Snow v1.3.0 is released!

This release focuses on networking features and brings Ethernet and LocalTalk-over-UDP to Snow! This allows you to network your Snow-emulated Macs to real Macs, other emulators and allows you to easily browse the web through userland NAT and integrated HTTPS stripping.

Other new features include writing to 1.44MB floppies, Zen mode and more shader features. Bug fixes include better performance, fixed Prince of Persia and others.

https://github.com/twvd/snow/releases/tag/v1.3.0

Transparent HTTPS stripping is now available in Snow bleeding edge. This makes it a bit easier to surf the modern web with an old system by letting the emulator deal with TLS without having to set up a proxy yourself.

https://docs.snowemu.com/manual/network/ethernet#stripping-https-connections

TIL Apple has an icon font that contains icons of most Macintosh models: https://osxdaily.com/2014/01/24/apple-mac-icon-font/

I'd like to find something similar for use in Snow, CC-BY-ND or more open.

Snow's Ethernet adapter can now be bridged to a tap interface on Linux. This should allow networking with real equipment over EtherTalk.

This is now available in the bleeding edge builds.

If anyone decides to give this a try, I'd love to know how you get on!

https://docs.snowemu.com/manual/network/ethernet#using-tap-interfaces-linux-only

#globaltalk

Booted MacOS 8.1 on Snow!

The absolutely cursed setup required currently is a IIcx with the Display Card 8-24, identifying as an SE/30 (8.1 won't boot on the IIcx), with the BMOW ROMinator II ROM (which is based on the IIsi), some RAM configuration related hacks and my still experimental SCSI controller changes.