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So I want an INIT to use the Notification Manager to alert the user (once the Finder loads) if it couldn’t run. That’s easy. To do it, though, I have to give _NMInstall an NMRec that includes a pointer to the string I want to display in the alert, which I have to stick in a nonrelocatable...

I’m happy to share here TidyMenus (a.k.a. NoLabel 2.0), a simple little Control Panel for System 7 that can: Hide/Show the Label menu in the Finder (no installation or restart required, just open the Control Panel and check the box … though of course you’ll want to install it if you want the...

I am writing an INIT that allows hiding/showing the Balloon Help/Apple Guide menu at any time. (Helium lets you do this, but requires a restart. Mine will work without even actually installing the INIT.) It will be released very soon. This involved learning a lot about the undocumented weedy...

Hi, I’m kind of a noob with iBooks and OS 9 so excuse this very basic question … I have OS 9 running on my 800 MHz 14” iBook. Nice. So … what’s the best way to get software onto it? Various old websites recommend target disk mode, but I think that won’t work with modern versions of macOS...

Pretty basic question here but basically all my software dev has been for the Sys 7 era … What’s the gold standard documentation for the Toolbox as it existed in the MacOS 9 era? New Inside Mac printed volumes date to the early ‘90s, I’m sure newer (for example) File Manager* calls were...

Okay maybe not critical. But I like it. Drop this in your System Folder so that the Finder under 7.x (and probably 6.x and probably, I think, back much farther than that) will show files modified today or yesterday as “Today” or “Yesterday,” like Mac OS 8 does. (At least, I’ve heard it does...

Here’s a little INIT I wrote this weekend that does one simple thing: It turns a keypress of Option + Up Arrow (or Down Arrow) into Page Up (or Page Down). Just drag it into the System Folder under Systems 6/7 (Extensions folder under System 7+) and restart. It should work fine with...

WindowMenu is a terrific control panel + extension (INIT) pair to allow you to pop up a menu allowing you to select any of the current application’s windows to bring to the front by holding down one or more modifier keys and clicking anywhere on the screen. I like it better than the various...

Not sure if anyone else is addicted to running Mini vMac for iPad and carrying it around with you everywhere you go, but … I am. And it’s bugged me that when running it, the obvious thing to do - scrolling documents open in Mini vMac by swiping on the iPad - doesn’t work. (I mainly use it for...

I shared this with gryphel but posting here in case anyone @cheesestraws has seen it or can find something wrong with my very simple code blow: In short, the _Microseconds trap, when called repeatedly in a tight loop in Mini vMac (tested on multiple modern machines) seems to start repeating...

Whenever I drop into Macsbug in Mini vMac, I get the unhelpful error message “The ROM symbol file could not be read due to an OS or memory error.” So I dug up an old MPW CD which has a handy folder of ROM maps for various machines, including the Mac II, which I am emulating. So … what do I do...

I am really excited to have found, in a pile of old disks I bought recently on eBay for $50, a working copy of Hippo-C, believed to be the first C complier ever released for the Macintosh. To my knowledge this was previously a “lost” piece of software...

Semi random question. I periodically find myself acquiring old floppies I want to archive to the Garden or elsewhere. Historically I've done this by making a disk image from my SE/30 and Wifi'ing it over to my modern Mac. But I'm lazy, and don't love putting precious old floppies (which in a...

In my never ending quest to accumulate obscure vintage dev tools, I’m pretty proud of this one arrived yesterday - a complete boxed copy of 68K MDS 2.0 in the Consulair branded box. I’ve never seen this anywhere before personally. What’s a “Toolbox Interface Reference Package”? Can’t wait to see...

I have fallen in love with Mini vMac for iPad to keep my “vintage Mac“ handy at all times. However I can’t work out how to get ImportFL working to import a non-disk-image without involving a desktop machine. In this thread, @gingerbeardman says you can use the share sheet from the iOS Files...

I recently started running Mini vMac on my iPad after doing thru the mechanics of a local build with XCode, and it is awesome. But …. Does anyone now how to simulate an interrupt switch press to the emulation? On the desktop version this is ^C ^I or something like that. I can’t figure out how...

Hi, I have looked into this before but never came up with a great answer — I am looking for a 68k emulator that has all of the following features: Can run Macsbug (100% essential) Can have the emulation speed adjusted to emulate various machines/processor speeds Can access > 8MB of emulated...

I’m looking for a copy of MacNosy, the excellent early Mac disassembler, which is not abandonware and which Steve Jasik claimed to still be selling (I read elsewhere the price is $100) as of a few years ago: http://www.jasik.com/ I emailed him but didn’t get a reply. Does anyone know where I...

Just uploaded to the garden and thought some here might find interesting -- I haven't tested it out yet (don't have any of my pre-SE/30 Macs set up in a usable state at the moment) but the disk image appears good so wanted to get it out there for archival right away...

Pretty basic question here, I'm a total noob to CD imaging though .... I have a couple old CD-ROMs (mainly back-of-the-book CDs from some vintage programming books) that don't seem to be online anywhere and which I want to archive for preservation on the Garden etc. Is there a good way to...