Mac 512K to Nintendo 3DS

[napabar]

RIP Steve.

 

[jonathan]

The 10-minute timeout with EasyShare Demo is a HUGE bummer!

I saw some talk in another thread about this 36khz watch crystal inside the Classic Mac. Without it, the machine should still start up, it just will not keep time.

But hey, isn't not keeping time is a good thing when EasyShare Demo times out every 10-minutes?

So, would this relatively easy hardware mod solve the timeout issue and turn the 512K into a perpetual server?!!

 

[napabar]

The 10-minute timeout with EasyShare Demo is a HUGE bummer!
I saw some talk in another thread about this 36khz watch crystal inside the Classic Mac. Without it, the machine should still start up, it just will not keep time.

But hey, isn't not keeping time is a good thing when EasyShare Demo times out every 10-minutes?

So, would this relatively easy hardware mod solve the timeout issue and turn the 512K into a perpetual server?!!

Here's what I've found out about the 10 minute limit.

EasyShare on the Mac 512K doesn't stop serving after 10 minutes, it just drops the connection. You can establish it again by mounting it from the chooser on the bridge machine. That got me thinking on how to get around it, so I wrote an Applescript that mounts the share from the Mac 512K, un-mounts it after 9:55 seconds, and then re-mounts it.

Functionally, it worked, but I did notice things acting flaky after a while. I never used to it much after writing it, since I can usually do me tests in 10 minute intervals.

I would love to hear any other ideas that people have to bypass this. The guy that wrote the app still lives in Arizona, and I wonder if his number from the about screen is still good! He's also on LINKEDIN, but I'm not a paying member, so can't email him. Would love to know if he has a full version, or a workaround for the demo.

 

[jonathan]

Would you be interested in sharing that script?

The one thing I really like about EasyShare is that it shares external floppy drives, as opposed to file sharing in System 7, which does not. Its just so much cooler to get a floppy drive fired up remotely from your iPhone!

 

[JDW]

I would love to hear any other ideas that people have to bypass this. The guy that wrote the app still lives in Arizona, and I wonder if his number from the about screen is still good! He's also on LINKEDIN, but I'm not a paying member, so can't email him. Would love to know if he has a full version, or a workaround for the demo.

I have a free LINKEDIN account, and I can see the email addresses of all my "Contacts," so it should just be a matter of getting this fellow as a contact, right? I believe it would be worth the effort to try to contact him by whatever means possible.

 

[napabar]

Would you be interested in sharing that script?

Here ya go! You my have to change the name of the published share. I called it Mac512K.

repeat

mount volume "Mac512K" on server "easyshare00"

delay 555

tell application "Finder"

set theDisk to disk "Mac512K"

put away theDisk

end tell

delay 10

end repeat

 

[napabar]

I would love to hear any other ideas that people have to bypass this. The guy that wrote the app still lives in Arizona, and I wonder if his number from the about screen is still good! He's also on LINKEDIN, but I'm not a paying member, so can't email him. Would love to know if he has a full version, or a workaround for the demo.

I have a free LINKEDIN account, and I can see the email addresses of all my "Contacts," so it should just be a matter of getting this fellow as a contact, right? I believe it would be worth the effort to try to contact him by whatever means possible.

You have to have a paying membership to send him an email. You have to know his email address to add him as a contact.

His name is Jay Eaglstun.

If you do talk to him, direct him to my Mac 512K server site please! I'd love to know what he thinks!