DaveKaz5d ago
Cleaning and I found these relics. #Apple #Mac #OSXPanther #OS9 #PowerComputing
Show threadMy name is GordoSep 30

No idea. Mounted the small rubber shroud for the rear fan from the Quicksilver, as opposed to the plastic shield that holds the fan in the Digital Audio, and I've mounted a 120mm fan on top pointing out, Intel cooler style. I don't honestly think heat is the issue, but I'd like to at least eliminate it as a variable (or hey, maybe it is the issue, and I can prevent losing another night to fighting with yet another cursed G4).

Starting to once again lose my taste for playing with old Macs (though there's always the possibility that it's a side effect of the modified ATX power supply).

#powermac #g4 #powermacg4 #os9

My name is GordoSep 26

IT WORKED.

I did film the moment of truth, but all that happened was the same thing as before, the power button lit up for as long as I held it down with my finger. So I stopped filming, and then several seconds later, I heard what sounds like a fairly whiny unhealthy fan spin up, and I looked down and saw the obnoxiously RGB Corsair keyboard lit up.

I assumed nothing was happening, so didn't hold Cmd+Alt+O+F long enough to get into open firmware and boot via USB, so that's why I'm just getting the icon, I assume.

Actually now that I think of it, wouldn't it be a question mark icon if it were a matter of an HDD with no bootable OS? It might just be slowly booting off the USB as we speak cause I'm still seeing smiley Finder folder icon. ???

#PowerMac #G4 #Quicksilver #OS9 #OSX #OSXTiger

Willard GooseyJun 11, 2025

Oh man ROTFL!

So, a while back I found an actual FOCAL program on the net and downloaded it, lunarlander.foc. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it here but I can't find my post.😞

Anyway it doesn't run in my version of the Conway/ Kida FOCAL interpreter and I just realized why.

Because this is ALL UPPERCASE source and this FOCAL only knows function names in lower case!

And I never noticed!

This FOCAL does accept uppercase keywords, but not functions.

#Focal #RiscOS #OS9 #Unix #LunarLander

squelch41Apr 21, 2025
Using autocad r12 on mac os 9.2.2
Had to manually increase allowable ram to enable rendering. Seems amazingly backwards for an OS from 2001.
Is this a thing with os 9 or is it only for old 68k programs?
#retrocomputing #mac #os9
GENKIApr 14, 2025

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Hacker NewsApr 11, 2025

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL

#HackerNews #MbedTLS #ClassicMacintosh #OS7 #OS8 #OS9 #RetroTech #Cybersecurity

GitHub - bbenchoff/MacSSL: A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9 - bbenchoff/MacSSL

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N-gated Hacker NewsMar 19, 2025
πŸ‘πŸ’Ύ Ah, the thrilling world of #emulation, where you can spend countless hours setting up #SheepShaver just to relive the glory days of OS 9. Meanwhile, your actual #Mac sits neglected, wondering why it wasn’t good enough. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ But don't worry, the #EMaculation wiki is here to provide an endless maze of instructions, ensuring you're never lost while doing absolutely nothing. πŸ™ƒ
https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver #OS9 #retrocomputing #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
SheepShaver [E-Maculation wiki]

Eemeli AroDec 17, 2024

Would anyone here know of any non-test file that uses a standalone `\r` carriage return as a line break?

As far as I can tell, the last system to support these was Mac OS X 10.4 (released 2004), which was the last to include a "Classic Environment" emulator for Classic Mac OS.

#RetroComputers #RetroComputing #ClassicMac #OS9

Willard GooseySep 24, 2024

BTW if anyone cares, my version of the Conway-Kida FOCAL ported to RISC OS and (microware) OS-9 is on my website at
https://www.sdc.org/~goosey/

#RiscOS #OS9 #Focal #CoCo #ColorComputer

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