Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)The best-kept retro-mac secret is that the following web sites exist:
https://system6.app/
https://system7.app/
https://macos8.app/
https://macos9.app/
If you ever wanted to play with an old MacOS, this is the least effort to get started.
Charles Randall@uliwitness @desplesda what do you think would happen if I dug up my old system 7 code for software rendering 3d to the raw framebuffer address and ran it on this?
solient@solient @uliwitness @desplesda I'm actually pretty sure I lost all that code unless I manage to find a burned cd backup, but I'll keep an eye out for it.
@charlesrandall @uliwitness @desplesda I probably still have Director projectors on Zips at my parents place. xD
@solient @uliwitness @desplesda if you have data on zip disks no you don't
lol
@charlesrandall @uliwitness @desplesda it was transferred to cds years ago but those have probably bitrotted. Data prior to 2003 is… spotty.
@solient @uliwitness @desplesda pretty sure zip disks are the only 'write only' media that ever existed
@charlesrandall @uliwitness @desplesda they did have the highest failure rate of any media I've used other than IBM DeskStar drives.
@charlesrandall (deskstar failure rate for me was 100% out of a sample size of four or five; I had zips that were still readable when I stopped using them)