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Anyone care to test it out? It should be better than the old caps lock version, at least in this respect: you can do SHIFT-Down, SHIFT-right, etc, to affect selection. If anyone still wants the caps lock version, I can upgrade it. Also, if anyone prefers an IJKL version, I can do one of those too.

Huzzah! (3rd icon) (It's a good thing I'm not getting paid to do this. I spent about 1 hr figuring out how to do the keyboard thing again after 5 years, and 20 hours dinking with getting it to show on an icon. It was fun (err, mostly). In the end, all it needed was this extra def, which I...

From that tech note, this might be what I need: --- /* *this is needed because the QuickDraw global thePort is not defined at INIT time */ typedef struct myQDGlobalsDef { char qdPrivates[76]; long randSeed; BitMap screenBits; Cursor arrow...

I get a "syntax error" on this line: QDGlobals qd; // Storage for the QuickDraw globals I think it doesn't know what QDGlobals is supposed to be. I can't find any reference to it in THINK C docs, nor in Inside Macintosh. Various references to it in...

I must be doing something wrong because THINK C (5.0) gave me grief about this: typedef struct { QDGlobals qd; // Storage for the QuickDraw globals long qdGlobalsPtr; // A5 points to this place; it...

Thanks for that. I am struggling with it. I started from there, got the main idea, but haven't been able to get anything working. The closest I got was that at one point, I could write into the "Welcome to Macintosh" window. Neat, but not what I was trying to do. Mostly the problems seem to come...

I revisited this idea this week, after getting tired of not being able to easily type [, ], and =when programming. I made a new version that activates when you hold down Option (instead of CapsLock). Idea being on a Mac 128 keyboard, you can hold option with left thumb, and do cursors with your...

Huh. This is actually kind of a nutso project (in a good sense). One thing that's interesting, is that the CPU is configurable via software apparently, including the ability to control the speed, control whether the onboard 32 byte RAM is available to the host computer, etc.  Take a look at the...

I'm working on a system 6/7 serial tool. I'd like to use Basilisk II for testing. I have most recent versions of BII and BII GUI, but I can't figure out how to get a connection going between the basilisk II emulated mac's serial ports and my modern, host Mac. I've tried various tty paths (eg...

Yes, it's the same concept. I did look at the resedit path, but I wanted something like Forward Delete, an extension I (or others) could simply remove if they didn't want it, and add it back if they did. Also wanted to learn how to make an INIT. The same exact code, with a few more conditions...

I suppose that sentence would have been better without the "good". A debugger, period, is worth a bit. And yeah, Eclipse is a bit of an 'acquired taste', shall we say. I actually have a pretty good feeling about visual studio code (I just wish I could make it work for Retro68).  back in the...

nice! and can I say that I love the Big Sur desktop background on the olde Macs? 

That's a legit question. For me, not speaking for anyone else, part of the answer is usually "because I can". So, partly about the journey, if you will.  But on a practical level, here are some of the reasons I prefer cross-compiling to native-on-retro-hardware (even if virtual):  version...

Well, since I made that comment about BBEdit, I thought I might as well add that configuration as well. It was painless, and I think I like it better at this point. I am going to miss Eclipse catching dumb typos and mistakes for me before I even build, but there's a lot to be said for a fast UI...

I'm trying to get a good cross-compile environment set up to write 68K Mac apps from my modern Mac (OS: Big Sur). I've tried 3 IDEs so far, with mixed, but distinct results. Curious about others using Retro68, and their experiences. Hopefully this will be helpful to me, and also anyone coming...

Very interesting. I bet with some tuning you could get the contents display to be even more friendly to classic Macs. maybe options to remove all images, convert unicode curly quotes, bullets, etc, to MacRoman code points, etc. Not all sites will be great of course, but just being able to view...

There's a Total Systems 68030 accelerator for the Plus up right now on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mac-Plus-Logic-Board-w-Quesse-68030-Accelerator-incl-68882/333855393411 Doesn't say how much RAM is installed, and it looks like the Mercury version, which I believe is only 16mhz. is it like...

Yeah, the resource fork is going to be fun. I would also like to build in an option to translate the charset when it made sense. I haven't thought this out in any detail, but maybe something like this:  On 68K Mac side: raw folder: contains raw Mac apps, text files, etc. ...

ha, I don't actually have an ST either, but I like the idea of it being a more general retrotool (set).  I have an Asante SCSI adapter I've used in the past (looks to be same idea as the DayPort SCSI/Link?), and an old ethernet hub that it could access, but I don't have a good way to connect...

Let me try to describe it a bit better: User wants to have a common folder synced between TWO computers (this wouldn't work well for more than 2). Any combination of 2 below: Modern Mac (or PC, or Linux) 68K Mac (or probably more accurately: System 6.x ~ 9.0 Mac). I don't...