Getting System 7.5 natively booting on a G4 Mac is impressive enough…

...but what truly blows my mind is that on the same hardware, the author managed to get System 6.0.8 as far as a Happy Mac, and Systems 7.0/7.1 to a "not supported on this computer" dialog.

The fact that the ROM manages to get that far at all, instead of a black screen or sad mac is bonkers, considering that the processor architecture (and the rest of the hardware) is completely different from anything that would be understood by that era of OS. It's relying on the 68k emulator built-in to the ROM.

Driver support notwithstanding, I wonder how low could you go if you took the resources from the CHRP system enabler and brought them over into the System file directly? Since 6.x and early 7.x didn't support enablers.

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GlobalTA/UX’ing tonight!

It's been quite a while since I’ve done something silly with an old Mac so I installed A/UX on my IIfx. It's something I've wanted to do for a while (and tried a few times in the past) but never managed to get it to work until now - turns out A/UX is incompatible with the BMOW ROM-inator - after reinstalling my stock IIfx ROM it works like a charm, even supporting my Interware video card and Asante ethernet card.

Software compatibility is a bit spotty when it comes to network apps - iCab and TurboGopher didn't work, but MacLynx and the Wikipedia app do. And of course #GlobalTalk works like a charm!

Also it's crazy that I can telnet into this thing from my daily driver MacBook Pro 🤣

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These are now the definitive Amiga 40 streaming details from Mönchengladbach for Saturday and Sunday. There may still be minor changes to the stream depending on the previous topic.

Watch at the following URLs:
http://YouTube.com/BBSindex
http://Twitch.TV/BBSindex

May now be officially published everywhere.

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Updated the #Macstodon roadmap today.

It's been a long time since I've touched it, but things slowed down a little bit at my day job this week and I'm getting the itch to do some retro programming again.

I need to tackle the longstanding Mastodon 4.3+ auth issue and I think I'm just going to build a wizard-type interface with screenshots that show you what you need to click (on a modern machine) in order to create an auth token manually.

Also it would be nice to support the new quote posts feature. And polls. And maybe even attachments.

I gave up on the REALBasic/FutureBasic rewrite - it was too difficult to do that and still maintain System 7 & 68K support (and also because someone else is working on a Mac Mastodon client in REALBasic for later OS versions).

I do still want to rewrite it in Micropython but that’ll be a LONG way away and is dependent on Micropython getting all of MacPython's features.

Anyway, hopefully I'll have more to share in a few days/weeks.

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