OS9Map

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Post by LaSombra » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

OS9Map
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Re: OS9Map

#2

Post by ktallett » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

Great work developing for OS9 still. I had taken started developing in Think C for a few months as a fun side project to work , and it still has some interesting ideas for development. Plenty of communities for this nowadays still.

Re: OS9Map

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Post by robot_jesus » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

I love stuff like this. Even though I don’t have a machine capable with running OS 9 natively, I’m glad this exists. Looks awesome!

Re: OS9Map

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Post by generalpf » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.

Re: OS9Map

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Post by ccamrobertson » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

This is really cool, time to dust off an old PowerPC. I've been thinking about building apps for old Mac OS versions for a while with the advent of LLMs, glad to see someone is doing it.

Re: OS9Map

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Post by nhubbard » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

Would love to see the source code for this and the underlying details like Classic or Carbon, and the libraries mentioned on Tinker Different for TLS, HTTP/2, and Unicode

Re: OS9Map

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Post by guerrilla » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.

Re: OS9Map

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Post by timw4mail » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

guerrilla wrote: post #7

Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.

Officially? A single cpu G4 tower. Beyond that, I'm not sure.

Re: OS9Map

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Post by classichasclass » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

guerrilla wrote: post #7

Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.

Currently my "big" native 9.2.2 system is a MDD G4 with a Sonnet 1.8GHz dual 7447A upgrade, 2GB RAM (1.5GB useable in OS 9) and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm sure there's a config more extreme than that out there. It is a pleasure to use even though it's one of the windtunnel systems.

Re: OS9Map

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Post by steve-atx-7600 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

Reminds me of this guy's solid work that includes an LLM integration that works on classic macs 68k and PPC https://www.macintoshrepository.org/68191-legacyai. Use it on my OS 9 PPC.