Completed my Apple Upgraded Mac Plus

[ilitch64]

I finally got a Plus keyboard from Herb over at retrotechnology.com and now I can finally use my Mac Plus which has been sitting on my shelf for about half a year now! It has been upgraded to 4MB and a book on Think C is currently on its way! 
 

I love the smaller foot print it has versus my ADB Performa Keyboard. 

 

[olePigeon]

I'm confused ... it's NOT playing Dark Castle?

 

[ilitch64]

Does The Colony count, I misplaced my Dark Castle disk

 

[Crutch]

Such a cool game.  Impossible to solve though, as I recall.  Also, the font used there for “BY DAVID ALAN SMITH” is Commando, one of my all-time favorite Mac fonts.  I remember finding it in The Colony’s resource file, extracting it and using it countless times thereafter.

 

[ilitch64]

Such a cool game.  Impossible to solve though, as I recall.  Also, the font used there for “BY DAVID ALAN SMITH” is Commando, one of my all-time favorite Mac fonts.  I remember finding it in The Colony’s resource file, extracting it and using it countless times thereafter.

Alright now I gotta extract that font! I thought that was just a bitmap logo!

 

[ilitch64]

I have been trying to figure out how to extract the font for about an hour now. How'd you do that?

 

[Crutch]

Oh jeez I am remembering something I did in probably 1988 ... isn’t the font in the resource fork?  You should be able to see it with ResEdit, you can then copy it to your system file.  There should be a FONT resource called “Commando” or similar.

If that doesn’t work, I can probably dig it up somewhere ...

 

[ilitch64]

I figured it out in resedit you copy the FOND and the FONT data from Colony and paste it into the System file’s FOND and FONT tables. 

 

[elbaroni]

Font/DA mover, hold “option” as you click on the “open” button. Will let you open applications, not just suitcases and system files. 

 

[cheesestraws]

Font/DA mover, hold “option” as you click on the “open” button. Will let you open applications, not just suitcases and system files. 

I did not know this.  Thankyou for the tip!