Snow Leopard and Classic Mac OS — #55

Post #55 by napabar

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Mon, 7 Sep 2009 - 05:29
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/snow-leopard-and-classic-mac-os.18406/

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I had assumed you had used MacTerminal 2.2 on your Mac 128k before. Is this not the case? ...

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Duh, it's in French! LOL

[1.1] does not have a MacBinary option. There are more options in 2.2, including MacBinary. That was the ticket.

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According to Apple it should work, so French or not, I'll be trying it out as soon as I can. I think v.2.2 has more automation as well. I need to find some old MacTerminal books and dig into it more since this is likely to be the only method available on a stock 128K or 512K for some time (indeed any 68000).

It's great that I can bypass Sheepshaver. It is unfortunate that MFS Lives is not compatible with Leopard since that would mean one could simply open a 400K MFS disk image and load a file directly into XTerm, keeping everything native. I guess for now all MFS disk images will have to be copied onto HFS disk images and loaded from there. It's just sometimes those files introduce corruption, especially the System files.

Napbar, make sure you use the MFS 800K disk hack with your 128K. It really saves time giving you over 400K more disk space to copy files onto. Theoretically you can have over 1.6MB of storage using it, that's like a hard drive for a 128K.

Hey, I figured it out!

It's not that hard! Just look at the English 1.1 version. Almost identical (expect for the transfer option, but most of that is in English on 2.2)

Yes, this will be the only direct connection option for a Mac 128K, 512K/512Ke. A Mac Plus can do TCP/IP and Ethernet, so Fetch works just fine and Snow Leopard shares over FTP.

Speaking of MFS not working, it gets worse! I just found out that Snow Leopard treats old HFS disks as read only, and the Disk Image Utility will no longer create HFS disks!! Only HFS+!!! Yikes!! HFS has been MFS'ed!!!! LOL!!!!

I don't have a 128K or 512k yet. I'm doing preliminary experiments before I commit to purchasing a fully serviced 128K and or 512K. $$$$$! But I'll try the 800k trick if I get hold of those special 800k drives!