It’s what the Bluescsi want’s so don’t fight it! I named the file simply ‘HD10_512.hda’ which specifies it’s a hard disk, SCSI ID 1, target 0, 512 bytes/sector and it’s a ‘hda’ image. I’m a bit worried about opening up this thing as I’ms suspecting the plastics are a log weaker than they look, so I opted for just using a USB cable to power the device.Īnyways let me cut to the chase, I have an 8Gb Micro SD card that I formatted ExFAT (the documentation says Fat32 will work, but I found it might work once, but it’ll definitely never work after a reboot), with a single file emulating a 100Mb hard disk (Luxurious!). Bluescsi module on the back of the Macintosh Plusĭocumentation on the bluescsi is scant, but it seems that a diode needs to be soldered onto the Macintosh Plus motherboard to enable bus power, so you don’t need an external USB power source. I’ve heard of various SCSI emulators out there, and decided to go with a bluescsi v1 with a DB25 interface as they are generally cheaper, and the Macintosh Plus isn’t exactly all that fast so the effort of the v2 is mostly lost. I’m more surprised that someone was using this in 1989 and didn’t take the plunge and upgrade the machine to the full 4Mb of ram.Īnyways I have this chunk of plastic and glass on a desk, but I can’t do a thing with it. And I can’t say that I’m all that surprised that a hard disk from 1989 is broken. And not like dead dead, but dead dead dead! After I freed the disk from the external enclosure, and tried to power it on, stand alone, the PSU refused to start as the disk has a hard short in the board somewhere. ![]() It included the larger keyboard, original mouse, and an external 20MB hard disk. This was rather unexpected, but this auction for a loaded Macintosh Plus had shown up, and it was shipping local, and very cheap for what it was. Posted in Apple, MacOS, OS X, videos | 2 Replies Another Canadian from the great white north fights a vintage Macintosh MacOS will want to run the setup wizard but since the ‘Bluebox’ isn’t a real Mac, I just cancel it Start up Classic from the hard disk, and OS X will want to update the System folder Unmount the disk image, and open classic again & select the System Folder on the Hard Disk. ![]() The install took less than a minute on my G5 Open up the prefrences, go into classic and select theĬustomize the install and ONLY select Mac OS 9.2.2 & Internet Access. The steps are somewhat simple basically download & mount the disk image. I’ve uploaded the file over on : ro-macos9updated.dmg. I’ve done the hard work of converting the eMac 9.2 install CD to read-writeable, updating the system folder, then converting that back to a read-only image so the MacOS install can happen. Posted in cdroms, disk images, Internet, Macintosh, MacOS, videos, weird video formats, Windows RT | 3 Replies Since there had been some confusion on how to install MacOS 9 on OS X ![]() Very cool! So it turns out Protoweb can actually save all those old devices that work fine enough, but not fine enough for ‘Modern platforms’. Now I do have a Windows Surface RT tablet, and sure enough pluggin the proxy values, and YES the video site does work! Warpstream on Windows RT old netscape websiteīut the rendition of the old Netscape page was a treat! In no time, I was able to get online only to find that the power Mac plugin’s seem to be unavailable for anything and unsupported. Sorry the image shows in black & white, but as you can see from the CD-ROM background it is in fact booted from the CD-ROM. I should also add the MacOS 8.1 CD-ROM image Ive been using as again,l I have the same issue where so many are headderless ‘floppies’ and not actual CD-ROM’s that don’t work in Cockatrice III or an actual Mac using BlueSCSI. I did save it to, since I have another 5 versions of this downloaded, none of which will boot. I did manage to finally find one that does work however! working ISO As an ISO they don’t detect at all, and as a giant floppy, of course they don’t boot as MacOS checks if it is on read-only media. Rather they are giant floppy disk images with the media headers and/or partition tables being obliterated. I went looking for a 8.6 ISO, and that is where the fun hit me again that many so-called ISO images aren’t. I have an 8.1 ISO that I’ve been using under 68k emulation but the limit it has is old multimedia stuff ins t 68k compatible as nobody would imagine emulation putting 68k at speeds above a gigahertz. It’s 603ev CPU it’s not all that advanced either. The machine is very much an Old World Macintosh, so that limits me from OS X. The problem was my network card was acting up so I figured instead of troubleshooting it I’ll just format it and go from there. I saw this video and I was like sold! I have this PowerMac 6400/180 so I figured this would be good.
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