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If you ever have a need to dump and preserve floppies as Disk Copy 4.2 images, you will absolutely want to have one. Generally I agree with the sentiment that floppies should be used sparingly. There's limited quantities of them out there, and they're all living on borrowed time.

I'm not sure anybody would want to compile a significant amount of C++ on a real 68k Mac, barring that C++ is more commonly taught than Pascal and C. The compile time overhead of the preprocessor and C++ templates will not make that a fun affair. CodeWarrior Pro 4 was released in the same year...

I saw! The Scarab of RA and HyperCard progress is especially amazing. Not that you might find this interesting, but I've found all the MACE packaged apps that have been released work wonderfully under VMware (ESXi 6.7 and Fusion 11.1.0) on macOS Mojave. That's more than I can say for most...

It’s come up before; you want to look for MountImage to mount DC4.2 images in System 6. For games I can strongly recommend Hidden Agenda and The Colony, both work great on a compact Mac. I liked Hidden Agenda more myself. It is a very good political intrigue simulation game.

Maxis was a staple of homes and low-cost 68k Macs. Some lesser known ones still hold up in their own way, like A-Train and El-Fish, besides the obvious Sim series titles (SimTower!). "Quarterstaff: The Tomb of Setmoth", published by Infocom, is a Mac exclusive classic often overlooked...

I am curious about that! Thunderbird has been a mostly JavaScript-based app for some time. Because of the joys of HTML e-mail, you can't really get around the problems of keeping web browsers secure in a dedicated e-mail client. I suppose it depends if that version of Thunderbird has all the...

With the usual disclaimers around internetting on vintage hardware being unwise. Stay far far away from Mail.app and Safari.app. The WebKit engine on both web-based products is quite old and filled with known exploits and compromises. Consider TenFourFox and using webmail with that browser...

Disk Utility does burn ISO files decently, fwiw. Still, I second that a Linux or Windows solution that can burn bin + cue is what you really want for those odd hybrid and old timey CDs. The problem with ISO rips is that they assume the CD only has a single data track with no additional...

The classic Houdini FAQ claimed that it could fit in a Q700 without bulging the case, provided it was seated properly with the clips near the front of the case that normally secure a full size Nubus card or Quadra PDS card.

This really isn't a bad way to go, at all. My really old Macs all still revolve around Compact Flash cards, which is simply because at the time I was collecting them, the SCSI2SD was either not well known or in production yet, and Compact Flash to SCSI adapters were reasonably well available...

Many days later... Reproducing my issues, I can tick the "File Sharing" box in Mojave (10.14) for AFP. The interesting thing about those shares is that they don't see any of the user folders from Mac OS X 10.5. All they see is an external USB drive. However, it turns out this applies to both my...

That makes sense. Back porting kernel extensions from earlier Mac OS X is always dodgy, and with the changes to the file system in general that have been happening through extended file attributes (Gatekeeper verification was a big one), and with Core Storage that was introduced as a file...

Simple answer! It won't. There is nothing in FAT32 that natively handles resource forks, unlike HFS Extended and APFS.

I wish you had more details on how to repro because I'd love to try this out on a 10.8 VM sometime on ESXi, if there are issues. Granted this is part of what I used to do for work, file bugs on Mac software against kexts and a custom software stack intended for use by developers and find...

I can't speak to what it would take to replace an existing ROM, but flashrom does support copying PowerPC firmware to a file, even though it's hard for me to determine what's supported given that the listings under supported hardware refer to firmware chips, and I don't know exactly which ones...

Final Cut Pro 4 isn't unreasonable on the second hand market. Like old copies of Logic (Pro), it turns up every once in awhile. I've seen a boxed copy of HyperCard 2.3.5 that originally came bundled with Media Cleaner and Myst, when Director was the prevailing multimedia tool. Probably the best...

CodeWarrior absolutely supported Java in its later "Pro" years. Look for CodeWarrior Pro 4 if you want the last version that ran on 68k Macs.

I never did play around with A/UX much to see Commando, the Mac-friendly way to interact with a UNIX shell. Instead I did the dummo thing of trying to run as many Mac apps as I could, which sort of misses the point of what it's good at. Did you put Bash on there?  :)

Looks like an issue with gamma. I was going to spitball that it might be related to how the default gamma changed from 1.8 to 2.2 in Snow Leopard and all versions of Mac OS X after that... ...except it might also be an issue with the default QuickTime Pro settings, as suggested...

In addition, have a look at... man qtdefaults ...in modern macOS, there's several options in there discussed around enabling legacy video and audio codecs. Use arrow keys to go up and down to read the documentation, "q" key to quit. Lots of great stuff buried away in the UNIX style man...