System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0

#HackerNews #System7 #MacMini #G4 #RetroComputing #ClassicMacs #AppleHistory

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. 

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh callout re: PageMaker 4.2...

Does anyone with physical copies of PM4.2 and manuals/books have the 4.2 version of the Aldus PageMaker Script Language Guide?

It might solve a problem for me (and @dillera).

Thanks!

#ClassicMacs #DTP #PageMaker

Airaga base Finder has been periodically crashing/restarting today. The router, being loaded as an extension, continues to operate, but it’s weird because this has so much less installed on it than the main WOzFest HQ AIR node.

Router Manager continues to be vaguely crashy on both, but not really disruptively so.

I’ve done a round of minimising extensions on Airaga base today – will try a few more things in Classic Mac “move things till they improve” mode.

#GlobalTalk #ClassicMacs

#GlobalTalk #RetroMacs #ClassicMacs

I want to be alerted if an AIR node goes down. Sort of like UpTimeRobot for GlobalTalk...

This AIR node is emulated and can’t be pinged (slirp network on Linux).

I’d like something simple to see if the host is running or not.

I can’t port scan UDP as it doesn’t respond, of course.

I was wondering if there was a simple, stable System 7.1-compatible “something” which I could either port scan, or do some other sort of “heartbeat” check on.

1/n

#GlobalTalk #RetroMacs #ClassicMacs Question

I’m trying to run Choosier v1.0 on my emulated Q800 7.1.1 and emulated PPC 9.2.2 machines.

On both, Choosier immediately crashes with a Type 1 error in 7.1.1 and Type 2 in 9.2.2. I’ve downloaded from a different source (Macintosh Garden), same problem.

7.1.1 has AppleTalk v58.x (Choosier requires 53).

Anyone else having this issue?

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #ClassicMacs

So today I came up against a problem with hosting old System components on Netatalk 4 - the propensity for developers to put funny characters in INIT/Extension names to get them to load before others (Extensions usually load alphabetically).

Hidden characters played silly buggers with the ability to copy such files, so I had to put them in an archive and copy them that way.

It’s a read-only share, so no chance of anything failing to extract, but still.

Classic Macs MacOS Distros

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/classic-macs-macos-distros

This is a entry for the Classic Macs set of MacOS distros. Includes fully populated OS9 distributions set up to access our FirstClass and Hotline clients, among other things

#macgarden #operatingsystems #2025 #classicmacs

Hey #ClassicMacintosh officionados!

Does anyone remember the name of (or have a photo of) the cooler addon for #ClassicMacs (128, 512, Plus) that inserted a fan in the handle slot to suck air up and out of the passively-cooled macs?

I remember seeing one at university circa 1992, but I can't find any pictures of it.

I'm trying to find it for @libreivan, who wants to develop the equivalent for the iMac G3

#AskFedi #ClassicMac #Macintosh

cc: @NanoRaptor @DosFox