paulrickardsEveryone’s on their Hand386 so I dusted off my PocketChip and look at that, I’m running System 7.5.3 thanks to Mini VMac! It’s delightfully quick!
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Could I build Mini VMac for Pocket Chip myself to include the LocalTalk over UDP option?? How hard could it be?! 🤪
After making some really sketchy repository changes and doing an incantation, I got some X11 sources installed and Mini VMac actually compiled without issue!
And look! It’s speaking AppleTalk (UDP) on my network!! Hahaha this is so weird to me. Should I print something to my AppleTalk ImageWriter II from my handheld? 😅
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After a few tries I was able to fully print from Quark XPress to the ImageWriter II over #AppleTalk with the #AirTalk from the #PocketChip! It wasn’t quick but it worked!
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How about browsing the ✨ Internet ✨ on the emulated Mac? 😅
Using MacIPGW here for MacIP. Writing up a blog post about all of this later today!
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New blog post: Macintosh Emulation and Printing using Mini VMac on a PocketCHIP
In this post I go over how I got Mini VMac compiled on the PocketCHIP with LocalTalk options enabled. I also go over how I printed to a real ImageWriter II as well as browsed the web with Netscape 2.0!
https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2688
Thanks in advance for a boost!
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Fly my pretties! Fly! 😅
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Ha you thought I was done with this silly PocketCHIP? 😅 Let’s run SoftPC!
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C:/win 🙃
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Minesweeper because solitaire didn’t place the cards right (probably because of the weird screen size?)
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Picking up this project from two years ago, I finally printed a bezel and key set for my PocketCHIP. I printed it with Polar Retro Platinum and used waterslide decals for the key tops and badge with Univers 57 font.
Update: I collected the models and the art for the waterslide decals in one place:
https://www.printables.com/model/1461477-pocketchip-macintosh
FozzTexx@paulrickards Those keys look really nice! I wonder how durable the water slide decals will be. Possibly 3D printing directly onto a laser printout might last longer? I messed with that briefly for making a case for the IIc to QuickTake adapter, it was very difficult to get the printed sheet aligned where the 3D print was going to be.
@fozztexx Not sure about durability but we’ll find out. Saw someone do it but use an acrylic clear coat on top. Might try that.
For printing on top method did you scrub away the paper layer after?
@paulrickards Yah. It left a kind of rough surface. I've seen it done elsewhere with overhead transparency film, but I only have a few sheets and didn't want to use it on an experiment.