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  1. ptricky

    Looking for Documentation (Localization for Japan, APDA #R0250LL/A)

    Think I found it on archive.org. I took the file off the cd and converted it into pict then jpgs then a readable PDF, it is attached as well as a zip with the jpgs.
  2. ptricky

    G3 AIO / Molar Mac Appreciation Thread

    I would love to have one. Right now it's my imac and the beige minitower but adding the monster to form a trio would be awesome. Plus you could put some googly eyes on there.
  3. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Appreciate it. Yeah, I get it, all projects eventually hit their wall but I have done my best to document my process and share it with anyone interesting in coding for os 9. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon and with the progress I am making in terms of JavaScript and TLS even if I left it...
  4. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Very welcome, it's all for the love of the game and being useful to others is just icing on the cake.
  5. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Thank you! It's a bit of a grind but I honestly think these classic g3s and os 9 in general is much more capable than they're given credit for. Thanks to some impressive reverse engineering done on os 9 by Elliot Nunn I am excited to see what the actual ceiling will be.
  6. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    I've been working on improving the compatibility with forums (like 68kmla of course) and have spent the last week trying to get some for of posting ability to work. This is that first test! I've gotten to the point where the limitations are inside netsurf upstream, so at this point I am making...
  7. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Oh yeah you have a pretty old version before I updated the interface. Grab 1.4 https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf/releases/download/v1.4/MacSurf.sit
  8. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    You have the last release? I see macintoshgarden and I did a little bit of targeting fixes on these so it should load properly for the most part.
  9. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Bong. Yeah, all that. I do wish it was as easy as vibecoding a simple website and I'm not saying I'm doing something impressive it just took a little more work than that.
  10. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Unfortunately after you start the app and enter the URL you want to visit it just says "That's a great idea!" And "amazing insight, that's a fun website!" And never loads :(
  11. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Fair, I oversimplified that one. The thing is you don't really vectorize the JS engine or the cascade themselves, those are too branchy, but they lean on a ton of little string and memory routines underneath and those vectorize fine. Copying memory around, scanning a buffer for a character...
  12. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    In regards to FPU that is already in use. CW8 emits FPU code throughout, and I actually lean on it on purpose. The 64 bit fixed point math in the CSS engine runs through the FPU because CW8 miscompiles the pure integer version on PPC. So that box is checked. AltiVec is the interesting one...
  13. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Thanks for loading it up and testing it! I just loaded macrumors on my g3 imac and it definitely does not like it. I'll have to do some targeting testing and fix rounds for it because it does not load much at all for me either. Right now it's kind of wack-a-mole with CSS and javascript getting...
  14. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Ha, an MSDOS MIDI jukebox for an 8088 is the most retro-computing sentence I've read all week. On 9.1 vs 9.2, don't worry, it runs fine on 9.1. The only real difference is that text looks a little rougher, because 9.1's font smoothing is weaker than 9.2's. That's an OS thing, not the browser...
  15. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Thank you, that means a lot, especially coming from someone running 9.2.2 as a daily driver on real hardware. That's exactly who I'm building this for. And great feedback on Carbon. You're right on the facts: the CarbonLib calls do carry overhead on OS 9, the RAM cost is real, and honestly the...
  16. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    V1.3.1 is live with a fresh face and dozens of improvements. Multi-curve ECDHE lands in TLS 1.3. macTLS now offers three curves in supported_groups — X25519, P-256, P-384 — and handles HelloRetryRequest cleanly. That unblocks servers that disallow X25519 (FIPS zones, certain XenForo-on-nginx...
  17. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    I understand the reaction, AI seems to be a lot of good and a lot of bad, it can easily be labeled the best or worst development in the past ten years. It's also easy to dismiss the work if you don't realize it's much more complicated than just writing C code. Regardless, I hope to push the...
  18. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Yeah for sure. None of it is "worth doing" at the root of it, I just love classic Mac OS and wanted to see what could be accomplished. I think the next step would be to see how far down I could get some form of modern browser to work on these systems.
  19. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    Ok yeah, you are correct. I'll have to install 8.6 on a drive on my minitower and see what it can handle. Most of the work right now is getting it load to all those large sites. It can kinda handle Wikipedia but that's probably the biggest site it seems to push through atm.
  20. ptricky

    MacSurf — a real NetSurf-based browser for Mac OS 9 (CSS3, ES5 JS, native HTTPS)

    It depends on CarbonLib so no it won't work, in it's current state, on system 8 or 7. I've ran it on my minitower and iMac so that's they only reference I can give. I haven't yet tried on sheepshaver or QEMU.
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