Early Macintosh SSW Prototypes! ...or are they?

#1 Sun, 2 May 2010 - 20:58

Someone posted disk images of these at E-Maculation - He found them at BetaArchive's upload server and they never got moved to the download server there.

After peeking through them a bit with ResEdit, the System file appears to be 0.97, with old Finder apps.

So, you think these are real??

#2 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 00:33

I remember this popped up on one of the other forums where I am a member. It was my understanding that it is actually some kind of linux derivative written for the 68K Mac hardware and is meant to look and act like the original System/Finder. Someone posted that M6KDE meant Mac, 68k, KDE, with a heavily customized implementation of KDE used to simulate the psuedo-Mac GUI.

I have no idea if any of the above is true, as far as I could tell it was all speculation.

#3 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 00:58

Ask Hertzfeld.

Anyway, check the Note Pad on these disks. Has a URL to a French site.

#4 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 02:14

prototype.img:

Page 1:

"Really, really really old.

Not leaking anytime soon."

Page 8:

"ludo28m.free.fr"

Every other page blank

S1DR1.img:

"Keep up to eight pages of notes in the Note Pad. Click on the dog-ear to turn to the next following page. Click in the lower left corner to turn to the next previous page"

Page 8:

"ludo28m.free.fr"

So it came from THAT site...

#5 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 04:35

Looks to me like someone took the Mac 128K System Software and had a bit of a play with ResEdit.

#6 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 05:05

...yah

#7 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 16:23

... It was my understanding that it is actually some kind of linux derivative written for the 68K Mac hardware and is meant to look and act like the original System/Finder. Someone posted that M6KDE meant Mac, 68k, KDE, with a heavily customized implementation of KDE used to simulate the psuedo-Mac GUI.
I have no idea if any of the above is true, as far as I could tell it was all speculation.

I *really* hope you didn't believe that theory. ;^) There are... more things wrong with it than you could possibly imagine.

#8 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 18:23

fake, this is also posted at macintosh garden, ...

#9 Mon, 3 May 2010 - 23:05

Meh, I never gave it much thought as this kind of stuff is outside of my interests. I don't really pay much attention to system software before System 6.

#10 Tue, 4 May 2010 - 20:43

Meh, I never gave it much thought as this kind of stuff is outside of my interests. I don't really pay much attention to system software before System 6.

Yah, Linus went back in time with the codebase for KDE to create an embedded-type GNU/Linux with KDE which runs in 128k.

It makes sense - if you look at the size of Linux (the kernel) and KDE, then extrapolate backwards, it'd probably require going all the way back to 1984 in order for the codebase to shrink enough to run in 128k.

#11 Wed, 5 May 2010 - 00:18

Yah... It probebly stands for MC68000DE, the old mac dev enviroment...