TLS 1.2 and 1.3 on System 7: a 68K client measured against a live server
Question No browser that runs on System 7 can open an https:// URL against a server configured today: Netscape 3 and 4, iCab 2.9 and MacWeb speak SSL …
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Exposé for Classic Mac OS: What Broke Along the Way, and Why
The plan article records the milestones; this one records the failures between them. Everything below comes from docs/LOG.md in the repository, the …
Exposé for Classic Mac OS: The Plan for v1.0
The first article described v0.1 of an Exposé extension for System 7: a boot INIT and jGNE filter that hides every window of every application with …
Exposé for Classic Mac OS: A Show-Desktop Extension for System 7, Built and Verified in One Session
Status note (2026-08-29): this article describes v0.1, the first working version. The project has since moved on — windows are now moved to 3-px edge …
C für den klassischen Macintosh: MPW und THINK C in der Praxis
Diese Seite sammelt, was beim Schreiben und Bauen von C für den klassischen Macintosh wirklich schiefgeht. Sie ist kein Tutorial und kein Ersatz für …
MacTraps, CPlusLib and ANSI on 68K: Establishing What Each Library Actually Contributes by Removing It
Every account of building 68K Macintosh software repeats the same instruction: link against MacTraps, and take ANSI while you are at it. The …
Driving a Macintosh SE/30 over a Serial Cable: AppleBridge on Real 68030 Hardware
This note records a first: AppleBridge running not in an emulator but on real 68030 hardware — a Macintosh SE/30 with no Ethernet at all — reached …
The Anatomy of AppleBridge: Daemon, Control Panel, INIT and Assembly Extensions
AppleBridge lets an AI drive a real Macintosh running System 7.6.1 (and Mac OS 9) as if it were a local shell: write C or 68K assembly on the host, …
Playing an Animated GIF in a System 7 About Box, Built in THINK C over the AppleBridge
A companion note to MacNetScan, where an animated About-box logo was promised and then defeated: every decoder on the host refused the supplied GIF, …