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@David Cook The fix is live. Works with my version of Firefox now.

Thank you for reporting this. It turns out that in my latest update I broke the PNG encoder such that it was generating PNG files that were subtly corrupt. Some PNG decoders, such as the one in Chrome, are forgiving, while the one in Firefox is a bit less forgiving, but also downright...

Hi everyone, I wanted to make an announcement on a new vintage Mac exhibit and resource I created. The "Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software" is a fun way to browse vintage icons or to find retro software. It presents just over 75 thousand icons culled from several Mac CD-ROMs as an...

One of the biggest pain points of working with vintage Macs, in my opinion, is getting files to it. Here is the scenario: you've just download a file from Macintosh Garden and now you want to get it to your vintage Mac. Depending on the age of your Mac and your environment, the process might be...

It only took me two years to reply, but I think this problem has been resolved in V1.1. Many clients fail when sent indexed colors, which was all the original MiniVNC supported. I believe V1.1 goes a long way towards addressing that problem.

Hello, I wanted to update this thread with a note that I made a pretty major update to MiniVNC. The thing I wanted to focus on in this release was compatibility with clients other than RealVNC. Due to processor limitations, B&W 68000 Macs can only use the older TRLE encoding and still require...

In this latest video, I talk to Rick from Lisa2.com about the Apple Lisa while I remotely connect and control his Lisa computers via the Internet using MiniVNC!

New release! I've made major strides in generalizing the application, so now one executable should run on both B&W and Color Macs at any resolution. While a dedicated build would theoretically perform a tad better, in testing I was not able to see a difference. This latest version also adds...

The B&W version is locked to 512x342 resolution, but you can set your color Mac to B&W in the monitors Control Panel and then run the “MiniVNC for Color Macs (Pack 0)”. This will essentially use the same compression as the B&W one.

You know, I wouldn't be able to do any of this without RaSCSI, so thank you for giving Macs such an awesome capability! :)

Hi all! New video demonstration of the very latest release:

Hello everyone, I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on since last year. It is a remote desktop server I wrote from scratch using MacTCP. It was originally an experiment to see whether a Macintosh Plus could be controlled remotely, but has since been expanded to support...

New beta release with several fixes for Jaz drives! https://github.com/marciot/mac-tip/releases/tag/v0.4-beta-feb13

I know some of you here were wanting to use TIP with a Jaz drive, so I present you with the first test of "TIP for Macintosh" on an Iomega Jaz cartridge and drive! This is with the December 3rd beta release!

@alxlab: I'm not sure if Steve would be willing to open source SpinRite, as I suspect he might still make money out of the sales. I think there are other obstacles to porting it to the Mac, however. "Trouble in Paradise" was pretty an ideal candidate for porting to the Mac: It talks to the...