about non-upgraded 68000 machines, doesn't it? Were there even 68000 accelerators sold for the Mac? quite a few 68020 and 68030 kits. Next after Portable, maybe an Amiga or Atari with a 68010 and Mac software emulator. Probably the Atari as it runs at 8...

Thanks for testing Nathall. Awesome to hear it works on an actual 512K. I was going to describe how to get it on a 128k or 512k, then realized I had no idea. Magic! Here is the newest version. I decided to put it into a different GitHub project...

The banging could be ejector related. Sounds vaguely familiar to me but I can’t remember exactly which problem I had produced that sound. When you cleaned and regreased the drive did you check the yellow gear I. The ejector motor assembly that, at this age, is 95% of the time dead? The sound...

That’s great. Thanks for write up. I used kanjitalk a lot back in the day but that what’s for system 7 and then 7.5.5 (or so). I still have my KT disk installers somewhere. 27ish disks. Weee! Its interest to me that the kanji don’t in this early version looks a lot more like the typical JA...

I guess I’m deafer than I thought. I have never noticed it before. My amigas… now THOSE click every second or two unless a floppy is in. But those are an actual mechanical part moving.

ok, thanks. I'll pop a couple pills and call it a day.

Huh. I'm trying to get this bare drive (now external) working, and I just noticed it is ALSO ticking. Probably in unison with the sound from inside the Plus. err, what?

My Mac Plus has been having some hardware issues. Screen would stay black for 30 mins or so, until it warmed up. Fixed that finally this morning by reflowing about 15 joints. Floppy lost its gear, and burned out something in the ejector motor. Haven't fixed that, but swapped in a floppy from an...

Ok, how's this for a plan: For all versions, the INIT resource (whether in INIT file or in the object you paste into System if OS 1-3) will have 5 bytes set aside, with markers before after. eg, "REMAPKEYS"/4 bytes/CAPS/1byte". So you search in ResEdit for REMAPKEYS and set what you want. I...

Possible: yes. It will eat a lot more memory. Fine if you are on some 10MB monster LCII or something. But awkward if it's a 128K or 512K machine. 3 paths: (feel free to add another) In the resource file, there are 4 bytes you can edit with resedit. This is going to be cheapest option in terms...

Happy to make a version that maps there. Wasn’t a priority for me because I personally only use the 128 keyboard.

Hacking the keyboard at a lower level might help for notepad (not in a practical sense tho). But MacWrite etc is getting the new keystrokes. That’s not the problem. The problem is that the early versions of the software have no code to deal with cursor keys. It’s like an American in Glasgow...

ok, well, this works "fine" on a Mac 128K, with system 1.1g. And by "fine", I mean: - it doesn't crash the system - it "only" eats 462b. - it works when GetNextEvent() is used, but it does NOT work (of course), if the software is doing something like polling the keyboard hardware directly (the...

System 1? I'll have to study a bit. I downloaded a Mac 128K build of mini vMac, the ROM, and the 1.1g version of the System, so I have a system to test against. Trying to learn more about how INITs were loaded in early (pre-4.0?) system builds. I got it to show a badge, although the graphic was...

Good call. I posted it over on the Software forum.

Somebody call up the University of Michigan FTP admin -- new INIT inbound! For anyone who uses Mac 128 or Mac Plus keyboards, and just wants cursor keys, or for anyone with a say a IIGS style keyboard who wants cursors that aren't in a straight line, or for anyone who uses MacWrite as their...