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    Making bootable disks for the Canon Cat

    I was able to make, and then hack, disk images for the Canon Cat, Jef Raskin's 1987 "work processor." Despite what Canon sold it as, though, Raskin always intended it as a fully working general purpose computer. It has a 68000 CPU and its ROMs are primarily programmed in tForth, a...
  2. LelandLong

    New Member: currently developing a new THINK Pascal App/game for 68K

    This is a cross-post from 68kmla.org, hopefully that is okay. I am hoping for a larger audience by posting a common thread in both forums. - - - For various reasons I won't bore you with, I recently recreated PacMan using JavaScript. Not a port. No copy/paste of somebodys code somewhere, but a...
  3. retr01

    Identifying Motorola 68000 series CPUs

    First Position - Status MC Fully certified and vetted XC Engineering sample Pilot production It may have bugs, according to some reports, that the software emulation for floating point in the 680LC40 does not work properly under XC status. Second Position - Type of CPU 68 Entire core of...
  4. Mu0n

    ThinkC [Study Group A - GameDevTrack] - Time Measurements

    It's been a long, long, long game hobby of mine to be able to program a new 68k, black and white game that runs smooth on real hardware. I know that C is my only reasonable modern chance to get there, with some dips into assembly inline blocks for some memory block movement that has to occur for...
  5. retr01

    Keystrokes for 68k and PPC Macintosh Systems

    On Boot Those keystrokes should be pressed at start-up (boot) time. All letter keys are lowercase. Mouse Button Ejects a floppy disk at startup. C Force certain Macs (PowerPC, 68030, and 68040) to startup from the CD-ROM drive instead of the internal hard drive. D Forces the internal hard disk...
  6. P

    Macintosh Plus 2MB Bluescsi troubles

    Dear Tinkerers, I've recently bought a Bluescsi for my Macintosh Plus. However, Every disk image I could find online for the mac plus was System 7.0 and up. (system 7 and up requires 4MB of ram) My mac plus has only 2mb ram installed. I was able to get it running on 7.5.5 but now I have less...
  7. Kai Robinson

    The PAK68/3 Accelerator - [German]

    Some of you may be aware of the PAK68 line of open source accelerators, originally published in the German C't Magazine in the 1990's. This was intended to be a 'universal' 68000 accelerator, for the Atari ST line, primarily, but with modifications you can make it work in an Amiga or a...