Ethan BlackApr 9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/116372275744173493

A pretty clean keyboard layout... but having Return and Enter separate is quite interesting. Does pressing one or the other guarantee a newline in fields where pressing Return "submits"? #ClassicMacOS #retrocomputing

#keyboards

Show threadEthan BlackApr 8
@rl_dane If I wanted to make an OS, what would you think I should use as a basis for a UI?
Do you have a link to an emulator of your favorite OS, UI-wise? I know there's that one Mac OS X system you harp on, but that's probably a bit complicated.
Every time I spend some time playing around with #ClassicMacOS , I end up refreshed (thanks for the System 1.0 link above). Elegant.
Show threadDamian YerrickFeb 21

@wyatt Apple II, Apple IIGS, and Macintosh stuff pre-OS X also uses carriage return ($0D) as a newline.

#newlines #AppleII #Macintosh #classicMacOS

QuiltationDec 15

Watching Classic Mac Gaming’s video on Glider awakened something in me.

#fountainpen #illustration #apple #macos #systemone #classicmacos #glider #classicmacgaming #penaddict

Rairii   Dec 6
well that wasn't hard after the work to get 7.1.x booting. system 7.0 predates enablers, so patching the boot2/boot3 resources in from 7.1 gets it to boot with the enabler

#Macintosh #ClassicMacOS
Rairii   Dec 3
it works on real hardware, here's system 7.1 booted on an ibook g3

#Macintosh #ClassicMacOS
Rairii   Nov 15

well, I think it’s more or less OK to release. you may have issues on your hardware, but these patched TBXIs at least try to boot whatever you throw at it, 7.5 onwards up to whatever it’s supposed to boot…

very hacky and your mileage may vary, but now you too can try to boot 7.5 or 7.6 or 8.1 on stuff that wasn’t ever meant to run it, without it instantly crashing due to its boot wanting some function or interface that got stripped out the tree…

https://github.com/Wack0/universal-tbxi-patchset/releases/tag/v20251115

#MacOS #ClassicMacOS

Release v20251115 · Wack0/universal-tbxi-patchset

Initial release. Your mileage may vary, please note that software compatibility will decrease as hardware compatibility increases, hence why three different patched TBXI versions are provided. All ...

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Rairii   Nov 14

first successful boot of 7.6 in qemu using an even more romhacked 9.1 tbxi

#MacOS #ClassicMacOS #CHRP

Rairii   Nov 10

the system enabler in chrp 7.6 has a version check in boot3

by patching out the version check you can potentially go lower

search for 0C 50 07 60 65 08 08 38 00 02 0B 20 replace with 0C 50 07 60 4E 71 08 38 00 02 0B 20

here’s 7.5.5

#ClassicMacOS #MacOS #CHRP

Rairii   Nov 9
low level emulated imac g3
hfs standard formatted partition
system folder from 7.6 chrp copied over
mac os rom fron imac 8.1 copied in
and... it just boots???

#MacOS #ClassicMacOS #CHRP