Eric Helgeson

@bigbadbiologist @GarthBeagle Oh sure, different categories! 100% all floppy no extras

@nulleric @GarthBeagle Yeah, if you use drive images in a VM, it could go fast. But floppies into a BlueSCSI should be a different beast :)

And here they are, Windows 95 on floppies 💾 #win95 #windows95 #retrocomputing #macos8 #coplandlives

@bigbadbiologist @GarthBeagle Speed running win95 installs is a thing hackaday.com/2019/03/09/spe…

@GarthBeagle We should have a stream where we have a race to see who can install w95 from floppies the fastest.

@wottle @sebastien_bour This fired right up on my Starmax 3000 180/603ev - thanks!

@nulleric @sebastien_bour OK, I posted my two images to macintoshgarden. Let me know if you try it and it works: macintoshgarden.org/apps/beos-503

I would like to install BeOS on a Macintosh Performa 6400/180 that I just acquired, but what would be the version to install and there is a way to do it?

@wottle @sebastien_bour Do you have a list of machines it does support? I have a 9600 I'd always wanted to try it on. (has a G3 CPU, so that may throw a wrench into it)

@nulleric @sebastien_bour Yeah. I knew that the compression would help with the DL, didn’t know if others tried to keep their image sizes down so they can fit more disk images on an SD card. I’ll look to throw the one I I have on the garden and will post a link. I was able to test on my 6400 and 5400.

@wottle @sebastien_bour That would work too, you can always make it big and zip it up, the empty space should compress down to nothing.

@nulleric @sebastien_bour Should I try to put it out there on macintoshgarden? I made it a 1GB image, any best practices for not over sizing / under sizing HD images to make them as useful as possible?

@wottle @sebastien_bour If you want I could host it on my mega drive with other bluescsi/rascsi images, let me know via DM

@sebastien_bour I have a .hda hard drive image that has the BeOS 5.0.3 install. Allows you to throw it on a BlueSCSI or RaSCSI and boot. Just need to get the BeOS launcher or OS chooser on the machine running Mac OS 7 or 8. Just trying to figure out where it post it.

@slomacuser I didn't know I needed an apple/mac themed Keychain on my Quadra till I saw this photo.

The Mac Portable Hybrid Module Recreation product is live! Please run through the pre-check steps (linked from product description) before ordering to be sure your system is in good shape. androda.work/product/macint…

@charkes @siegel @mattneub I poked around tried a few things to extract them but didn't get too far. Interested if anyone else has

.@siegel @mattneub I'm playing around with C programming for 68k Macs. The THINK C Reference program is a great resource. Is there documentation about the database file format so they could be converted to, for example, web pages?

@ronscompvids @Sutehk1 Recently went through all that and my fuser was bad... Just gave up and recycled it

So my printout is a bit toner laden. It’s a LaserWriter 4/600 any advice on making it less tonery?

@EnricoMagr No worries! Just want to make sure everything is correctly attributed and licensed. Can DM me here or on discord too if you have questions. Building new designs is always fun!

@nulleric Okay, got it (I think). I'll do this (and I hope to do it correctly).

RaSCSI Reloaded THT PCB and blueSCSI (evolved) are now released on GitHub. These aren't official boards, but revisitations of mine. CHECK THEM NOW! github.com/MrGasS/RaSCSI-… github.com/MrGasS/blueSCS… #rascsi #bluescsi #macintosh #mac68k #applemacintosh #scsi

@EnricoMagr Usually just in the README or a LICENSE file - also please be sure to include it in the .zip too when someone downloads them directly. If they were derived from mine they must be CC BY-NC 4.0 - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc…

@nulleric Sure! Can you suggest me a convenient way to attach it? Thank you a lot.

@MuseumJoe @EricsEdge Could also try out MacGhost by @gruz gruz.itch.io/macghost

The Pumpkintosh now does what it was built to do: creep in my front window. Thanks @EricsEdge for the spooky HyperCard stack!

BlueSCSI Transfer Util is a new 68k Macintosh app (OS6-9) that allows you to pull & put files directly from an SD card, no emulator required to get OregonTrail on your Mac Plus HD image! Give the Beta a try - let me know if you run into any issues: #bluescsi-transfer-utility" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/erichelgeson/B…

@GarthBeagle @thatKomputerKat @hulkintosh @BlueScsi FYI this worked, no extra USB cable anymore

@thatKomputerKat @hulkintosh @BlueScsi Ah yes, I see. Here's the info from that page and I mocked up what I *think* is where you'd need to put the diode (just lookit that awesome diode I drew 🤣)

Had to test some things in my Apple IIgs so I finally tried an external @BlueScsi using an image someone posted on FaceBook (they'd used with a RaSCSI) and it works great! I'm using it off an Apple II High Speed SCSI card. You do need to provide external power

@RetroRandRs Hey, thanks for the writeup! One clarification - you chose the XCVR firmware, but show a non-XCVR BlueSCSI - while it obviously works, you'll be wasting a few cycles switching some transceivers that do not exist on that board :)

Making & Using BlueSCSI SD Card Adapters for Vintage Apple Macintosh Computers retrorepairsandrefurbs.com/2022/09/27/mak…

@ianjeffray @a1exh @RetroRandRs RE: from discord convo - looks like the latest implements all those commands, get us some debug logs and we'll see whats up.

@ianjeffray @a1exh @RetroRandRs Do you know what commands? We implement all but 2 (release/reserve) that are mandatory for SCSI-2

@Sutehk1 @Mac84tv But.... really for CD's you'd just mount the ISO/bin/toast image in rascsi - no need for a real device.

@nulleric @Mac84tv Hmm…interesting….wish I knew more about Linux …. I’d have no idea how to modify the code on the Rascsi….but it’s good to know it can be done maybe someone will work on it someday 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hmm…. is there a way to get a usb port on my Performa 6115CD?