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Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by bigpeopleareold »

stakkur wrote: post #146

I would still use OS 8/9, warts and all, if it were practical and worked reliably with modern software/hardware.

I had this thought in my mind too - just with a few "modern" things I grew use to and it would be perfect (I am thinking application switching and maximizing windows). Without Nextstep, Copland was going to be the long-term answer and I remember looking forward to that, with how many system crashes there were.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by bigpeopleareold »

mschuster91 wrote: post #24

Oooh how nice! That digs up some memory from my childhood - an aunt had an Apple with the OS looking very similar to this one, and there was a game where you had to place railroad tiles and could then operate a train. Anyone here remember that game?

Was this Railroad Tycoon? I never played it, just sounds like what you are describing.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by dlsa »

royalewithchees wrote: post #140
mihaip wrote: post #99

Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/

Is there a way to use appletalk on a LAN? I would love to get a game of multiplayer bolo going in my office.

Something involving a web server, a websocket (ws) server acting as a switch or repeater, a emulator specific websocket client to act as a network adaptor. Each emulator would then send packets via websocket to the ws server which would then send to the other connected ws clients. All the ws would be abstracted behind the emulated network adapter.

That would give you enough to let a bunch of Bolo addicts go to the same site and play multiplayer. It would also let them share files amongst those emulators.

But that wouldn't necessarily let any of them talk to an appletalk server near the server, eg on its real lan. For that you'd need a tuntap thing acting as a bridge or router.

That said, you probably wouldn't require that appletalk/netatalk server. As long as one emulator holds the maps or files etc you could use that as a file server. No tuntap required.

Hmmm...

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by masswerk »

mihaip wrote: post #99

Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/

Minor nitpicking: For some reason, the scroll thumbs (and their ghosts) do not work (visually). Otherwise, great work!

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by masswerk »

For everyone not familiar with OS8: Please try switching a window to list view and drag it to the bottom of the screen until it snaps as a spring-loaded tab. This is so much better than anything Dock, etc.! Also, marvel at the tear-down process menu at the top right, which accepts drag-and-drop.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by lproven »

This is remarkable work. It was great fun to play around with. I have just one request: could someone put together some of the same bits as a bare-metal app for a Raspberry Pi? It would be wonderful to be able to use a Pi as a retro 680x0 machine, not as an emulator with some vast underlying OS that needs to be patched, but just as a something monolithic and lightweight...
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