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@Xero, just wanted to point out that if you want to handle the Unicode conversion, you may want to look at how The Unarchiver does it -- it contains a nice heuristic converter that automatically takes Unicode and converts to MacRoman. I've found the logic used there useful in a number of...

Interesting; I've done a bit of searching, and it looks like everyone has kept their drivers proprietary. So the best solution appears to be something along the lines of grabbing the driver included with System 7.5.3 redistributable images and creating a new disk image containing that driver...

I'm curious about this: Disk Jockey can create bootable disk images, but can't edit the boot partition. https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/help/imagecreator/#advanced-options Any plans to do what Disk Jockey does and create driver/boot partitions as well?

I remember seeing the ads, but I never saw an actual unit. In my view, the sheet metal design is the most impressive part! I would have bought one of those frames even without the drive.

The latest USB-only Brother laser printer has built-in compatibility modes for PS and PCL, as well as specific HP profiles AND a CUPS-compliant default driver. That said, I haven't actually tried one from 10.4 yet; I've got the wireless version myself, which is slightly different, and the...

Yes; this is a slightly different issue: since the final release of OS X 10.6 (so, the start of pure Intel-based Mac OSes that use the App Store and iCloud), Apple has signed the OS installers and updaters. Once those certificates expire (10 years?), you need to roll your date back in order to...

They'll run Asahi Linux. The bigger question in my mind is this: what will happen when the first generation of AS Macs have their built-in root certificates expire? AFAIK, they can't install updates without a valid root cert. If they can boot to recovery, possibly the date can be rolled back...

What do you mean by "most copies"? I have digital editions of a number of products, and I've downloaded them many times, and backed them up to multiple backup media. Multiple copies of the same versions, AND official installers of each point release. If we're talking original physical media...

You can swap out RackMac for any icon name in the icon set, can't you? I usually use RackMac, but I seem to recall setting it to Time Machine at one point.

That's awesome! I wonder if it would be possible to make it a terminal server as well as a client? (ie: ssh from linux to the provided interface). Previously, I used the tool that let you telnet into an MPW shell, but I know that sshd would put significantly more load on the system than that.

Since it's a PowerBook, what are your energy saver settings? Is it trying to go to sleep, disrupting network connections (but not actually going to sleep)?

Works fine in an emulator....

I use ScummVM to play the re-mastered versions. Even with the cheat books, I felt scammed out of my money every time I tried to play one of them on my Mac. My friend had an Amiga, and the playing experience was night and day.

Dark Castle is famous for the hoops that were jumped through to get smooth audio running on it; Beyond Dark Castle takes better advantage of the channels and yet runs at full speed on a Mac Plus. My experience is that Sierra software, written for an engine optimized for PCs and not Macs, had a...

Hey, Ty! Thanks for chiming in! Have you had an interview with Richard Moss (https://secrethistoryofmacgaming.com/) yet? It'd be great to get some of those early stories captured for posterity.

Is your video solution something you could turn into a library? I know this is an issue a number of people have bumped up against in the last 5 years. Also, have you tested on Snow yet? Its debug output is phenomenal.

I've intentionally avoided looking at SuperMario -- but I guess all the AIs have trained on it.

Back in the day (say, 1990), I got to play around with a professional video camera with component outputs hooked up via a SCSI capture card to a Mac Plus. You could point the camera at a scene, and it would display as dithered black and white on the Plus, with about a half-second delay...

As Arbee said, Basilisk II (and Mini vMac) don't target a graphics system; instead of emulating an actual graphics system, they just patch the traps to write graphics out to a buffer that's outside the hardware emulation area. BII did it first, and I suggested to Paul that he follow suit with...

Same here; the corruption problem generally seemed to be with the boot partition and interactions with Disk First Aid and Disk Utility. Worse corruption took place if Norton Disk Doctor was used. As long as each OS gets its own partition, I've never had issues with HFS+ (or HFS) non-boot...