Forty Years Later, Over a Single Wire: How an AI Agent Came to Drive a 1989 Macintosh
In April 2026 a Macintosh emulator running System 7.5 answered an HTTP request. In July 2026 a physical Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 — no network card, …
AppleBridge
Two Transports, One SE/30: Serial vs MacTCP, and Driving the GUI over the Wire
The same Macintosh SE/30 has now answered AppleBridge two ways: over a serial cable at 57600 baud, and over MacTCP on Ethernet. With 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, …
Driving a Foreign Application's Menus: A Global MenuSelect Trap Patch Installed at Boot
Two earlier reports left the problem of driving an arbitrary front application’s menus unresolved. The journaling driver reaches only the …
AppleBridge on Real Silicon: A 1989 Macintosh SE/30 over MacTCP and Ethernet
AppleBridge has spent its whole life talking to an emulator — Basilisk II standing in for a 1990s Macintosh. This is the report of the night it …
The Bridge's Missing Tools: Where AppleBridge's MCP Surface Is Thin
The toolchain note argued that AppleBridge’s integration points are its two automation surfaces, not its compiler — and that the boldest move is …
Development Toolchains Beyond MPW: What Fits AppleBridge's Automation Surface
AppleBridge drives MPW and ToolServer to build 68K software inside the emulated Mac. The natural question is whether something better than MPW exists …
The Minimum Macintosh: 68K Hardware for AppleBridge over Open Transport, MacTCP, and Serial
The widening-impact note ended on a “footprint ceiling”: MacTCP and serial unlock lower-end machines in theory, but the daemon’s RAM …
One Transport, Then Many: The Impact of Widening AppleBridge from Open Transport to MacTCP and Beyond
The installer note recorded Open Transport as a hard launch dependency, and the transport-alternatives note named an OT → MacTCP → serial → native …
AppleBridge: Driving a 1991 Macintosh with an AI Agent
AppleBridge lets an AI agent — Claude Code — build, compile, link, and run authentic 68k Macintosh software on a real System 7.6.1, running inside the …