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Thank you - I appreciate the support. I felt the same way leading up to this! I want to actually use my old macs to do modern tasks, and if AI can help me achieve this faster, why not use the tools I have available to do so? There's so much irony with all this, considering I would have been...

and this is for you to decide for all of humanity? I assure you, that's not the direction software development is moving right now. literally just openly gatekeeping at this point right?! no one forced them to participate in this thread, but they have already predetermined how I'm supposed to...

Ah, that old adage. Pay by the hour, spend 4 hours sharpening the axe, vs paid by the job, get rushed jobs. lmfao. AI should just mean you have more time to review the results - but if you're gonna follow the old adage, you could still choose to extend it (artificially? lol) or rush it...

Ohh...I swear you keep reading my mind - I had similar character issues when trying to use claude through it (...to work on itself? lol). This is definitely on my TODO. I was hoping it wasn't something too difficult to tackle, I know when I was doing my retro websites for mac browsers, i had to...

One of the reasons I hated AI initially was because I had people (in a professional setting, none the less) saying they wanted to make an AI version of ME, because I was apparently perceived as someone to emulate/copy. Once I actually dove in, it became a force multiplier for me. It doesn't have...

the same reason you're not over there destroying cotton mills. Time, velocity. (also, no one ever said I couldn't?)

the issue with adding proper unix shell support is that none of the unix subsystem really exists - no /dev/tty, etc. Instead, I tried to create "equivalents" but they are really more just conversions of mac functions into a shell-like experience. It would be kind of cool to make shell scripts...

I'd been playing with ssheven for a little while now, however it'd always been a bit buggy, the preferences file was getting corrupted, support for colors was pretty minimal and half broken, etc. After my recent adventure using claude + retro68 to hack up a system extension, I decided I'd try to...

For the supermac firmware - it used python with the capstone disassembly engine — specifically CS_ARCH_M68K with CS_MODE_M68K_020 for 68020 instruction support. I had it try to use whatever it could find in pacman/aur on my linux machine. It also had to figure out the checksum that nubus...

I definitely plan to try to write more mac os7-9 apps this way in general, though a system extension being the first thing I did with retro68 is still blowing my mind, I was not expecting this to work out so easily. It's still not 100% perfect, I've noticed that if you have redraws happening...

Yup, QEMU's Q800 emulation gives it 4mb vram, so it's technically not true-to-reality, but it seemingly recreated the same exact bug. I still need to do a lot more testing on this machine. I did a "full os8.1 install", literally checked every box on the installer, including a bunch of PPC crap I...

You're not gonna believe this, but I think I just fixed a 30 year old Apple Bug with Claude. That little tip ended up being crucial. I setup qemu m68k for quadra 800 and confirmed it was the exact same problem. I'd been debugging this in a chat session already, so I fed it this information - all...

I guess I take this for granted, my other two machines are both later G3 / PCI era (g3 desktop & B/W), and I'm a bit spoiled by those, they can both drive 1600x1200 at high res. I'm actually waiting for a thunder II nubus card to arrive, it's "untested" but hopefully works and should be able to...

i recently acquired a quadra 700 that I upgraded with 68mb ram, 2mb vram and a zuluscsi compact, and i'm having a strange issue under 7.6 or 8.1 when running at 640x480 or 832x624 @ 24-bit/"millions of colors", where some icons on the desktop seem to get corrupted - especially the imagewriter...