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Notes for March 23–29

Work ate the week again. I’m exhausted, running on fumes, and daylight saving time stole an hour of sleep I could not afford–the biannual clock shuffle is one of those vestigial ab(...)

#agents #ai #arm64 #autoresearch #basiliskii #dev #jit #macemu #notes #refactoring #sheepshaver #weekly

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Guillaume-Jean Herbiet Mar 10

@paulrickards My #MARCHintosh project also involves making a #TinyMac.
While I progressed on the software side (running #BasiliskII on framebuffer, with multiple configs chosen at boot time if a key is held), I lack hardware knowledge.
As your project seems quite advanced, could you share your internal wiring and integration of the CPX to send keys?
Is its internal speaker enough for gaming audio?
Did you also integrate the front knob and buttons?
Thanks in advance.

thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him]Feb 9

Might have played with Basilisk II running Mac 7 & 8 this weekend. So fun! #Macintosh #BasiliskII #68kMac #ClassicMac

Shyra& 🐍 🌘Jan 24

I’ve been slowly rebuilding my computing life on Linux since about December.

The latest thing I’ve gotten working is #BasiliskII for Classic MacOS emulation. Runs like a champ!

I’m on CachyOS, and installed the git version of Basilisk using the package manager. The only tricky part was recreating /dev/dsp for sound output, until I found a helpful post pointing me towards osspd. Another install and systemd service and Basilisk has sound as well!

Hacker News Jan 11

BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5

https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh

#HackerNews #BasiliskII #ESP32 #M5Stack #Emulator #Macintosh #Technology #RetroGaming

GitHub - amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh: BasiliskII Macintosh 68k emulator ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 - Run classic Mac OS on embedded hardware

BasiliskII Macintosh 68k emulator ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 - Run classic Mac OS on embedded hardware - amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh

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⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️Nov 5

More good #Newton news, I can back up to a (virtual) MacOS machine, and #BasiliskII already mounts the host filesystem into itself, so this is way easier import and export using #virtualBox and Windows 3.11

Wonder what the last web browser for this OS was....

#appleNewton #retroComputing #retro #apple

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Caio Aug 14, 2025

Talvez minha barra seja alta demais, mas para quem continua até hoje colecionando software retrô e polindo instalações do #DOSBox e do #BasiliskII, o abismo é profundo.

O desktop é um lixo cada vez pior, incluindo os desktops da Apple e da Microsoft, que continuam piorando. O sistema atual da Apple beira o ofensivo diante do refinamento que levou décadas, inclusive deixando milhões reféns de um regime de multitarefa cooperativa que tardou em ser aniquilado e ainda estava firme na primeira metade dos anos 2000.

A Web parece ter sido o ácido que faltava para corroer o pouco de sanidade que havia no desktop.

Não só voltamos à salada da despadronização de fazer inveja ao MS-DOS e ao Amiga, mas também destruímos as soluções nativas que poderiam oferecer algum alento.

Eis o contexto que me faz querer colocar mais um compromisso numa vida suficientemente difícil para escrever um shell e poder usar qualquer ambiente mínimo, com baixa interferência do window manager e dos adereços desavergonhados que andam escrevendo por aí, inclusive com patrocínio que não parece ser acompanhado por dirigismo de qualidade.

Eu acho que alguns desenvolvedores não usam o próprio software. Não é possível.

dynamic Jul 4, 2025

Can someone help me troubleshoot #BasiliskII running on #Debian12?

A friend of mine set up a #MacOS7 environment for me to use on my Ubuntu computer a few years ago, and it still works fine, but when I try to open the same environment on my Debian computer Basilisk II seems to just quit.

No idea how to get started troubleshooting this.